George Bancroft

George Bancroft was an American film actor, whose career spanned seventeen years from 1925 to 1942. A star of pre-Code Hollywood, he is best known as the tough guy lead in four Josef von Sternberg films, the last of which, Thunderbolt, earned him a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actor. He was later a supporting player in a number of notable movies, including Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) and Stagecoach (1939).