Victor McLaglen

Born: 1886-12-09

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.


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Rio Grande

as Sgt. Maj. Timothy Quincannon
Released: 1950-11-15

Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke is posted on the Texas frontier to defend settlers against depredations of...

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The Quiet Man

as Squire 'Red' Will Danaher
Released: 1952-07-21

An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

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Gunga Din

as MacChesney
Released: 1939-01-26

British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along...

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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

as First Sergeant Quincannon
Released: 1949-10-22

On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending...

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Fort Apache

as Sgt. Festus Mulcahy
Released: 1948-06-14

Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military...

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Around the World in Eighty Days

as SS Henrietta Helmsman
Released: 1956-10-17

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the...

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Broadway Limited

as Maurice "Mike" Monaghan
Released: 1941-06-13

A publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited gets out of control, as no one...

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The Informer

as Gypo Nolan
Released: 1935-05-09

Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's...

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Whistle Stop

as Gitlo
Released: 1946-01-25

When beautiful Mary returns to her "whistle stop" hometown, long-standing feelings of animosity...

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Prince Valiant

as Boltar
Released: 1954-04-05

A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled...

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Lady Godiva of Coventry

as Grimald
Released: 1955-11-02

Fictionalized account of events leading up the famous nude ride (alas, her hair covers...

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Let Freedom Ring

as Chris Mulligan
Released: 1939-02-24

A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.

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The Unholy Three

as Hercules
Released: 1925-07-20

Three sideshow performers form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" - a ventriloquist,...

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Dishonored

as Colonel Kranau
Released: 1931-04-04

The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.

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The Lost Patrol

as The Sergeant
Released: 1934-02-16

A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotamian desert when their commanding...

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China Girl

as Major Bull Weed
Released: 1942-12-09

Two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams is stationed in Burma and China in the early...

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Sea Devils

as Steve Webb
Released: 1937-02-19

Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and...

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Rio

as Dirk
Released: 1939-09-29

Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when...

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The Princess and the Pirate

as Captain Barrett / The Hook
Released: 1944-11-17

Princess Margaret is travelling incognito to elope with her true love instead of marrying the...

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John Ford: The Man Who Invented America

as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Released: 2019-02-03

Over a 50-year career and more than a hundred movies, filmmaker John Ford (1894-1973) forged the...

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Many Rivers to Cross

as Cadmus Cherne
Released: 1955-02-04

Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let...

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The Stolen Jools

as Sergeant Flagg
Released: 1931-04-04

Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended...

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Forever and a Day

as Archibald Spavin
Released: 1943-01-21

In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the...

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Murder at the Vanities

as Bill Murdock
Released: 1934-05-18

Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's...

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Bengazi

as Robert Emmett Donovan
Released: 1955-09-14

An American with a shady past joins with a morally-bankrupt Irishman to find treasure buried by...

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Fair Wind to Java

as O'Brien
Released: 1953-01-28

The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an...

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Professional Soldier

as Colonel Michael Donovan
Released: 1935-12-27

Mercenary Donovan is hired to kidnap King Peter II. He learns that the party in power is evil...

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Captain Fury

as Jerry Black aka Blackie
Released: 1939-05-26

An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a...

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Hangman's House

as Denis Hogan
Released: 1928-05-13

Forced by her mean-spirited father, Lord Chief Justice James O'Brien, to marry a man she doesn't...

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A Devil with Women

as Jerry Maxton
Released: 1930-10-17

Soldier of fortune Maxton is stranded in a Central American country. He and Tom, the nephew of...

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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

as Himself (archive footage)
Released: 2011-04-03

Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith...

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Wicked

as Scott Burrows
Released: 1931-10-04

Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber...

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George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1985-03-03

Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.

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The Foxes of Harrow

as Mike Farrell
Released: 1947-09-24

An Irish rascal and inveterate gambler uses his considerable skills at the gaming tables of New...

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While Paris Sleeps

as Jacques Costaud
Released: 1932-05-08

To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict...

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Ex-Champ

as Tom 'Gunner' Grey
Released: 1939-05-11

A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.

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Three Rogues

as Bull Stanley
Released: 1931-03-08

In 1877, thieves Ace Beaudry, Bronco Dawson and Bull Stanley head West together after having...

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Klondike Annie

as Bull Brackett
Released: 1936-02-21

A San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.

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Hot for Paris

as John Patrick Duke
Released: 1929-12-22

A romantic adventure musical film directed by Raoul Walsh....The film is believed to be lost.

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The Captain Hates the Sea

as Junius P. Schulte
Released: 1934-11-02

Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit...

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The Cock-Eyed World

as Top Sergeant Flagg
Released: 1929-10-19

Two Marines are sent to South Sea island where they fight over a local island girl.

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Calendar Girl

as Matthew O'Neill
Released: 1947-01-31

Around the turn of the century, two young men, Johnnie Bennett, a composer and Steve Adams, an...

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Wee Willie Winkie

as Sgt. Donald MacDuff
Released: 1937-07-30

In 1897, little Priscilla Williams, along with her widowed mother, goes to live with her army...

