Barton MacLane

Highest Rated: 100% The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

Lowest Rated: 33% The Mummy's Ghost (1944)

Birthday: Dec 25, 1902

Birthplace: Not Available

Barton MacLane may have been born on Christmas Day, but there was precious little chance that he'd ever be cast as Santa Claus. A star athlete at Wesleyan University, MacLane won his first movie role in the 1924 silent Quarterback as the result of his football skills. This single incident sparked his interest in performing, which he pursued on a serious basis at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He performed in stock, on Broadway, and in bit parts in films lensed at Paramount's Astoria studios (notably the Marx Brothers' The Cocoanuts). In 1932, MacLane wrote a slice-of-life play titled Rendezvous, selling it to influential Broadway producer Arthur Hopkins on the proviso, that he, MacLane, be given the lead. The play was a success, leading to a lucrative film contract from Warner Bros. Most effectively cast as a swaggering villain ("who never spoke when shouting would do," as historian William K. Everson observed), MacLane played good-guy leads in several Warner "B"s: he played the conclusion-jumping lieutenant Steve McBride in the studio's Torchy Blaine series. Free-lancing in the 1940s, MacLane made an unfortunate return to writing in 1941, penning the screenplay for the PRC quickie Man of Courage; it is reported that audiences erupted in shrieks of laughter when MacLane, reciting his own lines, recalled his childhood days on the farm by declaring "Boy! Did I love ta plow!" He was better served in a brace of John Huston-directed films, beating up Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon (1941) and being beaten up by Bogart in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. MacLane's TV-series work included a starring stint on The Outlaws (1960-62) and the recurring role of General Peterson on I Dream of Jeannie (1965-69). Having come into the world on a holiday, Barton MacLane died on New Years' Day, 1969; he was survived by his wife, actress Charlotte Wynters.

