Victor McLaglen Movies

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Victor McLaglen (1886-1959) was an Oscar®-winning British-American actor.   McLaglen was a well-known character actor, appearing in movies for almost 40 years.  He won the Academy Award® for Best Actor in 1935 for his role in The Informer.  His IMDb page shows 124 acting credits from 1920 to 1959.  This page will rank Victor McLaglen movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, movies that were not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings.  Sadly many of his movies from the 1920s and early 1930s did not make the table (no box office). To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences, and get some award recognition.

1935’s The Informer

Victor McLaglen Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

1939’s Gunga Din

Victor McLaglen Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

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1952’s The Quiet Man

Best IMDb Trivia On Victor McLaglen

1. Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England in 1886.  Four of his brothers became actors. His son Andrew became a successful director.

2. Before becoming an actor, Victor McLaglen worked as a carnival boxer. If anyone could stay in the ring with him for one round and not be knocked down, they won a box of cigars.  Boxed and wrestled under the nickname ‘Sharkey’ McLaglen, as well as under his real name, prior to his movie career. His lifetime boxing record (as far as is known) was 11-6-1, with 9 KOs. His 1909 bout with legendary champion Jack Johnson in Vancouver was a six-round exhibition bout. Two years later, he boxed Jess Willard, the “Great White Hope” who eventually beat Johnson in a heavyweight title bout in 1915.

3.  Victor McLaglen was visiting a sporting club when spotted by a film producer who was looking for a boxer to play the lead in a film, The Call of the Road (1920). Although McLaglen had never acted before he auditioned and got the part.

4. Some of his most famous roles co-starred John Wayne and were directed by John Ford.   Those movies were 1948’s Fort Apache, 1949’s She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, 1950’s Rio Grande, and 1952’s The Quiet Man.

5. Victor McLaglen died about a month after his final role in an episode of Rawhide (1959), directed by his son Andrew V. McLaglen.  Donald Crisp delivered the eulogy at his funeral.

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36 thoughts on “Victor McLaglen Movies”

  1. I have seen 10 Victor McLaglen movies.

    The HIGHEST rated movie I have seen is Around the World in 80 Days.

    The highest rated movie I have NOT seen is Dishonored.

    The LOWEST rated movie I have seen is Prince Valiant.

    Favourite Victor McLaglen Movies:

    Around the World in 80 Days
    Gunga Din
    The Informer
    The Quiet Man

    Other Victor McLaglen Movies I Have Seen:

    Fort Apache
    The Princess and the Pirate
    She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
    Rio Grande
    Under Two Flags
    Prince Valiant

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    1. Hey Flora. Your comment about your tally counts being low recently, got me motivated to do a deep classic page. Tally counts: The Bob gets a win with 12, 10 for you, 9 for me and 7 for the other bob. I have seen all of your favorites with the exception of Under Two Flags. The rest are my 9. I love The Quiet Man…one of my all-time favorites…so glad to see it on your favorites list. Good stuff as always.

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  2. wow over $5,500,000,000 adj B.O. with 19 crossing the $100,000,000 mark.(for comparison O’toole had just 9). I saw 7 including 5 of top 6. 10 and favorite the quiet man. 9 not favorite fort apache. I have not see his best actor Oscar winning performance in the informer.

    the quiet man is one of my all time favorites, great cast: Wayne, Ohara, mclaglen, fitzgerald, ward bond, Arthur shields and mildred natwick all gave remarkable performances with fantastic character development . delightful humanity, rollicking humor, powerful love story , great action, religious controversy plus boxing and fishing.

    Cogerson , congratulations on page for another Oscar winner. the list shortens. did you consider listing movies with box office pending and UMR NA for those foreign winners you avoid. you can do them like you did the original O’toole page, as a “work in process”.

    congratulations again on your new credentialing as teacher. you survived.

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    1. Hey bob cox….thanks for checking out our latest classic actor page. Tally counts: The other Bob gets a win with 12, 10 for Flora, 9 for me and 7 for you. 19 $100 million movies is pretty impressive. It looks like you have seen the right Victor McLaglen movies…with you seeing 5 of the top 6.

      I think there are only 10 Best Actor Oscar winners left. Good suggestion. I have been working on a Dirk Bogarde page for awhile….he has an extra section of just review %….still not sure if I like it or not…..and whether I can deal with a page being so incomplete. Good stuff.

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  3. Hi Bruce, check the page for errors. You still have Jack Palance’s movies on the chart.

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    1. HI STEVE

      I have already sent The Work Horse an e mail telling him about the Palance/McLaglen mix up. Maybe Bruce wanted the excuse to mention a Ladd movie. I said my e mail was from Mike as WH never heeds what I say.

      Do me a favour: look at Jonah Hill’s page and tell me if there is a reason that I can’t spot for a Casino still being included.

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      1. Bob, I missed that when I looked at the page. Has to be a mistake I don’t think Jonah Hill was in Casino or had anything to do with that film. Plus he was only 11 or 12 when the film came out? Maybe Bruce was busy and one of the younger members of the Cogerson clan were having a bit of fun with that page? 🙂

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        1. Hey Bob and Steve……well….the attempt to do two pages at once did not work out very well….I have since included the proper table id for the McLaglen page….and gotten rid of the Casino photo from the Hill page. In case you had not noticed….there are some very subtle differences between current and classic star pages…so when I make a new page, I try and find somebody they are close to….in this case I created the Hill page using my James Woods page…and I created my McLaglen page using my Jack Palance page. So when I make mistakes like this….the blueprint page pops up. When that happens…to me it is like those stars want just a little more UMR attention….lol.

