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George Peabody Macready, Jr. net worth is
$16 Million

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George Peabody Macready, Jr. (August 29, 1899 – July 2, 1973), was an American stage, film, and television actor often cast in roles as polished villains. 
Full NameGeorge Peabody Macready, Jr.
Net Worth$16 Million
Date Of Birth1899-08-29
Died1973-07-02
ProfessionAmerican actor
ResidenceLos Angeles, California, U.S.
EducationBrown University
SpouseElizabeth Dana Macready children
ChildrenElizabeth Macready, Michael Macready, Marcia Macready
NicknamesGeorge Macready, George Peabody Macready, Jr., Macready, Jr., George Peabody, Macready, George
#Trademark
1Gravelly smoke burnished Voice
2The scar on his cheek
#Quote
1[Discussing a 1928 stage production of "Macbeth" in which the scene design proved to be problematic] [The settings] appeared to be huge packing boxes painted white and piled in different formations one on top of the other. These created chaos on the first "performance" in Philadelphia . . . when I tried to make my entrance in the battle scene and found every entrance blocked by these ghastly boxes. I never did make it.
2[Describing his years in college and immediately thereafter, when he was trying to convince his father that he didn't want to be an engineer] I was biding my time. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I was sure it wasn't engineering. After college I gradually persuaded my father that I wasn't cut out for an engineer. First I went to work in a bank in our home town of Providence, R.I., which at least was business--and therefore acceptable, you see, to my father. Then I got a position in the traffic department of the Daily News in New York--also business, which meant that my father was pleased but I wasn't. At the News I started out as a typist, got to be second assistant traffic manager and finally slid up to the manager's job more or less by default. I was the only one around the office who could find records and correspondence--because I had set up my own secret filing system which no one else understood--and I also was the only one who spent much time in the office. The other fellows wanted to be out on the road, which meant that they depended on me to do the office work. I was lazy and preferred to stay in the office, so I eventually found myself manager after the people above me had resigned or were transferred.
3There's a much more friendly atmosphere on a movie set than there is on a Broadway stage. New York stage hands are snobbish and seldom speak to actors. What a difference in Hollywood! Here prop men and cameramen and script girls all feel they're part of the family. They give you little suggestions, tip you off to things you should know, beam at you when they like the way you play a scene.
4My freshman year [at Brown University] I tried out for the dramatic club. I have been interested in the theater ever since I could remember. I worked diligently over "Friends, Romans, Countrymen . . . " and when it was my turn to try out for the club, I got to my feet and began Antony's lines. After I finished, the president of the organization turned to another member, and I heard him ask, "What in the world was he saying?" My name did not appear on the list of dramatic club fledglings the next morning when I hopefully went to look for it.
5[Explaining how he got a lucky break onstage when his leading lady forgot her lines] I managed, somehow, to give her lines and my own, too. Then came the finale when a rope, manipulated by pulleys and concealed from the audience, was to assist me into "heaven." It darned near did--it broke. I wasn't hurt, fortunately, but a very famous stock company manager was in the audience--Jessie Bonstelle. She came backstage and said, in substance, that any young actor who could play both leading man and leading lady in the same play at the same time, and make such an abrupt descent from heaven with such good grace, ought to be good enough for her company.
6[Referring to a part he played on Four Star Playhouse (1952)] I play a mad--a maniacal--killer. Fun.
7[Discussing how he enjoyed playing villains] Purely in an academic way. At heart, I am a kind man.
8At heart, I'm really a harmless and calm person.
#Fact
1Upon his death from emphysema in July 1973, George Macready's body was donated to the School of Medicine of the University of California at Los Angeles.
2Odd coincidence: In Macready's movie debut in Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942), he plays a schoolteacher. His first lines include the words "I'm writing a novel myself." In his final movie, The Return of Count Yorga (1971), - he portrays a professor. His final line is, "You haven't read my book!".
