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Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 26, 1866
Died
May 18, 1951
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, USA
Also Known As
- Frank McGlynn
- Franklyn McGlynn
Frank McGlynn Sr.
0.2 Popularity
Biography
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
3.5
Hiram Tubb
Hollywood Barn Dance
1947
6.4
Tim McKeon (uncredited)
Trail Street
1947
4.9
Blake
Rogues' Gallery
1944
4.0
Judge Craig
Delinquent Daughters
1944
4.8
Abraham Lincoln (archive footage) (uncredited)
March On, America!
1942
5.1
Undetermined Minor Role
In Old California
1942
6.2
Syncopation
1942
🎬
0.0
Hoffman
Marry the Boss's Daughter
1941
5.3
Josephus Wiegal, senior mortician
Three Girls About Town
1941
7.2
Mountaineer (uncredited)
Sergeant York
1941
Credits
Hollywood Barn Dance
as Hiram Tubb
1947
3.5
Trail Street
as Tim McKeon (uncredited)
1947
6.4
Rogues' Gallery
as Blake
1944
4.9
Delinquent Daughters
as Judge Craig
1944
4.0
March On, America!
as Abraham Lincoln (archive footage) (uncredited)
1942
4.8
In Old California
as Undetermined Minor Role
1942
5.1
Syncopation
1942
6.2
🎬
Marry the Boss's Daughter
as Hoffman
1941
0.0
Three Girls About Town
as Josephus Wiegal, senior mortician
1941
5.3
Sergeant York
as Mountaineer (uncredited)
1941
7.2
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
as Panky Pankington
1941
4.7
Third Finger, Left Hand
as Judge Holman (uncredited)
1940
6.8
Boom Town
as Deacon
1940
6.9
Hi-Yo Silver
as Abraham Lincoln
1940
6.0
The Mad Empress
as President Abraham Lincoln
1939
5.6
Second Fiddle
as Lincolnesque Actor
1939
4.9
Love Affair
as Orphanage Superintendent (uncredited)
1939
7.0
Lincoln in the White House
as Abraham Lincoln
1939
6.0
Strange Glory
as Abraham Lincoln
1938
4.0
Joaquin Murrieta
as Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
1938
6.0
The Girl of the Golden West
as Pete - Gambler
1938
4.6
The Lone Ranger
as Abraham Lincoln
1938
6.0
Wells Fargo
as Lincoln
1937
5.2
Sudden Bill Dorn
as Cap Jinks
1937
0.0
Western Gold
as Abraham Lincoln
1937
0.0
Broadway Melody of 1938
as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
1937
6.2
Sing and Be Happy
as Sheriff
1937
0.0
Parnell
as Pat Hogan
1937
4.1
The Great Barrier
as Sir John Macdonald
1937
5.0
Career Woman
as Sheriff Duncan
1936
6.0
The Plainsman
as Abraham Lincoln
1936
6.3
North of Nome
as U. S. Marshal
1936
6.0
King of the Royal Mounted
as Henry Dundas
1936
0.0
The Last of the Mohicans
as Gamut
1936
6.3
For the Service
as Jim, a Scout
1936
0.0
These Three
as Judge (uncredited)
1936
7.1
The Prisoner of Shark Island
as Abraham Lincoln
1936
6.8
The Littlest Rebel
as President Abraham Lincoln
1935
6.2
Captain Blood
as Reverend Ogle
1935
7.2
Outlawed Guns
as Jingle
1935
0.0
The Roaring West
as Jinglebob Morgan
1935
0.0
It's A Small World
as Snake Brown Jr.
1935
4.5
Folies Bergère
as Joseph
1935
5.6
Lost in the Stratosphere
as Colonel Worthington
1934
4.2
Are We Civilized?
as Abraham Lincoln, Felix Bockner
1934
4.0
Little Miss Marker
as Doc Chesley
1934
6.4
Search for Beauty
as Rev. Rankin
1934
5.3
Massacre
as Missionary
1934
5.4
Charlie Chan's Greatest Case
as Amos Winterslip
1933
6.0
Unknown Valley
as Head Elder
1933
6.3
Hello, Everybody!
as Jonathan Reed
1933
6.0
Frisco Jenny
as Good Book Charlie (uncredited)
1933
6.3
The Wet Parade
as Food Control Speaker (uncredited)
1932
5.8
Huckleberry Finn
as Second teacher (uncredited)
1931
6.7
🎬
The Silent Partner
1931
0.0
The Secret Six
as Judge
1931
5.5
Min and Bill
as Mr. Southard
1930
6.1
The Jazz Cinderella
as Henry Murray (as Frank McGlynn)
1930
0.0
Good News
as Professor Kenyon
1930
5.0
🎬
Abraham Lincoln
as Abraham Lincoln
1924
0.0
The ABC of Love
as The Innkeeper
1919
5.6
The Caillaux Case
as Emperor William of Germany
1918
0.0
Why America Will Win
as John F. Pershing
1918
0.0
Rough and Ready
as The Siwash
1918
0.0
The Poor Little Rich Girl
as The Plumber
1917
5.7
The Argyle Case
as John Argyle
1917
0.0
Gloria's Romance
as Gideon Trask (as Frank McGlynn)
1916
6.0
Vanity Fair
as Captain William Dobbin
1915
0.0
Across the Great Divide
as The Bandit
1915
5.0
Through Turbulent Waters
as Bill Ford
1915
0.0
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
as Abraham Lincoln
1915
5.0
Alexia's Strategy
as Usakoff (as Frank McGlynn)
1913
0.0
By Fire and Water
1913
5.0
🎬
Who Will Marry Mary?
1913
0.0
🎬
The Bells
as Leo Noakes
1913
6.0
🎬
Two Men
1912
0.0