Walter McGrail

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1888-10-18 (82 years old)

Deathday

1970-03-19

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York, USA

Walter McGrail

Biography

Walter B. McGrail (October 19, 1888 – March 19, 1970) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 150 films between 1916 and 1951. Besides feature films, he appeared in The Scarlet Runner, a 12-chapter serial.

Acting

1933

Police Call

as Dr. James A. Gordon

1921

Her Mad Bargain

as David Leighton

1930

Anybody's War

as Captain Davis

1923

Lights Out

as Sea Bass

1938

Tell Your Children

as The Boss (uncredited)

1927

Old San Francisco

as Vasquez's Grandson - in Prologue

1924

Is Love Everything?

as Boyd Carter

1932

Under Eighteen

as Gregg (uncredited)

1929

The Veiled Woman

as Diplomatic Attaché

1920

Life's Twist

as Steven De Koven

1942

Bowery at Midnight

as Coroner (uncredited)

1937

The Shadow Strikes

as Winstead Comstock

1918

1942

Riders of the West

as Miller, the Banker

1918

Brown of Harvard

as Gerald Thorne

1935

Sunset Range

as Grant

1936

Special Agent K-7

as Vincent 'Lanny' Landers

1922

The Kentucky Derby

as Ralph Gordon

1936

Ten Laps to Go

as Drake - DeSylva's Mechanic

1916

Lights of New York

as Hawk Chovinski

1928

Midnight Madness

as Childers

1930

River's End

as Martin

1938

West of Rainbow's End

as George Reynolds aka Johnson

1931

Night Nurse

as The Drunk

1930

Soldiers and Women

as Capt. Arnold

1930

Women Everywhere

as Lieutenant of Legionnaires

1938

Held For Ransom

as Donnelly

1921

Playthings of Destiny

as Hubert Randolph

1933

State Trooper

as Burman

1923

Suzanna

as Ramón

1928

Blockade

as Hayden

1919

The Black Secret

as Ray McKay

1930

The Pay-Off

as Emory

1923

Where the North Begins

as Gabrielle Dupree

1930

Part Time Wife

as Johnny Spence

1929

The River of Romance

as Major Patterson

1925

Adventure

as Tudor

1939

In Old Montana

as Joe Allison

1926

The City

as Jim Hannock

1939

Code of the Fearless

as Ranger Captain Rawlins

1923

The Eleventh Hour

as Dick Manley

1939

Stagecoach

as Capt. Sickel (uncredited)

1939

The Sun Never Sets

as Henchman DaCosta

1932

Vanity Street

as Detective Hanson (uncredited)

1931

Night Beat

as Martin Andrews

1939

Calling All Marines

as Capt. Chester

1940

The Grapes of Wrath

as Gang Leader (uncredited)

1940

1932

McKenna of the Mounted

as Inspector Oliver P. Logan

1921

The Invisible Fear

as Arthur Comstock

1940

Marked Men

as Doctor

1940

My Little Chickadee

as Townsman (uncredited)

1941

Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.

as Junction Heavy 1 / Marine Captain

1923

Is Divorce a Failure?

as Kelcey Barton

1923

Nobody's Money

as Frank Carey

1925

Havoc

as Roddy Dunton

1925

The Teaser

as Roderick Caswell

1928

The Play Girl

as David Courtney

1940

Billy the Kid Outlawed

as Judge Fitzgerald

1942

Billy the Kid Trapped

as Judge Jack McConnell

1941

Along the Rio Grande

as Cattle Buyer (uncredited)

1925

The Dancers

as The Argentine

1950

1934

1932

Robbers' Roost

as Henchman Brad

1925

When the Door Opened

as Clive Grenfal

1927

American Beauty

as Claverhouse

1934

The World Moves On

as The Duallist (1825)

1931

Murder by the Clock

as Herbert Endicott

1930

The Lone Star Ranger

as Phil Lawson

1919

The Adventure Shop

as Josephus Potts, Jr.

1926

Across the Pacific

as Capt. Grover

1922

The Cradle

as Courtney Webster

1924

A Son of the Sahara

as Capt. Jean Duval

1926

Marriage License?

as Marcus Heriot

1925

1921

Pilgrims of the Night

as Gilbert Hannaway

1926

The Combat

as Milton Symmons

1941

Appointment for Love

as Stoddard (uncredited)

1931

Seas Beneath

as Chief Joe Cobb

1919

The Country Cousin

as George Tewksbury Reynolds III

1932

Union Depot

as Pickpocket (uncredited)

1924

Unguarded Women

as Larry Trent

1925

The Scarlet West

as Lt. Harper

1922

The Top of New York

as Emery Gray

1920

Darling Mine

as Roger Davis

1934

David Harum

as Townsman (uncredited)

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