George Macready Movies and Career Information

George Macready (August 29, 1899 – July 2, 1973) was an American stage, film, and television actor. He was often cast in roles as polished villains. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island and claimed to be a descendant of the 19th-century Shakespearean actor William Charles Macready. He graduated from Brown University. He was a newspaper reporter briefly until he switched to acting on the advice of director Richard Boleslawski. Macready made his Broadway debut in 1926 and had major roles in a number of Broadway plays into the 1930s. His Shakespearean stage credits include Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing (1927), Malcolm in MacBeth (1928), and Paris in Romeo and Juliet (1934). On film, he played Marallus in the 1953 film adaptation of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar". He also played Prince Ernst in the original stage version of Victoria Regina (1936), starring Helen Hayes. His first film was Commandos Strike at Dawn in 1942, featuring Paul Muni. His voice and appearance, including a scar on his cheek (the result of a car accident), made him ideal as a cultured villain. As Ballin Mundson in Gilda (1946), he is part of a deadly love triangle with the characters played by co-stars Rita