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Hollywood on Parade No. B-1

as uncredited
Released: 1934-03-02

Short film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations...

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Battle of Broadway

as Big Ben Wheeler
Released: 1938-04-22

The wealthy owner of a Pennsylvania steel business travels to New York to break up his son's...

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The Black Watch

as Captain Donald King
Released: 1929-05-22

Captain Donald King is sent to India to carry out a secret mission while the Black Watch, his...

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Trouble in the Glen

as Parlan
Released: 1954-06-15

Major Jim "Lance" Lansing, an American ex-pilot of the U.S. Air Corps, returns to Scotland after...

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Laughing at Life

as Dennis P. McHale / Burke / Captain Hale
Released: 1933-07-12

Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the...

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Roger Touhy, Gangster

as Herman "Owl" Banghart
Released: 1944-06-03

Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's...

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The Passionate Adventure

as Herb Harris
Released: 1924-07-01

A rich man leaves his wife, poses as a coster, and saves a factory girl from a crook.

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Ali Baba Goes to Town

as Himself
Released: 1937-10-29

While visiting Hollywood a starstruck movie fan (Eddie Cantor) fantasizes about himself cast in...

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Mother Machree

as The Giant of Kilkenny
Released: 1927-12-19

Ellen McHugh, a poor Irish immigrant to America, finds work in a carnival and is thus able to...

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Dick Turpin

as Dick Turpin
Released: 1933-12-01

The adventures of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary ride to York.

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Guilty as Hell

as Detective Capt. T.R. McKinley
Released: 1932-08-05

Richard Arlen is the convicted murderer and Adrienne Ames his sister who believes in his...

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Happy Days

as Minstrel Show Performer
Released: 1929-09-16

Margie, singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York inspite of being in love with...

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Hot Pepper

as Jim Flagg
Released: 1933-01-15

In this comedy, a pair of ex-Marines team up and get involved in a nightclub. Trouble ensues...

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A Girl in Every Port

as Spike Madden
Released: 1928-02-26

Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally...

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Rackety Rax

as 'Knucks' McGloin
Released: 1932-10-23

Gambler/racketeer "Knucks" McGloin takes note of just how much money and action (aside from the...

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Under Two Flags

as J.C. Doyle
Released: 1936-04-30

Sergeant Victor comes to the French Foreign Legion after taking the blame for his brother's...

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The Big Guy

as Warden Bill Whitlock
Released: 1939-12-22

A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the...

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The Gay Caballero

as Don Bob Harkness / El Coyote
Released: 1932-02-14

Football star Ted Radcliffe goes west to manage an inherited cattle ranch. Empire builder and...

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This Is My Affair

as Jock Ramsay
Released: 1937-05-28

President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very...

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Tampico

as Fred Adamson
Released: 1944-04-10

A story of of the captain of an oil tanker during World War II, Captain Bart Manson, who rescues...

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Women of All Nations

as Captain Jim Flagg
Released: 1931-05-31

Marines Flagg and Quirt fought together in WWI and Panama. After some time in New York they go...

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Full Confession

as Pat McGinnis
Released: 1939-09-08

A Catholic priest must convince a man to step forward to save the wrong person from being sent...

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Pacific Liner

as Crusher McKay
Released: 1939-01-06

The S. S. Arcturus sails from Shanghai to San Francisco, and Dr. Jim Craig takes the post of...

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The Italians They Are Crazy

as Sergente O'Riley
Released: 1958-04-05

In a German prison camp, some Italian prisoners bet with the commander that they will be able to...

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South of Pago Pago

as Bucko Larson
Released: 1940-07-19

Sent by cutthroat pirates to turn Kehane’s head while they loot his island paradise of a fortune...

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We're Going to Be Rich

as "Dobbie" Dobson
Released: 1938-07-03

A perpetual dreamer talks his wife into moving with him from their home in Australia to South...

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The Great Hotel Murder

as Andrew W. 'Andy' McCabe
Released: 1935-02-27

Crime novelist Roger Blackwood competes with hotel house detective Andy McCabe in solving a...

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The Devil's Party

as Marty Malone
Released: 1938-06-02

Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.

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Wharf Angel

as Turk
Released: 1934-03-15

On the wharfs of San Francisco, saloon girl Toy, also known as Mary, lives over Mother Bright's...

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Beau Geste

as Hank
Released: 1926-08-24

Michael "Beau" Geste leaves England in disgrace and joins the infamous French Foreign Legion. He...

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The Isle of Retribution

as Doomsdorf
Released: 1926-04-25

Five people are stranded on an island off the coast of Alaska. The poor girl, Bess Gilbert,...

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Call Out the Marines

as Sgt. Jimmy McGinnis
Released: 1942-02-13

Two Marine sergeants (Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe) flirt with a cafe girl (Binnie Barnes) in...

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Sea Fury

as Bellew
Released: 1958-08-26

The captain of a tugboat harboured off a Spanish village is lured into a romantic involvement...

