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Víctor McLaglen. Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen (10 de diciembre de 1886 - 7 de noviembre de 1959) fue un boxeador británico convertido en actor de Hollywood. Era conocido como actor de carácter, particularmente en westerns, e hizo siete películas con John Ford y John Wayne. McLaglen ganó el Premio de la Academia al Mejor Actor ...
Victor McLaglen. Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen ( 10 d'avientu de 1886 , Royal Tunbridge Wells – 7 de payares de 1959 , Newport Beach (es) ) foi un boxeador y actor británicu, darréu nacionalizáu d'Estaos Xuníos, ganador d'un Premiu Óscar .
Read More. Former prizefighter (he once went six rounds against the great Jack Johnson) who entered British films in 1920 and moved to the USA five years later. McLaglen's blunt features were a familiar sight in films by John Ford, and he won an Oscar as the heavy-drinking title character of the director's gripping classic, "The Informer" (1935).
Off-screen, McLaglen formed a riding and polo club called ‘The Light Horse Brigade’, as well as a precision motorcycle team ‘The Victor McLaglen Motorcycle Corps’. He continued to act into his seventies; his rich and varied life came to an end following a heart attack on 7 November 1959 at Newport Beach California, shortly after appearing in a film directed by his son, Andrew.
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 […]
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 de dic. de 2016 · 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.) When he was 18, he moved to Canada, became a wrestler and a boxer and toured with circuses, vaudeville and Wild West shows.
