George Bancroft was an American screen actor of the 1920s and 1930s.

George Bancroft Biography / Wiki
Name | George Bancroft |
Also Know | |
Gender | Male |
Known For | Acting |
Place of Birth | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
Date of Birth | 1882-09-30 |
Age(as in 2022) | 74 |
Deathday | 1956-10-02 |
George Bancroft Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
The Docks of New York | Bill Roberts | 1928-09-16 | A blue-collar worker on New York’s depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide…. |
Thunderbolt | Thunderbolt Jim Lang | 1929-06-20 | A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and wh… |
Blood Money | Bill Bailey | 1933-11-17 | The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grifter) Bill Bailey, who, in the course of his work, … |
Underworld | ‘Bull’ Weed | 1927-08-20 | Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed’s girlfr… |
The Showdown | Cardan | 1928-02-25 | Passions run hot in the tropics as men fight over oil wells and a woman…. |
Racketeers in Exile | William Waldo | 1937-03-30 | In this gangster movie, a criminal king-pin and his gang hide out in his hometown where they witness a religious revival that inspires the man to begi… |
Scandal Sheet | Mark Flint | 1931-01-31 | Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife…. |
Ladies Love Brutes | Joe Forziati | 1930-05-14 | The movie stars George Bancroft, Mary Astor and Fredric March who are all excellent in their roles. The story begins as Joe Forziati (Bancroft), an It… |
Derelict | Bill Rafferty | 1930-11-22 | Two rival seamen fight for both a promotion to a captaincy in their shipping line and the attentions of a Havana saloon singer. Sparks fly as they bo… |
The World and the Flesh | Kylenko | 1932-04-22 | During the 1917 Russian revolution, a group of artistocrats find themselves in the custody of a brutal Communist revolutionary. He lusts after one of … |
A Doctor’s Diary | Dr. Clem Driscoll | 1937-02-16 | A Doctor’s Diary is told through the eyes of Dr. Dan Norris (John Trent), resident physician in a private hospital. In his search for a cure for spina… |
Lady and Gent | Percival ‘Slag’ Bailey | 1932-07-10 | Stag Bailey, a slow-witted prizefighter, and his girlfriend, speakeasy hostess Puff Rogers, take over the upbringing of Ted Streaver after his father,… |
The Mighty | Blake Greeson | 1929-11-16 | In this melodrama set during WW I, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then returns from war torn Europe to tell a family that thei… |
The Wolf of Wall Street | The Wolf | 1929-02-09 | A ruthless stockbroker sells short in the copper business and ruins the life of his friends by ruining their finances…. |
The Drag Net | Two-Gun Nolan | 1928-05-01 | A 1928 silent film crime drama produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures, directed by Josef von Sternberg from an origina… |
Rich Man’s Folly | Brock Trumbull | 1931-11-14 | The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey’s wife dies shortly… |
Young Tom Edison | Samuel ‘Sam’ Edison | 1940-03-15 | Inventor Thomas Edison’s boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastr… |
Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8) | Self | 1931-06-01 | Pola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Mitzi Green, Polly Moran, Mack Sennett and Marjorie Beebe are seen relaxing at Palm Springs, a California winter resort; Bar… |
Hell-Ship Morgan | Captain Ira ‘Hell-Ship’ Morgan | 1936-02-08 | A fishing-boat captain’s bride eyes his first mate at sea…. |
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | MacWade | 1936-04-09 | Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the bi… |
Wedding Present | Pete Stagg | 1936-10-09 | Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great… |
Whistling in Dixie | Sheriff Claude Stagg | 1942-12-31 | Radio sleuth Wally ‘The Fox’ Benton travels to Georgia with his fiancé Carol to be married; and to help Carol’s college chum, Ellamae Downs, solve a … |
The Rough Riders | Happy Joe | 1927-09-30 | The story of the military unit organized by future U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt and its adventures in Cuba during the Spanish-American War of 1898…. |
Little Men | Major I.I. Burdle | 1940-11-29 | Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo’s h… |
The Deadwood Coach | Tex Wilson | 1924-12-07 | A man searches for the villains who murdered his parents… |
Too Many Crooks | Bert the Boxman | 1927-04-02 | Too Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written by E.J. Rath and Rex Taylor, and starring Mildred Dav… |
