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{{Short description|American actor (1899–1973)}}
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| image = George-macready-trailer.jpg
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| image_caption = Macready in the trailer for ''Paths of Glory'' (1957)
{{Infobox person
| name = George Macready
| name = George Macready
| birth_date = {{birth date|1899|8|29}}
| image = George Macready in Johnny Allegro.jpg
| birth_place = [[Providence, Rhode Island]], U.S.
| image_caption = Macready in ''[[Johnny Allegro]]'' (1949)
| death_date = {{death date and age|1973|7|2|1899|8|29}}
| birth_date = {{birth date|1899|8|29}}
| death_place = [[Los Angeles, California]], U.S.
| birth_place = [[Providence, Rhode Island]], U.S.
| occupation = Actor
| death_date = {{death date and age|1973|7|2|1899|8|29}}
| years_active = 1926–1971
| death_place = [[Los Angeles, California]], U.S.
| spouse = Elizabeth Dana Patterson Macready (1931–1943; 3 children)
| occupation = Actor
| alma_mater = [[Classical High School]]<br>[[Brown University]]
| years_active = 1926–1973
| spouse = {{marriage|Elizabeth Patterson|1931|1943|end=divorced}}
| children = 3
| relatives = [[John Macready (gymnast)|John Macready]] (grandson)
| alma_mater = [[Brown University]]
}}
}}
'''George Peabody Macready Jr.'''<ref name="ci">{{cite journal |last1=Jarrett |first1=Diane |title=George Macready: A Loving Parent |journal=Classic Images |date=July 2019 |issue=529 |pages=58–67}}</ref> (August 29, 1899 – July 2, 1973)<ref name=rp/> was an American stage, film, and television actor often cast in roles as polished villains.<ref>Obituary ''[[Variety Obituaries|Variety]]'', July 11, 1973, page 63.</ref>


==Early life==
'''George Peabody Macready Jr.'''<ref name="ci">{{cite journal |last1=Jarrett |first1=Diane |title=George Macready: A Loving Parent |journal=Classic Images |date=July 2019 |issue=529 |pages=58-67}}</ref> (August 29, 1899 – July 2, 1973)<ref name=rp/> was an American stage, film, and television actor often cast in roles as polished villains.<ref>Obituary ''[[Variety Obituaries|Variety]]'', July 11, 1973, page 63.</ref>
Macready was born in [[Providence, Rhode Island]]<ref name="sw">{{cite book |last1=Monush |first1=Barry |title=Screen World Presents the Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors: From the silent era to 1965 |date=2003 |publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation |isbn=9781557835512 |page=456 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=toTIb1Ek2WwC&q=%22George+Macready%22&pg=PA456 |access-date=July 25, 2019 |language=en}}</ref> on August 29, 1899. He claimed to be a descendent of the 19th-century English actor [[William Charles Macready]], whose example he cited as the chief inspiration for his own pursuit of acting.<ref name="MGSIW">[https://www.newspapers.com/image/639781389/?clipping_id=130676146 "Macready Got Scar in Wreck"]. ''Fort Worth Star-Telegram''. August 20, 1961. p.&nbsp;TV24. Retrieved August 26, 2023.</ref> He graduated from the local [[Classical High School]]<ref name="ci" /> and, in 1917, from [[Brown University]].<ref name=RLGreGM>Gordon, Dr. Roger L. (2018). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=FFFyDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA146 Supporting Actors in Motion Pictures: Volume II]''. Pittsburgh, PA: Dorrance Publishing. p.&nbsp;146. {{ISBN|978-1-4809-5841-8}}.</ref>


Shortly thereafter, Macready suffered a disfiguring injury in a car accident, which, as the actor would later note, proved a mixed blessing: affording him a reliably steady supply of jobs, but only within a rigidly circumscribed range.<ref name=RLGreGM/><ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-roanoke-times/130676005/ "George Macready Type-Cast Again"]. ''The Roanoke Times''. October 18, 1958. p.&nbsp;16. Retrieved August 26, 2023.</ref> As of October 1958, by Macready's own count, he had been cast as the "mastermind criminal" type in at least 65 of his 75 television and motion picture assignments. He explained:
==Background==
<blockquote>Producers have found it effective to emphasize my rather nasty looking cheek scar, which I received in an auto accident many years ago.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-modesto-bee/130676308/ "Valuable Scar"]. ''The Modesto Bee''. October 19, 1958. p.&nbsp;G-3. Retrieved August 26, 2023.</ref></blockquote>
Macready was born in [[Providence, Rhode Island]],<ref name="sw">{{cite book |last1=Monush |first1=Barry |title=Screen World Presents the Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors: From the silent era to 1965 |date=2003 |publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation |isbn=9781557835512 |page=456 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=toTIb1Ek2WwC&pg=PA456&dq=%22George+Macready%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj1ts6j4NDjAhVKIqwKHVvTCwsQ6AEIRTAF#v=onepage&q=%22George%20Macready%22&f=false |accessdate=25 July 2019 |language=en}}</ref> and graduated from the local [[Classical High School]]<ref name="ci" /> (1917) and, in 1921, from [[Brown University]], where he was a member of [[Delta Phi]] [[fraternity]] and [[Letterman (sports)|won a letter]] as the [[American football|football]] team manager. While in college, Macready sustained a permanent scar on his right cheek after being thrust through the windshield of a [[Ford]] [[Model T]] when the vehicle skidded on an icy road and hit a telephone pole. He was stitched up by a [[veterinarian]], but he caught [[scarlet fever]] during the ordeal. The injury, along with his high brow and perfect diction, gave Macready the Gothic look of an authoritarian or villainous character.

Macready first worked in a bank in Providence and was then briefly a newspaperman in [[New York City]] before he turned to stage acting. He claimed to have been descended from the 19th century Shakespearean actor [[William Macready]].


