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Alexander Younger Craig Craig (30 March 1884 – 25 June 1945), was a Scottish character actor, particularly known for his roles in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and National Velvet (1944). He was particularly known for portraying stereotypically tight-fisted Scotsmen.
Alec Craig was born on 30 March 1884 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, the son of James Chapman Craig and his wife Isabella,
Craig died of tuberculosis on 25 June 1945, aged 61, in Glendale, California, US. He is buried there at Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery.
Alec Craig Biography / Wiki
| Name | Alec Craig |
| Also Know | Alexander Younger Craig Craig |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, UK |
| Date of Birth | 1884-03-30 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 61 |
| Deathday | 1945-06-25 |
Alec Craig Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Wise Girl | Dermont O’Neil | 1937-12-31 | Snooty heiress decides to track down her dead sister’s kids, who are living a Bohemian life with their uncle in Greenwich Village. Once she finds them… |
| China Passage | Harvey Dinwiddle | 1937-03-12 | Americans Tommy Baldwin and Joe Dugan are hired to transport a fabulous diamond from Shanghai to San Francisco. They will be paid handsomely on succes… |
| The Spider Woman | Radlik | 1943-12-24 | Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called “pajama suicides”. He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomou… |
| Cat People | Zookeeper (uncredited) | 1942-12-05 | Serbian fashion designer Irena Dubrovna and American marine engineer Oliver Reed meet in Central Park, fall in love, and marry after a brief courtship… |
| Dangerous Passage | Dawson – Steward | 1944-12-18 | Joe Beck leaves Central America so that he can return to Texas and collect a large inheritance, but he picks a dangerous ship on which to travel…. |
| Calling Dr. Death | Bill, the Watchman | 1943-12-17 | Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brutally murdered. Steele, aware of his conniving wife… |
| Wildcat | Joseph D. Campbell | 1942-09-03 | Wildcatter Johnny Maverick and his pal go to a town in oil country offering $25,000 to the person who brings in the first well. They find oil on the o… |
| Tennessee Johnson | Sam Andrews | 1942-12-01 | The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson’s boyhood and covers his early … |
| Tom Brown’s School Days | Old Thomas | 1940-06-26 | When private tutor Thomas Arnold (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) becomes headmaster at Rugby, a boy’s preparatory school in England, he puts into place a polic… |
| Rulers of the Sea | Foreman | 1939-11-08 | The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the … |
| Stranger on the Third Floor | Briggs’ Defense Attorney | 1940-08-16 | Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his “evidence” has sentenced the wrong man to death…. |
| The Woman I Love | Doctor | 1937-04-15 | In World War I France, a pilot falls in love with the wife of his friend and superior officer…. |
| The Undying Monster | Will the Groundsman (uncredited) | 1942-11-27 | A werewolf prowls around at night but only kills certain members of one family. It seems like just a coincidence, but the investigating Inspector soon… |
| Northern Pursuit | Angus McBain | 1943-11-07 | Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the… |
| Meet the Missus | President of Barber College | 1937-06-04 | A small town Ohio barber accompanies his ditzy wife to Atlantic City, where she competes in the Happy Noodle Company’s Mrs. America Contest…. |
| Hideaway | Jerry Nolan | 1937-08-13 | A poor family receives unwanted houseguests when they’re visited by gangsters looking for a place to hide out…. |
| Crashing Hollywood | Movie Studio Receptionist | 1938-01-07 | A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood…. |
| Winterset | Hobo | 1936-12-03 | A man is determined to find the real culprit behind the crime for which his father was wrongly executed…. |
| Super-Sleuth | Eddie – Doorman | 1937-07-16 | A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes…. |
| Wrecking Crew | Charlie | 1942-11-07 | Follows a crew as they work under a deadline set by their boss to complete the demolition of a building. Touches on the lives of several of the crew i… |
| Jungle Woman | Caretaker | 1944-06-01 | Paula, the ape woman, has survived the ending of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and is running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher, reve… |
| Lassie Come Home | Buckles | 1943-12-01 | Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling t… |
