George Bancroft
George Bancroft was an American screen actor of the 1920s and 1930s.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.8223 |
| Birthday | 1882-09-30 |
| Place of Birth | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Also Known As |
1928
The Docks of New York
6.971/121
A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.
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The Docks of New York
1939
Stagecoach
7.595/1266
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...
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Stagecoach
1936
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
7.5/414
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...
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1929
Thunderbolt
5.734/32
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...
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Thunderbolt
1938
Angels with Dirty Faces
7.534/363
Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes...
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Angels with Dirty Faces
1924
Teeth
4.3/3
Dave Deering, a prospector, teams up with a dog named "Teeth" to bring the dog's former owner to justice.
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Teeth
1933
Blood Money
7.111/9
The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grifter) Bill Bailey, who, in the course of his work,...
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Blood Money
1939
Each Dawn I Die
6.8/64
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...
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Each Dawn I Die
1927
Underworld
7.038/92
Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfr...
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Underworld
1931
The Skin Game
5.4/95
An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village.
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The Skin Game
1936
Wedding Present
6.235/17
Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great...
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Wedding Present
1940
North West Mounted Police
6.433/45
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...
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North West Mounted Police
1942
Whistling in Dixie
6.2/4
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 m...
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Whistling in Dixie
1940
Young Tom Edison
5.9/11
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastr...
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Young Tom Edison
1941
Texas
6.7/25
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...
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Texas
1942
Syncopation
6.8/6
A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.
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Syncopation
1942
The Bugle Sounds
6.75/4
An old-time cavalry sergeant's resistance to change could cost him his post.
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The Bugle Sounds
1928
The Showdown
8/1
Passions run hot in the tropics as men fight over oil wells and a woman.
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The Showdown
1940
When the Daltons Rode
6.2/23
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...
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When the Daltons Rode
1937
Racketeers in Exile
7.5/2
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...
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Racketeers in Exile
1931
Scandal Sheet
10/1
Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.
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Scandal Sheet
1939
Rulers of the Sea
6.7/3
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...
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Rulers of the Sea
1922
The Prodigal Judge
9/1
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...
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The Prodigal Judge
1925
The Splendid Road
7/1
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...
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The Splendid Road
1940
Green Hell
4.7/13
A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.
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Green Hell
1930
Ladies Love Brutes
6.4/5
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...
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Ladies Love Brutes
1932
Lady and Gent
5.8/10
Stag Bailey, a slow-witted prizefighter, and his girlfriend, speakeasy hostess Puff Rogers, take over the upbringing of Ted Streaver after his father,...
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Lady and Gent
1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
7/3
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival fo...
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1937
John Meade's Woman
7/1
"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...
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John Meade's Woman
1938
Submarine Patrol
6.714/7
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.
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Submarine Patrol
1927
White Gold
6.5/11
A sheep farmer brings his new wife to his father's ranch and the old man takes an instant dislike to her.
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White Gold
1984
Going Hollywood: The '30s
9/2
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...
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
1926
The Runaway
10/1
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.
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The Runaway
1939
Land of Liberty
9/1
This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.
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Land of Liberty
1930
Derelict
9/2
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...
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Derelict
1926
Old Ironsides
6.417/18
An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Ironsides"--against the Barbary pirates then terrorizi...
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Old Ironsides
1940
Little Men
5.545/11
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...
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Little Men
1939
Espionage Agent
6.3/10
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...
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Espionage Agent
1924
The Deadwood Coach
9/1
A man searches for the villains who murdered his parents
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The Deadwood Coach
1925
The Pony Express
6.438/8
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...
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The Pony Express
1930
Paramount on Parade
5.9/10
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors
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Paramount on Parade
1927
The Rough Riders
7/2
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....
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The Rough Riders
1932
The World and the Flesh
7.667/3
During the 1917 Russian revolution, a group of artistocrats find themselves in the custody of a brutal Communist revolutionary. He lusts after one of...
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The World and the Flesh
1925
The Rainbow Trail
9/1
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...
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The Rainbow Trail
1937
A Doctor's Diary
9/2
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...
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A Doctor's Diary
1931
Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)
6/1
Pola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Mitzi Green, Polly Moran, Mack Sennett and Marjorie Beebe are seen relaxing at Palm Springs, a California winter resort; Bar...
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Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)
1929
The Mighty
6/3
In this melodrama set during WWI, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then returns from war torn Europe to tell a family that their...
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The Mighty
1928
The Drag Net
6.5/2
Captain Timothy 'Two Gun' Nolan is appointed head of the New York detective force, and as his first act, rounds up every criminal in town. Gang boss '...
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The Drag Net
1929
The Wolf of Wall Street
8.375/4
A ruthless stockbroker sells short in the copper business and ruins the life of his friends by ruining their finances. A lost film, only a nine second...
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The Wolf of Wall Street
1926
Sea Horses
9/1
Helen Salvia sets sail with her 4-year-old daughter for Panda, an isolated East African port, where she expects to join her Italian husband, Lorenzo,...
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Sea Horses
1923
Driven
9/1
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...
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Driven
1931
Rich Man's Folly
5.25/6
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...
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Rich Man's Folly
1925
Code of the West
7/1
Cal Thurman, a timid fellow, thinking that the woman he is to meet at the train station is an old maid, avoids her when he finds that she is a pretty...
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Code of the West
1936
Hell-Ship Morgan
6/3
A fishing-boat captain's bride eyes his first mate at sea.
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Hell-Ship Morgan
1926
The Enchanted Hill
9/1
Lee Purdy, the owner of a ranch on "Enchanted Hill," is subjected to repeated attacks by unknown assailants. He meets Gail Ormsby, the owner of the ne...
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The Enchanted Hill
1927
Too Many Crooks
10/1
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...
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Too Many Crooks
1927
Tell It to Sweeney
10/1
Luke Beamish is the engineer of the Isobel, an old iron steed, and Cannonball Casey handles the throttle of the Mogul, a modern locomotive. Cannonball...
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Tell It to Sweeney
1934
Elmer and Elsie
10/1
A milquetoast trucker is bullied by his domineering wife.
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