George Irving (American actor)
George Henry Irving was an American film actor and director.
Career
Irving started his career as a theatre actor, notably as leading man to Maude Adams. He came to Hollywood in 1914 and acted in over 250 films from 1914 until 1948. Irving was initially an actor-director and directed about 35 silent films, which are mostly forgotten today. He switched exclusively to acting in the mid-1920s and became a character actor until the later 1940s.Irving usually played reputable and stern persons of authority in supporting roles. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Robert Wentworth in Coquette, and as the lawyer Alexander Peabody in Bringing Up Baby. He ended his prolific career with two television roles in the 1950s.
Personal life
George Irving and his wife, Katherine Gilman, had two daughters, Katharine and Dorothy. He died from a heart attack in Hollywood in 1961, aged 86.Selected filmography
Actor
- Paid in Full as Jimsey Smith
- The Jungle as Minor Role
- The Education of Mr. Pipp as John Willing
- Body and Soul as The Rider
- Jaffery as Minor Role
- Does the Jazz Lead to Destruction?
- North of 36 as Eric Porter
- Wanderer of the Wasteland as Mr. Roderick Virey
- The Man Who Fights Alone as Dr. Raymond
- Madonna of the Streets
- North of 36 as Pattison
- Her Market Value as Harvey Dumont
- The Goose Hangs High as Bernard Ingals
- The Air Mail as Peter Rendon
- Wild Horse Mesa as Lige Melberne
- The Golden Princess as Bill Ket
- The Primrose Path as Prosecutor John Morton
- His Jazz Bride
- The King of the Turf as Colonel Fairfax
- Desert Gold as Richard Stanton Gale
- The Midnight Kiss as Thomas H. Hastings, Sr.
- 3 Bad Men as Gen. Neville
- Risky Business as Schubal Peabody
- The Ice Flood as Thomas De Quincy
- The City as George Rand Sr
- Fangs of Justice
- Wings
- The Godless Girl
- The Docks of New York
- Modern Mothers
- Coquette
- Dance Hall
- Paris Bound
- Thunderbolt
- Young Eagles
- The Divorcee
- Maybe It's Love
- Dishonored
- A Free Soul
- An American Tragedy
- The Last Flight
- The Unholy Garden
- The Cisco Kid
- Broken Lullaby
- Merrily We Go to Hell
- Air Mail
- Rasputin and the Empress
- Island of Lost Souls
- 42nd Street
- Employees' Entrance
- What! No Beer?
- Christopher Bean
- Heroes for Sale
- Night Flight
- Mr. Skitch
- David Harum
- Viva Villa!
- Manhattan Melodrama
- The World Moves On
- You're Telling Me!
- Bright Eyes
- Under the Pampas Moon
- Charlie Chan in Egypt
- Dante's Inferno
- Dangerous
- A Night at the Opera
- Hearts Divided as Thomas Jefferson
- A Message to Garcia
- Sutter's Gold
- Captain January
- Private Number
- Hearts in Bondage
- Charlie Chan at the Race Track
- Give Me Liberty
- Breakfast for Two
- High Flyers
- The Toast of New York
- Bringing Up Baby
- The Saint in New York
- Mother Carey's Chickens
- The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
- Sergeant Madden
- The Hardys Ride High
- Hell's Kitchen
- Dust Be My Destiny
- Espionage Agent
- Bad Little Angel
- Laddie
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois as Robert E. Lee
- Calling Philo Vance
- Johnny Apollo
- An Angel from Texas
- Florian
- New Moon
- Knute Rockne All American
- Little Men
- She Couldn't Say No
- Golden Hoofs
- The Great Mr. Nobody
- Love Crazy
- Sergeant York
- Bullets for O'Hara
- The Vanishing Virginian
- The Great Man's Lady
- Once Upon a Honeymoon
- Hangmen Also Die! as Necval
- Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
- Son of Dracula
- Lady in the Death House
- Christmas Holiday
- Raiders of Ghost City
- Bluebeard
- Magic Town
- Mickey
Director
- The Woman in 47
- The Ballet Girl
- Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman
- Daughter of Destiny
- The Landloper
- Back to the Woods
- To Hell with the Kaiser!
- Hidden Fires
- The Glorious Lady
- The Misleading Lady
- The Wakefield Case