3When Orson Welles married in 1934, he was wearing a cutaway coat and pants that he had borrowed from Macready. Orson's mother-in-law wanted him to dress formally for the occasion, but he owned nothing appropriate to wear and couldn't afford to purchase formal attire. So, he asked Macready (with whom he had acted on the stage) to help. In Welles' wedding photo, the pants look a little short -- probably because Welles was heavier than Macready and the pants fit him more tightly as a result.
4George had a housekeeper who embroidered the titles of all of George's movies on to an afghan.
5The 1934 edition of the Brown University alumni newsletter said: "George Macready '21 is still touring the provinces with Katharine Cornell in 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'The Barretts of Wimpole Street.' Mrs. Macready [Elizabeth Dana] is in the company, and the Macready heir is in New York, where Miss Mary Macready, one of George's aunts, is looking out for it until the parents come home".
6In a 1960 article, Macready indicated that two of his favorite TV roles were in Kraft Theatre: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (1955) and Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse: Thunder in the Night (1960)).
7Macready was an avid reader, and he especially enjoyed reading mysteries. In fact, he was known to read a mystery novel while simultaneously listening to a mystery show on the radio.
8Among his hobbies were mind-challenging games such as deciphering cryptograms and writing his own crossword puzzles. He also enjoyed collecting paintings. His favorite artists were Henri Matisse, Auguste Renoir and Vincent van Gogh.
9Donated his body to the UCLA medical school.
10Was initiated into the Beta chapter of Delta Phi fraternity at Brown University in 1918.
11Macready was a graduate of Classical High School in his hometown of Providence, Rhode Island. He graduated from Brown University (also in Providence) in 1921.
12George had three children: Michael Macready (born 1932), Marcia (born 1934) and Elizabeth (born 1938).
13Macready won a varsity letter in football at Brown University in 1920 -- but as the manager, not as a player.
14George became good friends with Vincent Price when they were both appearing on stage with Helen Hayes in "Victoria Regina." Vincent wrote about George in a letter home: "The boy who plays my brother and is my understudy is a swell egg and I thank God for him.".
15George and Vincent Price opened the Little Gallery in Beverly Hills in the spring of 1943. According to Victoria Price (Vincent's daughter), their customers included Charles Laughton, Tallulah Bankhead, Barbara Hutton, Fanny Brice, Katharine Hepburn and Greta Garbo. Of Garbo, Vincent said she "dropped in to look and, if anyone else was looking, dropped out--quickly." Jane Wyatt said, "It was a great, fun gallery. It was the place to go to meet and mingle. There was nothing else like it around. It was a wonderful place." George and Vincent eventually closed the Little Gallery when they could no longer do it justice while maintaining full-time movie careers.
16The scar on Macready's right cheek was the result of a car accident during his college days. According to his son Michael Macready, George and some fraternity brothers were riding in a Model T Ford when they hit an icy patch on the road. They struck a telephone pole, and George went through the windshield. His friends could find only one doctor in the vicinity, who happened to be a veterinarian. George did get his cheek stitched, but he also ended up with scarlet fever, apparently because the veterinarian didn't wash up properly.
17Grandfather of US gymnast John Macready and actor Oliver Macready, whose full name is Oliver George Macready.
18He claimed (probably correctly and truthfully) to be a descendant of the great 19th-century Shakespearean actor William Macready.
19Though specializing in playing truly evil villains, he was actually a cultured and expert art collector, as was his good friend Vincent Price, with whom Macready was partners in a Los Angeles art gallery.

