Frank McGlynn Sr.
Gaunt-looking American character actor Frank McGlynn Sr. is best remembered for his many portrayals in 1930s and 1940s historical films of US President Abraham Lincoln. McGlynn began performing on stage in 1896. Prior to that, he had been a practicing lawyer, a graduate of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.496 |
| Birthday | 1866-10-26 |
| Place of Birth | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Also Known As | Frank McGlynn, Franklyn McGlynn, |
1936
The Last of the Mohicans
6.329/41
The story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns—in part—a Huron massacre (with passive French acqu...
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The Last of the Mohicans
1931
The Secret Six
5.618/17
Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scor...
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The Secret Six
1916
Gloria's Romance
6/1
An adventurous young girl in Florida gets herself lost in the Everglades and finds terror and excitement, as well as the rivalry of two men in love wi...
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Gloria's Romance
1930
The Jazz Cinderella
8/1
Intending that her son, Herbert, marry debutante Mildred Vane, Mrs. Consuelo Carter is most dismayed when she learns that Herbert has fallen in love w...
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The Jazz Cinderella
1934
Little Miss Marker
6.462/26
Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especia...
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Little Miss Marker
1938
The Girl of the Golden West
5.3/5
A bandit disguises himself as an officer in an attempt to woo a saloon singer.
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The Girl of the Golden West
1937
Broadway Melody of 1938
6.6/15
Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee. But Caroline Whipple forces Steve...
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Broadway Melody of 1938
1935
The Littlest Rebel
6.397/34
Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and se...
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The Littlest Rebel
1936
King of the Royal Mounted
7/1
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant King protects a girl who has come to claim a mine left by her father. An evil lawyer plans to keep the mine for...
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King of the Royal Mounted
1935
Captain Blood
7.226/265
Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
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Captain Blood
1934
Are We Civilized?
6/2
1934 drama of man's inhumanity to man, starring William Farnum and Anita Louise, directed by Edwin Carewe, screenplay by Harold Sherman. This film was...
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Are We Civilized?
1940
Third Finger, Left Hand
7/13
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jef...
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Third Finger, Left Hand
1937
Sudden Bill Dorn
9/1
Bundy has found gold on the Kent ranch but directs everyone to Ghost Town as he tries to take over the ranch. But Bill and Kent's niece Lorna have tak...
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Sudden Bill Dorn
1936
The Prisoner of Shark Island
6.856/59
After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865...
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The Prisoner of Shark Island
1941
Three Girls About Town
6.5/4
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the...
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Three Girls About Town
1915
Through Turbulent Waters
0/0
The west is the stamping ground for Paul Temple and his thespian associates. He is talking with his sweetheart, Jane Dinsmore, as Alice Robinson, Jane...
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Through Turbulent Waters
1918
Rough and Ready
0/0
In New York, Bill Stratton saves a friend's marriage, but Bill's fiancée, Evelyn, misinterprets the situation and believes Bill to be unfaithful to he...
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Rough and Ready
1918
Why America Will Win
10/1
This is not a romance but the biography of the man who now leads our vast forces in France. It shows him from boyhood to his present high command, and...
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Why America Will Win
1915
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
5/1
This short 1915 Edison film stars Frank McGlynn as the famous president from his marriage to assassination by Booth.
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln
1938
Strange Glory
6.5/2
During the American Civil War, General Ulysses Grant carries out the 'Tennessee Plan,' which involves stopping the Confederate supply line on the Tenn...
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Strange Glory
1937
Western Gold
9/1
President Lincoln personally sends Bill Gibson west to see if he can stop the holdups of the needed shipments of gold. There he meets his boyhood frie...
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Western Gold
1936
Career Woman
6/3
A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds her first case is defending a childhood friend accus...
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Career Woman
1938
The Lone Ranger
7.5/2
In 1865, Captain Mark Smith of the Confederate Army leads a band of deserters to conquer Texas and rule it as a dictator. In one of his first actions,...
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The Lone Ranger
1933
Hello, Everybody!
7/2
The setting is a farm. Kate Smith and Sally Blane play sisters; assorted relatives live with the sisters, but everyone at home, and in the whole town,...