==Acting career==
==Acting career==
===Theatre===
===Theatre===
Macready made his [[Broadway (theater)|Broadway]] debut in a 1926 stage adaptation of ''[[The Scarlet Letter]]''. Through 1958, he appeared in fifteen plays, both drama and comedy, including ''[[The Barretts of Wimpole Street]]'', based on the family of the English poetess, [[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]].
Macready made his [[Broadway (theater)|Broadway]] debut in 1926, performing in the role of Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale in an adaptation of ''[[The Scarlet Letter]]''.<ref name="TNYT73">"George Macready, the 'Villain' in Many Plays and Films, Dies", ''The New York Times'' ([[Manhattan]]), July 4, 1973, p. 18. [[ProQuest]] Historical Newspapers, Ann Arbor, Michigan; subscription access through [[The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]] Library.</ref> Through 1958, he appeared in fifteen plays, both drama and comedy, including ''[[The Barretts of Wimpole Street]]'', based on the family of the English poet [[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]].


Macready's penchant for acting was spurred in part by the director [[Richard Boleslawski]]. His Shakespearean stage credits included Benedick in ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]'' (1927), Malcolm in ''[[Macbeth]]'' (1928) and Paris in ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' (1934). On film, he played Marallus in [[Julius Caesar (1953 film)|the 1953 film adaptation of Shakespeare's ''Julius Caesar'']]. He also portrayed Prince Ernst in the original stage version of ''[[Victoria Regina (play)|Victoria Regina]]'' (1936), starring [[Helen Hayes]].
Macready's penchant for acting was spurred in part by the director [[Richard Boleslawski]]. His Shakespearean stage credits included Benedick in ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]'' (1927), Malcolm in ''[[Macbeth]]'' (1928), and Paris in ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' (1934). On film, he played Marallus in [[Julius Caesar (1953 film)|the 1953 film adaptation of Shakespeare's ''Julius Caesar'']]. He also portrayed Prince Ernst in the original stage version of ''[[Victoria Regina (play)|Victoria Regina]]'' (1936), starring [[Helen Hayes]].


===Film===
===Film===
Macready's first film was ''[[Commandos Strike at Dawn]]'' (1942), which starred [[Paul Muni]]. In ''[[Gilda]]'' (1946), Macready's character Ballin Mundson enters a deadly love triangle with characters played by co-stars with [[Rita Hayworth]] and [[Glenn Ford]]. He would again play opposite Ford several years later in the post-war adventure ''[[The Green Glove]]'' (1952).
Macready's first film was ''[[Commandos Strike at Dawn]]'' (1942), which starred [[Paul Muni]]. In ''[[Gilda (film)|Gilda]]'' (1946), Macready's character Ballin Mundson enters a deadly love triangle with characters played by co-stars [[Rita Hayworth]] and [[Glenn Ford]]. He again played opposite Ford several years later in the postwar adventure ''[[The Green Glove]]'' (1952).


Macready played the villain Younger Miles in the 1948 Randolph Scott film “Coroner Creek”.
[[Stanley Kubrick]]'s anti-war film ''[[Paths of Glory]]'' (1957) provided Macready with his other great role, self-serving French [[World War I]] general Paul Mireau, who is brought down by [[Kirk Douglas]]'s character, Colonel Dax. He had worked with Douglas previously in ''[[Detective Story (1951 film)|Detective Story]]'' (1951), and later he appeared with 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, he was cast in a rare comedy role as General Kuhster in [[Blake Edwards]]'s film ''[[The Great Race]]''.

Macready played Marshal Sam Hughes in the 1949 Randolph Scott film “The Doolins of Oklahoma” (he narrated the film as well).

[[Stanley Kubrick]]'s antiwar film ''[[Paths of Glory]]'' (1957) provided Macready with his other great role, the sadistic and self-serving French [[World War I]] General Paul Mireau, who is brought down by [[Kirk Douglas]]'s character, Colonel Dax. He had worked with Douglas previously in ''[[Detective Story (1951 film)|Detective Story]]'' (1951), and later he appeared with 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, he was cast in a rare 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 State]] [[Cordell Hull]] in ''[[Tora! Tora! Tora!]]'' (1970), a depiction of the events leading up to the [[Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor]].
One of Macready's last film roles was as [[United States Secretary of State]] [[Cordell Hull]] in ''[[Tora! Tora! Tora!]]'' (1970), a depiction of the events leading up to the [[Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor]].


===Television===
===Television===
Macready made four guest appearances on [[Raymond Burr]]'s ''[[Perry Mason (1957 TV series)|Perry Mason]]'', including the role of murder victim Milo Girard in the 1958 episode "The Case of the Purple Woman." He was also cast regularly in such series as ''[[Four Star Playhouse]]'', ''[[General Electric Theater]]'', ''[[The Ford Television Theatre]]'', ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]'', ''[[Adventures in Paradise (TV series)|Adventures in Paradise]]'' and ''[[The Islanders (TV series)|The Islanders]]''.
Macready made four guest appearances on [[Raymond Burr]]'s ''[[Perry Mason (1957 TV series)|Perry Mason]]'', including the role of murder victim Milo Girard in the 1958 episode "The Case of the Purple Woman". He was also cast regularly in such series as ''[[Four Star Playhouse]]'', ''[[General Electric Theater]]'', ''[[The Ford Television Theatre]]'', ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]'', ''[[Adventures in Paradise (TV series)|Adventures in Paradise]]'' and ''[[The Islanders (TV series)|The Islanders]]''.


