George Peabody Macready Jr.
| Sign | Virgo |
| Born | Aug 29, 1899 Providence, RI |
| Died | Jul 2, 1973 Los Angeles, CA |
| Age | Died at 73 |
George Macready | |
| Job | Actor |
| Years active | 1942-1971 |
| Top Roles | Marullus, Ballin Mundson, Gen. Paul Mireau, King John, Radijeck |
| Top Genres | Drama, Adventure, Action, Romance, Crime, War |
| Top Topics | World War II, Book-Based, Swashbucklers |
| Top Collaborators | Harry Joe Brown (Producer), Randolph Scott, Kirk Douglas, Joseph Kane (Director) |
| Shares birthday with | Ingrid Bergman, Preston Sturges, Richard Attenborough see more.. |
George Macready Overview:
Character actor, George Macready, was born George Peabody Macready Jr. on Aug 29, 1899 in Providence, RI. Macready died at the age of 73 on Jul 2, 1973 in Los Angeles, CA .
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George Macready was noted as one of America's most distinctive villains -- a blond, blue-eyed death's head of a man with an aristocratic sneer on the upper lip. Macready created a whole range of polished, distinguished nasties and scoundrels, nearly all with a civilized veneer (1946, Gilda, 1964, Dead Ringer). He died from emphysema just after retirement.
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George Macready Quotes:
Younger Miles:
We can't afford to hunt him down ourselves. It ain't legal.
Frank Yordy: Say, that wouldn't stop you, Mr. Miles.
Younger Miles: Yordy, someday somebody's going to poke your tongue down your throat.
Harry Wharton: I'm not going to hang? I'm not going to hang. Why, I've been hanged 100 times already. I'm a dead man, one of the living dead. Every time somebody marched down those stairs, I marched with him. I've hanged so many men on the gallows, the rope no longer chokes me.
[laughs]
Harry Wharton: That's funny, isn't it?
Prison Warden: Let's go down to my office, Harry.
Harry Wharton: Just a minute, Warden. Did you know that everything in these cells is done by twelves? There are 12 bars from the ceiling to the floor. It's exactly 12 steps around the inside of this. The guard takes just 12 steps from the stairs to here. Everything, everywhere, in twelves!
[laughs]
Harry Wharton: Like a jury! Twelve! Twelve! Twelve!
[laughs uncontrollably]
Harry Wharton: Why don't they hang me? What are they waiting for? Hang me! Hang me!
[He sobs]
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Frank Yordy: Say, that wouldn't stop you, Mr. Miles.
Younger Miles: Yordy, someday somebody's going to poke your tongue down your throat.
Harry Wharton: I'm not going to hang? I'm not going to hang. Why, I've been hanged 100 times already. I'm a dead man, one of the living dead. Every time somebody marched down those stairs, I marched with him. I've hanged so many men on the gallows, the rope no longer chokes me.
[laughs]
Harry Wharton: That's funny, isn't it?
Prison Warden: Let's go down to my office, Harry.
Harry Wharton: Just a minute, Warden. Did you know that everything in these cells is done by twelves? There are 12 bars from the ceiling to the floor. It's exactly 12 steps around the inside of this. The guard takes just 12 steps from the stairs to here. Everything, everywhere, in twelves!
[laughs]
Harry Wharton: Like a jury! Twelve! Twelve! Twelve!
[laughs uncontrollably]
Harry Wharton: Why don't they hang me? What are they waiting for? Hang me! Hang me!
[He sobs]
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