Victor McLaglen
Acting
Biography
Victor McLaglen was a British-American film actor. He was known as a character actor, particularly in Westerns, and made seven films with John Ford and John Wayne. McLaglen won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1935 for his role in The Informer.
Born: December 9, 1886
Place of Birth: Stepney, East London, England, UK
Known For
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh (1927), the only Oscar®-winning performance in a lost film. Fragments also features clips from such lost films as Cleopatra (1917), starring Theda Bara; The Miracle Man (1919), with Lon Chaney; He Comes Up Smiling (1918), starring Douglas Fairbanks; an early lost sound film, Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), filmed in early Technicolor, and the only color footage of silent star Clara Bow, Red Hair (1928). The program is rounded out with interviews of film preservationists involved in identifying and restoring these films. Also featured is a new interview with Diana Serra Cary, best known as "Baby Peggy", one of the major American child stars of the silent era, who discusses one of the featured fragments, Darling of New York (1923).
Forever and a Day
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
The Quiet Man
An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.
This Is My Affair
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Have Gun, Will Travel
Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.
Rawhide
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
Rawhide
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
Fort Apache
Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled.
Filmography
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
as Himself (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Harry Wittman
as Bellew
as Sergente O'Riley
as Mike O'Hare
as Tom Muldoon
as SS Henrietta Helmsman
as Grimald
as Robert Emmett Donovan
as Big Tim Channing
as Cadmus Cherne
as Parlan
as Boltar
as O'Brien
as Self
as Squire 'Red' Will Danaher
as Sgt. Maj. Timothy Quincannon
as First Sergeant Quincannon
as Sgt. Festus Mulcahy
as Mike Farrell
as Curley Davis
as Matthew O'Neill
as Gitlo
as Terry O'Farrell
as Owen McCarey
as Captain Barrett / The Hook
as Herman "Owl" Banghart
as Fred Adamson
as Archibald Spavin
as Bull Weed
as Jeems O'Shea
as Sgt. Jimmy McGinnis
as Maurice "Mike" Monaghan
as Terrence Regan
as Bucko Larson
as Warden Bill Whitlock
as Dirk
as Pat McGinnis
as Jerry Black aka Blackie
as Tom 'Gunner' Grey
as Chris Mulligan
as MacChesney
as Crusher McKay
as "Dobbie" Dobson
as Marty Malone
as Big Ben Wheeler
as Himself
as Sgt. Donald MacDuff
as Jock Ramsay
as Dannie O'Neill
as Steve Webb
as 'Big Steve' Andrews
as J.C. Doyle
as Bull Brackett
as Colonel Michael Donovan
as Gypo Nolan
as Andrew W. 'Andy' McCabe
as Jumbo Smith
as Junius P. Schulte
as Bill Murdock
as Turk
as Forty-Fathoms
as The Sergeant
as Dick Turpin
as Dennis P. McHale / Burke / Captain Hale
as Jim Flagg
as 'Knucks' McGloin
as Detective Capt. T.R. McKinley
as Jacques Costaud
as Jem Meech
as Don Bob Harkness / El Coyote
as Scott Burrows
as John Rawson / Hefly Jack
as Captain Jim Flagg
as Colonel Kranau
as Sergeant Flagg
as Bull Stanley
as Jerry Maxton
as Biff Williams
as John Patrick Duke
as Top Sergeant Flagg
as Minstrel Show Performer
as Captain Donald King
as Strong Boy
as Captain Lash
as Sailor Fritz
as Denis Hogan
as Spike Madden
as The Giant of Kilkenny
as Escamillo
as Capt. Flagg
as Hank
as Pete Masarick
as Doomsdorf
as Soapy Williams
as Poleon Doret
as Hercules
as Reedy Jenkins
as Charles Hinges
as Herb Harris
as Ned Travers
as Nubian Slave (uncredited)
as Bulfinch
as Baron