Macready appeared in many [[Western (genre)|western]] television series produced in the 1950s and 1960s, including ''[[Bat Masterson (TV series)|Bat Masterson]]'', ''[[Bonanza]]'', ''[[The Dakotas (TV series)|The Dakotas]]'', ''[[Gunsmoke]]'', ''[[Have Gun - Will Travel]]'', ''[[The Rebel (TV series)|The Rebel]]'' (once in the role of [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] General [[Robert E. Lee]]), ''[[The Rifleman]]'', ''[[Lancer (TV series)|Lancer]]'', ''[[Riverboat (TV series)|Riverboat]]'', ''[[The Rough Riders (TV series)|The Rough Riders]]'', [[Chill Wills]]'s ''[[Frontier Circus]]'', ''[[The Texan (TV series)|The Texan]]'' and [[Steve McQueen]]'s ''[[Wanted: Dead or Alive (TV series)|Wanted: Dead or Alive]]''. Also on TV, he was seen in episodes of ''[[The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)|The Outer Limits]]'', ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'', [[Boris Karloff]]'s ''[[Thriller (U.S. TV series)|Thriller]]'', ''[[Kentucky Jones]]'', ''[[Get Smart]]'' with [[Don Adams]] and ''[[The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'' with [[Robert Vaughn]].
Macready performed in a variety of television series produced in the 1950s and 1960s, including many [[Western (genre)|Western]]s such as ''[[Bat Masterson (TV series)|Bat Masterson]]'', ''[[Bonanza]]'', ''[[The Dakotas (TV series)|The Dakotas]]'', ''[[Gunsmoke]]'', ''[[Have Gun - Will Travel]]'', ''[[The Rebel (American TV series)|The Rebel]]'' (once in the role of [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] General [[Robert E. Lee]]), ''[[The Rifleman]]'', ''[[Lancer (TV series)|Lancer]]'', ''[[Laramie (TV series)|Laramie]]'', ''[[Riverboat (TV series)|Riverboat]]'', ''[[The Rough Riders (TV series)|The Rough Riders]]'', [[Chill Wills]]'s ''[[Frontier Circus]]'', ''[[The Texan (TV series)|The Texan]]'' and [[Steve McQueen]]'s ''[[Wanted: Dead or Alive (TV series)|Wanted: Dead or Alive]]''. Also on TV, he was seen in episodes of ''[[The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)|The Outer Limits]]'', ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'', [[Boris Karloff]]'s ''[[Thriller (U.S. TV series)|Thriller]]'', ''[[Kentucky Jones]]'', ''[[Get Smart]]'' with [[Don Adams]], and ''[[The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'' with [[Robert Vaughn]].


Macready was cast as Cyrus Canfield, a vengeful father searching for his runaway teenage daughter, played by Floy Dean, in the May 26, 1962, series finale of NBC's ''[[The Tall Man (TV series)|The Tall Man]]''.
Macready also portrayed Colonel John Barrington in the 1961 episode "Handful of Fire" of the [[National Broadcasting Company|NBC]] Western series ''[[Laramie (TV series)|Laramie]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0624731/|title=''Laramie'': "Handful of Fire", December 5, 1961|publisher=[[Internet Movie Data Base]]|accessdate=September 22, 2012}}</ref>

Macready was cast as Cyrus Canfield, a vengeful father searching for his runaway teenaged daughter, played by Floy Dean, in the May 26, 1962, series finale of NBC's ''[[The Tall Man (TV series)|The Tall Man]]''.

In the 1960s, Macready performed for three years in the role of Martin Peyton in [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]'s ''[[Peyton Place (TV series)|Peyton Place]]'', the first prime-time [[soap opera]] on American television, with [[Dorothy Malone]] in the lead role of [[Constance MacKenzie]].


He played publishing magnate Glenn Howard in the TV movie ''[[Fame Is the Name of the Game]]'' (1966) starring [[Anthony Franciosa]], but was replaced by [[Gene Barry]] in the role when the film was subsequently used as the pilot for the television series ''[[The Name of the Game (TV series)|The Name of the Game]]'' with Franciosa, Barry, and [[Robert Stack]] revolving in the lead.
He played publishing magnate Glenn Howard in the TV movie ''[[Fame Is the Name of the Game]]'' (1966) starring [[Anthony Franciosa]], but was replaced by [[Gene Barry]] in the role when the film was subsequently used as the pilot for the television series ''[[The Name of the Game (TV series)|The Name of the Game]]'' with Franciosa, Barry, and [[Robert Stack]] revolving in the lead.


==Personal life==
==Personal life==
In 1931, Macready married actress Elizabeth Dana Patterson; they divorced in 1943.<ref name=ci/>
An art collector, Macready was a partner with colleague [[Vincent Price]] in a [[Beverly Hills, California|Beverly Hills]] [[art gallery]] called The Little Gallery, which they opened in 1943. (Macready had played Price's brother on Broadway in ''Victoria Regina''.) According to Lucy Chase Williams' book ''The Complete Films of Vincent Price'', "The establishment merited photos and two full columns in ''Newsweek'' magazine, but rent increases forced The Little Gallery to close after two years."{{Citation needed |date=July 2019}}


An art collector, Macready was a partner with colleague [[Vincent Price]] in a [[Beverly Hills, California|Beverly Hills]] [[art gallery]] called The Little Gallery, which they opened in 1943. (Macready had played Price's brother on Broadway in ''Victoria Regina''.) According to Lucy Chase Williams' book ''The Complete Films of Vincent Price'', "In the spring of 1943 ... Price and Macready opened The Little Gallery in Beverly Hills. 'We rented a hole in the wall next door to Martindale's book shop and a very popular bar, figuring correctly that we'd catch a mixed clientele of erudites and inebriates.' Price and Macready saw the gallery not only as an indulgence of their own interests, but as a showcase for young artists, and a way to expose the general public to art and art appreciation. The establishment merited photos and two full columns in Newsweek magazine, but rent increases forced The Little Gallery to close after two years."<ref>Williams, Lucy Chase, The Complete Films of Vincent Price (Citadel Press, 1995), page. 24</ref>
Macready married actress Elizabeth Dana Patterson.<ref name=ci/> He was the father of activist Elizabeth Dana Macready, actor/producer Michael Macready, and Marcia Macready. He is the grandfather of [[gymnast]] [[John Macready]] and 3 other grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren.