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Hello, Everybody!
1944
Rogues' Gallery
5.9/5
Reporter Patsy Reynolds and photographer Eddie Porter are assigned to interview John Foster, head of the Emmerson Foundation regarding a listening dev...
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Rogues' Gallery
1930
Good News
6.333/3
A college football star falls for his mousy French tutor.
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Good News
1934
Search for Beauty
5.5/12
Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictu...
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Search for Beauty
1934
Massacre
5.5/12
Upon the death of his father, who was the tribal chieftain, Joe Thunder Horse returns to the reservation of his youth, only to discover that his peopl...
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Massacre
1918
The Caillaux Case
0/0
Based on an international scandal that hit prewar France, when the editor of the Paris daily LE FIGARO, Gaston Calmette was shot to death by Madame Ca...
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The Caillaux Case
1917
The Poor Little Rich Girl
5.7/37
Gwen's family is rich, but her parents ignore her and most of the servants push her around, so she is lonely and unhappy. Her father is concerned only...
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The Poor Little Rich Girl
1935
Folies Bergère de Paris
6/8
An entertainer impersonates a look-alike banker, causing comic confusion for wife and girlfriend.
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Folies Bergère de Paris
1936
The Plainsman
6.473/37
Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.
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The Plainsman
1933
Unknown Valley
6.75/4
Looking for his missing father, Joe Gordon heads into the desert where Elders from a secret village find him unconscious. Attracted to Sheilla O'Neill...
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Unknown Valley
1915
Vanity Fair
0/0
In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.
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Vanity Fair
1935
Outlawed Guns
8/1
Outlawed Guns stars Buck Jones as Reece Rivers, the nice-guy older brother of headstrong Babe Rivers. When Babe gets mixed up with outlaws, Reece loya...
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Outlawed Guns
1937
Wells Fargo
5.467/15
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fres...
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Wells Fargo
1941
Marry the Boss's Daughter
9/1
Young man from Kansas goes to New York to work for his tycoon-hero. His superiors won't listen to his ideas about business, but the boss and his daugh...
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Marry the Boss's Daughter
1912
Two Men
0/0
A smuggler is conflicted between saving his wounded captor or letting him die.
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Two Men
1930
Min and Bill
6.179/28
Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.
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Min and Bill
1935
It's A Small World
6/3
Socialite, privileged, Jane Dale and lawyer Bill Shevlin meet in an automobile accident at night, on a dirt road, in a storm, near a hick town which...
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It's A Small World
1939
Love Affair
6.98/125
A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed...
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Love Affair
1939
Second Fiddle
5.125/8
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
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Second Fiddle
1939
Lincoln in the White House
7/2
This short chronicles Abraham Lincoln's presidency from his inauguration through delivery of the Gettysburg Address.
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Lincoln in the White House
1915
Across the Great Divide
7.5/2
Short western melodrama. A cash-strapped operator is working far from his beloved. A criminal and his accomplice trying to force him to cooperate with...
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Across the Great Divide
1931
Huckleberry Finn
7/4
A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home while Huck Finn, chafing under "civilizing" influences li...
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Huckleberry Finn
1917
The Argyle Case
0/0
When multi-millionaire banker John Argyle is found brutally murdered in his home, suspicions are cast upon Mary Mazuret, his adopted daughter who beca...
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The Argyle Case
1936
For the Service
10/1
Cowboy star Buck Jones made his directorial debut with the Universal western For the Service. Jones is cast as Indian scout Buck O'Bryan, trying his b...
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For the Service
1947
Hollywood Barn Dance
5/3
Based on and built around the west coast radio program, "The Hollywood Barn Dance", although no members of the 1947 cast of the program are in the fil...
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Hollywood Barn Dance
1937
Sing and Be Happy
10/1
Rival advertising firms compete for a radio show's pickle manufacturing account.
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Sing and Be Happy
1942
Syncopation
6.833/6
A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.
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Syncopation
1940
Boom Town
6.927/62
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil t...