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Movies

		Credit
No Score Yet	Smart Blonde	Actor	—	2013
No Score Yet	Buckskin	Doc	—	1968
No Score Yet	Arizona Bushwhackers	Sheriff Grover	—	1967
No Score Yet	The Rounders	Tanner	—	1965
No Score Yet	Law of the Lawless	Big Tom Stone	—	1964
56%	Pocketful of Miracles	Police Commissioner	—	1961
No Score Yet	Noose for a Gunman	Carl Avery	—	1960
No Score Yet	The Geisha Boy	Maj. Ridgley	—	1958
No Score Yet	Three Violent People	Yates	—	1957
No Score Yet	Naked in the Sun	Actor	—	1957
No Score Yet	Backlash	George Lake	—	1956
No Score Yet	Wetbacks	Karl Shanks	—	1956
No Score Yet	The Silver Star	Actor	—	1955
No Score Yet	Treasure of Ruby Hills	'Chalk' Reynolds	—	1955
No Score Yet	Jubilee Trail	Deacon Bartlett	—	1954
88%	The Glenn Miller Story	Gen. Arnold	—	1953
No Score Yet	Cow Country	Marvin Parker	—	1953
No Score Yet	Kansas Pacific	Cal Bruce	—	1953
No Score Yet	Captain Scarface	Captain Scarface	—	1953
No Score Yet	The Half-Breed	Marshal	—	1952
No Score Yet	Bugles in the Afternoon	Capt. Myles Moylan	—	1952
No Score Yet	Drums in the Deep South	McCardle	—	1951
No Score Yet	Best of the Badmen	Joad	—	1951
No Score Yet	Let's Dance	Larry Channock	—	1950
No Score Yet	Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye	Lt. John Reece	—	1950
No Score Yet	Red Light	Detective Strecker	—	1949
No Score Yet	Unknown Island	Capt. Tarnowski	—	1948
No Score Yet	The Walls of Jericho	Gotch McCurdy	—	1948
No Score Yet	The Dude Goes West	Texas Jack	—	1948
100%	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	McCormick	—	1948
No Score Yet	Silver River	Banjo Sweeney	—	1948
No Score Yet	Wyoming Kid	Yancey	—	1947
No Score Yet	Tarzan and the Huntress	Paul Weir	—	1947
No Score Yet	San Quentin	Nick Taylor	—	1946
No Score Yet	Mysterious Intruder	Detective Taggart	—	1946
No Score Yet	Santa Fe Uprising	Actor	—	1946
No Score Yet	The Spanish Main	Capt. Black	—	1945
No Score Yet	Gentle Annie	Sheriff Tatum	—	1945
No Score Yet	Tarzan and the Amazons	Ballister	—	1945
No Score Yet	Scared Stiff	George 'Deacon' Markham	—	1945
No Score Yet	Cry of the Werewolf	Lt. Barry Lane	—	1944
No Score Yet	Secret Command	Red Kelly	—	1944
No Score Yet	Marine Raiders	Sgt. Maguire	—	1944
33%	The Mummy's Ghost	Inspector Walgreen	—	1944
No Score Yet	Nabonga	Carl Hurst	—	1944
No Score Yet	Crime Doctor's Strangest Case	Detective Rief	—	1943
No Score Yet	The Underdog	John Tate	—	1943
No Score Yet	Bombardier	Sgt. Dixon	—	1943
No Score Yet	Song of Texas	Jim Calvert	—	1943
No Score Yet	The Big Street	Case Ables	—	1942
100%	All Through the Night	Marty Callahan	—	1941
100%	The Maltese Falcon	Det. Lt. Dundy	—	1941
65%	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Sam Higgins	—	1941
80%	Western Union	Jack Slade	—	1941
No Score Yet	Come Live with Me	Barney Grogan	—	1941
95%	High Sierra	Jake Kranmer	—	1941
No Score Yet	Manpower	Smiley Quinn	—	1941
No Score Yet	Melody Ranch	Mark Wildhack	—	1940
No Score Yet	Mutiny in the Big House	Red Manson	—	1939
No Score Yet	Torchy Blane in Chinatown	Det. Lt. Steve	—	1939
No Score Yet	Stand Up and Fight	Crowder	—	1939
No Score Yet	The Storm	Capt. Cogswell	—	1938
No Score Yet	Prison Break	Joaquin Shannon	—	1938
86%	You and Me	Mickey	—	1938
No Score Yet	Gold Is Where You Find It	Slag Minton	—	1938
No Score Yet	The Adventurous Blonde	Lt. Steve 'Stevie' MacBride	—	1937
No Score Yet	Wine, Women and Horses	Jim Turner	—	1937
No Score Yet	San Quentin	Lt. Druggin	—	1937
No Score Yet	Ever Since Eve	Al McCoy	—	1937
60%	The Prince and the Pauper	John Canty	—	1937
100%	You Only Live Once	Stephen Whitney	—	1937
No Score Yet	God's Country and the Woman	Bullhead	—	1937
No Score Yet	Bullets or Ballots	Al Kruger	—	1936
No Score Yet	The Walking Dead	Loder	—	1936
100%	Ceiling Zero	Al Stone	—	1936
No Score Yet	Frisco Kid	Spider Burke	—	1935
No Score Yet	Dr. Socrates	Red Bastian	—	1935
No Score Yet	The Case of the Lucky Legs	Bissonette	—	1935
No Score Yet	Page Miss Glory	Blackie	—	1935
No Score Yet	Stranded	Sharkey	—	1935
No Score Yet	Black Fury	McGee	—	1935
No Score Yet	G-Men	Collins	—	1935
No Score Yet	Go Into Your Dance	Duke Hutchinson	—	1935
No Score Yet	The Case of the Curious Bride	John Lucas	—	1935
No Score Yet	I Found Stella Parish	Clifton 'Cliff' Jeffords	—	1935
No Score Yet	Law of Vengeance	Actor	—	1933
No Score Yet	Tillie and Gus	Commissioner McLennan	—	1933
No Score Yet	To the Last Man	Neil Standing	—	1933
No Score Yet	Man of the Forest	Mulvey	—	1933
No Score Yet	Buffalo Stampede	Prewitt	—	1933
95%	The Cocoanuts	Bather	—	1929

TV

		Credit
No Score Yet	Gunsmoke 1955-1975	Willard Kerner	1975 1967
No Score Yet	I Dream of Jeannie 1965-1970	Gen. Martin Peterson Patterson Peterson	1970 1969 1968 1967 1966 1965
No Score Yet	The Monkees 1966-1968	Bart/Ben	1967 1966
83%	The Munsters 1964-1966	Big Roy	1966
No Score Yet	Perry Mason 1957-1966	Archer Osmond Harold Minter Senator Sheriff Eugene Norris	1964 1963 1960 1959

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