Quotes
 [about his professional bout with boxer Jack Johnson] He never knocked me down . . . but he sure beat the livin` be-Jesus out of me. [about his early years] Acting never appealed to me, and I was dabbling in it solely as a means of making money. I rather felt that the greasepaint business was somewhat beneath a man who was once a reasonably useful boxer.
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Trivia
Father-in-law of actress Veda Ann Borg.
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He died about a month after his final role in an episode of "Rawhide" (1959), directed by his son Andrew V. McLaglen.
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Before becoming an actor, he worked as a carnival boxer. If anyone could stay in the ring with him for one round and not be knocked down, they won a box of cigars.
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In spite of being a powerful hulk his whole life (his huge shoulders making even John Wayne's look small), he was sixty-four and in declining health by the time he was in The Quiet Man (1952). Even prickly John Ford had to be sensitive to McLaglen's condition while shooting that movie's grueling fight sequence.
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Is portrayed by Ron Kamien in Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story (2001) (TV).
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Under the pseudonym Paul Romano, McLaglen boxed future heavyweight champion Jess Willard in a four-round exhibition match in Springfield, Missouri, on 26 September 1911.
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Brother of actor Clifford McLaglen.
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He left home at fourteen to join the army with the intention of fighting in the Second Boer War. However much to his disappointment, he was stationed at Windsor Castle and was later forced to leave the army when his true age was discovered.
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When he was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for The Quiet Man (1952), he became the first performer to be nominated for a supporting role after having already won an Oscar for a leading role, having won the Best Actor Oscar for The Informer (1935) seventeen years earlier.
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Brother of actor Leopold McLaglen.
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Interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California, USA.
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Younger brother of boxer Fred McLaglen, aka Fred McKay (lifetime boxing record 6-11-2)
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He was cast mostly as Irishmen, particularly by John Ford, but he was actually British, his ancestry being mainly Scot.
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According to a 1912 newspaper report, McLaglen participated in a fencing duel with one Carl Brosius in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, prior to that date.
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Boxed and wrestled under the nickname 'Sharkey' McLaglen, as well as under his real name, prior to his movie career. His lifetime boxing record (as far as is known) was 11-6-1, with 9 KOs. His 1909 bout with legendary champion Jack Johnson in Vancouver was a six-round exhibition bout.
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Brother of actor and sculptor Arthur McLaglen.
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Grandfather of Mary McLaglen.
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Daughter Sheila McLaglen born 1920.
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First performer to win an Oscar for a performance in a remake. The Informer (1935), the movie that won him an Oscar, was a remake of The Informer (1929).
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In 1932, while still a British citizen, McLaglen captained a band called the Hollywood Light Horse, described as "a military organization formed to promote Americanism and combat Communism and radicalism subversive to Constitutional government." For the most part, McLaglen and his troopers marched around in their specially tailored military uniforms to their favorite restaurants and bars. When that bid for social attention began to wane, Hollywood Light Horse members began drifting over to a parallel organization known as the Hollywood Hussars. The more serious purpose of the Hussars was to invade the Soviet Republic of Georgia to secure drilling rights for an American oil millionaire who was bankrolling their enterprise. At one point, McLaglen was a member along with George Brent, the sheriff of Los Angeles County and the city police chief. Gary Cooper was described as one of the sponsors, but that assertion was withdrawn following protests by Cooper's representatives. In any event the Hussars never got to invade Georgia - their most conspicuous public outing was a march one afternoon down to the Los Angeles newspaper offices of William Randolph Hearst, where they serenaded the publisher from the sidewalk in a group song, in gratitude for his anti-Communist editorials.
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Born an Englishman, McLaglen became a U.S. citizen in January, 1933.
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Brother of actor Cyril McLaglen.
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Father of film director Andrew V. McLaglen.
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Was nearly fifty before he became a bankable actor in films like The Lost Patrol (1934) and The Informer (1935).
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Brother of actor Kenneth McLaglen
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During the British occupation of the TransJordan (now Iraq) in the 1920s, McLaglen, who was a sergeant in the British army, was appointed provost marshal - chief of military police - for Baghdad.
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