Victor McLaglen
Birthday: 1886-12-09
Place of Birth: Stepney, East London, England, UK
Biography: 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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The Quiet Man
An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict....
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The Princess and the Pirate
Princess Margaret is travelling incognito to elope with her true love instead of marrying the man he...
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Rio Grande
Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke is posted on the Texas frontier to defend settlers against depredations of mara...
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Gunga Din
British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with...
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The Unholy Three
Three sideshow performers form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" - a ventriloquist, midget, a...
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Rio
Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he i...
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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massi...
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Fort Apache
Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military hon...
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Forever and a Day
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral ...
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Wee Willie Winkie
In 1897, little Priscilla Williams, along with her widowed mother, goes to live with her army colone...
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The Informer
Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperat...
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City of Shadows
After several years of supporting parts, Victor McLaglen once more landed a leading role in Republic...
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Prince Valiant
A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled fathe...
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The Crimson Circle
Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle....
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Carnival
An actor playing Othello in a stage production of Shakespeare's play becomes jealous of his wife's s...
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The Sport of Kings
A man helps a rich girl's slum work and wins the race on her ex-fiancé's horse....
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The Prey of the Dragon
In Australia a drunkard hires a gang to kill his ex-fiancée's husband....
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Little Brother of God
In Canada a man investigates his brother's death and saves a suspected girl from kidnap....
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In the Blood
A woman frames her stepson for theft and he takes the place of his father's drugged champion and win...
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Woman to Woman
Lost film. David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Mou...
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Heartstrings
A sailor returns from 'death' to find his wife has remarried for the sake of her crippled child....
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M'Lord of the White Road
A dying lord asks a tramp to pose as him and marry a lady, and he is later accused of killing the lo...
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The Gay Corinthian
A boxer saves a lady who joins gypsies on learning she is the subject of a bet....
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The Hunted Woman
Joanne Gray goes North to find out whether her husband is dead or alive and to attempt to obtain the...
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The Beloved Brute
A Western melodrama about brothers, separated in early childhood, who wound up as opponents in a sid...
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Percy
Western melodrama about a sheltered youth who makes his way out West by playing the fiddle....
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The Isle of Retribution
Five people are stranded on an island off the coast of Alaska. The poor girl, Bess Gilbert, competes...
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On the Level
An ironworker and his equally tough friend decide to leave New Orleans to work as beam-walkers on a ...
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Captain Lash
Lash is the head coal stoker on a steam ship whose shipmates have nicknamed "Captain". Lash somehow ...
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The Gay Caballero
Football star Ted Radcliffe goes west to manage an inherited cattle ranch. Empire builder and cattle...
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Devil's Lottery
Intricate, soapy drama of romance, heartbreak, and murder amongst a diverse group of sweepstakes win...
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O'Mara's Chain Miracle
Officer O'Mara, a normally grumpy traffic cop, lightens up one day and smiles at a passing motorist....
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The Lost Patrol
A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotamian desert when their commanding officer,...
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Murder at the Vanities
Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vaniti...
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Many Rivers to Cross
Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let anyt...
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China Girl
Two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams is stationed in Burma and China in the early stage ...
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The Stolen Jools
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to ra...
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Dishonored
The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians....
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Whistle Stop
When beautiful Mary returns to her "whistle stop" hometown, long-standing feelings of animosity betw...
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Under Two Flags
Sergeant Victor comes to the French Foreign Legion after taking the blame for his brother's crime. C...
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Klondike Annie
A San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska....
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The Captain Hates the Sea
Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit dri...
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Nancy Steele Is Missing!
After being in jail for seventeen years a crook is met by the girl he kidnapped as a baby. She now t...
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A Girl in Every Port
Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle...
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What Price Glory
U.S. Marine sergeants Quirt and Flagg are inveterate romantic rivals on peacetime assignments in Chi...
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Lady Godiva of Coventry
Fictionalized account of events leading up the famous nude ride (alas, her hair covers everything) o...
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Captain Fury
An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band...
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Battle of Broadway
The wealthy owner of a Pennsylvania steel business travels to New York to break up his son's romance...
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Hangman's House
Forced by her mean-spirited father, Lord Chief Justice James O'Brien, to marry a man she doesn't lov...
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Powder Town
Director Rowland V. Lee's wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a secret fo...
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Women of All Nations
Marines Flagg and Quirt fought together in WWI and Panama. After some time in New York they go to Sw...
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Roger Touhy, Gangster
Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most po...
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Calendar Girl
Around the turn of the century, two young men, Johnnie Bennett, a composer and Steve Adams, an artis...
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This Is My Affair
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well ...
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Guilty as Hell
Richard Arlen is the convicted murderer and Adrienne Ames his sister who believes in his innocence. ...
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Laughing at Life
Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities a...
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The Abductors
Two men botch the kidnapping of a warden's daughter, then plot to ransom Abraham Lincoln's corpse....
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Trouble in the Glen
Major Jim "Lance" Lansing, an American ex-pilot of the U.S. Air Corps, returns to Scotland after the...
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While Paris Sleeps
To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques C...
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Broadway Limited
A publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited gets out of control, as no one wan...
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Professional Soldier
Mercenary Donovan is hired to kidnap King Peter II. He learns that the party in power is evil and th...