| They Made Her a Spy | Canby | 1939-04-14 | When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to unroot the culprits…. |
| The Night Before the Divorce | Jitters Noonan | 1942-03-06 | Marital comedy with a dash of murder…. |
| Phantom Raiders | Andy MacMillan | 1940-06-07 | In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter a… |
| The Mystery of the Riverboat | Chief Engineer [Chs. 1-4, 7] | 1944-10-24 | A movie serial in 13 chapters: Some swampland becomes valuable, and various factions squabble over ownership of it…. |
| National Velvet | Timothy ‘Tim’ | 1945-01-26 | Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velv… |
| Golden Gloves | MacDonald – Editor | 1940-08-02 | An amateur boxer’s girlfriend inspires him to face a ring pro entered by a gangster…. |
| The House of Fear | Angus (uncredited) | 1945-03-16 | The Good Comrades are a collection of varied gentlemen who crave one thing – solitude. They reside at Drearcliff House, ancestral home of their eldest… |
| Three Girls About Town | Samuel, potential casket customer | 1941-10-23 | 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 … |
| Northwest Rangers | Mac McKenzie – Ship’s Mate | 1942-10-28 | Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious gambler…. |
| Born to Gamble | Prospector at Card Game (uncredited) | 1935-07-09 | A wealthy man relates how gambling had tragic consequences for his family…. |
| The Ghost Ship | Blind Beggar | 1943-12-16 | Captain Stone’s newly recruited officer, Tom Merriam, idolizes his senior who treats him like a friend. But when a couple of his crew members die myst… |
| Vivacious Lady | Joseph (uncredited) | 1938-05-13 | College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer…. |
| Condemned Women | Counterman on Ship | 1938-03-18 | A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women’s prison…. |
| Charlie McCarthy, Detective | Bounds | 1939-12-22 | Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor’s ties to the mob. Wh… |
| She’s Got Everything | Justice of the Peace | 1937-12-31 | The day after Carol returns from a European trip, she wakes up to find her dead father’s creditors hauling everything away. Her aunt wants her to marr… |
| That Girl From Paris | Justice of the Peace (uncredited) | 1936-12-31 | Nikki Martin (Lily Pons), a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee. Once aboard, she joins… |
| The Old Homestead | Townsman (uncredited) | 1935-10-05 | A New York radio talent scout turns up at a barn dance…. |
| Sweepstake Annie | 2nd Sweepstakes Ticket Seller (uncredited) | 1935-01-29 | A young woman who works in the movie business buys a sweepstakes ticket that turns out to be a winner. Her stroke of luck changes her life around–and… |
| Shining Victory | Jeweler | 1941-05-30 | In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia precox. He falls for his altruistic female lab assistant… |
| Border Cafe | Whitney Driver (uncredited) | 1937-06-04 | The spoiled, hard-partying son of a senator runs away from home after being reprimanded by his father, finds himself down-on-his luck in a tiny wester… |
| Gaslight | Turnkey (uncredited) | 1944-05-04 | A newlywed fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion…. |
| Ride on Vaquero | Waiter Limey | 1941-04-18 | The Cisco Kid is captured while keeping a rendezvous with cantina dancer Dolores but is released by his captor, the commander of a U.S. Army regiment,… |
| A Date with the Falcon | Waldo Sampsom / Herman Sampson (uncredited) | 1942-01-16 | In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée,… |
| Suspicion | Hogarth Club Desk Clerk (uncredited) | 1941-11-14 | Wealthy, sheltered Lina McLaidlaw is swept off her feet by charming ne’er-do-well Johnnie Aysgarth. Though warned that Johnnie is little more than a f… |
| Out of the Fog | 1941-06-14 | A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather… | |
| Orchestra Wives | Henry Fink | 1942-09-04 | Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison’s band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she… |
| That Hamilton Woman | Ship’s Minister (uncredited) | 1941-04-03 | The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her ris… |
| The Mad Martindales | Coachman | 1942-05-15 | A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father’s art treasures…. |
| The Man Who Found Himself | Hobo | 1937-04-02 | Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father. When it … |
| The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt | Marriage License Bureau Clerk | 1939-01-27 | Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard (Warren William) to steal defense secrets in Washington…. |
| And One Was Beautiful | Michael | 1940-04-05 | A teenager falls hard for an irresponsible playboy…. |
