Frank McGlynn Sr.
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.
Love Affair
as Orphanage Superintendent (uncredited)A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They...
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Captain Blood
as Reverend OgleDr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
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Sergeant York
as Mountaineer (uncredited)Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is...
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The Plainsman
as Abraham LincolnWild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.
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The Littlest Rebel
as President Abraham LincolnVirgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying...
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Boom Town
as DeaconTwo buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both...
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The Last of the Mohicans
as GamutThe story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and...
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Broadway Melody of 1938
as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a...
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The Prisoner of Shark Island
as Abraham LincolnAfter healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of...
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These Three
as Judge (uncredited)Close friends Martha and Karen build a private boarding school together with the aid of the...
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The Poor Little Rich Girl
as The PlumberGwen's family is rich, but her parents ignore her and most of the servants push her around, so...
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Min and Bill
as Mr. SouthardMin, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of...
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In Old California
as Undetermined Minor RoleBoston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss...
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Third Finger, Left Hand
as Judge Holman (uncredited)Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male...
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Little Miss Marker
as Doc ChesleyBig Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need...
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The Jazz Cinderella
as Henry Murray (as Frank McGlynn)Intending that her son, Herbert, marry debutante Mildred Vane, Mrs. Consuelo Carter is most...
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Wells Fargo
as LincolnIn the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company,...
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Hi-Yo Silver
as Abraham LincolnEdited version of the 1938 Republic serial "The Lone Ranger."
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The Roaring West
as Jinglebob MorganA 15-episode serial involving the land rush, gold mines, stolen maps, etc.
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A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
as Panky PankingtonSteve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera...
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The Secret Six
as JudgeBootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang,...
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Three Girls About Town
as Josephus Wiegal, senior morticianFaith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next...
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Charlie Chan's Greatest Case
as Amos WinterslipWhen a good-for-nothing man named Dan is stabbed to death and his arm broken, Charlie Chan is on...
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Massacre
as MissionaryUpon the death of his father, who was the tribal chieftain, Joe Thunder Horse returns to the...
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The Argyle Case
as John ArgyleWhen multi-millionaire banker John Argyle is found brutally murdered in his home, suspicions are...
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Unknown Valley
as Head ElderLooking for his missing father, Joe Gordon heads into the desert where Elders from a secret...
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The Girl of the Golden West
as Pete - GamblerA bandit disguises himself as an officer in an attempt to woo a saloon singer.
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King of the Royal Mounted
as Henry DundasRoyal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant King protects a girl who has come to claim a mine left by...
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Parnell
as Pat HoganIrish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but...
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Folies Bergère
as JosephAn entertainer impersonates a look-alike banker, causing comic confusion for wife and girlfriend.
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Are We Civilized?
as Abraham Lincoln, Felix Bockner1934 drama of man's inhumanity to man, starring William Farnum and Anita Louise, directed by...
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Rogues' Gallery
as BlakeReporter Patsy Reynolds and photographer Eddie Porter are assigned to interview John Foster,...
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Huckleberry Finn
as Second teacher (uncredited)A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home...
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Western Gold
as Abraham LincolnPresident Lincoln personally sends Bill Gibson west to see if he can stop the holdups of the...
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Syncopation
as uncreditedA young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.
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The Wet Parade
as Food Control Speaker (uncredited)The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the...
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Second Fiddle
as Lincolnesque ActorStudio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back...
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Hollywood Barn Dance
as Hiram TubbBased on and built around the west coast radio program, "The Hollywood Barn Dance", although no...
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Lost in the Stratosphere
as Colonel WorthingtonTwo military pilots are close friends, and share in a lot of hazardous missions while engaging...
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The Caillaux Case
as Emperor William of GermanyBased on an international scandal that hit prewar France, when the editor of the Paris daily LE...
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The Lone Ranger
as Abraham LincolnIn 1865, Captain Mark Smith of the Confederate Army leads a band of deserters to conquer Texas...
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Career Woman
as Sheriff DuncanA young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and...
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The Mad Empress
as President Abraham LincolnThe Mad Empress is a 1939 American historical drama film depicting the 3-year reign of...
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It's A Small World
as Snake Brown Jr.Socialite, privileged, Jane Dale and lawyer Bill Shevlin meet in an automobile accident at...
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Lincoln in the White House
as Abraham LincolnThis short chronicles Abraham Lincoln's presidency from his inauguration through delivery of the...
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Search for Beauty
as Rev. RankinThree con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine...
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Outlawed Guns
as JingleOutlawed Guns stars Buck Jones as Reece Rivers, the nice-guy older brother of headstrong Babe...
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Across the Great Divide
as The BanditShort western melodrama. A cash-strapped operator is working far from his beloved. A criminal...
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For the Service
as Jim, a ScoutCowboy star Buck Jones made his directorial debut with the Universal western For the Service....
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Good News
as Professor KenyonA college football star falls for his mousy French tutor.
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Delinquent Daughters
as Judge CraigA town is shocked when a high school girl commits suicide. A reporter and a cop team up to...
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By Fire and Water
as uncreditedA dramatic one-act film. The wife of the captain of a canal boat chooses the nicer boat and...
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March On, America!
as Abraham Lincoln (archive footage) (uncredited)The story of America from the Pilgrims in 1620 to the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese....
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The ABC of Love
as The InnkeeperRomance between the playwright Harry Bryant and the homeless and illiterate Kate.
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Gloria's Romance
as Gideon Trask (as Frank McGlynn)An adventurous young girl in Florida gets herself lost in the Everglades and finds terror and...
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Sing and Be Happy
as SheriffRival advertising firms compete for a radio show's pickle manufacturing account.
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Why America Will Win
as John F. PershingThis is not a romance but the biography of the man who now leads our vast forces in France. It...
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The Great Barrier
as Sir John MacdonaldThe building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
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Sudden Bill Dorn
as Cap JinksBundy has found gold on the Kent ranch but directs everyone to Ghost Town as he tries to take...
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Strange Glory
as Abraham LincolnDuring the American Civil War, General Ulysses Grant carries out the 'Tennessee Plan,' which...
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Joaquin Murrieta
as Justice of the Peace (uncredited)This MGM Historical Mystery short follows the life and exploits of killer outlaw Joaquin...
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Vanity Fair
as Captain William Dobbin"Vanity Fair" is a historical drama, based on the classic English novel written by William...
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Hello, Everybody!
as Jonathan ReedThe setting is a farm. Kate Smith and Sally Blane play sisters; assorted relatives live with the...
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln
as Abraham LincolnThis short 1915 Edison film stars Frank McGlynn as the famous president from his marriage to...
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North of Nome
as U. S. MarshalJohn Raglan is a seal hunter being hounded by hijackers, so he strands himself on an isolated...
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Rough and Ready
as The SiwashIn New York, Bill Stratton saves a friend's marriage, but Bill's fiancée, Evelyn, misinterprets...
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Alexia's Strategy
as Usakoff (as Frank McGlynn)Walter Young and John Osgood are both in love with Alexia Trexell, daughter of the president of...
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