Frank McGlynn Sr.
Acting
Biography
Gaunt-looking American character actor Frank McGlynn Sr. is best remembered for his many portrayals in 1930s and 1940s historical films of US President Abraham Lincoln. McGlynn began performing on stage in 1896. Prior to that, he had been a practicing lawyer, a graduate of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.
Born: October 26, 1866
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Known For
Captain Blood
Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
Sergeant York
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
These Three
Close friends Martha and Karen build a private boarding school together with the aid of the local doctor Joe. The school takes off and many students enroll, one of whom is a trouble-maker who tells a scandalous lie that threatens to destroy the trio's lives.
Love Affair
A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed their mind.
Boom Town
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.
Third Finger, Left Hand
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!
The Prisoner of Shark Island
After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865, during a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington; Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.
Huckleberry Finn
A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home while Huck Finn, chafing under "civilizing" influences like school and shoes, plans to run away. His scapegrace, abusive father intervenes; Tom and black Jim help him escape; and (departing from the novel) all three raft down the Mississippi, where they're joined by two likable rogues and meet pretty orphans Ella and Mary Jane. The latter may change Huck's mind about girls...
Little Miss Marker
Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especially Sorrowful Jones, to each pay him $1,000 for his racehorse, Dream Prince, to lose. With all bets being placed at the window, Sorrowful encounters a gambler, having lost $500, wanting to place his bet but unable to come up with $20. Instead, he places his little girl, Marthy Jane, as security, or in bookie's terms a "marker". "Marky", as she comes to be known, winds up under the care of Sorrowful Jones and his lady friend, singer Bangles Carson.
Trail Street
Bat Masterson's old friend Billy Burns convinces him to become marshal of Liberal, Kansas and help the residents fight drought and a destructive range war.
Filmography
as Hiram Tubb
as Tim McKeon (uncredited)
as Blake
as Judge Craig
as Abraham Lincoln (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Undetermined Minor Role
as Josephus Wiegal, senior mortician
as Mountaineer (uncredited)
as Panky Pankington
as Judge Holman (uncredited)
as Deacon
as Abraham Lincoln
as President Abraham Lincoln
as Lincolnesque Actor
as Orphanage Superintendent (uncredited)
as Abraham Lincoln
as Abraham Lincoln
as Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
as Pete - Gambler
as Abraham Lincoln
as Lincoln
as Cap Jinks
as Abraham Lincoln
as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
as Sheriff
as Pat Hogan
as Sir John Macdonald
as Sheriff Duncan
as Abraham Lincoln
as U. S. Marshal
as Henry Dundas
as Gamut
as Jim, a Scout
as Judge (uncredited)
as Abraham Lincoln
as President Abraham Lincoln
as Reverend Ogle
as Jingle
as Jinglebob Morgan
as Snake Brown Jr.
as Joseph
as Colonel Worthington
as Abraham Lincoln, Felix Bockner
as Doc Chesley
as Rev. Rankin
as Missionary
as Amos Winterslip
as Head Elder
as Jonathan Reed
as Good Book Charlie (uncredited)
as Food Control Speaker (uncredited)
as Second teacher (uncredited)
as Judge
as Mr. Southard
as Henry Murray (as Frank McGlynn)
as Professor Kenyon
as The Innkeeper
as Emperor William of Germany
as John F. Pershing
as The Siwash
as The Plumber
as John Argyle
as Gideon Trask (as Frank McGlynn)
as Captain William Dobbin
as The Bandit
as Bill Ford
as Abraham Lincoln
as Usakoff (as Frank McGlynn)