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Love, Honor and Goodbye

as Terry O'Farrell
Released: 1945-09-15

A lawyer's wife walks out on him, then poses as a French nurse to spy on him.

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Powder Town

as Jeems O'Shea
Released: 1942-06-07

Director Rowland V. Lee's wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a...

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Annabelle's Affairs

as John Rawson / Hefly Jack
Released: 1931-06-14

After only 11 hours of marriage, Annabelle and her husband separate-not knowing what each other...

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City of Shadows

as Big Tim Channing
Released: 1955-06-02

After several years of supporting parts, Victor McLaglen once more landed a leading role in...

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On the Level

as Biff Williams
Released: 1930-05-18

An ironworker and his equally tough friend decide to leave New Orleans to work as beam-walkers...

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Strong Boy

as Strong Boy
Released: 1929-03-03

"Strong Boy" is offered a promotion for saving a child from being crushed by a trunk, but to the...

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Nancy Steele Is Missing!

as Dannie O'Neill
Released: 1937-03-12

After being in jail for seventeen years a crook is met by the girl he kidnapped as a baby. She...

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Rough, Tough and Ready

as Owen McCarey
Released: 1945-03-22

The story is the old bromide about two brawling buddies, duking it out over the same girl, in...

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The Loves of Carmen

as Escamillo
Released: 1927-09-03

Carmen, a gypsy, working in a Spanish cigar factory, is flaunted by Escamillo, the bullfighter,...

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The Abductors

as Tom Muldoon
Released: 1957-07-01

Two men (Victor McLaglen, George Macready) botch the kidnapping of a warden's daughter (Fay...

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Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1994-08-09

As the first "blonde bombshell," Mae West reigned supreme and changed the nation's view of...

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Carnival

as Baron
Released: 1921-06-26

An actor playing Othello in a stage production of Shakespeare's play becomes jealous of his...

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Diamond Frontier

as Terrence Regan
Released: 1940-09-30

Story of the early days of the diamond-mining era in South Africa.

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Woman to Woman

as Nubian Slave (uncredited)
Released: 1923-01-02

David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin...

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What Price Glory

as Capt. Flagg
Released: 1926-11-23

U.S. Marine sergeants Quirt and Flagg are inveterate romantic rivals on peacetime assignments in...

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Under Pressure

as Jumbo Smith
Released: 1935-02-02

Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each...

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Percy

as Reedy Jenkins
Released: 1925-04-05

Western melodrama about a sheltered youth who makes his way out West by playing the fiddle.

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Winds of Chance

as Poleon Doret
Released: 1925-08-15

A love triangle set against the turn-of-the-century gold rush.

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The Glorious Adventure

as Bulfinch
Released: 1922-04-23

An Earl's cousin survives drowning and saves a lady from the Great Fire of London.

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The Fighting Heart

as Soapy Williams
Released: 1925-10-18

This film is the story of a small-town boy and girl. The hero, Denny Bolton, thrashes the town...

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Life in Hollywood No. 5

as uncredited
Released: 1927-08-25

Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.

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Men of Steel

as Pete Masarick
Released: 1926-07-11

Jan Bokak is a self-educated steelworker who finds himself in the middle of a romantic triangle....

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No More Women

as Forty-Fathoms
Released: 1934-03-03

Two deep-sea divers, known only by their nicknames of "Three-Time" and "Forty-Fathoms," find...

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The Beloved Brute

as Charles Hinges
Released: 1924-11-09

A Western melodrama about brothers, separated in early childhood, who wound up as opponents in a...

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Devil's Lottery

as Jem Meech
Released: 1932-03-27

Intricate, soapy drama of romance, heartbreak, and murder amongst a diverse group of sweepstakes...

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The Magnificent Brute

as 'Big Steve' Andrews
Released: 1936-10-11

A love triangle forms the basis of this drama. It all begins in a steel mill when a steel worker...

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Michigan Kid

as Curley Davis
Released: 1947-08-11

A former U.S. marshal rescues an instant heiress from an outlaw's gang.

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Captain Lash

as Captain Lash
Released: 1929-01-06

Lash is the head coal stoker on a steam ship whose shipmates have nicknamed "Captain". Lash...

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The River Pirate

as Sailor Fritz
Released: 1928-08-26

This film concerns a youth torn between his fatherly gangland mentor and the beautiful, virtuous...

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The Crimson Circle

as uncredited
Released: 1922-09-01

Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.

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The Boatswain's Mate

as Ned Travers
Released: 1924-01-01

A retired boatswain hires an ex-soldier to rob a widow's inn.

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Have Gun, Will Travel

as Mike O'Hare
First aired: 1957-09-14

Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957...

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Rawhide

as uncredited
First aired: 1959-01-09

The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across...

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Rawhide

as Harry Wittman
First aired: 1959-01-09

The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across...

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This Is Your Life

as Self
First aired: 1952-10-01

This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally...

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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as uncredited
First aired: 1951-10-05

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....

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