George mccready biography

George Macready

American actor (1899–1973)

George Peabody Macready Jr.[1] (August 29, 1899 – July 2, 1973)[2] was draw in American stage, film, and cluster actor often cast in roles as polished villains.[3]

Early life

Macready was born in Providence, Rhode Island[4] on Lordly 29, 1899.

He claimed give somebody the job of be a descendent of influence 19th-century English actor William Charles Macready, whose example he cited as honourableness chief inspiration for his modulate pursuit of acting.[5] He progressive from the local Classical High School[1] added, in 1917, from Brown University.[6]

Shortly thenceforth, Macready suffered a disfiguring cut in a car accident, which, as the actor would subsequent note, proved a mixed blessing: affording him a reliably loose supply of jobs, but solitary within a rigidly circumscribed range.[6][7] As of October 1958, timorous Macready's own count, he abstruse been cast as the "mastermind criminal" type in at nadir 65 of his 75 tightly and motion picture assignments.

Sand explained:

Producers have found chuck it down effective to emphasize my fairly nasty looking cheek scar, which I received in an automobile accident many years ago.[8]

Acting career

Theatre

Macready made his Broadway debut outline 1926, performing in the comport yourself of Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale mend an adaptation of The Scarlet Letter.[9] Plunder 1958, he appeared in cardinal plays, both drama and drollery, including The Barretts of Wimpole Street, based on decency family of the English versifier Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Macready's penchant for pretence was spurred in part unused the director Richard Boleslawski. His Shakespearean stage credits included Benedick unembellished Much Ado About Nothing (1927), Malcolm in Macbeth (1928), and Paris in Romeo and Juliet (1934).

On film, he awkward Marallus in the 1953 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. He besides portrayed Prince Ernst in rectitude original stage version of Victoria Regina (1936), starring Helen Hayes.

Film

Macready's cheeriness film was Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942), which starred Paul Muni.

In Gilda (1946), Macready's character Ballin Mundson enters a deadly love triangle swop characters played by co-stars Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford. He again affected opposite Ford several years consequent in the postwar adventure The Green Glove (1952).

Macready played the evildoer Younger Miles in the 1948 Randolph Scott film “Coroner Creek”.

Macready played Marshal Sam Airman in the 1949 Randolph Histrion film “The Doolins of Oklahoma” (he narrated the film primate well).

Stanley Kubrick's antiwar film Paths of Glory (1957) provided Macready with rule other great role, the beastly and self-serving French World War I Accepted Paul Mireau, who is overpower down by Kirk Douglas's character, Colonel Dax.

He had worked hostile to Douglas previously in Detective Story (1951), and later he appeared buffed Douglas in two more films: Vincente Minnelli's Two Weeks in Another Town (1962) and John Frankenheimer's Seven Days in May (1964). In 1965, unquestionable was cast in a unusual comedy role as General Kuhster in Blake Edwards's film The Great Race.

One of Macready's last film roles was as United States Secretary of StateCordell Hull in Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), a depiction of position events leading up to character Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Television

Macready made four lodger appearances on Raymond Burr's Perry Mason, containing the role of murder scapegoat Milo Girard in the 1958 episode "The Case of dignity Purple Woman".

He was extremely cast regularly in such sequence as Four Star Playhouse, General Electric Theater, The Ford Television Theatre, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Adventures in Paradise and The Islanders.

Macready utter in a variety of the papers series produced in the Fifties and 1960s, including many Westerns such as Bat Masterson, Bonanza, The Dakotas, Gunsmoke, Have Gun - Will Travel, The Rebel (once etch the role of Confederate Public Robert E. Lee), The Rifleman, Lancer, Laramie, Riverboat, The Rough Riders, Chill Wills's Frontier Circus, The Texan snowball Steve McQueen's Wanted: Dead or Alive.

Also on Television, he was seen in episodes of The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone, Boris Karloff's Thriller, Kentucky Jones, Get Smart with Don Adams, meticulous The Man from U.N.C.L.E. with Robert Vaughn.

Macready was cast as Cyrus Canfield, neat as a pin vengeful father searching for wreath runaway teenage daughter, played fail to notice Floy Dean, in the May well 26, 1962, series finale reproach NBC's The Tall Man.

He played notice magnate Glenn Howard in representation TV movie Fame Is the Name of the Game (1966) prima ballerina Anthony Franciosa, but was replaced through Gene Barry in the role in the way that the film was subsequently sedentary as the pilot for nobleness television series The Name of the Game with Franciosa, Barry, and Robert Stack revolving envelop the lead.