==Death==
==Death==
Macready died of [[emphysema]] in 1973 and his [[body donation|body was donated]] to the [[David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA|UCLA School of Medicine]].<ref name="rp">{{cite book|last1=Wilson|first1=Scott|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.|date=2016|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476625997|page=467|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FOHgDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA467#v=onepage&q=%22George%20Peabody%20Macready%22|accessdate=19 June 2017|language=en}}</ref>
Macready died of [[emphysema]] on July 2, 1973. His [[body donation|body was donated]] to the [[David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA|UCLA School of Medicine]].<ref name="rp">{{cite book|last1=Wilson|first1=Scott|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.|date=2016|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476625997|page=467|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FOHgDAAAQBAJ&q=%22George+Peabody+Macready%22&pg=PA467|access-date=June 19, 2017|language=en}}</ref>


==Filmography==
==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
{{div col}}
|-
*''[[Commandos Strike at Dawn]]'' (1942) as Schoolteacher
! Year
*''[[Follow the Boys]]'' (1944) as Walter Bruce
! Film
*''[[The Story of Dr. Wassell]]'' (1944) as Dutch Army captain (uncredited)
! Role
*''[[Wilson (1944 film)|Wilson]]'' (1944) as William McCombs (uncredited)
! Director
*''[[The Seventh Cross (1944 film)|The Seventh Cross]]'' (1944) as Bruno Sauer
! class="unsortable" | Notes
*''[[The Soul of a Monster]]'' (1944) as Dr. George Winson
|-
*''[[The Conspirators (1944 film)|The Conspirators]]'' (1944) as Schimitt's Special Agent (uncredited)
| 1942 || ''[[Commandos Strike at Dawn]]'' || Schoolteacher || [[John Farrow]] ||
*''[[The Missing Juror]]'' (1944) as Harry Wharton / Jerome K. Bentley
|-
*''[[The Bandit of Sherwood Forest]]'' (1945) as Fitz-Herbert
| rowspan=7 | 1944 || ''[[Follow the Boys (1944 film)|Follow the Boys]]'' || Walter Bruce || [[A. Edward Sutherland]] ||
*''[[A Song to Remember]]'' (1945) as [[Alfred de Musset]] (uncredited)
|-
*''[[I Love a Mystery (film)|I Love a Mystery]]'' (1945) as Jefferson Monk
| ''[[The Story of Dr. Wassell]]'' || Dutch Army Captain || [[Cecil B. DeMille]] || uncredited
*''[[The Monster and the Ape]]'' (1945) as Prof. Ernst
|-
*''[[Counter-Attack]]'' (1945) as Col. Semenov
| ''[[Wilson (1944 film)|Wilson]]'' || William McCombs || [[Henry_King_(director)|Henry King]] || uncredited
*''[[Don Juan Quilligan]]'' (1945) as District Attorney (uncredited)
|-
*''[[My Name Is Julia Ross|My Name is Julia Ross]]'' (1945) as Ralph Hughes
| ''[[The Seventh Cross (1944 film)|The Seventh Cross]]'' || Bruno Sauer || [[Fred Zinnemann]] ||
*''[[The Fighting Guardsman]]'' (1946) as Gaston de Montrevel
|-
*''[[Gilda]]'' (1946) as Ballin Mundson
*''[[The Man Who Dared (1946 film)|The Man Who Dared]]'' (1946) as Donald Wayne
| ''[[The Soul of a Monster]]'' || Dr. George Winson || [[Will Jason]] ||
|-
*''[[The Walls Came Tumbling Down (film)|The Walls Came Tumbling Down]]'' (1946) as Matthew Stoker
*''[[The Return of Monte Cristo (1946 film)|The Return of Monte Cristo]]'' (1946) as Henri de la Roche
| ''[[The Conspirators (1944 film)|The Conspirators]]'' || Schimitt's Special Agent || [[Jean Negulesco]] || uncredited
|-
*''[[Down to Earth (1947 film)|Down to Earth]]'' (1947) as Joe Manion
| ''[[The Missing Juror]]'' || Harry Wharton / Jerome K. Bentley || [[Budd Boetticher]] (as Oscar Boetticher Jr.) ||
*''[[The Swordsman (1948 film)|The Swordsman]]'' (1948) as Robert Glowan
|-
*''[[The Black Arrow (film)|The Black Arrow]]'' (1948) as Sir Daniel Brackley
| rowspan=7 | 1945 || ''[[The Bandit of Sherwood Forest]]'' || Fitz-Herbert || [[George Sherman]] ||
*''[[The Big Clock (film)|The Big Clock]]'' (1948) as Steve Hagen
|-
*''[[Coroner Creek]]'' (1948) as Younger Miles
| ''[[A Song to Remember]]'' || [[Alfred de Musset]] || [[Charles Vidor]] || uncredited
*''[[Beyond Glory]]'' (1948) as Maj. General Bond
|-
*''[[The Gallant Blade]]'' (1949) as Gen. Cadeau
| ''[[I Love a Mystery (film)|I Love a Mystery]]'' || Jefferson Monk || [[Henry_Levin_(film_director)|Henry Levin]] ||
*''[[Knock on Any Door]]'' (1949) as Dist. Atty. Kerman
|-
*''[[Alias Nick Beal]]'' (1949) as Reverend Thomas Garfield
| ''[[The Monster and the Ape]]'' || Professor Ernst || [[Howard Bretherton]] ||
*''[[Johnny Allegro]]'' (1949) as Morgan Vallin
|-
*''[[The Doolins of Oklahoma]]'' (1949) as Marshal Sam Hughes
| ''[[Counter-Attack]]'' || Colonel Semenov || [[Zoltan Korda]] ||
*''[[The Nevadan]]'' (1950) as Edward Galt
|-
*''[[Fortunes of Captain Blood]]'' (1950) as Marquis de Riconete
| ''[[Don Juan Quilligan]]'' || District Attorney || [[Frank Tuttle]] || uncredited
*''[[Rogues of Sherwood Forest]]'' (1950) as [[John of England|King John]]
|-
*''[[A Lady Without Passport]]'' (1950) as Palinov
| ''[[My Name Is Julia Ross|My Name is Julia Ross]]'' || Ralph Hughes || [[Joseph_H._Lewis_(director)|Joseph H. Lewis]] ||
*''[[The Desert Hawk (1950 film)|The Desert Hawk]]'' (1950) as Prince Murad
|-
*''[[Tarzan's Peril]]'' (1951) as Radijeck
| rowspan=5 | 1946 || ''[[The Fighting Guardsman]]'' || Gaston de Montrevel || [[Henry_Levin_(film_director)|Henry Levin]] ||
*''[[The Golden Horde (film)|The Golden Horde]]'' (1951) as Raven the Shaman
|-
*''[[The Desert Fox (1951 film)|The Desert Fox]]'' (1951) as Gen. [[Fritz Bayerlein]]
| ''[[Gilda (film)|Gilda]]'' || Ballin Mundson || [[Charles Vidor]] ||
*''[[Detective Story (1951 film)|Detective Story]]'' (1951) as Dr. Karl Schneider
|-
*''[[The Green Glove]]'' (1952) as Count Paul Rona
| ''[[The Man Who Dared (1946 film)|The Man Who Dared]]'' || Donald Wayne || [[John Sturges]] ||
*''[[Treasure of the Golden Condor]]'' (1953) as Marquis de St. Malo
|-
*''[[I Beheld His Glory]]'' (1953, TV Movie) as Cornelius
| ''[[The Walls Came Tumbling Down (film)|The Walls Came Tumbling Down]]'' || Matthew Stoker || [[Lothar Mendes]] ||
*''[[Julius Caesar (1953 film)|Julius Caesar]]'' (1953) as [[Gaius Epidius Marullus|Marullus]]
|-
*''[[The Stranger Wore a Gun]]'' (1953) as Jules Mourret
| ''[[The Return of Monte Cristo (1946 film)|The Return of Monte Cristo]]'' || Henri de la Roche || [[Henry_Levin_(film_director)|Henry Levin]] ||
*''[[The Golden Blade]]'' (1953) as Jafar
|-
*''[[Duffy of San Quentin]]'' (1954) as John C. Winant
| 1947 || ''[[Down to Earth (1947 film)|Down to Earth]]'' || Joe Manion || [[Alexander Hall]] ||
*''[[Vera Cruz (film)|Vera Cruz]]'' (1954) as Emperor Maximilian
|-
*''[[A Kiss Before Dying (1956 film)|A Kiss Before Dying]]'' (1956) as Leo Kingship
| rowspan=5 | 1948 || ''[[The Swordsman (1948 film)|The Swordsman]]'' || Robert Glowan || [[Joseph H. Lewis]] ||
