
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)

Boom Town (1940)
as Deacon

Vanity Fair (1915)
as Captain William Dobbin

The Plainsman (1936)
as Abraham Lincoln

These Three (1936)
as Judge (uncredited)

The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
as Abraham Lincoln

Folies Bergère de Paris (1935)
as Joseph

Hello, Everybody! (1933)
as Jonathan Reed

The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
as Gamut

In Old California (1942)
as Undetermined Minor Role

Wells Fargo (1937)
as Lincoln

The Littlest Rebel (1935)
as Abraham Lincoln

Parnell (1937)
as Pat Hogan

Little Miss Marker (1934)
as Doc Chesley

Trail Street (1947)
as Tim McKeon (uncredited)

Second Fiddle (1939)
as Lincolnesque Actor

Strange Glory (1938)
as Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Huckleberry Finn (1931)
as Second teacher (uncredited)
Abraham Lincoln (1924)
as Abraham Lincoln

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

The Secret Six (1931)
as Judge

Career Woman (1936)
as Sheriff Duncan

Sing and Be Happy (1937)
as Sheriff

The Accidental Honeymoon (1918)
as Farmer Perkins

Syncopation (1942)
Actor

King of the Royal Mounted (1936)
as Henry Dundas

Three Girls About Town (1941)
as Josephus Wiegal, senior mortician
The Bells (1913)
as Leo Noakes

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

The Lone Ranger (1938)
as Abraham Lincoln

Through Turbulent Waters (1915)
as Bill Ford

The Great Barrier (1937)
as Sir John Macdonald

Massacre (1934)
as Missionary

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

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

The Argyle Case (1917)
as John Argyle

Hollywood Barn Dance (1947)
as Hiram Tubb

Rough and Ready (1918)
as The Siwash
Who Will Marry Mary? (1913)
Actor

The Honeymoon's Over (1939)
as Thin Man
Across the Great Divide (1915)
as The Bandit

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

The Caillaux Case (1918)
as Emperor William of Germany

Good News (1930)
as Professor Kenyon

Delinquent Daughters (1944)
as Judge Craig

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

Rogues' Gallery (1944)
as Blake

The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
as The Plumber

Outlawed Guns (1935)
as Jingle

For the Service (1936)
as Jim, a Scout

Hi-Yo Silver (1940)
as Abraham Lincoln

Western Gold (1937)
as Abraham Lincoln

Min and Bill (1930)
as Mr. Southard

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

Unknown Valley (1933)
as Head Elder

Gloria's Romance (1916)
as Gideon Trask (as Frank McGlynn)

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

The Mad Empress (1939)
as President Abraham Lincoln

Sudden Bill Dorn (1937)
as Cap Jinks
Marry the Boss's Daughter (1941)
as Hoffman

Search for Beauty (1934)
as Rev. Rankin

Lincoln in the White House (1939)
as Abraham Lincoln
Two Men (1912)
Actor

Lost in the Stratosphere (1934)
as Colonel Worthington

The Roaring West (1935)
as Jinglebob Morgan
By Fire and Water (1913)
Actor

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

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

Alexia's Strategy (1913)
as Usakoff (as Frank McGlynn)
The Life of Abraham Lincoln (1915)
as Abraham Lincoln

The ABC of Love (1919)
as The Innkeeper
The Silent Partner (1931)
Actor

Why America Will Win (1918)
as John F. Pershing

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





