Search a film or person :
FacebookConnectionRegistration
Glenn Strange is a Actor and Stunts American born on 16 august 1899 at New Mexico (USA)

Glenn Strange

Glenn Strange
If you like this person, let us know!
Birth name George Glenn Strange
Nationality USA
Birth 16 august 1899 at New Mexico (USA)
Death 20 september 1973 (at 74 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Glenn Strange (August 16, 1899 – September 20, 1973) was an American actor who mostly appeared in Western films. He is best remembered for playing Frankenstein's monster in three Universal films during the 1940s and for his role as Sam Noonan, the popular bartender on CBS's Gunsmoke television series. Strange was of Irish and Cherokee descent and was a cousin of the Western film star and narrator Rex Allen.

Biography

Glenn Strange, fils d'un propriétaire de ranch, grandit dans l'ouest du Texas. Il débute comme musicien avant d'entamer une carrière d'acteur de seconds rôles, apparaissant notamment dans de nombreux westerns. En 1944, sa haute taille et la forme de son visage, adaptée au maquillage conçu par Jack Pierce - lui valent de reprendre le rôle du monstre de Frankenstein dans La Maison de Frankenstein, produit par Universal. Sur ce film, il bénéficie de l'aide de Boris Karloff, l'interprète original du rôle, qui joue cette fois un autre personnage, et qui accepte de conseiller son successeur. Glenn Strange joue à nouveau la créature dans La Maison de Dracula (1945) puis dans la parodie Abbott et Costello contre Frankenstein. Dans les années qui suivent, il fait de nombreuses autres apparitions dans le rôle du monstre, non plus dans des films mais dans des sketches comiques réalisés pour la télévision que dans des publicités. Il devient, dans l'esprit du public américain, si associé au personnage du monstre de Frankenstein qu'en 1969, le New York Times accompagne par erreur la nécrologie de Boris Karloff d'une photo de Glenn Strange en costume de monstre.

Usually with

Bud Osborne
Bud Osborne
(21 films)
Edmund F. Cobb
Edmund F. Cobb
(17 films)
Jack Kirk
Jack Kirk
(16 films)
Russell Harlan
Russell Harlan
(14 films)
Slim Whitaker
Slim Whitaker
(14 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Glenn Strange (136 films)