Each Dawn I Die | John Armstrong | 1939-07-22 | A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter’s criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the re… |
Texas | Windy Miller | 1941-10-09 | Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the … |
Syncopation | Steve Porter | 1942-05-22 | A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love…. |
When the Daltons Rode | Caleb Winters | 1940-08-23 | Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing the… |
Rulers of the Sea | Capt. Oliver | 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 … |
John Meade’s Woman | Tim Mathews | 1937-02-26 | “Teddy” Connor, a woman recently orphaned, leaves her uncle’s Midwestern farm for Chicago, where she meets “lumber king” John Meade. John takes her in… |
Submarine Patrol | Capt. Leeds | 1938-11-25 | A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew…. |
The Runaway | Lesher Skidmore | 1926-04-04 | A movie actress, mistakenly thinking she has killed a fellow actor, goes on the run and finds herself taken in by a Kentucky mountain family…. |
White Gold | Sam Randall | 1927-02-24 | A sheep farmer brings his new wife to his father’s ranch and the old man takes an instant dislike to her…. |
Old Ironsides | Gunner | 1926-12-06 | An embellished account of the 1813 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution–a.k.a. “Old Ironsides”–against the Barbary pirates then terrorizi… |
Sea Horses | Cochran | 1926-02-22 | Sea Horses is a 1926 American drama silent film directed by Allan Dwan and written by Becky Gardiner, James Shelley Hamilton and Francis Brett Young. … |
Driven | Lem Tolliver | 1923-02-11 | Essie, a mountain girl, moves in with a family of neighboring bootleggers when her father, also a bootlegger, is killed by federal agents. She falls i… |
Angels with Dirty Faces | Mac Keefer | 1938-11-26 | In New York, the boys Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly are best friends and small time thieves. After a robbery, Rocky is arrested and sent to a refo… |
The Pony Express | Jack Slade | 1925-09-03 | The Pony Express is a silent 1925 Western film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by James … |
The Rainbow Trail | Jake Willets | 1925-05-23 | John Shefford is looking for his uncle Venters who years ago found a hidden valley and lived there with Jane Withersteen and young Fay Larkin. He find… |
Teeth | Dan Angus | 1924-11-02 | Tom Mix western film…. |
Green Hell | Jim ‘Tex’ Morgan | 1940-01-26 | A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure…. |
Paramount on Parade | Mug | 1930-04-22 | This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios’ contract stars, credits 11 directors… |
Code of the West | Enoch Thurman | 1925-04-06 | Code of the West (1925)… |
The Enchanted Hill | Ira Todd | 1926-01-18 | Based on a Peter B. Kyne novel, The Enchanted Hill featureds a triangle romance between Jack Holt, rancher’s daughter Mary Brian and jealous foreman R… |
Stagecoach | Marshal Curly Wilcox | 1939-03-03 | A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the proc… |
North West Mounted Police | Jacques Corbeau | 1940-10-22 | Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers (“Isn’t that a contradiction in terms?”, another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Cor… |
Going Hollywood: The ’30s | (archive footage) | 1984-01-01 | Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually get… |
The Bugle Sounds | ‘Russ’ Russell | 1942-01-30 | An old-time cavalry sergeant’s resistance to change could cost him his post…. |
The Splendid Road | Buck Lockwell | 1925-12-06 | Young Sandra De Hault arrives by ship in Sacramento, California, during the 1849 Gold Rush. While on board she adopted three children whose mother had… |
Land of Liberty | (archive footage) | 1939-06-15 | This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939…. |
The Skin Game | Second Stranger | 1931-02-26 | An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village…. |
The Prodigal Judge | Cavendish | 1922-02-19 | The story takes place in the pre-Civil War era South. Judge Price has a fondness for liquor which really goes into overdrive after his wife runs away … |
Espionage Agent | Dudley Garrett | 1939-09-30 | When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an esp… |
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage | Himself (archive footage) | 1983-02-25 | Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival fo… |
Galas de la Paramount | (from original version) | 1930-07-31 | Spanish-language version of PARAMOUNT ON PARADE (q.v.), with new sequences of interest to Spanish-speaking audiences mixed with original- version sequ… |
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