*''[[Thunder Over Arizona]]'' (1956) as Mayor Ervin Plummer
|-
*''[[The Abductors]]'' (1957) as Jack Langley
| ''[[The Black Arrow (film)|The Black Arrow]]'' || Sir Daniel Brackley || [[Gordon_Douglas_(director)|Gordon Douglas]] ||
*''[[Paths of Glory]]'' (1957) as Brigadier General Paul Mireau
|-
*''[[Gunfire at Indian Gap]]'' (1957) as Mr. Jefferson
| ''[[The Big Clock (film)|The Big Clock]]'' || Steve Hagen || [[John Farrow]] ||
*''[[Plunderers of Painted Flats]]'' (1959) as Ed Sammpson
|-
*''[[The Alligator People]]'' (1959) as Dr. Mark Sinclair
| ''[[Coroner Creek]]'' || Younger Miles || [[Ray Enright]] ||
*''[[Jet Over the Atlantic]]'' (1959) as Lord Robert Leverett
|-
*''Family Classics: The Three Musketeers'' (1960, TV Movie)
| ''[[Beyond Glory]]'' || Major General Bond || [[John Farrow]] ||
*''[[Two Weeks in Another Town]]'' (1962) as Lew Jordan
|-
*''[[Taras Bulba (1962 film)|Taras Bulba]]'' (1962) as Governor
| rowspan=5 | 1949 || ''[[The Gallant Blade]]'' || General Cadeau || [[Henry_Levin_(film_director)|Henry Levin]] ||
*''[[Seven Days in May]]'' (1964) as Christopher Todd
|-
*''[[Dead Ringer (1964 film)|Dead Ringer]]'' (1964) as Paul Harrison
| ''[[Knock on Any Door]]'' || District Attorney Kerman || [[Nicholas Ray]] ||
*''[[Where Love Has Gone (film)|Where Love Has Gone]]'' (1964) as Gordon Harris
|-
*''[[The Human Duplicators]]'' (1965) as Prof. Vaughn Dornheimer
| ''[[Alias Nick Beal]]'' || Reverend Thomas Garfield || [[John Farrow]] ||
*''Memorandum for a Spy'' (1965, TV Movie) as Graham Jutland
|-
*''[[The Great Race]]'' (1965) as General Kuhster
| ''[[Johnny Allegro]]'' || Morgan Vallin || [[Ted Tetzlaff]] ||
*''[[Fame Is the Name of the Game]]'' (1966, TV Movie) as Gleen Howard
|-
*''[[Night Gallery (film)|Night Gallery]]'' (1969, TV Movie, segment "The Cemetery") as William Hendricks
| ''[[The Doolins of Oklahoma]]'' || Marshal Sam Hughes || [[Gordon_Douglas_(director)|Gordon Douglas]] ||
*''[[Daughter of the Mind]]'' (1969, TV Movie) as Dr. Frank Ferguson
|-
*''[[Count Yorga, Vampire]]'' (1970) as Narrator
| rowspan=5 | 1950 || ''[[The Nevadan]]'' || Edward Galt || [[Gordon_Douglas_(director)|Gordon Douglas]] ||
*''[[Tora! Tora! Tora!]]'' (1970) as [[Cordell Hull]]
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*''[[The Return of Count Yorga]]'' (1971) as Prof. Rightstat (final film role)
| ''[[Fortunes of Captain Blood]]'' || Marquis de Riconete || [[Gordon_Douglas_(director)|Gordon Douglas]] ||
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| ''[[Rogues of Sherwood Forest]]'' || [[John of England|King John]] || [[Gordon_Douglas_(director)|Gordon Douglas]] ||
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| ''[[A Lady Without Passport]]'' || Palinov || [[Joseph H. Lewis]] ||
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| ''[[The Desert Hawk (1950 film)|The Desert Hawk]]'' || Prince Murad || [[Frederick De Cordova]] ||
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| rowspan=4 | 1951 || ''[[Tarzan's Peril]]'' || Radijeck || [[Byron Haskin]] ||
|-
| ''[[The Golden Horde (film)|The Golden Horde]]'' || Raven the Shaman || [[George Sherman]] ||
|-
| ''[[The Desert Fox (1951 film)|The Desert Fox]]'' || General [[Fritz Bayerlein]] || [[Henry Hathaway]] ||
|-
| ''[[Detective Story (1951 film)|Detective Story]]'' || Dr. Karl Schneider || [[William Wyler]] ||
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| 1952 || ''[[The Green Glove]]'' || Count Paul Rona || [[Rudolph Maté]] ||
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| rowspan=5 | 1953 || ''[[Treasure of the Golden Condor]]'' || Marquis de St. Malo || [[Delmer Daves]] ||
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| ''[[I Beheld His Glory]]'' || Cornelius || || TV movie
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| ''[[Julius Caesar (1953 film)|Julius Caesar]]'' || [[Gaius Epidius Marullus|Marullus]] || [[Joseph L. Mankiewicz]] ||
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| ''[[The Stranger Wore a Gun]]'' || Jules Mourret || [[Andre de Toth]] ||
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| ''[[The Golden Blade]]'' || Jafar || [[Nathan Juran]] ||
|-
| rowspan=2 | 1954 || ''[[Duffy of San Quentin]]'' || John C. Winant || [[Walter Doniger]] ||
|-
| ''[[Vera Cruz (film)|Vera Cruz]]'' || Emperor Maximilian || [[Robert Aldrich]] ||
|-
| rowspan=2 | 1956 || ''[[A Kiss Before Dying (1956 film)|A Kiss Before Dying]]'' || Leo Kingship || [[Gerd Oswald]] ||
|-
| ''[[Thunder Over Arizona]]'' || Mayor Ervin Plummer || [[Joseph Kane]] ||
|-
| rowspan=3 | 1957 || ''[[The Abductors]]'' || Jack Langley || [[Andrew_V._McLaglen|Andrew V. McLaglen (as Andrew McLaglen)]] ||
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| ''[[Paths of Glory]]'' || Brigadier General Paul Mireau || [[Stanley Kubrick]] ||
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| ''[[Gunfire at Indian Gap]]'' || Mr. Jefferson || [[Joseph Kane]] ||
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| rowspan=3 | 1959 || ''[[Plunderers of Painted Flats]]'' || Ed Sammpson || [[Albert C. Gannaway]] ||
|-
| ''[[The Alligator People]]'' || Dr. Mark Sinclair || [[Roy Del Ruth]] ||
|-
| ''[[Jet Over the Atlantic]]'' || Lord Robert Leverett || [[Byron Haskin]] ||
|-
| 1960 || ''Family Classics: The Three Musketeers'' || || || TV movie
|-
| rowspan=2 | 1962 || ''[[Two Weeks in Another Town]]'' || Lew Jordan || [[Vincente Minnelli]] ||
|-
| ''[[Taras Bulba (1962 film)|Taras Bulba]]'' || Governor || [[J. Lee Thompson]] ||
|-
| rowspan=3 | 1964 || ''[[Seven Days in May]]'' || Christopher Todd || [[John Frankenheimer]] ||
|-
| ''[[Dead Ringer (1964 film)|Dead Ringer]]'' || Paul Harrison || [[Paul Henreid]] ||
|-
| ''[[Where Love Has Gone (film)|Where Love Has Gone]]'' || Gordon Harris || [[Edward Dmytryk]] ||
|-
| rowspan=3 | 1965 || ''[[The Human Duplicators]]'' || Professor Vaughn Dornheimer || [[Arthur C. Pierce]] ||
|-
| ''Memorandum for a Spy'' || Graham Jutland || || TV movie
|-
| ''[[The Great Race]]'' || General Kuhster || [[Blake Edwards]] ||
|-
| 1966 || ''[[Fame Is the Name of the Game]]'' || Gleen Howard || [[Stuart Rosenberg]] || TV movie
|-
| rowspan=2 | 1969 || ''[[Night Gallery (film)|Night Gallery]]'' || William Hendricks || || TV movie, segment "The Cemetery"
|-
| ''[[Daughter of the Mind]]'' || Dr. Frank Ferguson || [[Walter Grauman]] || TV movie
|-
| rowspan=2 | 1970 || ''[[Count Yorga, Vampire]]'' || Narrator || Bob Kelljan ||
|-
| ''[[Tora! Tora! Tora!]]'' || [[Cordell Hull]] || [[Richard Fleischer]] ||
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| 1971 || ''[[The Return of Count Yorga]]'' || Professor Rightstat || Bob Kelljan ||
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|}


