Victor McLaglen

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1886-12-09 (73 years old)

Deathday

1959-11-07

Place of Birth

Stepney, East London, England, UK

Victor McLaglen

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.

Acting

1952

The Quiet Man

as Squire 'Red' Will Danaher

1944

The Princess and the Pirate

as Captain Barrett / The Hook

1950

Rio Grande

as Sgt. Maj. Timothy Quincannon

1939

Gunga Din

as MacChesney

1925

The Unholy Three

as Hercules

1939

Rio

as Dirk

1949

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

as First Sergeant Quincannon

1948

Fort Apache

as Sgt. Festus Mulcahy

1943

Forever and a Day

as Archibald Spavin

1937

Wee Willie Winkie

as Sgt. Donald MacDuff

1935

The Informer

as Gypo Nolan

1955

City of Shadows

as Big Tim Channing

1954

1923

The Romany

as The Chief

1921

Carnival

as Baron

1921

The Sport of Kings

as Frank Rosedale

1921

The Prey of the Dragon

as Brett 'Dragon' Mercer

1922

Little Brother of God

as King Kennidy

1922

A Sailor Tramp

as The Sailor Tramp

1924

In the Blood

as Tony Crabtree

1923

Woman to Woman

as Nubian Slave (uncredited)

1923

Heartstrings

as Frank Wilson

1923

M'Lord of the White Road

as Lord Annerley / John

1924

The Gay Corinthian

as Squire Hardcastle

1924

The Boatswain's Mate

as Ned Travers

1925

1924

The Beloved Brute

as Charles Hinges

1925

Percy

as Reedy Jenkins

1926

1930

On the Level

as Biff Williams

1929

Captain Lash

as Captain Lash

1932

The Gay Caballero

as Don Bob Harkness / El Coyote

1932

Devil's Lottery

as Jem Meech

1951

O'Mara's Chain Miracle

as Officer O'Mara

1934

The Lost Patrol

as The Sergeant

1934

Murder at the Vanities

as Bill Murdock

1955

Many Rivers to Cross

as Cadmus Cherne

1942

China Girl

as Major Bull Weed

1931

The Stolen Jools

as Sergeant Flagg

1931

Dishonored

as Colonel Kranau

1946

Whistle Stop

as Gitlo

1936

Under Two Flags

as J.C. Doyle

1936

Klondike Annie

as Bull Brackett

1934

The Captain Hates the Sea

as Junius P. Schulte

1937

Nancy Steele Is Missing!

as Dannie O'Neill

1928

A Girl in Every Port

as Spike Madden

1926

What Price Glory

as Capt. Flagg

1939

Captain Fury

as Jerry Black aka Blackie

1938

Battle of Broadway

as Big Ben Wheeler

1928

Hangman's House

as Denis Hogan

1942

Powder Town

as Jeems O'Shea

1931

Women of All Nations

as Captain Jim Flagg

1944

Roger Touhy, Gangster

as Herman "Owl" Banghart

1947

Calendar Girl

as Matthew O'Neill

1937

This Is My Affair

as Jock Ramsay

1932

Guilty as Hell

as Detective Capt. T.R. McKinley

1933

Laughing at Life

as Dennis P. McHale / Burke / Captain Hale

1957

The Abductors

as Tom Muldoon

1954

1932

While Paris Sleeps

as Jacques Costaud

1941

Broadway Limited

as Maurice "Mike" Monaghan

1935

Professional Soldier

as Colonel Michael Donovan

1937

Sea Devils

as Steve Webb

1929

Happy Days

as Minstrel Show Performer

1929

The Black Watch

as Captain Donald King

1931

Wicked

as Scott Burrows

1935

The Great Hotel Murder

as Andrew W. 'Andy' McCabe

1926

Beau Geste

as Hank

1939

Let Freedom Ring

as Chris Mulligan

1927

Mother Machree

as The Giant of Kilkenny

1947

The Foxes of Harrow

as Mike Farrell

1942

Call Out the Marines

as Sgt. Jimmy McGinnis

1938

The Devil's Party

as Marty Malone

1940

South of Pago Pago

as Bucko Larson

1925

Winds of Chance

as Poleon Doret

1933

Hot Pepper

as Jim Flagg

1934

1955

Bengazi

as Robert Emmett Donovan

1953

1958

Sea Fury

as Bellew

1931

Three Rogues

as Bull Stanley

1939

Full Confession

as Pat McGinnis

1930

A Devil with Women

as Jerry Maxton

1935

Under Pressure

as Jumbo Smith

1929

Hot for Paris

as John Patrick Duke

1944

Tampico

as Fred Adamson

2011

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

as Himself (archive footage)

1931

Annabelle's Affairs

as John Rawson / Hefly Jack

2004

On Location with Gunga Din

as MacChesney (archive footage)

1939

Pacific Liner

as Crusher McKay

1929

The Cock-Eyed World

as Top Sergeant Flagg

1994

Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her

as Self (archive footage)

1958

The Italians They Are Crazy

as Sergente O'Riley

1920

The Call of the Road

as Alfred Truscott

1938

We're Going to Be Rich

as "Dobbie" Dobson

1945

Love, Honor and Goodbye

as Terry O'Farrell

1945

Rough, Tough and Ready

as Owen McCarey

1927

1936

The Magnificent Brute

as 'Big Steve' Andrews

1933

Dick Turpin

as Dick Turpin

1924

1956

Around the World in Eighty Days

as SS Henrietta Helmsman

1940

Diamond Frontier

as Terrence Regan

1924

Women and Diamonds

as Brian Owen

1921

Corinthian Jack

as Jack Halstead

1929

Strong Boy

as Strong Boy

1925

The Fighting Heart

as Soapy Williams

1932

Rackety Rax

as 'Knucks' McGloin

1934

No More Women

as Forty-Fathoms

1939

Ex-Champ

as Tom 'Gunner' Grey

1926

Men of Steel

as Pete Masarick

1985

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2019

John Ford: The Man Who Invented America

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

1922

1928

The River Pirate

as Sailor Fritz

1947

Michigan Kid

as Curley Davis

1939

The Big Guy

as Warden Bill Whitlock

1937

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