George Bancroft (actor)

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George Bancroft (September 30, 1882 – October 2, 1956) was an American film actor, whose career spanned seventeen years from 1925 to 1942. A star of pre-Code Hollywood, he is best known as the tough guy lead in four Josef von Sternberg films, the last of which, Thunderbolt, earned him a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actor. He was later a supporting player in a number of notable movies, including Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) and Stagecoach (1939).

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