==Partial television credits==
==Partial television credits==
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*''[[The Living Christ Series]]'' ("Crucifixion and Resurrection" and "Triumph and Defeat"), 1951 as Cornelius
*''[[The Living Christ Series]]'' ("Crucifixion and Resurrection" and "Triumph and Defeat", 1951) as Cornelius
*''[[General Electric Theater]]'' (3 Episodes) as Clive/Henry/Colonel
*''[[General Electric Theater]]'' (3 episodes) as Clive/Henry/Colonel
*''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]'' (1955–1957)
*''[[Bonanza]]'' ("A Rose for Lotta"), 1959 as Alpheus Troy
**Season 1 Episode 2: "Premonition" (1955) as Douglas Irwin
*''[[The Rifleman]]'' ("Lariat"), 1960 as Matt Wymerman
**Season 1 Episode 13: "The Cheney Vase" (1955) as Herbert Koether
*''[[Thriller (U.S. TV series)|Thriller]]'' ("The Weird Tailor", TV, 1961) as Mr. Smith
**Season 2 Episode 29: "Vicious Circle" (1957) as Vincent Williams
*''[[The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)|The Outer Limits]]'' ("[[The Invisibles (The Outer Limits)|The Invisibles]]", 1963, and "[[Production and Decay of Strange Particles]]", 1964) as Gov. Lawrence K Hillerman / Dr. Marshall
*''[[Gunsmoke#Television series (1955–1975) and TV movies|Gunsmoke]]'' (1958) as Charlie Drain
*''[[Perry Mason (1957 TV series)|Perry Mason]]'' (1958–1963) (4 episodes) as Roscoe Pearce/Dr. Vincent Kenyon/Charles Slade/Milo Girard
*''[[Bonanza]]'' ("A Rose for Lotta", 1959) as Alpheus Troy
*''[[Tightrope!]]'' ("The Lady", 1959) as Latham Grant
*''[[Have Gun – Will Travel]]'' ("Ambush", 1960) as Gunder – Blind Man
*''[[The Rifleman]]'' (1958–1960) as Matt Wymerman/Judge Zephaniah Burton
*''[[The Tall Man (TV series)|The Tall Man]]'' (1960–1962) (2 episodes) as Judge Roy A. Barlow/Cyrus Canfield
*''[[Thriller (U.S. TV series)|Thriller]]'' ("The Weird Tailor", 1961) as Mr. Smith
*''[[Bat Masterson (TV series)|Bat Masterson]]'' (Tempest at Tioga Pass, 1961) as Clyde Richards
*''[[Route 66 (TV series)|Route 66]]'' (Effigy in Snow, 1961) as Mr. Fontaine
*''[[The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)|The Outer Limits]]'' ("[[The Invisibles (The Outer Limits)|The Invisibles]]", 1963, and "[[Production and Decay of Strange Particles]]", 1964) as Governor Lawrence K Hillerman / Dr. Marshall
*''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]'' ("[[The Long Morrow]]", 1964) as Dr. Bixler
*''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]'' ("[[The Long Morrow]]", 1964) as Dr. Bixler
*''[[The Alfred Hitchcock Hour]]'' (1964) (Season 2 Episode 25: "The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow") as Hillary Prine
*''[[Peyton Place (TV series)|Peyton Place]]'' (1965–1968) as Martin Peyton
*''[[Get Smart (TV series)|Get Smart]]'' (1968) as Mr. Fitzmaurice

