Frank McGlynn Sr.
actor, director, writer
- Born:
- 1866-10-26, San Francisco, California, USA
- Died:
- 1951-05-18, Newburgh, New York, USA
- Professions:
- actor, director, writer
Biography
San Francisco greeted Frank McGlynn Sr. on 26 October 1866, and by the early 1930s the silver-haired Californian had become Hollywood’s go-to embodiment of granite-jawed authority. Between 1934 and 1936 alone he stalked across Depression-era screens as the iron-willed patriarch in Little Miss Marker, the flinty sea-captain in Captain Blood, and the frontier marshal in The Plainsman. Off-camera he shared his life with Rose O'Byrne, his off-screen partner from wedding day to final curtain. The last act closed on 18 May 1951 in Newburgh, New York, closing the book on a career that had shaped both silent-era shorts and the dawning talkies.
