Frank McGlynn Sr.
Born: 1866-10-26 in San Francisco, California, USA
Died: 1951-05-18
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1947
- Trail Street as Tim McKeon (uncredited)
- Hollywood Barn Dance as Hiram Tubb
1944
- Rogues' Gallery as Blake
- Delinquent Daughters as Judge Craig
1942
- In Old California as Undetermined Minor Role
- Syncopation
- March On, America! as Abraham Lincoln (archive footage) (uncredited)
1941
- Sergeant York as Mountaineer (uncredited)
- Three Girls About Town as Josephus Wiegal, senior mortician
- A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob as Panky Pankington
- Marry the Boss's Daughter as Hoffman
1940
- Boom Town as Deacon
- Third Finger, Left Hand as Judge Holman (uncredited)
- Hi-Yo Silver as Abraham Lincoln
1939
- Love Affair as Orphanage Superintendent (uncredited)
- The Mad Empress as President Abraham Lincoln
- Second Fiddle as Lincolnesque Actor
- The Honeymoon's Over as Thin Man
- Lincoln in the White House as Abraham Lincoln
1938
- The Lone Ranger as Abraham Lincoln
- Strange Glory as Abraham Lincoln
- The Girl of the Golden West as Pete - Gambler
- Joaquin Murrieta as Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
1937
- Broadway Melody of 1938 as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
- Wells Fargo as Lincoln
- Parnell as Pat Hogan
- Sudden Bill Dorn as Cap Jinks
- The Great Barrier as Sir John Macdonald
- Western Gold as Abraham Lincoln
- Sing and Be Happy as Sheriff
1936
- The Prisoner of Shark Island as Abraham Lincoln
- The Last of the Mohicans as Gamut
- These Three as Judge (uncredited)
- The Plainsman as Abraham Lincoln
- Career Woman as Sheriff Duncan
- King of the Royal Mounted as Henry Dundas
- North of Nome as U. S. Marshal
- For the Service as Jim, a Scout
1935
- Captain Blood as Reverend Ogle
- It's A Small World as Snake Brown Jr.
- The Littlest Rebel as President Abraham Lincoln
- Outlawed Guns as Jingle
- Folies Bergère de Paris as Joseph
- The Roaring West as Jinglebob Morgan
1934
- Little Miss Marker as Doc Chesley
- Are We Civilized? as Abraham Lincoln, Felix Bockner
- Massacre as Missionary
- Search for Beauty as Rev. Rankin
- Lost in the Stratosphere as Colonel Worthington
1933
- Frisco Jenny as Good Book Charlie (uncredited)
- Charlie Chan's Greatest Case as Amos Winterslip
- Hello, Everybody! as Jonathan Reed
- Unknown Valley as Head Elder
1932
- The Wet Parade as Food Control Speaker (uncredited)
1931
- The Secret Six as Judge
- Huckleberry Finn as Second teacher (uncredited)
- The Silent Partner
1930
- Good News as Professor Kenyon
- Min and Bill as Mr. Southard
- The Jazz Cinderella as Henry Murray (as Frank McGlynn)
1924
- Abraham Lincoln as Abraham Lincoln
1919
- The ABC of Love as The Innkeeper
1918
- Rough and Ready as The Siwash
- The Caillaux Case as Emperor William of Germany
- The Accidental Honeymoon as Farmer Perkins
- Why America Will Win as John F. Pershing
1917
- The Poor Little Rich Girl as The Plumber
- The Argyle Case as John Argyle
1916
- Gloria's Romance as Gideon Trask (as Frank McGlynn)
1915
- Through Turbulent Waters as Bill Ford
- Vanity Fair as Captain William Dobbin
- Across the Great Divide as The Bandit
- The Truth About Helen ... (Director)
- The Life of Abraham Lincoln as Abraham Lincoln
1913
- Who Will Marry Mary?
- Alexia's Strategy as Usakoff (as Frank McGlynn)
- The Bells as Leo Noakes
- By Fire and Water