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He graduated to leading roles  and in 1948 was
nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for
his starring role in Body and Soul (1947
film)|Body and Soul. Garfield was given a star on
the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7065 Hollywood Blvd.

Involved in liberal politics, Garfield became
caught up in the Joseph McCarthy|McCarthy
Communism|Communist scare of the late 1940s and,
even though he denied having ever been a
Communist, his forced testimony before the House
Un-American Activities Committee damaged his
career and he was Hollywood blacklist|blacklisted
by the Hollywood movie studio bosses.

Heart problems, aggravated by the stress of his
blacklisting, led to his early death at the age of
39.

==Academy Award Nominations==
*1948 - Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor in
a Leading Role - Body and Soul (1947 film)|Body
and Soul
*1939 - Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actor|Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Four
Daughters


==Filmography==
*Four Daughters (1938)
*Swingtime in the Movies (1939) (short subject)
*They Made Me a Criminal (1939)
*Blackwell's Island (1939)
*Juarez (1939)
*Daughters Courageous (1939)
*Dust Be My Destiny (1939)
*Four Wives (1939) 
*Castle on the Hudson (1940)
*Saturday's Children (1940)
*Flowing Gold (1940)
*East of the River (1940)
*The Sea Wolf (1941)
*Out of the Fog (1941)
*Dangerously They Live (1942)
*Tortilla Flat (1942)
*Air Force (1943)
*Show Business at War (1943) (short subject)
*The Fallen Sparrow (1943)
*Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
*Destination Tokyo (1943)
*Between Two Worlds (1944)
*Hollywood Canteen (1944)
*The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945) (Cameo)
*Pride of the Marines (1945)
*The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
*Nobody Lives Forever (movie)|Nobody Lives Forever
(1946)
*Humoresque (1946)
*Screen Snapshots: The Skolsky Party (1946) (short
subject)
*Body and Soul (1947 film)|Body and Soul (1947)
*Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
*Screen Snapshots: Out-of-This-World Series (1947)
(short subject)
*Daisy Kenyon (1947) (Cameo)
*Difficult Years (1948) (narrator in American
version)
*Force of Evil (1948)
*We Were Strangers (1949)
*Jigsaw (1949) (Cameo)
*Under My Skin (1950)
*The Breaking Point (1950)
*He Ran All the Way (1951) (also producer)


==External links==
*imdb name|id= 0002092|name=John Garfield
*ibdb name|id= 41788|name=John Garfield