Barton MacLane actor
- All known tv series 26
- Total known movies 153
Barton MacLane graduated from Wesleyan University, where he displayed a notable aptitude for sports, in particular football and basketball. Not surprisingly, his physical prowess led to an early role in The Quarterback (1926) with Richard Dix. MacLane once commented that, as an actor, he needed to have the physical strength to tear the bad guys from limb to limb, if necessary. Ironically, it was usually Barton himself who was destined to be at the end of a hiding (when not getting shot, instead), typically as snarling henchmen, outlaws and other assorted dubious or abrasive types throughout most of his 40-year acting career. In fact, Barton became so typecast that his name was for a time used proverbially, to generally describe a shouting, hard-nosed ruffian.After training at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, MacLane joined a stock company in Brooklyn. In 1927 he had his first part on Broadway, a brief moment as an assistant district attorney, in the melodrama The Trial of Mary Dugan. He then played a small featured role as a police officer in Subway Express (1929-30), a drama enacted in the interior of a subway car. In mid-1932 MacLane tried his hand at writing his own starring vehicle for the stage, entitled Rendezvous. While the play closed after just 21 performances, it led to a contract with Warner Brothers.Barton had already appeared in bit roles for Paramount at their Astoria Studios, including The Marx Brothers debut film The Cocoanuts (1929). He portrayed mobster Brad Collins in G Men (1935) (with James Cagney), which set the tone for most of his future assignments. Brawny, with squinty eyes and a rasping voice, MacLane was the ideal surly tough guy, particularly suitable for westerns and the type of films noir Warner Brothers excelled at. He was often cast as cops, be they bent or honest. Some of his most representative performances include gangster Al Kruger in Bullets or Ballots (1936), which won him some of the best critical notices of his career; outlaw Jack Slade in Western Union (1941); crooked construction boss Pat McCormick, who gets beaten up by Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt over past-due wages in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948); hard-nosed cops Detective Dundy in The Maltese Falcon (1941) and Lt. Reece in Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950). MacLane, on loan to Universal, also had a starring role in Prison Break (1938) as an innocent tuna fisherman who is framed for murder. He was prominent as a tough but sympathetic cop, foil to sleuthing girl reporter Glenda Farrell in the Torchy Blaine series of the mid- to late 1930s. In the 1960s Barton began to cultivate a good-guy image as Marshal Frank Caine in the NBC western series Outlaws (1960) as well as showing up in a small recurring role as Air Force Gen. Martin Peterson in I Dream of Jeannie (1965).Barton was married to the actress Charlotte Wynters, who appeared with him in six of his films. When not on the set, the couple spent time on their 2000-acre cattle ranch in Madera County, California.For his work in television, Barton has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Jim Mablett
Movie 1955
Pat McCormick
Movie 1948
Sam O'Donnell
Movie 1940
Movie 1930
Lt. Barry Lane
Movie 1944
George 'Deacon' Markham
Movie 1945
Bather
Movie 1929
Det. Lt. Dan Coster
Movie 1956
John Wallace
Movie 1943
Policeman Baxter
Movie 1933
Steve McBride
Movie 1937
Case Ables
Movie 1942
Leo Bronson
Movie 1942
Karl Shanks
Movie 1956
Joad
Movie 1951
Jim Calvert
Movie 1943
Crowder
Movie 1939
Spider Burke
Movie 1935
Lt. Steve McBride
Movie 1938
Mulvey
Movie 1933
Francis J. Brannigan
Movie 1958
Joe Barnum
Movie 1956
Steve McBride
Movie 1937
Steve McBride
Movie 1939
Det. Lt. Steve 'Mac' McBride
Movie 1939
Sheriff Grover
Movie 1968
John Kelly
Movie 1941
Blackie
Movie 1935
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Movie 1983
Webb Yancey
Movie 1947
Tex Brandow
Movie 1948
Captain Jenkins
Movie 1955
Movie 1932
Mark Wildhack
Movie 1940
Lee Graham
Movie 1954
Wilson
Movie 1957
Duke Hutchinson
Movie 1935
Jules Reni
Movie 1953
Sgt. Maguire
Movie 1944
Red Bastian
Movie 1935
Case Hagin
Movie 1947
John Tate
Movie 1943
Jim Barnes
Movie 1937
Sheriff Jim Harden
Movie 1950
Captain Scarface
Movie 1953
Joaquin Shannon
Movie 1938
Clifton Jeffords
Movie 1935
Larry Channock
Movie 1950
Lem Gotch
Movie 1957
Crewman
Movie 1931
Texas Jack Barton
Movie 1948
Archie Dixon
Movie 1943
James Fell
Movie 1965
Marvin Parker
Movie 1953
Al McCoy
Movie 1937
Crawford
Movie 1946
Pirate Kelly
Movie 1941
Detective Lucas
Movie 1935
Sheriff Tatum
Movie 1944
Andrew Beaupre
Movie 1937
Red Manson
Movie 1939
Chris Bennett
Movie 1935
Mob Organizer (archive footage)
Movie 1968
Steve Bailey
Movie 1956
Cliff Ballenger
Movie 1936
Detective Captain Rourke
Movie 1936
Gunner Malone
Movie 1938
Ace King
Movie 1939
Sailor
Movie 1932
Movie 1933
James J. Ryan
Movie 1941
Self
Movie 1936
Sheriff Olson
Movie 1954
Deacon Bartlett
Movie 1954
First Cop (uncredited)
Movie 1934
Detective with Handcuffs
Movie 1931
Cafe Customer
Movie 1931
'Banjo' Sweeney
Movie 1948
Henry 'Tiny' Longtree
Movie 1955
Mosby, Gang Leader
Movie 1955
Yates
Movie 1956
Simon Crayle
Movie 1958
Phil Daley
Movie 1939
Himself (uncredited)
Movie 1935
Self
Movie 1937
Self
Movie 1939
Captain Cogswell
Movie 1938
Self (archive footage)
Movie 1997
Capt. Jack Matthews
Movie 1953
Self (archive footage)
Movie 1976
Harry the Guide
Movie 1933
Football Player (uncredited)
Movie 1926
Big Jim
Movie 1958
Tv 1958
Tv 1955
General Peterson
Tv 1965
Tv 1964
Herkimer Crawford
Tv 1955
Senator Harriman Baylor
Tv 1957
Tv 1966
Marshal Frank Caine
Tv 1960
Tv 1958
Steve
Tv 1950
Tv 1967
Gen. Bailey
Tv 1956
Tv 1954
Tv 1959
General Fowler
Tv 1959
Tv 1956
Tv 1954
Willard Kerner
Tv 1955
Marvin Platt
Tv 1950
Milo
Tv 1952
Capt. Webber
Tv 1952
Sheriff Eugene Norris
Tv 1957
Harold Minter
Tv 1957
Archer Osmond
Tv 1957
Rawls Kettrick
Tv 1954
