Barton MacLane attore
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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
Film 1955
Pat McCormick
Film 1948
Sam O'Donnell
Film 1940
Film 1930
Lt. Barry Lane
Film 1944
George 'Deacon' Markham
Film 1945
Bather
Film 1929
Det. Lt. Dan Coster
Film 1956
John Wallace
Film 1943
Policeman Baxter
Film 1933
Steve McBride
Film 1937
Case Ables
Film 1942
Leo Bronson
Film 1942
Karl Shanks
Film 1956
Joad
Film 1951
Jim Calvert
Film 1943
Crowder
Film 1939
Spider Burke
Film 1935
Lt. Steve McBride
Film 1938
Mulvey
Film 1933
Francis J. Brannigan
Film 1958
Joe Barnum
Film 1956
Steve McBride
Film 1937
Steve McBride
Film 1939
Det. Lt. Steve 'Mac' McBride
Film 1939
Sheriff Grover
Film 1968
John Kelly
Film 1941
Blackie
Film 1935
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Film 1983
Webb Yancey
Film 1947
Tex Brandow
Film 1948
Captain Jenkins
Film 1955
Film 1932
Mark Wildhack
Film 1940
Lee Graham
Film 1954
Wilson
Film 1957
Duke Hutchinson
Film 1935
Jules Reni
Film 1953
Sgt. Maguire
Film 1944
Red Bastian
Film 1935
Case Hagin
Film 1947
John Tate
Film 1943
Jim Barnes
Film 1937
Sheriff Jim Harden
Film 1950
Captain Scarface
Film 1953
Joaquin Shannon
Film 1938
Clifton Jeffords
Film 1935
Larry Channock
Film 1950
Lem Gotch
Film 1957
Crewman
Film 1931
Texas Jack Barton
Film 1948
Archie Dixon
Film 1943
James Fell
Film 1965
Marvin Parker
Film 1953
Al McCoy
Film 1937
Crawford
Film 1946
Pirate Kelly
Film 1941
Detective Lucas
Film 1935
Sheriff Tatum
Film 1944
Andrew Beaupre
Film 1937
Red Manson
Film 1939
Chris Bennett
Film 1935
Mob Organizer (archive footage)
Film 1968
Steve Bailey
Film 1956
Cliff Ballenger
Film 1936
Detective Captain Rourke
Film 1936
Gunner Malone
Film 1938
Ace King
Film 1939
Sailor
Film 1932
Film 1933
James J. Ryan
Film 1941
Self
Film 1936
Sheriff Olson
Film 1954
Deacon Bartlett
Film 1954
First Cop (uncredited)
Film 1934
Detective with Handcuffs
Film 1931
Cafe Customer
Film 1931
'Banjo' Sweeney
Film 1948
Henry 'Tiny' Longtree
Film 1955
Mosby, Gang Leader
Film 1955
Yates
Film 1956
Simon Crayle
Film 1958
Phil Daley
Film 1939
Himself (uncredited)
Film 1935
Self
Film 1937
Self
Film 1939
Captain Cogswell
Film 1938
Self (archive footage)
Film 1997
Capt. Jack Matthews
Film 1953
Self (archive footage)
Film 1976
Harry the Guide
Film 1933
Football Player (uncredited)
Film 1926
Big Jim
Film 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
