Victor McLaglen
Victor Andrew de Beer Everleigh McLaglen (born 11 December 1886 in Tunbridge Wells, England; † November 7, 1959 in Newport Beach, California ) was a British- American actor. He won the 1936 Oscar for best actor.
Life
Victor McLaglen was born the third of ten children of a priest in the county of Kent and attended St. Boniface School for Boys in London. His father got a job as Bishop of Claremont in South Africa. As a 14 -year-old, the strong boy joined the British Army to participate in the Boer War. When his true age was known, he was again dismissed, without having fought in South Africa. He then began a career as a prizefighter at fairs in Canada. He fought in the First World War.
1920, McLaglen made his film debut in the British film The Call of the Road. He quickly took over supporting film roles, as in James Stuart Blacktons British- American The Glorious Adventure ( 1921). In 1924 he went to the USA. His first film there was The Beloved Brute ( 1924). In The Fighting Heart, he played first time in 1925, directed by John Ford, with whom he still worked often in the following 27 years. At Victor McLaglens successful roles in the U.S. include the silent film of Captain Flagg in Raoul Walsh's What Price Glory? (1926) and that of the sailors Spike Madden in Howard Hawks ' A Girl in Every Port (1928 ).
The embodied by McLaglen figures were often simply structured, hulking guys. This role Characters characterize his film appearances in the 1930s, especially in John Ford as a sergeant in The Lost Patrol ( 1933) and as an Irish informer in The Informer (1935 ) and in numerous adventure films. In the late 1940s McLaglen starred in Ford's cavalry Western Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Rio Grande with John Wayne. In the role of an Irish farmer had Man ( 1952) success in the movie The Quiet. He drinkers than in the British film Sea Fury by Cyril Endfield had his last film appearance. Shortly before his death in the late 1950s he was still working for the television.
Victor McLaglen published in 1935 the book Express to Hollywood. He was married three times, from 1919 to 1942 with Enid Lamont ( widowed), 1943-1948 by Suzanne M. Brueggeman ( divorced) and from 1948 until his death Margaret Pumphrey. He had two children from his first marriage, Andrew ( born July 28, 1920) and Sheila (* 1920). Andrew started in 1956 its own directing career, particularly in Western and action films and in television. Victor McLaglens younger brothers Arthur, Clifford, Cyril and Kenneth were also an actor.