          Thank you for the quick headsup.

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        2. STEVE: I appreciate your response. You’re right – Hill didn’t make his movie debut until 2004.

          HI BRUCE: Thanks for the response. Whilst your enterprise is always admirable there often can be a downside to trying to do two things at once so here are some random thoughts that you might like to consider:

          1/Patience can often produce a more satisfying end result. When directing One Eyed Jacks Brando kept the entire cast and crew assembled by the ocean at Monterey for 2 days without attempting to shoot a single scene. When a furious Paramount executive finally stormed down the beach to demand why Mumbles was allowing cast and crew to hang about for days on full salary without anything in the can to show for it he replied “I’m waiting for the right wave.”

          2/Not everyone has the temperament or coordination to efficiently cope with more than one thing at a time. It used to be said of accident-prone US President Gerald Ford that he “can’t walk straight and chew gum at the same time.”

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          1. Hey Bob…thanks for the thoughts on patience and One Eyed Jacks and Ford’s walking issues…that made Chevy Chase a star. Good catches this morning…I appreciate your eagle eye…though in this case….I do not think you have to have an eagle eye to catch these massive mistakes I made. Good stuff.

        3. Hey Steve…can’t blame the kids….they were asleep upstairs…..while I was screwing up everything downstairs…maybe I should not have been watching The Fundamentals of Caring with Paul Rudd while writing two pages…lol. The pages were screwed up…..but the movie was awesome. Good stuff.

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  4. I have mentioned before that Bogie in one of his rants about his perceived inconsistency of the Oscar noms/awards described McLaglen who won for 1935’s The Informer as a “man who couldn’t act his way out of a wet paper bag”. I have never seen The Informer but in the McLaglen movies that I HAVE watched his persona was for my money rather repetitive – the stock Irish-American buffoon who could be aggressively pugilistic at times [though as you say above he was born in England].

    However after Stallone was even nominated for Rocky I decided it was time to accept McLaglen the way he was on screen; and I am sure that if Bogie were still around he would be happy enough for Victor to keep his Oscar. In any event Vic in his own way was undoubtedly a stalwart of the early decades of the American cinema and John Ford movies so he deserves his new page which I very much welcome.

    Looking down the list in the above first table the only pre-1947 film that I can immediately recall seeing Vic in was Al Leach’s Gunga Din. I can’t remember it all that well but I saw snatches of it recently on TV and it did not seem to have dated very well. However I did watch Victor in numerous post-1946 films-

    The Foxes of Harrow
    The Quiet Man
    Fair Wind to Java
    Trouble in the Glen
    Around the World in 80 Days
    Many Rivers to Cross
    Lady Godiva of Coventry
    Bengazi.
    Fort Apache/She Wore A Yellow Ribbon/Rio Grande-sometimes called John Ford’s cavalry trilogy

    I also saw McLaglen in his final movie [not listed above] – 1958’s Sea Fury in which he supported Sir Stanley Baker the [Zulu] mentor of Sir Maurice. That year Sir Stan was in the middle of a golden patch as a top-billed/leading man star of the British cinema

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    1. Hey Bob. Maybe you are right about Bogie thinking differently today…..but I suspect he would still diminish Victor’s Oscar just a wee bit. So I have your tally count at 12 (13 if you get credit for Sea Fury…never released in USA) to Flora’s 10, my 9 and bob cox’s 7. So a win for the Man from Ireland. My dad loved Gunga Din…but I agree…it has not aged very well. Good stuff as always.

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  5. HI BRUCE: I am looking forward to Victor’s grosses when you have them available – see my E-mail wake-up call to you this morning. Meanwhile my comments are as follows.

    When one enters my brother’s house over here one will immediately see Victor. My brother is an avid collector of movie memorabilia -our family’s YOU or Flora if you like – and on the walls of his house he has large photographs/posters from movies and of many of the great stars such as Monroe/Bogie/Brando/Chaplin – AND the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

    I brought Bro o Bob back the latter one from my holiday in the States in 1999; it seemed to be the appropriate thing to bring back from America!

    Anyway when you walk through my brother’s door the first thing that greets you is a massive photograph of John Ford/Barry Fitzgerald/The Duke and Victor smiling sweetly at you from outside a little village pub in Ireland where they were making The Quiet Man back in 1951/52. I’m told that the village and pub is still quite a tourist attraction because of their association with the movie.

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    1. Hey Bob….sorry for the wrong table being attached….I guess Shane did not want to leave….lol. Well…your brother has great tastes…The Quiet Man is one of my all-time favorite movies. I can imagine that town would be a great tourist attraction. I am sure they take great strides to keep it that way. In Ryan’s Daughter….there are many awesome locations……those locations are now filled with hotels and such….and the locations in Ryan are long gone. Good to know that maybe John Wayne’s cottage looks the same. Good information.

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      1. BRUCE: Your 1.32 pm post on 21 May about my brother’s tastes refers.

        One of the massive photographs on my brother’s wall is of Bogie and Bacall sharing a table with Monroe at a prestige Hollywood function. The camera has caught Bogie slyly peering down the front of MM’s dress [unbeknown to either her or Bacall] as Marilyn bent forward to lift her drink.

        When Humph married Lauren her father reportedly implied in a discussion with a wedding guest that Bogie was a physical wreck; and as the honeymoon car sped a way Lauren’s father morbidly is supposed to have said “Bogie should be going to the morgue and not the honeymoon suite.” However my brother’s photograph would suggest that there was as the saying goes “life in the old dog yet”!

        As I was unfamiliar with Victor’s earlier films I was pleased to get the grosses for them – thanks for fixing it.

        Please keep safe.

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