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Sea Devils
Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and coming of...
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Happy Days
In Fox's contribution to the all-star revue cycle of early talkies, showboat singer Margie, hearing ...
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The Black Watch
Captain Donald King is sent to India to carry out a secret mission while the Black Watch, his regime...
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Wicked
Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband...
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The Great Hotel Murder
Crime novelist Roger Blackwood competes with hotel house detective Andy McCabe in solving a murder b...
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Beau Geste
Michael "Beau" Geste leaves England in disgrace and joins the infamous French Foreign Legion. He is ...
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Let Freedom Ring
A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press....
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Mother Machree
Ellen McHugh, a poor Irish immigrant to America, finds work in a carnival and is thus able to send h...
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The Foxes of Harrow
An Irish rascal and inveterate gambler uses his considerable skills at the gaming tables of New Orle...
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Call Out the Marines
Two Marine sergeants (Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe) flirt with a cafe girl (Binnie Barnes) in San Di...
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The Devil's Party
Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion....
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South of Pago Pago
Sent by cutthroat pirates to turn Kehane’s head while they loot his island paradise of a fortune in ...
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Hot Pepper
In this comedy, a pair of ex-Marines team up and get involved in a nightclub. Trouble ensues when th...
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Wharf Angel
On the wharfs of San Francisco, saloon girl Toy, also known as Mary, lives over Mother Bright's bar....
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Bengazi
An American with a shady past joins with a morally-bankrupt Irishman to find treasure buried by Arab...
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Fair Wind to Java
The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American m...
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Sea Fury
The captain of a tugboat harboured off a Spanish village is lured into a romantic involvement with a...
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Three Rogues
In 1877, thieves Ace Beaudry, Bronco Dawson and Bull Stanley head West together after having each be...
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Full Confession
A Catholic priest must convince a man to step forward to save the wrong person from being sent to th...
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A Devil with Women
Soldier of fortune Maxton is stranded in a Central American country. He and Tom, the nephew of the c...
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Under Pressure
Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other...
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Hot for Paris
Rough sea dog John Patrick Duke has a weakness for women and strong drink. Little does he know that ...
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Tampico
A story of of the captain of an oil tanker during World War II, Captain Bart Manson, who rescues Kat...
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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (192...
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Annabelle's Affairs
After only 11 hours of marriage, Annabelle and her husband separate-not knowing what each other trul...
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On Location with Gunga Din
A documentary focusing on the production history and legacy of the adventure-comedy phenomenon, Gung...
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Pacific Liner
The S. S. Arcturus sails from Shanghai to San Francisco, and Dr. Jim Craig takes the post of ship's ...
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The Cock-Eyed World
Two Marines are sent to South Sea island where they fight over a local island girl....
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Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her
As the first "blonde bombshell," Mae West reigned supreme and changed the nation's view of women, se...
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The Italians They Are Crazy
In a German prison camp, some Italian prisoners bet with the commander that they will be able to bui...
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The Call of the Road
In 1820 a disowned gambler becomes a boxer and save his noble uncle from a highway man....
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We're Going to Be Rich
A perpetual dreamer talks his wife into moving with him from their home in Australia to South Africa...
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Love, Honor and Goodbye
A lawyer's wife walks out on him, then poses as a French nurse to spy on him....
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Rough, Tough and Ready
The story is the old bromide about two brawling buddies, duking it out over the same girl, in this c...
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The Loves of Carmen
Carmen, a gypsy, working in a Spanish cigar factory, is flaunted by Escamillo, the bullfighter, but ...
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The Magnificent Brute
A love triangle forms the basis of this drama. It all begins in a steel mill when a steel worker ign...
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Dick Turpin
The adventures of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary ride to York....
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The Passionate Adventure
A rich man leaves his wife, poses as a coster, and saves a factory girl from a crook....
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Around the World in 80 Days
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the wor...
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Women and Diamonds
In Africa a typist is framed for killing a diamond smuggler who betrayed her father....
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A Romance of Old Baghdad
In nineteenth century Mesopotamia a series of romantic enganglements ensue....
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Strong Boy
"Strong Boy" is offered a promotion for saving a child from being crushed by a trunk, but to the fru...
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The Fighting Heart
This film is the story of a small-town boy and girl. The hero, Denny Bolton, thrashes the town bully...
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Rackety Rax
Gambler/racketeer "Knucks" McGloin takes note of just how much money and action (aside from the game...
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
Short film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations to m...
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No More Women
Two deep-sea divers, known only by their nicknames of "Three-Time" and "Forty-Fathoms," find that no...
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Men of Steel
Jan Bokak is a self-educated steelworker who finds himself in the middle of a romantic triangle. Two...
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John Ford: The Man Who Invented America
Over a 50-year career and more than a hundred movies, filmmaker John Ford (1894-1973) forged the leg...
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The Glorious Adventure
An Earl's cousin survives drowning and saves a lady from the Great Fire of London....
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The River Pirate
This film concerns a youth torn between his fatherly gangland mentor and the beautiful, virtuous dau...
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The Big Guy
A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death pe...
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Ali Baba Goes to Town
While visiting Hollywood a starstruck movie fan (Eddie Cantor) fantasizes about himself cast in an A...
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