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Boom Town
1913
By Fire and Water
7.5/2
A dramatic one-act film. The wife of the captain of a canal boat chooses the nicer boat and nicer uniform of another captain. She reconsiders her choi...
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By Fire and Water
1941
Sergeant York
7.213/232
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep rel...
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Sergeant York
1941
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
5.5/6
Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as h...
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A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
1940
Hi-Yo Silver
7/2
Edited version of the 1938 Republic serial "The Lone Ranger."
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Hi-Yo Silver
1942
In Old California
5.306/36
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citi...
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In Old California
1936
North of Nome
8/2
John Raglan is a seal hunter being hounded by hijackers, so he strands himself on an isolated island in the Bering Sea that is owned by a corporation....
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North of Nome
1933
Charlie Chan's Greatest Case
8/2
When a good-for-nothing man named Dan is stabbed to death and his arm broken, Charlie Chan is on the case. His first clue comes from the victim's sist...
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Charlie Chan's Greatest Case
1936
These Three
7.178/45
Close friends Martha and Karen build a private boarding school together with the aid of the local doctor Joe. The school takes off and many students e...
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These Three
1942
March On, America!
5.4/5
The story of America from the Pilgrims in 1620 to the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. Americans always working for freedom.
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March On, America!
1919
The ABC of Love
5.6/5
Romance between the playwright Harry Bryant and the homeless and illiterate Kate.
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The ABC of Love
1932
The Wet Parade
6.167/6
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton fami...
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The Wet Parade
1939
The Mad Empress
5.75/8
The Mad Empress is a 1939 American historical drama film depicting the 3-year reign of Maximilian I of Mexico and his struggles against Benito Juarez.
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The Mad Empress
1938
Joaquin Murrieta
8/2
This MGM Historical Mystery short follows the life and exploits of killer outlaw Joaquin Murrieta, in California in the 1850s.
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Joaquin Murrieta
1935
The Roaring West
10/1
A 15-episode serial involving the land rush, gold mines, stolen maps, etc.
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The Roaring West
1944
Delinquent Daughters
5.5/4
A town is shocked when a high school girl commits suicide. A reporter and a cop team up to investigate and find out exactly what is going on among the...
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Delinquent Daughters
1913
Alexia's Strategy
10/1
Walter Young and John Osgood are both in love with Alexia Trexell, daughter of the president of the trust company where both young men work.
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Alexia's Strategy
1937
The Great Barrier
7.5/2
The building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
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The Great Barrier
1934
Lost in the Stratosphere
4.857/7
Two military pilots are close friends, and share in a lot of hazardous missions while engaging in a series of good-natured romantic rivalries. But whe...
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Lost in the Stratosphere
1913
Who Will Marry Mary?
0/0
Six part adventure serial starring Mary Fuller as the sought after heroine. Episodes: 1) A Proposal From The Duke; 2) A Proposal From The Spanish Don;...
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Who Will Marry Mary?
1913
The Bells
7.5/2
At the express wish of her father, Lucy Martin marries Leo Noakes, a stingy man and one twice her age. When they are at church one Sunday a fire break...
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The Bells
1937
Parnell
4.556/9
Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to...
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Parnell
1933
Frisco Jenny
6.65/20
Jenny is carrying the child of a young man who dies in the San Francisco earthquake (1906). After giving birth, she decides to place her child in the...
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Frisco Jenny
1931
The Silent Partner
0/0
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The Silent Partner
1924
Abraham Lincoln
9/1
The highlight of the picture will be the delivery of the Gettysburg Address and the singing of a number of camp-fire songs. This film is considered lo...
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Abraham Lincoln
1947
Trail Street
6.538/13
Bat Masterson's old friend Billy Burns convinces him to become marshal of Liberal, Kansas and help the residents fight drought and a destructive range...
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Trail Street
1918
The Accidental Honeymoon
0/0
Young Kitty runs away from home to avoid marrying a man she doesn't love. Her car breaks down on a country road and she meets Robert, a young artist w...
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The Accidental Honeymoon
1939
The Honeymoon's Over
8/1
Newly married copywriters become seduced by life with the country-club set, until mounting bills and legal troubles snap them back to reality.
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