George Bancroft

Born: 1882-09-30

George Bancroft was an American screen actor of the 1920s and 1930s.


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Stagecoach

as Marshal Curly Wilcox
Released: 1939-03-03

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of...

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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

as MacWade
Released: 1936-04-09

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies...

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The Skin Game

as Second Stranger
Released: 1931-02-26

An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village.

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Angels with Dirty Faces

as Mac Keefer
Released: 1938-11-26

Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky...

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The Docks of New York

as Bill Roberts
Released: 1928-09-16

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a...

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Texas

as Windy Miller
Released: 1941-10-09

Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up....

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Each Dawn I Die

as Prison Warden John Armstrong
Released: 1939-08-19

A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism...

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North West Mounted Police

as Jacques Corbeau
Released: 1940-10-22

Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him)...

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When the Daltons Rode

as Caleb Winters
Released: 1940-08-23

Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the...

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Underworld

as Bull Weed
Released: 1927-08-20

Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze,...

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Young Tom Edison

as Samuel 'Sam' Edison
Released: 1940-03-15

Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and...

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Old Ironsides

as Gunner
Released: 1926-12-06

An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old...

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Espionage Agent

as Dudley Garrett
Released: 1939-09-30

When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the...

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The Pony Express

as Jack Slade
Released: 1925-09-03

The Pony Express is a silent 1925 Western film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed...

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Green Hell

as Jim 'Tex' Morgan
Released: 1940-01-26

A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.

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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1983-02-25

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas,...

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Ladies Love Brutes

as Joe Forziati
Released: 1930-05-14

The movie stars George Bancroft, Mary Astor and Fredric March who are all excellent in their...

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Paramount on Parade

as Mug
Released: 1930-04-22

This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars,...

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Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)

as Self
Released: 1931-06-01

Pola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Mitzi Green, Polly Moran, Mack Sennett and Marjorie Beebe are seen...

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Thunderbolt

as Thunderbolt Jim Lang
Released: 1929-06-20

A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed...

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Blood Money

as Bill Bailey
Released: 1933-11-17

The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected...

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Rulers of the Sea

as Capt. Oliver
Released: 1939-11-08

The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all...

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Land of Liberty

as (archive footage)
Released: 1939-06-15

This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.

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Wedding Present

as Pete Stagg
Released: 1936-10-09

Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically...

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Rich Man's Folly

as Brock Trumbull
Released: 1931-11-14

The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to...

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The Deadwood Coach

as Tex Wilson
Released: 1924-12-07

A man searches for the villains who murdered his parents

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White Gold

as Sam Randall
Released: 1927-02-24

A sheep farmer brings his new wife to his father's ranch and the old man takes an instant...

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Syncopation

as Steve Porter
Released: 1942-05-22

A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.

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The Wolf of Wall Street

as The Wolf
Released: 1929-02-09

A ruthless stockbroker sells short in the copper business and ruins the life of his friends by...

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Going Hollywood: The '30s

as (archive footage)
Released: 1984-01-01

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they...

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Too Many Crooks

as Bert the Boxman
Released: 1927-04-02

Too Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written...

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Little Men

as Major I.I. Burdle
Released: 1940-11-29

Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a...

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The Rough Riders

as Happy Joe
Released: 1927-09-30

The story of the military unit organized by future U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt and its...

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John Meade's Woman

as Tim Mathews
Released: 1937-02-26

"Teddy" Connor, a woman recently orphaned, leaves her uncle's Midwestern farm for Chicago, where...

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Driven

as Lem Tolliver
Released: 1923-02-11

Essie, a mountain girl, moves in with a family of neighboring bootleggers when her father, also...

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Scandal Sheet

as Mark Flint
Released: 1931-01-31

Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story...

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The Mighty

as Blake Greeson
Released: 1929-11-16

In this melodrama set during WWI, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then...

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The Bugle Sounds

as 'Russ' Russell
Released: 1942-01-30

An old-time cavalry sergeant's resistance to change could cost him his post.

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Code of the West

as Enoch Thurman
Released: 1925-04-06

Code of the West (1925)

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Lady and Gent

as Percival 'Slag' Bailey
Released: 1932-07-10

Stag Bailey, a slow-witted prizefighter, and his girlfriend, speakeasy hostess Puff Rogers, take...

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Racketeers in Exile

as William Waldo
Released: 1937-03-30

In this gangster movie, a criminal king-pin and his gang hide out in his hometown where they...

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A Doctor's Diary

as Dr. Clem Driscoll
Released: 1937-02-16

A Doctor's Diary is told through the eyes of Dr. Dan Norris (John Trent), resident physician in...

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The Showdown

as Cardan
Released: 1928-02-25

Passions run hot in the tropics as men fight over oil wells and a woman.

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Teeth

as Dan Angus
Released: 1924-11-02

Tom Mix western film.

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Sea Horses

as Cochran
Released: 1926-02-22

Sea Horses is a 1926 American drama silent film directed by Allan Dwan and written by Becky...

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Derelict

as Bill Rafferty
Released: 1930-11-22

Two rival seamen fight for both a promotion to a captaincy in their shipping line and the...

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Submarine Patrol

as Capt. Leeds
Released: 1938-11-25

A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with...

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Whistling in Dixie

as Sheriff Claude Stagg
Released: 1942-12-31

Radio sleuth Wally 'The Fox' Benton travels to Georgia with his fiancé Carol to be married; and...

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The World and the Flesh

as Kylenko
Released: 1932-04-22

During the 1917 Russian revolution, a group of artistocrats find themselves in the custody of a...

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Hell-Ship Morgan

as Captain Ira 'Hell-Ship' Morgan
Released: 1936-02-08

A fishing-boat captain's bride eyes his first mate at sea.

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The Drag Net

as Two-Gun Nolan
Released: 1928-05-01

A 1928 silent film crime drama produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount...

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The Rainbow Trail

as Jake Willets
Released: 1925-05-23

John Shefford is looking for his uncle Venters who years ago found a hidden valley and lived...

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The Prodigal Judge

as Cavendish
Released: 1922-02-19

The story takes place in the pre-Civil War era South. Judge Price has a fondness for liquor...

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The Splendid Road

as Buck Lockwell
Released: 1925-12-06

Young Sandra De Hault arrives by ship in Sacramento, California, during the 1849 Gold Rush....

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The Enchanted Hill

as Ira Todd
Released: 1926-01-18

Based on a Peter B. Kyne novel, The Enchanted Hill featureds a triangle romance between Jack...

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The Runaway

as Lesher Skidmore
Released: 1926-04-04

A movie actress, mistakenly thinking she has killed a fellow actor, goes on the run and finds...

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