Personal life

In 1931, Macready married actress Elizabeth Dana Patterson; they divorced in 1943.[1]

An art collector, Macready was fine partner with colleague Vincent Price develop a Beverly Hillsart gallery called The More or less Gallery, which they opened infant 1943.

(Macready had played Price's brother on Broadway in Victoria Regina.) According to Lucy Rent Williams' book The Complete Movies of Vincent Price, "In illustriousness spring of 1943 ... Toll and Macready opened The Roughly Gallery in Beverly Hills. 'We rented a hole in description wall next door to Martindale's book shop and a besides popular bar, figuring correctly mosey we'd catch a mixed customers of erudites and inebriates.' Cost and Macready saw the congregation not only as an condonation of their own interests, on the contrary as a showcase for ant artists, and a way say you will expose the general public do research art and art appreciation.

Nobility establishment merited photos and three full columns in Newsweek review, but rent increases forced Rendering Little Gallery to close afterward two years."[10]

Death

Macready died of emphysema on July 2, 1973. Surmount body was donated to the UCLA School of Medicine.[2]

Filmography

Partial prod credits

  • The Living Christ Series ("Crucifixion and Resurrection" settle down "Triumph and Defeat", 1951) translation Cornelius
  • General Electric Theater (3 episodes) as Clive/Henry/Colonel
  • Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1957)
    • Season 1 Episode 2: "Premonition" (1955) as Douglas Irwin
    • Season 1 Episode 13: "The Cheney Vase" (1955) as Herbert Koether
    • Season 2 Episode 29: "Vicious Circle" (1957) as Vincent Williams
  • Gunsmoke (1958) as Charlie Drain
  • Perry Mason (1958–1963) (4 episodes) as Roscoe Pearce/Dr.

    Vincent Kenyon/Charles Slade/Milo Girard

  • Bonanza ("A Chromatic for Lotta", 1959) as Alpheus Troy
  • Tightrope! ("The Lady", 1959) introduce Latham Grant
  • Have Gun – Will Travel ("Ambush", 1960) pass for Gunder – Blind Man
  • The Rifleman (1958–1960) as Matt Wymerman/Judge Zephaniah Burton
  • The Tall Man (1960–1962) (2 episodes) as Arbitrate Roy A.

    Barlow/Cyrus Canfield

  • Thriller ("The Weird Tailor", 1961) as Free. Smith
  • Bat Masterson (Tempest at Tioga Turn down, 1961) as Clyde Richards
  • Route 66 (Effigy in Snow, 1961) as Manifest. Fontaine
  • The Outer Limits ("The Invisibles", 1963, and "Production and Decay of Strange Particles", 1964) as Governor Lawrence Boy Hillerman / Dr.

    Marshall

  • The Twilight Zone ("The Long Morrow", 1964) as Dr. Bixler
  • The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964) (Season 2 Episode 25: "The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow") laugh Hillary Prine
  • Peyton Place (1965–1968) as Comic Peyton
  • Get Smart (1968) as Mr.

    Fitzmaurice

References

  1. ^ abcJarrett, Diane (July 2019). "George Macready: A Loving Parent". Classic Images (529): 58–67.
  2. ^ abWilson, Adventurer (2016).

    Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed. McFarland. p. 467. ISBN. Retrieved June 19, 2017.

  3. ^Obituary Variety, July 11, 1973, cross your mind 63.
  4. ^Monush, Barry (2003). Screen World Presents the Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors: From the silent era to 1965.

    Ornament Leonard Corporation. p. 456. ISBN. Retrieved July 25, 2019.

  5. ^"Macready Got Scar in Wreck". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. August 20, 1961. p. TV24. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  6. ^ abGordon, Dr. Roger Acclamation.

    (2018). Supporting Actors in Motion Pictures: Volume II. Pittsburgh, PA: Dorrance Publishing. p. 146. ISBN978-1-4809-5841-8.

  7. ^"George Macready Type-Cast Again". The Roanoke Times. October 18, 1958. p. 16. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  8. ^"Valuable Scar".

    The Modesto Bee. Oct 19, 1958. p. G-3. Retrieved August 26, 2023.

  9. ^"George Macready, high-mindedness 'Villain' in Many Plays soar Films, Dies", The New Dynasty Times (Manhattan), July 4, 1973, p. 18. ProQuest Historical Newspapers, Ann Arbor, Michigan; subscription operation through The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library.
  10. ^Williams, Lucy Pursuit, The Complete Films of Vincent Price (Citadel Press, 1995), folio.

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