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The Walls Came Tumbling Down1946Matthew Stoker
The Man Who Dared1946Donald Wayne
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest1946Fitz-Herbert
Gilda1946Ballin Mundson
The Fighting Guardsman1946Gaston de Montrevel
My Name Is Julia Ross1945Ralph Hughes
Don Juan Quilligan1945District Attorney (uncredited)
Counter-Attack1945Col. Semenov
The Monster and the Ape1945Prof. Ernst
I Love a Mystery1945Jefferson Monk
A Song to Remember1945Alfred DeMusset (uncredited)
The Missing Juror1944Harry Wharton / Jerome K. Bentley
The Conspirators1944Schmitt's Special Agent (uncredited)
The Soul of a Monster1944Dr. George Winson
The Seventh Cross1944Bruno Sauer
Wilson1944William McCombs (uncredited)
The Story of Dr. Wassell1944Dutch Army Captain (uncredited)
Follow the Boys1944Walter Bruce
Commandos Strike at Dawn1942Schoolteacher
The Return of Count Yorga1971Prof. Rightstat
Tora! Tora! Tora!1970Cordell Hull
Count Yorga, Vampire1970Narration (voice)
Daughter of the Mind1969TV MovieDr. Frank Ferguson
Lancer1969TV SeriesHarlan Garrett
Night Gallery1969TV SeriesWilliam Hendricks
The Young Lawyers1969TV SeriesJay Spofford
Get Smart1968TV SeriesMr. Fitzmaurice
Peyton Place1965-1968TV SeriesMartin Peyton
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.1965-1967TV SeriesZorgon Gurnius / Demos
Fame Is the Name of the Game1966TV MovieGlenn Howard
Run for Your Life1965TV SeriesDavid Courtney
The Great Race1965General Kuhster
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre1965TV SeriesGraham Justland
Profiles in Courage1965TV Series
Kentucky Jones1965TV SeriesDorian Hawes
Memorandum for a Spy1965TV MovieGraham Jutland
The Human Duplicators1965Prof. Vaughn Dornheimer
Where Love Has Gone1964Gordon Harris
The Outer Limits1964TV SeriesDr. Marshall / Gov. Lawrence K. Hillerman
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour1964TV SeriesHillary Prine
The Great Adventure1964TV SeriesDr. Keen
Dead Ringer1964Paul Harrison
Seven Days in May1964Christopher Todd
Twilight Zone1964TV SeriesDr. Bixler
Perry Mason1958-1963TV SeriesRoscoe Pearce / Dr. Vincent Kenyon / Charles Slade / ...
The Dakotas1963TV SeriesCapt. Butler Ridgeway
Dr. Kildare1963TV SeriesHarper Faring
Taras Bulba1962Governor
Two Weeks in Another Town1962Lew Jordan
The Tall Man1960-1962TV SeriesCyrus Canfield / Judge Roy A. Barlow
Frontier Circus1962TV SeriesJohn Duncan
Cain's Hundred1962TV SeriesJames Harrison
Ripcord1962TV SeriesHal Glinders
The Dick Powell Theatre1961TV SeriesDr. Huntziger
Laramie1959-1961TV SeriesColonel John Barrington / Dodge City Judge
Adventures in Paradise1961TV SeriesShepherd / Christopher Weldon
Thriller1961TV SeriesMr. Smith
Route 661961TV SeriesMr. Fontaine
The Loretta Young Show1959-1961TV SeriesOliver Prentiss / Bernard Vanderhoff
The Islanders1961TV SeriesHarja
Bat Masterson1961TV SeriesClyde Richards
Family Classics: The Three Musketeers1960TV MovieKing Louis XIII
Assignment: Underwater1960TV SeriesStephen Torquay
The Rebel1959-1960TV SeriesGen. Robert E. Lee / Ex-CSA Captain Pollack
Playhouse 901960TV SeriesCaptain Richter
Have Gun - Will Travel1960TV SeriesGunder - Blind Man
Alcoa Theatre1960TV SeriesGeneral Thirion
