George Bancroft

George Bancroft

Birthday: 1882-09-30

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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

Movies

The Docks of New York
The Docks of New York

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

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Stagecoach
Stagecoach

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

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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

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

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Thunderbolt
Thunderbolt

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

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Angels with Dirty Faces
Angels with Dirty Faces

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

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Teeth
Teeth

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Blood Money
Blood Money

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

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Each Dawn I Die
Each Dawn I Die

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

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Underworld
Underworld

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

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The Skin Game
The Skin Game

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

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Wedding Present
Wedding Present

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

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North West Mounted Police
North West Mounted Police

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

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Whistling in Dixie
Whistling in Dixie

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

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Young Tom Edison
Young Tom Edison

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

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Texas
Texas

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

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Syncopation
Syncopation

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

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The Bugle Sounds
The Bugle Sounds

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

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The Showdown
The Showdown

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

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When the Daltons Rode
When the Daltons Rode

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

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Racketeers in Exile
Racketeers in Exile

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

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Scandal Sheet
Scandal Sheet

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

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Rulers of the Sea
Rulers of the Sea

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

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The Prodigal Judge
The Prodigal Judge

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

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The Splendid Road
The Splendid Road

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

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Green Hell
Green Hell

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

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Ladies Love Brutes
Ladies Love Brutes

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

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Lady and Gent
Lady and Gent

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

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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

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

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John Meade's Woman
John Meade's Woman

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

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Submarine Patrol
Submarine Patrol

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

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White Gold
White Gold

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

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Going Hollywood: The '30s
Going Hollywood: The '30s

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

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The Runaway
The Runaway

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

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Land of Liberty
Land of Liberty

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

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Derelict
Derelict

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

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Old Ironsides
Old Ironsides

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

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Little Men
Little Men

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

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Espionage Agent
Espionage Agent

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

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The Deadwood Coach
The Deadwood Coach

A man searches for the villains who murdered his parents...

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The Pony Express
The Pony Express

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

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Paramount on Parade
Paramount on Parade

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

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The Rough Riders
The Rough Riders

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

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The World and the Flesh
The World and the Flesh

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

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The Rainbow Trail
The Rainbow Trail

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

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A Doctor's Diary
A Doctor's Diary

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

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Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)
Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)

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

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The Mighty
The Mighty

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

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The Drag Net
The Drag Net

Captain Timothy 'Two Gun' Nolan is appointed head of the New York detective force, and as his first ...

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The Wolf of Wall Street
The Wolf of Wall Street

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

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Sea Horses
Sea Horses

Helen Salvia sets sail with her 4-year-old daughter for Panda, an isolated East African port, where ...

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Driven
Driven

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

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Rich Man's Folly
Rich Man's Folly

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

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Code of the West
Code of the West

Cal Thurman, a timid fellow, thinking that the woman he is to meet at the train station is an old ma...

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Hell-Ship Morgan
Hell-Ship Morgan

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

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The Enchanted Hill
The Enchanted Hill

Lee Purdy, the owner of a ranch on "Enchanted Hill," is subjected to repeated attacks by unknown ass...

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Too Many Crooks
Too Many Crooks

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

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Tell It to Sweeney
Tell It to Sweeney

Luke Beamish is the engineer of the Isobel, an old iron steed, and Cannonball Casey handles the thro...

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