Gunga Din
1939
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Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen (10 December 1886 – 7 November 1959) was a British-American actor and boxer. [1] His film career spanned from the early 1920s through the 1950s, initially as a leading man, though he was better known for his character acting.
Actor: The Quiet Man. Rambunctious British leading man (contrary to popular belief, he was of Scottish ancestry, not Irish) and later character actor primarily in American films, Victor McLaglen was a vital presence in a number of great motion pictures, especially those of director John Ford.
Actor: The Quiet Man. Rambunctious British leading man (contrary to popular belief, he was of Scottish ancestry, not Irish) and later character actor primarily in American films, Victor McLaglen was a vital presence in a number of great motion pictures, especially those of director John Ford.
Academy Awards, USA. 1953 Nominee Oscar. Best Actor in a Supporting Role. The Quiet Man. 1936 Winner Oscar. Best Actor in a Leading Role.
For this portrayal Victor McLaglen won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1935. Ford and McLaglen’s relationship was fruitful: Ford gave McLaglen’s career a fresh impetus with a number of roles that completely transformed him into the lovable Irish rogue.
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.
Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen (10 December 1886 – 7 November 1959) was a British-American actor and activist. [1] He was known for winning the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1935 for his role in The Informer.
Career: Prizefighter in Canada, and vaudeville and circus performer; 1920—film debut in The Call of the Road; 1924—U.S. film debut in The Beloved Brute; 1925—appeared in the first of many films of the director John Ford, The Fighting Heart. Awards: Best Actor Academy Award for The Informer, 1935. Died: 7 November 1959.
Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen was an English boxer and World War I veteran who became a leading American film actor. McLaglen was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. His father, an Anglican bishop, moved the family to South Africa when McLaglen was a child.
Actor Victor McLaglen, born on Dec 10, 1886 and died on Nov 7, 1959 starred in The Informer, The Quiet Man, Gunga Din, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Forever and a Day, Fort Apache, A Girl in Every Port, Rio Grande, Around the World in Eighty Days, The Lost Patrol
