Frank McGlynn Sr.
Birthday: 1866-10-26
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Biography: 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.
Movies
The Last of the Mohicans
The story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns—...
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The Secret Six
Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, mastermind...
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Gloria's Romance
An adventurous young girl in Florida gets herself lost in the Everglades and finds terror and excite...
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The Jazz Cinderella
Intending that her son, Herbert, marry debutante Mildred Vane, Mrs. Consuelo Carter is most dismayed...
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Little Miss Marker
Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of ...
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The Girl of the Golden West
A bandit disguises himself as an officer in an attempt to woo a saloon singer....
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Broadway Melody of 1938
Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading ...
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The Littlest Rebel
Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife a...
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King of the Royal Mounted
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant King protects a girl who has come to claim a mine left by her...
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Captain Blood
Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate....
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Are We Civilized?
1934 drama of man's inhumanity to man, starring William Farnum and Anita Louise, directed by Edwin C...
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Third Finger, Left Hand
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleague...
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Sudden Bill Dorn
Bundy has found gold on the Kent ranch but directs everyone to Ghost Town as he tries to take over t...
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The Prisoner of Shark Island
After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of Presid...
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Three Girls About Town
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next doo...
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Through Turbulent Waters
The west is the stamping ground for Paul Temple and his thespian associates. He is talking with his ...
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Rough and Ready
In New York, Bill Stratton saves a friend's marriage, but Bill's fiancée, Evelyn, misinterprets the ...
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Why America Will Win
This is not a romance but the biography of the man who now leads our vast forces in France. It shows...
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln
This short 1915 Edison film stars Frank McGlynn as the famous president from his marriage to assassi...
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Strange Glory
During the American Civil War, General Ulysses Grant carries out the 'Tennessee Plan,' which involve...
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Western Gold
President Lincoln personally sends Bill Gibson west to see if he can stop the holdups of the needed ...
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Career Woman
A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds he...
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The Lone Ranger
In 1865, Captain Mark Smith of the Confederate Army leads a band of deserters to conquer Texas and r...
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Hello, Everybody!
The setting is a farm. Kate Smith and Sally Blane play sisters; assorted relatives live with the sis...
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Rogues' Gallery
Reporter Patsy Reynolds and photographer Eddie Porter are assigned to interview John Foster, head of...
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Search for Beauty
Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine whi...
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Massacre
Upon the death of his father, who was the tribal chieftain, Joe Thunder Horse returns to the reserva...
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The Caillaux Case
Based on an international scandal that hit prewar France, when the editor of the Paris daily LE FIGA...
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The Poor Little Rich Girl
Gwen's family is rich, but her parents ignore her and most of the servants push her around, so she i...
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Folies Bergère
An entertainer impersonates a look-alike banker, causing comic confusion for wife and girlfriend....
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The Plainsman
Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner....
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Unknown Valley
Looking for his missing father, Joe Gordon heads into the desert where Elders from a secret village ...
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Vanity Fair
In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the positio...
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Outlawed Guns
Outlawed Guns stars Buck Jones as Reece Rivers, the nice-guy older brother of headstrong Babe Rivers...
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Wells Fargo
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, wil...
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Marry the Boss's Daughter
Young man from Kansas goes to New York to work for his tycoon-hero. His superiors won't listen to hi...
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Two Men
A smuggler is conflicted between saving his wounded captor or letting him die....
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Min and Bill
Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy,...
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It's A Small World
Socialite, privileged, Jane Dale and lawyer Bill Shevlin meet in an automobile accident at night, o...
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Love Affair
A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to...
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Second Fiddle
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Mi...
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Lincoln in the White House
This short chronicles Abraham Lincoln's presidency from his inauguration through delivery of the Get...
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Across the Great Divide
Short western melodrama. A cash-strapped operator is working far from his beloved. A criminal and hi...
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Huckleberry Finn
A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home while H...
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The Argyle Case
When multi-millionaire banker John Argyle is found brutally murdered in his home, suspicions are cas...
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For the Service
Cowboy star Buck Jones made his directorial debut with the Universal western For the Service. Jones ...
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Hollywood Barn Dance
Based on and built around the west coast radio program, "The Hollywood Barn Dance", although no memb...
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Sing and Be Happy
Rival advertising firms compete for a radio show's pickle manufacturing account....
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Boom Town
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both lov...
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By Fire and Water
A dramatic one-act film. The wife of the captain of a canal boat chooses the nicer boat and nicer un...
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Sergeant York
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is the...
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A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where sh...
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In Old California
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt D...
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North of Nome
John Raglan is a seal hunter being hounded by hijackers, so he strands himself on an isolated island...
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Charlie Chan's Greatest Case
When a good-for-nothing man named Dan is stabbed to death and his arm broken, Charlie Chan is on the...
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These Three
Close friends Martha and Karen build a private boarding school together with the aid of the local do...
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March On, America!
The story of America from the Pilgrims in 1620 to the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. Americ...
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The ABC of Love
Romance between the playwright Harry Bryant and the homeless and illiterate Kate....
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The Wet Parade
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich ...
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The Mad Empress
The Mad Empress is a 1939 American historical drama film depicting the 3-year reign of Maximilian I ...
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Joaquin Murrieta
This MGM Historical Mystery short follows the life and exploits of killer outlaw Joaquin Murrieta, i...
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The Roaring West
A 15-episode serial involving the land rush, gold mines, stolen maps, etc....
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Delinquent Daughters
A town is shocked when a high school girl commits suicide. A reporter and a cop team up to investiga...
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Alexia's Strategy
Walter Young and John Osgood are both in love with Alexia Trexell, daughter of the president of the ...
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Lost in the Stratosphere
Two military pilots are close friends, and share in a lot of hazardous missions while engaging in a ...
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Who Will Marry Mary?
Six part adventure serial starring Mary Fuller as the sought after heroine. Episodes: 1) A Proposal ...
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The Bells
At the express wish of her father, Lucy Martin marries Leo Noakes, a stingy man and one twice her ag...
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Parnell
Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his re...
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Frisco Jenny
Jenny is carrying the child of a young man who dies in the San Francisco earthquake (1906). After gi...
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Abraham Lincoln
The highlight of the picture will be the delivery of the Gettysburg Address and the singing of a num...
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