George Macready
George Macready ( born August 29, 1899 in Providence, Rhode Iceland, † 2 July 1973 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American theater and film actor.
Macready, who was a descendant of the famous in the 19th century Shakespearean actor William Macready by its own account, began to operate as an art collector after successful completion of his studies at Brown University in Providence. With his friend, actor Vincent Price, he built in Los Angeles in the 1940s to a profitable art gallery. Before he appeared in films, he was a sought-after actor on Broadway, especially in plays by Shakespeare.
With the special characteristics of a scar that came from a car accident, he was usually cast as a cunning, ruthless, 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, on the side of Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth. In addition to Glenn Ford, he was in The Iron Glove ( The Green Glove) see also 1952.
Another highly acclaimed role of the fanatical French general who commands the First World War his artillery to fire on 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 Tora! Tora! Tora!, Which is about the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Macready was married to Elizabeth Patterson, with whom he had three children. He died in 1973 from emphysema.