George Macready

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George Peabody Macready Jr (born August 29, 1899 in Providence , Rhode Island , † July 2, 1973 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American theater and film actor.

Life

Macready, who claims to be a descendant of the 19th century Shakespeare actor William Macready , began to work as an art collector after successfully completing his studies at Brown University of Providence . With his friend, actor Vincent Price , he built a profitable art gallery in Los Angeles in the 1940s. Before he appeared in films, he was a sought-after actor on Broadway , especially in plays by Shakespeare.

With the distinctive mark of a scar that came from a car accident, he was usually cast as a cunning, unscrupulous, aristocratic villain.

He played his most famous role in Charles Vidor's masterpiece Gilda (1946), namely that of the mysterious and ambivalent casino owner Ballin Mundson, alongside Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth . In addition to Glenn Ford, he was also seen in 1952 in The Iron Glove ( The Green Glove ).

Of the fanatical Another acclaimed role, the French general who in World War I, his artillery to fire orders to their own troops, he embodied in Stanley Kubrick's classic Paths of Glory ( Paths of Glory , 1957).

Later in his career he appeared in numerous television productions, including as Martin Peyton in the series Peyton Place (1965–1968). In 1970 he played one of his last roles as Franklin D. Roosevelt's Secretary of State Cordell Hull in the war film Torah! Torah! Torah! dealing with the attack on Pearl Harbor .

Macready was married to Elizabeth Patterson, with whom he had three children. He died in 1973 of emphysema .

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SURNAME Macready, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Macready Jr, George Peabody (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theater and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Providence , Rhode Island , United States
DATE OF DEATH 2nd July 1973
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States