George MacFarlane

George Jarvis MacFarlane (born November 17, 1878 in Kingston / Ontario , † February 22, 1932 in Los Angeles ) was an American singer (baritone) and actor of Canadian origin.

MacFarlane was the youngest of six children of Scottish immigrants in Canada. Without any formal musical training, he appeared in operettas a.o. in Ontario around the turn of the century. a. by Gilbert and Sullivan on. In 1904 he made his Broadway debut in the musical The Girl and the Bandit . Here he met the singer Viola Gillette , who became his wife. With Billy Murray he appeared around this time as eccentric singing an talking comedians .

In 1909, under the direction of Jefferson De Angelis , he played Jacques Baccarel in Reginald De Kovens The Beauty Spot at the Herald Square Theater , which became one of the most successful musicals on Broadway with 137 performances in one season. After operettas by Gilbert and Sullivan, he sang in 1913 Miss Caprice , a remake of Leo Falls' operetta Der liebe Augustin . Jerome Kern's look in Her Eyes became Macfarlane's biggest hit in the musical.

In 1914 he appeared in the opening of New York's 44th Street Theater in the operetta The Midnight Girl , which had over 100 performances and gave him the hits Your Eyes and Can't You Hear Me Calling, Caroline? brought; the latter appeared on Victor Records in 1915 .

Between 1914 and 1921 Macfarlane had numerous other successes on Broadway, in addition, he took records on Victor Records and worked for the first time in a film in 1917. In Webb Singing Pictures , he, Enrico Caruso, and others sang behind the screen while their roles were played on screen by actors.

Little is known about MacFarlaine's activities in the 1920s, but from 1929 he appears in fifteen feature films as an actor and singer, including Frozen Justice and the crime drama The Famous Ferguson Case . In 1932 MacFarlane, famous as America's Favorite Baritone, was killed in a car accident.

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SURNAME	MacFarlane, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	MacFarlane, George Jarvis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian-American singer (baritone) and actor
DATE OF BIRTH	November 17, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kingston , Ontario
DATE OF DEATH	February 22, 1932
Place of death	los Angeles