George Peabody Macready Jr. (August 29, 1899 â€" July 2, 1973) was an
American stage, film, and television actor often cast in roles as
polished villains.Macready was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and
graduated from the local Classical High School (1917) and, in 1921,
from Brown University, where he was a member of Delta Phi fraternity
and won a letter as the football team manager. While in college,
Macready sustained a permanent scar on his right cheek after being
thrust through the windshield of a Ford Model T when the vehicle
skidded on an icy road and hit a telephone pole. He was stitched up by
a veterinarian, but he caught scarlet fever during the ordeal. The
injury, along with his high brow and perfect diction, gave Macready
the Gothic look of an authoritarian or villainous character.Macready
first worked in a bank in Providence and was then briefly a
newspaperman in New York City before he turned to stage acting. He
claimed to have been descended from the 19th century Shakespearean
actor William Macready.Macready made his Broadway debut in a 1926
stage adaptation of The Scarlet Letter. Through 1958, he appeared in
fifteen plays, both drama and comedy, including The Barretts of
Wimpole Street, based on the family of the English poetess, Elizabeth
Barrett Browning.
American stage, film, and television actor often cast in roles as
polished villains.Macready was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and
graduated from the local Classical High School (1917) and, in 1921,
from Brown University, where he was a member of Delta Phi fraternity
and won a letter as the football team manager. While in college,
Macready sustained a permanent scar on his right cheek after being
thrust through the windshield of a Ford Model T when the vehicle
skidded on an icy road and hit a telephone pole. He was stitched up by
a veterinarian, but he caught scarlet fever during the ordeal. The
injury, along with his high brow and perfect diction, gave Macready
the Gothic look of an authoritarian or villainous character.Macready
first worked in a bank in Providence and was then briefly a
newspaperman in New York City before he turned to stage acting. He
claimed to have been descended from the 19th century Shakespearean
actor William Macready.Macready made his Broadway debut in a 1926
stage adaptation of The Scarlet Letter. Through 1958, he appeared in
fifteen plays, both drama and comedy, including The Barretts of
Wimpole Street, based on the family of the English poetess, Elizabeth
Barrett Browning.
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