Julie’s painting hobby was probably something he didn’t have much time for.
I love Julie’s bold, expressive, swirling paint strokes. It just seems to me that everything this guy did was honest, organic and passionate.
Julie’s children, son David and daughter Julie both followed in their father’s profession of acting. Daughter Julie is also a painter.
David is pictured above. He bore quite a resemblance to his father in this photo! He was sometimes billed as John Garfield Jr. I think there was another actor named David with a SAG card. He also did some work as a respected film editor before passing away at the much too young age of 51 in 1994.
In the summer of 2017, Julie wrote an insightful, honest, and heartbreaking Op/Ed for the New York Times about the witch hunt that unfairly targeted her father. It’s so upsetting that the politician’s actions cost Garfield his career when he was blacklisted. Worse- the family lost their loved one. Inexcusable. Julie was only 6 1/2 when she lost her father. David was 9, I think.
As mentioned, along with being an actor, she is also a drama teacher. Julie Garfield inherited her father’s passion for painting and is a wonderfully talented artist!
I love catching her conversations about her father’s films. It comes from her own experiences in acting, her natural talent, and having his genes. Watch this clip from TCM of Noir Alley’s Eddie Muller and Julie chatting about her Dad’s performance in THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE. Julie also spoke with Eddie about her father’s final film, HE RAN ALL THE WAY before and after the film was shown.
And this bears mentioning. Both father and son acted in movies opposite Edward G. Robinson. Father pictured below in THE SEA WOLF from 1941.
And son, David had a role in MACKENNA’S GOLD from 1969. David and Robinson are pictured together in a scene below.
David died way too soon. That, his mother, sister and loved ones had to tragically bear. It occurs to me that Julie (John) lost his mother when he was 7. Julie (daughter) lost her Dad when she was 6 1/2. Julie (John) lost his first born child, Katherine due to an allergic reaction when she was only 6. I hate this for all of them.
Father Julie and first born, Katherine.