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==References==
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George Macready
Macready in Johnny Allegro (1949)
Born(1899-08-29)August 29, 1899
Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
DiedJuly 2, 1973(1973-07-02) (aged 73)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma materBrown University
OccupationActor
Years active1926–1973
Spouse
Elizabeth Patterson
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(m. 1931; div. 1943)​
Children3
RelativesJohn Macready (grandson)

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

Early life

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Macready was born in Providence, Rhode Island[4] on August 29, 1899. He claimed to be a descendent of the 19th-century English actor William Charles Macready, whose example he cited as the chief inspiration for his own pursuit of acting.[5] He graduated from the local Classical High School[1] and, in 1917, from Brown University.[6]

Shortly thereafter, Macready suffered a disfiguring injury in a car accident, which, as the actor would later note, proved a mixed blessing: affording him a reliably steady supply of jobs, but only within a rigidly circumscribed range.[6][7] As of October 1958, by Macready's own count, he had been cast as the "mastermind criminal" type in at least 65 of his 75 television and motion picture assignments. He explained:

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

Acting career

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Theatre

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Macready made his Broadway debut in 1926, performing in the role of Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale in an adaptation of The Scarlet Letter.[9] Through 1958, he appeared in fifteen plays, both drama and comedy, including The Barretts of Wimpole Street, based on the family of the English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Macready's penchant for acting was spurred in part by the director Richard Boleslawski. His Shakespearean stage credits included Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing (1927), Malcolm in Macbeth (1928), and Paris in Romeo and Juliet (1934). On film, he played Marallus in the 1953 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. He also portrayed Prince Ernst in the original stage version of Victoria Regina (1936), starring Helen Hayes.

Film

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Macready's first film was Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942), which starred Paul Muni. In Gilda (1946), Macready's character Ballin Mundson enters a deadly love triangle with characters played by co-stars Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford. He again played opposite Ford several years later in the postwar adventure The Green Glove (1952).

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

Macready played Marshal Sam Hughes in the 1949 Randolph Scott film “The Doolins of Oklahoma” (he narrated the film as well).

Stanley Kubrick's antiwar film Paths of Glory (1957) provided Macready with his other great role, the sadistic and self-serving French World War I General Paul Mireau, who is brought down by Kirk Douglas's character, Colonel Dax. He had worked with Douglas previously in Detective Story (1951), and later he appeared with 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, he was cast in a rare 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 State Cordell Hull in Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), a depiction of the events leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Television

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Macready made four guest appearances on Raymond Burr's Perry Mason, including the role of murder victim Milo Girard in the 1958 episode "The Case of the Purple Woman". He was also cast regularly in such series as Four Star Playhouse, General Electric Theater, The Ford Television Theatre, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Adventures in Paradise and The Islanders.

Macready performed in a variety of television series produced in the 1950s and 1960s, including many Westerns such as Bat Masterson, Bonanza, The Dakotas, Gunsmoke, Have Gun - Will Travel, The Rebel (once in the role of Confederate General Robert E. Lee), The Rifleman, Lancer, Laramie, Riverboat, The Rough Riders, Chill Wills's Frontier Circus, The Texan and Steve McQueen's Wanted: Dead or Alive. Also on TV, he was seen in episodes of The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone, Boris Karloff's Thriller, Kentucky Jones, Get Smart with Don Adams, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. with Robert Vaughn.

Macready was cast as Cyrus Canfield, a vengeful father searching for his runaway teenage daughter, played by Floy Dean, in the May 26, 1962, series finale of NBC's The Tall Man.

He played publishing magnate Glenn Howard in the TV movie Fame Is the Name of the Game (1966) starring Anthony Franciosa, but was replaced by Gene Barry in the role when the film was subsequently used as the pilot for the television series The Name of the Game with Franciosa, Barry, and Robert Stack revolving in the lead.

