Clifford McLaglen

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Birth name Clifford Hendrick McLaglen
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 15 june 1892
Death 9 september 1978 (at 86 years)

Clifford McLaglen (15 June 1892 – 9 September 1978) was a Stepney, London-born British film actor. He was the brother of several actors including Victor McLaglen, Oscar winner for best actor, The Informer (director John Ford), and nominated for best supporting actor The Quiet Man.

The other brothers were Leopold McLaglen, wrestler and inventor of a form of Jujutsu which he taught to the armed forces and police in the old Empire and America; Lewis McLaglen, actor and soldier; Cyril McLaglen, actor and horseman; Arthur McLaglen, actor, unarmed combat professional and sculptor; Kenneth McLaglen, actor and mineralogist; sister Lily Marian McLaglen (Mrs. Lance Tweedy), actress Singer and pianist.

Clifford McLaglen was born Clifford Henrich McLaglen from Scottish, Irish, and Dutch ancestry. He, like all his brothers except the youngest two, Cyril and Kenneth, served in the First World War. He also served in the Second World War going out to Iceland to help guard Sir Winston Churchill, for which he obtained a bulldog and polar bear badge. He also was part of a film unit at that time in the army. His father was born in Cape Town, South Africa and came to London to study as Clerk in Orders, eventually becoming Titular Bishop of Claremont in Cape Town but foregoing this to help with the work he dedicated to the helping of poverty stricken children in London and beggars. Lily often helped with this. Clifford worked in a tin mine in Cornwall before joining up in 1914. Later he worked for Sangers Circus riding horses and doing rope tricks and worked in vaudeville with his various brothers.

He starred in many silent films in Britain, in Boadicea (where he rode Roman style learnt in the army and circus); France and Germany, making the reputedly first German Talkie with Conrad Veidt, Bride 68 or Das Land Ohne Frauen, set in Australia with camels and the desert but all filed in a Berlin studio with a tank of water spilling from overhead and an aeroplane propeller. Clifford also filmed in Majorca, in Die Schmugglerbraut von Sorrento (various versions changed Majorca to Sorrento), bringing over horses with him, which he said were sea sick. The film was made in Majorca but meant to be Sorrento. Cavalcanti made two prize winning films in France with Clifford McLaglen: Yvette and Rien Que Les Heures. He made a few talkies and was on the stage in America, on Broadway with Frederick Marche's wife Florence Edridge. He was going to make a film called Ropes of Sand but nothing came of it.

Mclaglen died in Huddersfield, Yorkshire in 1978.

Biography

Frère de l'acteur Victor McLaglen (1886-1959) et par conséquent oncle du réalisateur Andrew V. McLaglen (1920-2014), Clifford McLaglen apparaît lui-même comme acteur de second rôle dans vingt-quatre films (majoritairement britanniques), depuis In the Blood de Walter West (1923, avec son frère précité dans le rôle principal) jusqu'à The Marriage of Corbal de Karl Grune (1936, avec Nils Asther et Noah Beery), après quoi il se retire définitivement de l'écran.

Entretemps, mentionnons Boadicée de Sinclair Hill (1927, avec Lillian Hall-Davis), Yvette d'Alberto Cavalcanti (film français, 1927, avec Catherine Hessling et Walter Byron), Late Extra d'Albert Parker (1935, avec James Mason et Virginia Cherrill), ou encore The Mystery of the Mary Celeste de Denison Clift (1935, avec Béla Lugosi et Shirley Grey).

S'ajoutent quelques films allemands, dont Die Schmugglerbraut von Mallorca d'Hans Behrendt (1929, avec Jenny Jugo et Friedrich Benfer) et Terre sans femmes de Carmine Gallone (1929, avec Conrad Veidt et Grete Berger), ainsi que le documentaire français Rien que les heures d'Alberto Cavalcanti (1926, avec Philippe Hériat et Blanche Bernis).

Au théâtre, il joue une fois à Broadway (New York) dans An Affair of State de Robert Buckner (1930, avec Leonard Carey et Florence Eldridge).

Clifford McLaglen meurt à 86 ans, en 1978.