George Lessey
Acting
Biography
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Born: June 8, 1875
Place of Birth: Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Known For
The Pride of the Yankees
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
Now, Voyager
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
Gallant Sons
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
Roxie Hart
A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was judged for in 1927.
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.
Edison, the Man
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
Blossoms in the Dust
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. She opens a home for foundlings and orphans and begins to place children in good homes, despite the opposition of "conservative" citizens, who would condemn illegitimate children for being born out of wedlock. Eventually Edna leads a fight in the Texas legislature to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from birth records in that state, while continuing to be an advocate for homeless children.
Go West
Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his fortune; he meets the crafty but simple brothers Joseph and Rusty Panello in a train station, where they steal all his money. They're heading west, too, because they've heard you can just pick the gold off the ground. Once there, they befriend an old miner named Dan Wilson whose property, Dead Man's Gulch, has no gold. They loan him their last ten dollars so he can go start life anew, and for collateral, he gives them the deed to the Gulch. Unbeknownst to Wilson, the son of his longtime rival, Terry Turner (who's also in love with his daughter, Eva), has contacted the railroad to arrange for them to build through the land, making the old man rich and hopefully resolving the feud. But the evil Red Baxter, owner of a saloon, tricks the boys out of the deed, and it's up to them - as well as Quale, who naturally finds his way out west anyway - to save the day.
The Gay Sisters
The eldest of three sisters protects their Fifth Avenue mansion from a developer she once married.
Patria
Spies from Japan conspire to steal the Channing "preparedness" fortune and invade the United States, beginning in New York, then allying themselves with Mexicans across the border. They are stopped by the efforts of munitions factory heiress Patria Channing and U.S. Secret Service agent Donald Parr.
Filmography
as Business Man
as Mr. Schyler Vandervere
as Presiding Judge
as Mr. Towers
as Mr. Burton
as Bill - Well-wisher (uncredited)
as Sen. Patterson
as Mr. Westerly
as Uncle Herbert (uncredited)
as Judge Barrows
as Mayor of New Rochelle
as Fenwick Sr.
as Judge
as J.P. Hempstead
as Mr. Keats
as William 'Willie' Boulton
as Dr. Hale
as U.S. Vice President
as Sen. Williams
as Bradford Stone
as American Consul in Lisbon
as C. V. Hutchins
as Railroad President
as Judge
as Mr. Arthur Jay Norton
as Mr. Morgan
as Senator Monrose
as Judge Kincaid
as Judge
as William Bowen, Narrator
as Buckley Sloan
as Banker Cobb
as Underwood
as Mary's Father
as Toastmaster
as Rufus Ingersoll
as Toastmaster at Dinner
as Doctor (uncredited)
as Goodkind
as John Boyd
as Sheriff Richards
as Inspector Dolan
as Mr. Collins
as His Guardian - the Deacon
as Mr. Hedder
as Lawyer
as Senator Wakefield
as Jacques Vavin
as Dr. Henry Charmant
as Richard Farnsworth, an attaché at the embassy
as Jack Turner
as The Father
as Jack Van Rensellaer
as Commanding General
as Hamilton Crawford, the Bridegroom
as Romeo