Date of birth: 1882-09-30
Place of birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as:

George Bancroft was an American screen actor of the 1920s and 1930s.

1928-09-16
A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woma

1939-03-02
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo

1936-04-09
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and

1929-06-20
A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob

1938-11-26
Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matu

1924-11-02

1933-11-17
The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grif

1939-08-19
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of h

1927-08-20
Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but c

1931-02-26
An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village.

1936-10-09
Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involve

1940-10-22
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) trave

1942-12-31
Radio sleuth Wally 'The Fox' Benton travels to Georgia with his fiancé Carol to be married; and to h

1940-03-15
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and sci

1941-10-09
Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. The

1942-05-22
A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.

1942-01-30
An old-time cavalry sergeant's resistance to change could cost him his post.

1928-02-25
Passions run hot in the tropics as men fight over oil wells and a woman.

1940-08-23
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Dalto

1937-03-30
In this gangster movie, a criminal king-pin and his gang hide out in his hometown where they witness

1931-01-31
Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story abou

1939-11-08
The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks

1922-02-19
The story takes place in the pre-Civil War era South. Judge Price has a fondness for liquor which re

1925-12-06
Young Sandra De Hault arrives by ship in Sacramento, California, during the 1849 Gold Rush. While on

1940-01-26
A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.

1930-05-14
The movie stars George Bancroft, Mary Astor and Fredric March who are all excellent in their roles.

1932-07-10
Stag Bailey, a slow-witted prizefighter, and his girlfriend, speakeasy hostess Puff Rogers, take ove

1983-02-25
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, war

1937-02-26
"Teddy" Connor, a woman recently orphaned, leaves her uncle's Midwestern farm for Chicago, where she

1938-11-25
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a m

1927-02-24
A sheep farmer brings his new wife to his father's ranch and the old man takes an instant dislike to

1984-01-01
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were

1926-04-04
A movie actress, mistakenly thinking she has killed a fellow actor, goes on the run and finds hersel

1939-06-15
This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.

1930-11-22
Two rival seamen fight for both a promotion to a captaincy in their shipping line and the attentions

1926-12-06
An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Iron

1940-11-29
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tou

1939-09-30
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplo

1924-12-07
A man searches for the villains who murdered his parents

1925-09-03
The Pony Express is a silent 1925 Western film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by P

1930-04-22
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, cre

1927-09-30
The story of the military unit organized by future U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt and its adventures

1932-04-22
During the 1917 Russian revolution, a group of artistocrats find themselves in the custody of a brut

1925-05-23
John Shefford is looking for his uncle Venters who years ago found a hidden valley and lived there w

1937-02-16
A Doctor's Diary is told through the eyes of Dr. Dan Norris (John Trent), resident physician in a pr

1931-06-01
Pola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Mitzi Green, Polly Moran, Mack Sennett and Marjorie Beebe are seen relaxin

1929-11-16
In this melodrama set during WWI, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then return

1928-05-01
Captain Timothy 'Two Gun' Nolan is appointed head of the New York detective force, and as his first

1929-02-09
A ruthless stockbroker sells short in the copper business and ruins the life of his friends by ruini

1926-02-22
Helen Salvia sets sail with her 4-year-old daughter for Panda, an isolated East African port, where

1923-02-11
Essie, a mountain girl, moves in with a family of neighboring bootleggers when her father, also a bo

1931-11-14
The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue hi

1925-04-06
Cal Thurman, a timid fellow, thinking that the woman he is to meet at the train station is an old ma

1936-02-08
A fishing-boat captain's bride eyes his first mate at sea.

1926-01-18
Lee Purdy, the owner of a ranch on "Enchanted Hill," is subjected to repeated attacks by unknown ass

1927-04-02
Too Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written by