
Frank McGlynn Sr.
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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.
Known for
Credits

Sergeant York (1941)
as Mountaineer (uncredited)

Captain Blood (1935)
as Reverend Ogle

Love Affair (1939)
as Orphanage Superintendent (uncredited)

The Lone Ranger (1938)
as Abraham Lincoln

These Three (1936)
as Judge (uncredited)

The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
as Gamut

The Plainsman (1936)
as Abraham Lincoln

The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
as Abraham Lincoln

Boom Town (1940)
as Deacon

Strange Glory (1938)
as Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln (1924)
as Abraham Lincoln

Hello, Everybody! (1933)
as Jonathan Reed

Second Fiddle (1939)
as Lincolnesque Actor

Wells Fargo (1937)
as Lincoln

Parnell (1937)
as Pat Hogan

In Old California (1942)
as Undetermined Minor Role

The Secret Six (1931)
as Judge

Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)
as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)

Frisco Jenny (1933)
as Good Book Charlie (uncredited)

Western Gold (1937)
as Abraham Lincoln

Good News (1930)
as Professor Kenyon

The Wet Parade (1932)
as Food Control Speaker (uncredited)

Little Miss Marker (1934)
as Doc Chesley

King of the Royal Mounted (1936)
as Henry Dundas

Trail Street (1947)
as Tim McKeon (uncredited)

Rogues' Gallery (1944)
as Blake

Third Finger, Left Hand (1940)
as Judge Holman (uncredited)

The Littlest Rebel (1935)
as President Abraham Lincoln

March On, America! (1942)
as Abraham Lincoln (archive footage) (uncredited)

Huckleberry Finn (1931)
as Second teacher (uncredited)

The Great Barrier (1937)
as Sir John Macdonald

Three Girls About Town (1941)
as Josephus Wiegal, senior mortician
Marry the Boss's Daughter (1941)
as Hoffman

Vanity Fair (1915)
as Captain William Dobbin

The Girl of the Golden West (1938)
as Pete - Gambler

The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
as The Plumber

The Argyle Case (1917)
as John Argyle

The Honeymoon's Over (1939)
as Thin Man

A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob (1941)
as Panky Pankington

Syncopation (1942)
Actor

Joaquin Murrieta (1938)
as Justice of the Peace (uncredited)

Min and Bill (1930)
as Mr. Southard

Lost in the Stratosphere (1934)
as Colonel Worthington

Career Woman (1936)
as Sheriff Duncan

North of Nome (1936)
as U. S. Marshal

Hi-Yo Silver (1940)
as Abraham Lincoln

Unknown Valley (1933)
as Head Elder

Hollywood Barn Dance (1947)
as Hiram Tubb

Massacre (1934)
as Missionary

It's A Small World (1935)
as Snake Brown Jr.

Lincoln in the White House (1939)
as Abraham Lincoln

The Mad Empress (1939)
as President Abraham Lincoln
By Fire and Water (1913)
Actor

Sing and Be Happy (1937)
as Sheriff

The Accidental Honeymoon (1918)
as Farmer Perkins

Folies Bergère de Paris (1935)
as Joseph

Delinquent Daughters (1944)
as Judge Craig

Charlie Chan's Greatest Case (1933)
as Amos Winterslip

Search for Beauty (1934)
as Rev. Rankin

Rough and Ready (1918)
as The Siwash

The Jazz Cinderella (1930)
as Henry Murray (as Frank McGlynn)

Through Turbulent Waters (1915)
as Bill Ford
Who Will Marry Mary? (1913)
Actor

Outlawed Guns (1935)
as Jingle
The Bells (1913)
as Leo Noakes

Sudden Bill Dorn (1937)
as Cap Jinks

The Roaring West (1935)
as Jinglebob Morgan

The Caillaux Case (1918)
as Emperor William of Germany
The Silent Partner (1931)
Actor
Two Men (1912)
Actor

For the Service (1936)
as Jim, a Scout

The ABC of Love (1919)
as The Innkeeper

Are We Civilized? (1934)
as Abraham Lincoln, Felix Bockner

Gloria's Romance (1916)
as Gideon Trask (as Frank McGlynn)
Across the Great Divide (1915)
as The Bandit

Why America Will Win (1918)
as John F. Pershing
The Life of Abraham Lincoln (1915)
as Abraham Lincoln

Alexia's Strategy (1913)
as Usakoff (as Frank McGlynn)