| Three Strangers | Man on Park Bench | 1946-01-28 | On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable … |
| Roxie Hart | Bar Client #1 (uncredited) | 1942-02-20 | A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was j… |
| Mary of Scotland | Donal | 1936-07-28 | The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords…. |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Tripped Waiter (uncredited) | 1941-08-12 | Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible c… |
| Double Danger | Bald Theron Servant | 1938-01-28 | A crime novelist devises a scheme to catch the thief who has stolen the valuable “Konjer Diamonds”. Director Lew Landers’ 1938 B-film stars Preston Fo… |
| Bachelor Mother | Store Watchman (uncredited) | 1939-06-30 | Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin’s Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly’s unmotherly conduct, D… |
| Coney Island | Billy | 1943-06-18 | Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco’s Coney Island night spo… |
| To Be or Not to Be | Scottish Farmer Without Mustache (uncredited) | 1942-03-05 | During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier’s efforts to track down a German spy…. |
| All That Money Can Buy | Eli Higgins (uncredited) | 1941-10-17 | Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruit… |
| The Secret of Dr. Kildare | Telephone Repair Man | 1939-11-24 | Intern Kildare (Lew Ayres) heals a millionaire’s daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore) into taking a vacation…. |
| Vanessa: Her Love Story | Worker for George | 1935-03-01 | The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt…. |
| The Sea Hawk | Chartmaker | 1940-08-10 | Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures…. |
| The White Cliffs of Dover | Billings (uncredited) | 1944-05-11 | Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind rom… |
| The Brighton Strangler | Vacuuming Bellboy (Uncredited) | 1945-05-10 | After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, John Loder, a theatre actor comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was… |
| The Little Minister | Villager Saying ‘Reverend Is Single’ | 1934-12-28 | The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Thrums, finds himself unexpectedly falling for one o… |
| Lord Jeff | Gardener | 1938-06-17 | Spoiled child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and steal jewelry from exclusive shops. During a a ca… |
| Jane Eyre | Footman | 1943-12-24 | After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter…. |
| Abe Lincoln in Illinois | Trum Cogdall | 1940-02-22 | Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his el… |
| Mutiny on the Bounty | McCoy | 1935-11-22 | Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent … |
| Action in the North Atlantic | McGonigle (uncredited) | 1943-06-12 | Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as pa… |
| The Earl of Chicago | Fingal’s Son (uncredited) | 1940-01-05 | A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley…. |
| The Woman in the Window | Garage Man (uncredited) | 1944-10-25 | A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder…. |
| A Dispatch from Reuters | Editor Grant of the Morning Advertiser (uncredited) | 1940-10-19 | German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency…. |
| Confessions of a Nazi Spy | McGregor – Scottish Postman (uncredited) | 1939-05-06 | FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund…. |
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Werner (uncredited) | 1945-02-28 | In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa’s alcoholism. We come to know these people well thro… |
| The Blue Bird | Groom | 1940-01-15 | An ungrateful girl and her little brother are transported in their dreams by a fairy to a wonderland, tasked with finding the mythical blue bird of ha… |
| Kitty | McNab (uncredited) | 1945-10-16 | Pickpocket Kitty’s life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later deci… |
| If I Were King | Spy | 1938-09-28 | King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash… |
| Mrs. Miniver | 1942-07-03 | English middle-class family, The Minivers, experience life in the first months of World War II…. | |
| This Above All | Bus Conductor | 1942-05-12 | In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with t… |
| Let Us Live | Bookkeeper Juror (uncredited) | 1939-03-29 | When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn’t involved in… |
| Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Speaker (uncredited) | 1939-10-19 | Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon… |
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