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Biography by AllMovie. A boy soldier during the Boer War, British actor Victor McLaglen later worked as a prizefighter (once losing to Jack Johnson in six rounds) and a vaudeville and circus performer. He served in World War I as a captain with the Irish Fusiliers and as provost marshal of Baghdad. In the early '20s he broke into British films.
18. Dez. 2016 · Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen (10 December 1886 – 7 November 1959) His Adventurous Youth – Boers, Boxing, and Baghdad. Victor McLaglen was big enough at 14 to enlist in the English Army to fight the Boers. (Sounds like a young English lad’s dream, until he was found out a short time after and had to exit the Army.)
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 McLaglen. Highest Rated: 100% Fort Apache (1948) Lowest Rated: 71% Rio Grande (1950) Birthday: Dec 10, 1886. Birthplace: Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK. Former prizefighter (he once ...
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. He had eight brothers and a sister. Four of his brothers also became actors ...
Andrew Victor McLaglen (* 28.Juli 1920 in London, England; † 30. August 2014 in Friday Harbor, Washington) war ein britisch-US-amerikanischer Regisseur.Seine größten Erfolge feierte er in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren mit Kriegsfilmen und Western, seit ihrer Zusammenarbeit bei MacLintock im Jahr 1963 war er ein bevorzugter Regisseur von John-Wayne-Filmen.
Victor was born on 11 December 1883 in the genteel English town of Tunbridge Wells, the son of the Right Reverend Andrew McLaglen, a Protestant clergyman and former Bishop of Claremont in South Africa. The oldest of eight brothers, he likely developed a certain streak of toughness, a possible explanation for his casting in rambunctious roles in his screen career.
