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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1866-10-26 (158 years old)

Place of Birth

San Francisco, California, USA

Frank McGlynn Sr.

Biography:

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

1947

Hollywood Barn Dance as Hiram Tubb

1944

Delinquent Daughters as Judge Craig

1942

In Old California as Undetermined Minor Role
March On, America! as Abraham Lincoln (archive footage) (uncredited)

1941

Three Girls About Town as Josephus Wiegal, senior mortician
Sergeant York as Mountaineer (uncredited)
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob as Panky Pankington

1940

Third Finger, Left Hand as Judge Holman (uncredited)
Boom Town as Deacon
Hi-Yo Silver as Abraham Lincoln

1939

Love Affair as Orphanage Superintendent (uncredited)
Second Fiddle as Lincolnesque Actor
Lincoln in the White House as Abraham Lincoln
The Mad Empress as President Abraham Lincoln

1938

The Girl of the Golden West as Pete - Gambler
Strange Glory as Abraham Lincoln
The Lone Ranger as Abraham Lincoln
Joaquin Murrieta as Justice of the Peace (uncredited)

1937

Broadway Melody of 1938 as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
Sudden Bill Dorn as Cap Jinks
Western Gold as Abraham Lincoln
Wells Fargo as Lincoln
The Great Barrier as Sir John Macdonald
Parnell as Pat Hogan

1936

The Prisoner of Shark Island as Abraham Lincoln
Career Woman as Sheriff Duncan
The Plainsman as Abraham Lincoln
For the Service as Jim, a Scout
North of Nome as U. S. Marshal
These Three as Judge (uncredited)

1935

The Littlest Rebel as President Abraham Lincoln
Captain Blood as Reverend Ogle
Folies Bergère as Joseph
Outlawed Guns as Jingle
It's A Small World as Snake Brown Jr.
The Roaring West as Jinglebob Morgan

1934

Little Miss Marker as Doc Chesley
Are We Civilized? as Abraham Lincoln, Felix Bockner
Search for Beauty as Rev. Rankin
Massacre as Missionary
Lost in the Stratosphere as Colonel Worthington

1933

Hello, Everybody! as Jonathan Reed
Unknown Valley as Head Elder
Charlie Chan's Greatest Case as Amos Winterslip
Frisco Jenny as Good Book Charlie (uncredited)

1932

The Wet Parade as Food Control Speaker (uncredited)

1931

Huckleberry Finn as Second teacher (uncredited)

1930

The Jazz Cinderella as Henry Murray (as Frank McGlynn)
Good News as Professor Kenyon
Min and Bill as Mr. Southard

1919

The ABC of Love as The Innkeeper

1918

Rough and Ready as The Siwash
Why America Will Win as John F. Pershing
The Caillaux Case as Emperor William of Germany

1917

The Argyle Case as John Argyle

1916

Gloria's Romance as Gideon Trask (as Frank McGlynn)

1915

The Life of Abraham Lincoln as Abraham Lincoln
Vanity Fair as Captain William Dobbin

1913

Alexia's Strategy as Usakoff (as Frank McGlynn)
The Bells as Leo Noakes

1912

Directing

1915