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George Zucco (1886-1960) was a British character actor who appeared in 96 films, mostly American-made, from the 1920s to 1951. He often played a suave villain, a member of nobility, or a mad doctor, and starred in several Universal horror films.
George Zucco (1886-1960) was a British-born actor who appeared in stage, film and TV. He was known for his roles as villains, doctors and nobles, such as Professor Moriarty in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) and Dr. Lorenzo Cameron in The Mad Monster (1942).
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- Manchester, England, UK
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- Hollywood, California, USA
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George Zucco was born in Manchester, England, on 11 January 1886. Like fellow countryman William Henry Pratt, Zucco would end up in Canada to ply his trade against the wildness and vast open spaces. Zucco debuted on the Canadian stage in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1908 in a stock theater company. Zucco played the circuit of shows similar to what young W...
George Zucco returned to the United States in 1935. He worked with Gary Cooper and George Raft in Souls at Sea (1937), and had a small part in Jean Harlow’s last film Saratoga (1937). The claim to fame and his best role was that of Professor Moriarty in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939), opposite Basil Rathboneas Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Br...
Like Boris Karloff, Zucco took every role he was offered in the forties. This, like dear Boris, made him a ‘working actor,’ but also meant he was in some questionable material. Zucco appeared in B-films and Universal horror films, including The Mummy’s Hand (1940), The Mummy’s Tomb (1942), and ‘Poverty Row’ productions like The Mad Monster (1942), ...
George Zucco retired due to illness, after a small role in David and Bathsheba (1951). The terrible disease of dementia ended his career in the 1950s, and he died on 27 May 1960, from pneumonia in an assisted-living facility at the age of 74. Zucco had a wife, Stella Francis, whom he married in 1930. They were together till his death. The two had a...
The legacy of George Zucco is the fact that he was a ‘working actor,’ which few could say at his level. Yes, there were some moments best confined to lovable cardboard sets of the Ed Wood style that would also claim aged Bela Lugosi. Zucco, like Karloff, Lugosi and Rathbone, came from the stage that was a source for actors (unlike today). The skill...
Learn about the life and career of George Zucco, a versatile actor who played villains and supporting roles in many films, including Universal horror classics. Discover his stage background, his war service, his famous co-stars, and his tragic end.
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Learn about George Zucco, the English character actor who played villains in many B-picture horror films, such as The Mummy's Hand and House of Frankenstein. Find out his background, career, death and some interesting facts about his life.
George Zucco was an English character actor who appeared in 96 films from 1931 to 1951, often in horror and mystery roles. He played villains, mad doctors, detectives, and other supporting characters in movies such as The Mummy's Hand, The Mad Ghoul, and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
George Zucco was an English character actor who appeared, almost always in supporting roles, in 96 films during a career spanning two decades, from 1931 to 1...
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British actor George Zucco began his career during the transition from silent films to pictures with sound. After honing his craft as a vaudeville actor in the 1910s, Zucco made his screen debut in the 1931 film "The Dreyfus Case," which chronicled the conviction of French officer Alfred Dreyfus...
