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George Macready
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Actor Born: August 29, 1899 in Providence, RI Death: July 2, 1973 in California Biography:Born in Rhode Island, "George Macready" graduated from Brown University. He was briefly a New York newspaperman before embarking upon a theatrical career on the advice of director Richard Boleslawski. Making his Broadway debut in a 1926 staging of The Scarlet Letter, Macready acted with "Katherine Cornell" in Romeo and Juliet and The Barretts of Wimpole Street and with "Helen Hayes" in Victoria Regina. When he entered films in 1943, the probing eye of the camera emphasized the sinister scar on Macready's cheek (the result of an automobile accident). Thus, he had very little choice but to specialize in cold, aristocratic screen villainy. His most complex film role was the evil, sexually ambivalent nightclub manager in "Gilda" (1946), who evidently has a yearning for both "Rita Hayworth" and "Glenn Ford". On television from 1948, Macready appeared in over 200 video productions, again working the evil... Full Biography
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