George Macready

George Peabody Macready Jr. (August 29, 1899 – July 2, 1973) was an American stage, film, and television actor often cast in roles as polished villains. Early life Macready was born in Providence, Rhode Island on August 29, 1899. He graduated from the local Classical High School and, in 1917, from Brown University. Shortly thereafter, Macready suffered a disfiguring injury, which, as the actor would later note, proved a mixed blessing: affording him a reliably steady supply of jobs, but only within a rigidly circumscribed range. As of October 1958, by Macready's own count, he had been cast as the "mastermind criminal" type in at least 65 of his 75 television and motion picture assignments. He explained: Producers have found it effective to emphasize my rather nasty looking cheek scar, which I received in an auto accident many years ago. Macready also claimed to be a descendent of the 17th-Century English actor William Charles Macready, whose example he cited as the chief inspiration for his own pursuit of acting.