Display filmography as list

Actor

The Cardinal, 2h55
Directed by Otto Preminger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about religion
Actors Tom Tryon, Raf Vallone, Jill Haworth, John Saxon, Romy Schneider, Carol Lynley
Rating66% 3.34693.34693.34693.34693.3469
A newly ordained Irish Catholic priest, Stephen Fermoyle (Tom Tryon) returns home to Boston in 1917. He discovers that his parents are upset about daughter Mona (Carol Lynley) having become engaged to marry a Jewish boy, Benny Rampell (John Saxon). Mona seeks Stephen's counsel as a priest.
Last Train from Gun Hill, 1h34
Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Western
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Rape and revenge films, Auto-justice
Actors Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones, Earl Holliman, Brad Dexter, Brian G. Hutton
Roles Gun Hill Bouncer
Rating72% 3.6458053.6458053.6458053.6458053.645805
Two old friends, Matt Morgan (Douglas) and Craig Belden (Quinn), now find themselves on opposite sides of the law. Belden is the de facto ruler of the town of Gun Hill, a rich cattle baron. Morgan is a U.S. marshal living in another town with his Native American wife (played by Ziva Rodann) and young son, Petey.
Alias Jesse James, 1h32
Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Themes Films about families, Jesse James, Gangster films
Actors Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, Will Wright, Wendell Corey, Jim Davis, Mary Young
Roles James Gang Member
Rating63% 3.195613.195613.195613.195613.19561
Milford Farnsworth (Hope) is a bumbling insurance agent who unknowingly sells a life insurance policy to the outlaw Jesse James (Wendell Corey). Farnsworth is sent out West to protect the insurance company's investment by "protecting" James.
Terror in a Texas Town, 1h20
Directed by Joseph H. Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors Sterling Hayden, Sebastian Cabot, Nedrick Young, Victor Millan, Hank Patterson, Frank Ferguson
Roles Train Passenger
Rating67% 3.3966253.3966253.3966253.3966253.396625
The wealthy McNeil wants to control Prairie City and the land around it. He tries to burn out small ranchers and then hires gunfighter Johnny Crale to run them off.
The Halliday Brand, 1h19
Directed by Joseph H. Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Joseph Cotten, Viveca Lindfors, Betsy Blair, Ward Bond, Bill Williams, Jay C. Flippen
Roles Townsman
Rating62% 3.145893.145893.145893.145893.14589
Daniel and Martha Halliday, son and daughter of the powerful Big Dan, strenuously object to his bigotry and violence. When he leads the lynching of her half-breed beau, Jivaro Burris, it is the last straw.
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, 2h2
Directed by John Sturges, Gary Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Jo Van Fleet, John Ireland, Lyle Bettger
Rating70% 3.548563.548563.548563.548563.54856
In Fort Griffin, Texas, Ed Bailey (Lee Van Cleef) comes looking to avenge the death of his brother at the hands of gunslinger John H. "Doc" Holliday (Kirk Douglas). Seeing him in a bar, Holliday's girl, Kate Fisher (Jo Van Fleet), returns to Holliday's room, where the two argue—while Holliday throws knives at the wall—once she brings up Holliday's once-prominent family. At the same time, well-known marshal Wyatt Earp (Burt Lancaster) arrives in Fort Griffin thinking he will take outlaws Ike Clanton (Lyle Bettger) and Johnny Ringo (John Ireland) into custody, but instead finds out that the local sheriff, Cotton Wilson (Frank Faylen), released them despite the outstanding warrants for their arrest. Holliday refuses to help the lawman, holding a grudge against Wyatt's brother, Morgan. Holliday kills Bailey with a knife-throw when Bailey attempts to shoot him in the back. Holliday is arrested for murder, though Wyatt and Kate allow him to escape from a lynch mob.
Backlash
Backlash (1956)
, 1h20
Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Romance, Western
Actors Richard Widmark, Donna Reed, John McIntire, William Campbell, Barton MacLane, Harry Morgan
Roles Milliken, Stage Driver (uncredited)
Rating65% 3.294883.294883.294883.294883.29488
Jim Slater (Richard Widmark) meets Karyl Orton (Donna Reed) in Gila Valley, Arizona. She thinks that he is searching for a gold cache believed to hidden somewhere in the valley. When a man with a rifle starts shooting at him, Jim wonders if she can be trusted. After Jim kills his foe, he discovers the dead man was a deputy sheriff from Silver City. He takes the body there.
The Fastest Gun Alive, 1h36
Directed by Russell Rouse
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors Glenn Ford, Jeanne Crain, Broderick Crawford, Russ Tamblyn, Allyn Joslyn, Leif Erickson
Roles Sheriff in Silver Rapids (uncredited)
Rating70% 3.545823.545823.545823.545823.54582
Son of a notorious fast drawing Sheriff, George Kelby Jr. (Glenn Ford) and his wife Dora (Jeanne Crain) settle down in the peaceful town of Cross Creek under assumed identities to avoid having to continually face men out to become famous for shooting down the "fastest gun alive." Now known as George Temple, he becomes a mild-mannered teetotal shopkeeper, little respected by the other townsfolk.
Marty
Marty (1955)
, 1h31
Directed by Delbert Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Joe Mantell, Esther Minciotti, Frank Sutton, Karen Steele
Roles Bit Role (uncredited)
Rating76% 3.847513.847513.847513.847513.84751
Marty Piletti (Borgnine) is an Italian American butcher who lives in The Bronx with his mother (Esther Minciotti). Unmarried at 34, the good-natured but socially awkward Marty faces constant badgering from family and friends to settle down, pointing out that all his brothers and sisters are already married with children. Not averse to marriage but disheartened by his lack of prospects, Marty has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood.
The Kentuckian, 1h44
Directed by Burt Lancaster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Themes Films about the labor movement, Harcèlement au travail
Actors Burt Lancaster, Dianne Foster, Diana Lynn, Walter Matthau, John McIntire, John Litel
Rating61% 3.0972153.0972153.0972153.0972153.097215
Frontiersman Elias "Big Eli" Wakefield (Burt Lancaster) decides to leave 1820s Kentucky and move to Texas with his son "Little Eli" (Donald MacDonald). Along the way, they run into two women who take a liking to the pair, indentured servant Hannah (Dianne Foster), who wants to go with them, and schoolteacher Susie (Diana Lynn), who would rather have Big Eli marry her and settle down. Big Eli also has to deal with villainous Stan Bodine (Walter Matthau), who cracks a mean bullwhip.
Cattle Queen of Montana, 1h28
Directed by Allan Dwan
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Ronald Reagan, Gene Evans, Lance Fuller, Anthony Caruso, Jack Elam
Roles Indian Chief (uncredited)
Rating56% 2.804612.804612.804612.804612.80461
Pop Jones inherits a piece of family land in Montana, so he and his daughter, Sierra Nevada, decide to leave their Texas ranch and move there. As she bathes in a pond along the trail, Sierra Nevada encounters a stranger, Farrell, a hired gunman who warns her about dangerous Indians nearby.
Gypsy Colt
Gypsy Colt (1954)

Directed by Andrew Marton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Western
Actors Ward Bond, Donna Corcoran, Frances Dee, Larry Keating, Lee Van Cleef, Matt Moore
Rating60% 3.04963.04963.04963.04963.0496
A young girl, Meg, is disheartened when her parents Frank and Em MacWade are forced to sell her favorite horse, Gypsy Colt, to a rancher. Gypsy Colt escapes several times, ultimately taking a 500-mile journey to return to her rightful owner.
Calamity Jane, 1h41
Directed by David Butler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Action, Musical, Romance, Western
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie, Philip Carey, Dick Wesson, Dick Wesson
Roles Prospector (uncredited)
Rating71% 3.5975953.5975953.5975953.5975953.597595
Calamity Jane (Doris Day) rides into Deadwood, South Dakota as shotgun messenger on the stagecoach. The local saloon bar, the Golden Garter, sends for beautiful women to appear on the stage and entertain the residents of a town with few females. Unfortunately, the men are anything but pleased when the latest "woman" turns out to be a man named Francis Fryer (Dick Wesson), who does a stage act in drag (reluctantly) and goes under the name Frances Fryer. The saloon owner was misled by the girlish-sounding name when reading an advertisement in the newspaper. The men begin to storm out. Calamity, thinking quick in all the panic, vows to get them the one woman they are all drooling over: singer Adelaid Adams (Gale Robbins), who is in Chicago. Francis Fryer points out that Adams wouldn't be seen dead in that town but Calamity is still determined to bring her. Wild Bill Hickok (Howard Keel) laughs at the idea and tells Calamity that the night Adams steps on the stage, he will come to the opening dressed as a Sioux squaw lugging a papoose.