George Bancroft
Acting
Biography
George Bancroft was an American screen actor of the 1920s and 1930s.
Born: September 30, 1882
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Known For
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
Derelict
Two rival seamen fight for both a promotion to a captaincy in their shipping line and the attentions of a Havana saloon singer. Sparks fly as they both try to out do each other in obtaining what they know their opposite is after. In the end they will need to work together in order to save the day.
A Doctor's Diary
A Doctor's Diary is told through the eyes of Dr. Dan Norris (John Trent), resident physician in a private hospital. In his search for a cure for spinal meningitis, Norris recklessly runs roughshod over the feelings of his colleagues. The doctor's older, wiser supervisor, Dr. Clem Driscoll (George Bancroft), tries to curb Norris' impatience, pointing out that nothing takes place overnight. Angrily, Norris accuses Driscoll of malpractice and is forced to resign from the clinic -- just when a meningitis epidemic breaks out.
The Wolf of Wall Street
A ruthless stockbroker sells short in the copper business and ruins the life of his friends by ruining their finances. A lost film, only a nine second fragment survives.
Stagecoach
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Angels with Dirty Faces
Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.
Underworld
Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.
Blood Money
The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grifter) Bill Bailey, who, in the course of his work, crosses paths with every kind of offender there is, from first-time defendants to career criminals.
The Docks of New York
A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.
Filmography
as (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Sheriff Claude Stagg
as Steve Porter
as 'Russ' Russell
as Windy Miller
as Major I.I. Burdle
as Jacques Corbeau
as Caleb Winters
as Samuel 'Sam' Edison
as Jim 'Tex' Morgan
as Capt. Oliver
as Dudley Garrett
as Prison Warden John Armstrong
as (archive footage)
as Marshal Curly Wilcox
as Mac Keefer
as Capt. Leeds
as William Waldo
as Tim Mathews
as Dr. Clem Driscoll
as Pete Stagg
as MacWade
as Captain Ira 'Hell-Ship' Morgan
as Bill Bailey
as Percival 'Slag' Bailey
as Kylenko
as Brock Trumbull
as Second Stranger
as Mark Flint
as Bill Rafferty
as Joe Forziati
as Mug
as Blake Greeson
as Thunderbolt Jim Lang
as The Wolf
as Bill Roberts
as Two-Gun Nolan
as Cardan
as Happy Joe
as Cannonball Casey
as Bull Weed
as Bert the Boxman
as Sam Randall
as Gunner
as Lesher Skidmore
as Cochran
as Ira Todd
as Buck Lockwell
as Jack Slade
as Jake Willets
as Enoch Thurman
as Tex Wilson
as Dan Angus
as Lem Tolliver
as Cavendish