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Victor McLaglen

Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen was a British boxer-turned-Hollywood actor. He became a popular character actor, with a particular knack for playing drunks, and Irishmen, winning an Academy Award for the best acting performance during 1935 for his role as Gyppo in the film The Informer

Aliases
  • 'Sharkey' McLaglen
  • Paul Romano
English
Filmography
  • Born In Mile End, London, England, UK
  • Born December 10, 1886
  • Died November 7, 1959
  • On Other Sites IMDB TheMovieDB.com Wikipedia
  • Created April 5, 2019 by
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  • Modified July 12, 2023 by
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Mother Machree

1927
as The Giant of Kilkenny

Love, Honor and Goodbye

1945
as Terry O'Farrell

The Magnificent Brute

1936
as 'Big Steve' Andrews

Murder at the Vanities

1934
as Bill Murdock

Women and Diamonds

1924
as Brian Owen

Rio Grande

1950
as Sgt. Maj. Timothy Quincannon

Wharf Angel

1934
as Turk

Women of All Nations

1931
as Captain Jim Flagg

A Girl in Every Port

1928
as Spike Madden

Let Freedom Ring

1939
as Chris Mulligan

Whistle Stop

1946
as Gitlo

Sea Fury

1958
as Bellew

Nancy Steele Is Missing!

1937
as Dannie O'Neill

Rackety Rax

1932
as 'Knucks' McGloin

Annabelle's Affairs

1931
as John Rawson / Hefly Jack

The Foxes of Harrow

1947
as Mike Farrell

A Devil with Women

1930
as Jerry Maxton

Gli italiani sono matti

1958
as Sergente O'Riley

Corinthian Jack

1921
as Jack Halstead

The Crimson Circle

1922

Dick Turpin

1933
as Dick Turpin

Captain Fury

1939
as Jerry Black aka Blackie

South of Pago Pago

1940
as Bucko Larson

City of Shadows

1955
as Big Tim Channing

Wee Willie Winkie

1937
as Sergeant MacDuff

Roger Touhy, Gangster

1944
as Herman 'Owl' Banghart

Not Exactly Gentlemen

1931
as Bull Stanley

Winds of Chance

1925
as Poleon Doret

Beau Geste

1926
as Hank

Around the World in 80 Days

1956
as Helmsman of the S.S. Henrietta

Calendar Girl

1947
as Matthew O'Neill

Men of Steel

1926
as Pete Masarick

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

1949
as First Sergeant Quincannon

Rio

1939
as Dirk

Tampico

1944
as Fred Adamson

The Call of the Road

1920
as Alf Truscott

This Is My Affair

1937
as Jock Ramsay

Many Rivers to Cross

1955
as Cadmus Cherne

Forever and a Day

1943
as Archibald Spavin (hotel doorman)

The Captain Hates the Sea

1934
as Junius P. Schulte

We're Going to Be Rich

1938
as Dobbie

No More Women

1934
as Forty-Fathoms

The Quiet Man

1952
as Squire 'Red' Will Danaher

Dishonored

1931
as Colonel Kranau

Sea Devils

1937
as Steve Webb

Hollywood on Parade No. B-1

1934

The Devil's Party

1938
as Marty Malone

The Stolen Jools

1931
as Sergeant Flagg

Rough, Tough and Ready

1945
as Owen McCarey

Pacific Liner

1939
as Crusher McKay

Trouble in the Glen

1954
as Parlan

Klondike Annie

1936
as Bull Brackett

Hangman's House

1928
as Denis Hogan

Laughing at Life

1933
as Dennis P. McHale / Burke / Captain Hale

Broadway Limited

1941
as Mike

Under Pressure

1935
as Jumbo Smith

Gunga Din

1939
as Sgt. 'Mac' MacChesney

Powder Town

1942
as Jeems O'Shea

Under Two Flags

1936
as J.C. Doyle

Guilty as Hell

1932
as Detective Capt. T.R. McKinley

The Unholy Three

1925
as Hercules

Hot for Paris

1929
as John Patrick Duke

The Loves of Carmen

1927
as Escamillo

The Black Watch

1929
as Capt. Donald Gordon King

Fair Wind to Java

1952
as O'Brien

The Cock-Eyed World

1929
as Top Sergeant Flagg

Captain Lash

1929
as Captain Lash

Battle Of Broadway

1938
as Big Ben Wheeler

Prince Valiant

1954
as Boltar

Lady Godiva of Coventry

1955
as Grimald

The Glorious Adventure

1922
as Bulfinch

The Lost Patrol

1934
as The Sergeant

Bengazi

1955
as Robert Emmett Donovan

The Fighting Heart

1925
as Soapy Williams

China Girl

1942
as Major Bull Weed

The Princess and the Pirate

1944
as Captain Barrett / The Hook

Fort Apache

1948
as Sgt. Festus Mulcahy

A Romance of Old Baghdad

1922
as Miski

The Informer

1935
as Gypo Nolan

The Abductors

1957
as Tom Muldoon

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

2011
as Himself (archive footage)

While Paris Sleeps

1932
as Jacques Costaud

The Great Hotel Murder

1935
as Andrew W. 'Andy' McCabe

Hollywood Without Make-Up

1963

Strong Boy

1929
as Strong Boy

Professional Soldier

1935
as Colonel Michael Donovan

The Passionate Adventure

1924
as Herb Harris

Full Confession

1939
as Pat McGinnis

Happy Days

1929
as Minstrel Show Performer

Jack Johnson

1970
as Self (archive footage)

Diamond Frontier

1940
as Terrence Regan

Guest Star

Episode Have Gun, Will Travel
The O'Hare Story 		1958
Episode Rawhide
Incident of the Shambling Man 		1959