The Rifleman1958-1960TV SeriesMatt Wymerman / Judge Zephaniah Burton
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse1960TV SeriesPaul Reuter
Riverboat1959TV SeriesAnthony Lorrimer
Tightrope1959TV SeriesLatham Grant
Jet Over the Atlantic1959Lord Robert Leverett
Sunday Showcase1959TV Series
Bonanza1959TV SeriesAlpheus Troy
The Rough Riders1959TV SeriesColonel Miller
The Alligator People1959Dr. Mark Sinclair
The D.A.'s Man1959TV SeriesSnead
Steve Canyon1959TV SeriesGottfried Muller
Plunderers of Painted Flats1959Ed Sampson
The Texan1958TV SeriesBig Jim Sammett
Wanted: Dead or Alive1958TV SeriesJefferson Klingsmith
Gunsmoke1958TV SeriesCharlie Drain
Schlitz Playhouse1954-1958TV SeriesJoseph Libo
Matinee Theatre1958TV Series
Gunfire at Indian Gap1957Mr. Jefferson
Paths of Glory1957Gen. Paul Mireau
The Abductors1957Jack Langley
Alfred Hitchcock Presents1955-1957TV SeriesVincent Williams / Herbert Koether / Douglas Irwin
General Electric Theater1955-1957TV SeriesClive / Henry / Colonel
Strange Stories1956TV Series
Thunder Over Arizona1956Mayor Ervin Plummer
Goodyear Playhouse1956TV Series
The Ford Television Theatre1952-1956TV SeriesCarter Kerrick / Mark Derhenning
A Kiss Before Dying1956Leo Kingship
TV Reader's Digest1956TV SeriesGeneral Henri Giraud
Star Stage1956TV Series
Celebrity Playhouse1955TV Series
Appointment with Adventure1955TV SeriesPaul
Kraft Theatre1955TV Series
The United States Steel Hour1954-1955TV SeriesDavidson
Ponds Theater1955TV Series
Armstrong Circle Theatre1955TV Series
The Star and the Story1955TV SeriesRoger Saffrey
The Elgin Hour1955TV SeriesRalph Chambers
Studio One in Hollywood1955TV SeriesHorne
Vera Cruz1954Emperor Maximillian
Danger1954TV Series
Justice1954TV Series
Crown Theatre with Gloria Swanson1954TV Series
Duffy of San Quentin1954John C. Winant
Four Star Playhouse1952-1954TV SeriesCount Borselli / Man / George
Lux Video Theatre1953TV SeriesMr. Cloud
The Golden Blade1953Jafar
The Stranger Wore a Gun1953Jules Mourret
Julius Caesar1953Marullus
Treasure of the Golden Condor1953Marquis de St. Malo
Biff Baker, U.S.A.1953TV Series
City Detective1953TV SeriesWayne / Arnold Jaffee
Family Theatre1953TV SeriesCornelius
Rebound1952TV SeriesProfessor Wilbur Creetch / Hicks
The White Road1952Count Paul Rona
Detective Story1951Karl Schneider
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel1951Gen. Fritz Bayerlein
The Golden Horde1951Raven the Shaman
Tarzan's Peril1951Radijeck
The Living Christ Series1951TV Mini-SeriesCornelius
The Desert Hawk1950Prince Murad
A Lady Without Passport1950Palinov, Gulf Stream Cafe Havana
Rogues of Sherwood Forest1950King John
Fortunes of Captain Blood1950Marquis de Riconete
The Nevadan1950Edward Galt
The Doolins of Oklahoma1949Marshal Sam Hughes
Johnny Allegro1949Morgan Vallin
Alias Nick Beal1949Rev. Thomas Garfield
Knock on Any Door1949Dist. Atty. Kerman
The Gallant Blade1948Gen. Cadeau
Beyond Glory1948Maj. Gen. Bond
Coroner Creek1948Younger Miles
The Big Clock1948Steve Hagen
The Black Arrow1948Sir Daniel Brackley
The Swordsman1948Robert Glowan
Down to Earth1947Joe Manion
The Return of Monte Cristo1946Henri de la Roche

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