Personal life

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

An art collector, Macready was a partner with colleague Vincent Price in a Beverly Hills art gallery called The Little Gallery, which they opened in 1943. (Macready had played Price's brother on Broadway in Victoria Regina.) According to Lucy Chase Williams' book The Complete Films of Vincent Price, "In the spring of 1943 ... Price and Macready opened The Little Gallery in Beverly Hills. 'We rented a hole in the wall next door to Martindale's book shop and a very popular bar, figuring correctly that we'd catch a mixed clientele of erudites and inebriates.' Price and Macready saw the gallery not only as an indulgence of their own interests, but as a showcase for young artists, and a way to expose the general public to art and art appreciation. The establishment merited photos and two full columns in Newsweek magazine, but rent increases forced The Little Gallery to close after two years."[10]

Death

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

Filmography

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Year Film Role Director Notes
1942 Commandos Strike at Dawn Schoolteacher John Farrow
1944 Follow the Boys Walter Bruce A. Edward Sutherland
The Story of Dr. Wassell Dutch Army Captain Cecil B. DeMille uncredited
Wilson William McCombs Henry King uncredited
The Seventh Cross Bruno Sauer Fred Zinnemann
The Soul of a Monster Dr. George Winson Will Jason
The Conspirators Schimitt's Special Agent Jean Negulesco uncredited
The Missing Juror Harry Wharton / Jerome K. Bentley Budd Boetticher (as Oscar Boetticher Jr.)
1945 The Bandit of Sherwood Forest Fitz-Herbert George Sherman
A Song to Remember Alfred de Musset Charles Vidor uncredited
I Love a Mystery Jefferson Monk Henry Levin
The Monster and the Ape Professor Ernst Howard Bretherton
Counter-Attack Colonel Semenov Zoltan Korda
Don Juan Quilligan District Attorney Frank Tuttle uncredited
My Name is Julia Ross Ralph Hughes Joseph H. Lewis
1946 The Fighting Guardsman Gaston de Montrevel Henry Levin
Gilda Ballin Mundson Charles Vidor
The Man Who Dared Donald Wayne John Sturges
The Walls Came Tumbling Down Matthew Stoker Lothar Mendes
The Return of Monte Cristo Henri de la Roche Henry Levin
1947 Down to Earth Joe Manion Alexander Hall
1948 The Swordsman Robert Glowan Joseph H. Lewis
The Black Arrow Sir Daniel Brackley Gordon Douglas
The Big Clock Steve Hagen John Farrow
Coroner Creek Younger Miles Ray Enright
Beyond Glory Major General Bond John Farrow
1949 The Gallant Blade General Cadeau Henry Levin
Knock on Any Door District Attorney Kerman Nicholas Ray
Alias Nick Beal Reverend Thomas Garfield John Farrow
Johnny Allegro Morgan Vallin Ted Tetzlaff
The Doolins of Oklahoma Marshal Sam Hughes Gordon Douglas
1950 The Nevadan Edward Galt Gordon Douglas
Fortunes of Captain Blood Marquis de Riconete Gordon Douglas
Rogues of Sherwood Forest King John Gordon Douglas
A Lady Without Passport Palinov Joseph H. Lewis
The Desert Hawk Prince Murad Frederick De Cordova
1951 Tarzan's Peril Radijeck Byron Haskin
The Golden Horde Raven the Shaman George Sherman
The Desert Fox General Fritz Bayerlein Henry Hathaway
Detective Story Dr. Karl Schneider William Wyler
1952 The Green Glove Count Paul Rona Rudolph Maté
1953 Treasure of the Golden Condor Marquis de St. Malo Delmer Daves
I Beheld His Glory Cornelius TV movie
Julius Caesar Marullus Joseph L. Mankiewicz
The Stranger Wore a Gun Jules Mourret Andre de Toth
The Golden Blade Jafar Nathan Juran
1954 Duffy of San Quentin John C. Winant Walter Doniger
Vera Cruz Emperor Maximilian Robert Aldrich
1956 A Kiss Before Dying Leo Kingship Gerd Oswald
Thunder Over Arizona Mayor Ervin Plummer Joseph Kane
1957 The Abductors Jack Langley Andrew V. McLaglen (as Andrew McLaglen)
Paths of Glory Brigadier General Paul Mireau Stanley Kubrick
Gunfire at Indian Gap Mr. Jefferson Joseph Kane
1959 Plunderers of Painted Flats Ed Sammpson Albert C. Gannaway
The Alligator People Dr. Mark Sinclair Roy Del Ruth
Jet Over the Atlantic Lord Robert Leverett Byron Haskin
1960 Family Classics: The Three Musketeers TV movie
1962 Two Weeks in Another Town Lew Jordan Vincente Minnelli
Taras Bulba Governor J. Lee Thompson
1964 Seven Days in May Christopher Todd John Frankenheimer
Dead Ringer Paul Harrison Paul Henreid
Where Love Has Gone Gordon Harris Edward Dmytryk
1965 The Human Duplicators Professor Vaughn Dornheimer Arthur C. Pierce
Memorandum for a Spy Graham Jutland TV movie
The Great Race General Kuhster Blake Edwards
1966 Fame Is the Name of the Game Gleen Howard Stuart Rosenberg TV movie
1969 Night Gallery William Hendricks TV movie, segment "The Cemetery"
Daughter of the Mind Dr. Frank Ferguson Walter Grauman TV movie
1970 Count Yorga, Vampire Narrator Bob Kelljan
Tora! Tora! Tora! Cordell Hull Richard Fleischer
1971 The Return of Count Yorga Professor Rightstat Bob Kelljan

Partial television credits

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Jarrett, Diane (July 2019). "George Macready: A Loving Parent". Classic Images (529): 58–67.
  2. ^ a b Wilson, Scott (2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed. McFarland. p. 467. ISBN 9781476625997. Retrieved June 19, 2017.
  3. ^ Obituary Variety, July 11, 1973, page 63.
  4. ^ Monush, Barry (2003). Screen World Presents the Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors: From the silent era to 1965. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 456. ISBN 9781557835512. Retrieved July 25, 2019.
  5. ^ "Macready Got Scar in Wreck". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. August 20, 1961. p. TV24. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  6. ^ a b Gordon, Dr. Roger L. (2018). Supporting Actors in Motion Pictures: Volume II. Pittsburgh, PA: Dorrance Publishing. p. 146. ISBN 978-1-4809-5841-8.
  7. ^ "George Macready Type-Cast Again". The Roanoke Times. October 18, 1958. p. 16. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  8. ^ "Valuable Scar". The Modesto Bee. October 19, 1958. p. G-3. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  9. ^ "George Macready, the 'Villain' in Many Plays and Films, Dies", The New York Times (Manhattan), July 4, 1973, p. 18. ProQuest Historical Newspapers, Ann Arbor, Michigan; subscription access through The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library.
  10. ^ Williams, Lucy Chase, The Complete Films of Vincent Price (Citadel Press, 1995), page. 24
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