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Victor Andrew de Bier McLaglen (December 10, 1886[1] - November 7, 1959) was a British boxer and Academy Award winning actor, who later became a naturalized American citizen. December 10 is the 344th day (345th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, 21 days before the next year. ...
Year 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
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Tunbridge Wells (officially Royal Tunbridge Wells) is a Wealden town in west Kent in England, just north of the border with East Sussex. ...
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The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the awards given to actors working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ...
The Informer is a 1935 dramatic film. ...
December 10 is the 344th day (345th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, 21 days before the next year. ...
Year 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
is the 311th day of the year (312th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Professional boxing bout featuring Ricardo DomÃnguez (left, throwing a left uppercut) versus Rafael Ortiz Boxing, also referred to as pugilism is a combat sport in which two participants of similar weight fight each other with their fists in a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds. ...
Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...
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Biography McLaglen was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. His father, a bishop, moved the family to South Africa when McLaglen was a child. He left home at fourteen to join the British Army with the intention of fighting in the Second Boer War. However, much to his chagrin, he was stationed at Windsor Castle with the Life Guards and was later forced to leave the army when his true age was discovered. Tunbridge Wells (officially Royal Tunbridge Wells) is a Wealden town in west Kent in England, just north of the border with East Sussex. ...
The Kent coat of arms For other uses, see Kent (disambiguation). ...
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Windsor castle, a thousand-year-old fortress transformed into a royal palace. ...
Life Guards on parade The Life Guards is the senior regiment of the British Army. ...
Four years later, he moved to Canada, where he earned a living as a wrestler and heavyweight boxer, with several notable wins in the ring. One of his most famous fights was against Heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson. The fight was a 6 round exhibition bout. Between bouts, he toured with a circus, which offered $25 to anyone who could go three rounds with him. He returned to England in 1913 and claimed to have served with the Royal Irish Fusiliers during World War I although he actually served as a Temporary Captain with the 10th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, now part of the The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires). He served for a time as military Provost Marshal for the city of Baghdad.[2] He also continued boxing, and was named Heavyweight Champion of the British Army in 1918. After the war, he began taking roles in British silent films. John Arthur Johnson (March 31, 1878 – June 10, 1946), better known as Jack Johnson and nicknamed the Galveston Giant, was an American boxer and arguably the best heavyweight of his generation. ...
The Royal Irish Fusiliers was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1881 and amalgamated with The Royal Ulster Rifles and The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers to form The Royal Irish Rangers in 1968. ...
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The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambriges Own) was regiment of the British Army . ...
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Baghdad (Arabic: ) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate. ...
The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ...
McLaglen's career took a turn in the 1920s, when he moved to Hollywood. He became a popular character actor, with a particular knack for playing drunks. The highlight of his career was an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in The Informer (1935), based on a novel by Liam O'Flaherty. Near the end of his career he was nominated again, this time for Best Supporting Actor, for his role opposite John Wayne in The Quiet Man (1952). He was especially popular with director John Ford, who frequently included McLaglen in his films. Toward the end of his career, McLaglen made several guest appearances on television, particularly in Western series such as Have Gun, Will Travel and Rawhide. ...
The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the awards given to actors working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ...
The Informer is a 1935 dramatic film. ...
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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the awards given to male actors working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ...
John Wayne (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979) was an iconic, Academy Award-winning, American film actor. ...
The Quiet Man is a 1952 American film starring John Wayne, Maureen OHara, Victor McLaglen, and Barry Fitzgerald, and directed by John Ford. ...
John Ford (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973) was an American film director famous for westerns such as Stagecoach and The Searchers and adaptations of such classic 20th century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath. ...
Have Gun, Will Travel was a popular American television Western that aired from on CBS 1957 through 1963. ...
Rawhide was a television western series about cattle drives that aired on CBS from 1959-1966, which starred Eric Fleming and launched the career of Clint Eastwood, who played Rowdy Yates. ...
He died of a heart attack in 1959. He had by that time become a naturalized U.S. citizen. His son, Andrew V. McLaglen is a director. Acute myocardial infarction (AMI or MI), more commonly known as a heart attack, is a disease state that occurs when the blood supply to a part of the heart is interrupted. ...
Andrew V. McLaglen is an American film director. ...
The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ...
Filmography Originally made by MGM in 1925 as a silent film and then remade in 1930 as a talkie, The Unholy Three is a melodrama involving a crime spree. ...
What Price Glory is a film that has been made twice, based on a 1924 play by Maxwell Anderson. ...
Beau Geste is a 1926 film, based on the novel by P. C. Wren. ...
Child actor Philippe De Lacy starred in the film, aged 11 Mother Macree was a 1928 silent film based on a novel by Rida Johnson Young about a poor Irish immigrant in America. ...
Hangmans House was a 1928 Irish silent film drama directed and written by Malcolm Stuart Boylan based on a novel by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne. ...
Official name The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) Colonel-in-Chief HRH The Prince of Wales Nicknames Motto Nemo Me Impune Lacessit Anniversaries Red Hackle Day (5 January) Marches Quick: All the Blue Bonnets are oer the Border Slow: The Garb of Old Gaul Pipes & Drums Quick: Hielan Laddie...
Dishonored is a 1931 romantic spy film made by Paramount Pictures. ...
Original movie Poster for The Lost Patrol (1934 film) The Lost Patrol is a 1934 war film made by RKO. It was directed and produced by John Ford, with Merian C. Cooper as executive producer and Cliff Reid as associate producer. ...
Murder at the Vanities is a 1934 film released by Paramount Pictures directed by Mitchell Leisen, starring Carl Brisson, Jack Oakie, Kitty Carlisle, and Gertrude Michael, and featuring Duke Ellington and his band. ...
The Informer is a 1935 dramatic film. ...
Klondike Annie is a 1936 black-and-white comedy film starring Mae West and Victor McLaglen. ...
Gunga Din is a 1939 RKO adventure film, based on the 1892 poem by Rudyard Kipling, about three British sergeants and their native water bearer who fight the Thuggee, a religious cult of ritualistic stranglers in colonial India. ...
Let Freedom Ring is an album by jazz saxophonist Jackie McLean, recorded in 1962. ...
Forever and a Day is the debut album of Idols winner Karin Kortje. ...
For the term related to policital campaigning, see whistlestop. ...
Calendar Girl is the debut album by Sophie Monk, released in 2003. ...
Fort Apache is a 1948 western film starring John Wayne and Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford. ...
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is a western film. ...
Rio Grande is a 1950 film and the third installment of John Fords cavalry trilogy, following Fort Apache (1948) and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949). ...
The Quiet Man is a 1952 American film starring John Wayne, Maureen OHara, Victor McLaglen, and Barry Fitzgerald, and directed by John Ford. ...
Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur, or simply Prince Valiant, is a comic strip created by Hal Foster. ...
Around the World in Eighty Days is a 1956 adventure film made by the Michael Todd Company and released by United Artists. ...
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