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George Bancroft
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Actor Born: September 30, 1882 in Philadelphia, PA Death: October 2, 1956 in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, CA Biography:A graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, 6'2," 195-pound "George Bancroft" briefly served in the Navy before entering show business as a theater manager. He worked in a minstrel show for a time then tried his luck (which turned out to be very good indeed) on Broadway. In 1921, he made his first film appearance, but it wasn't until his standout performance as likeable reprobate Jack Slade in "James Cruze"'s Pony Express (1925) that Paramount Pictures executives began grooming him for stardom. He was especially effective in the ultra-stylish gangster pictures of "Josef Von Sternberg", notably "Underworld" (1977) (as outlaw-with-a-heart Bull Weed) and "Thunderbolt" (which earned him a 1929 Academy Award nomination). "Budd Schulberg", son of Paramount executive B. P. Schulberg, recalled in his autobiography Moving Pictures how fame and fortune inflated Bancroft's ego to monumental... Full Biography
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