Biography: George Waggner |
Born in New York City, George WaGGner--who spelled his name precisely that way--initially studied at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy before serving in World War I. After the war, he went to Los Angeles and worked in a multitude of capacities, as... more
Find videos of George WaggnerFree George Waggner videos- Movies (28)
- Videos
Cast: Coleen Gray
Tags: Drama Adventure Adventure Drama
Length: 65min
Destination 60,000 was one of a cycle of late-1950s films dealing with the exploits of supersonic-jet test pilots. Though plane manufacturer Colonel Ed Buckley (Preston S. Foster) relies heavily upon the daring of his ace pilot Jeff Connors (Pat...
Cast: Jack Webb
Tags: Propaganda Film Drama
Length: 30min
Jack Webb serves and host and narrator of this justifiably infamous propaganda short, produced under the auspices of Warner Brothers head Jack Warner on behalf of the United States Department of Defense. Jerry Donovan (Jack Kelly) is a typical...
Cast: Patricia Neal
Tags: Combat Films Action Comedy War Romance
Length: 110min
If one is a subscriber to cable TV's American Movie Classics, it is virtually impossible to avoid seeing the John Wayne starrer Operation Pacific; judging by the frequency of its showings, the film must be someone's very special favorite down at AMC....
The Fighting Kentuckian (1949)
Cast: John Wayne Oliver Hardy
Tags: Western Traditional Western
Length: 100min
Set shortly after the Battle of New Orleans, the film casts John Wayne as John Breen, a Kentucky trooper making the long journey homeward with his confreres. Breen becomes involved with a plan by robber baron Blake Randolph (John Howard) to deprive...
Tags: Western
Length: 80min
George Montgomery stars in Pawnee as Paul, a white man raised by Indians. Upon attaining adulthood, Paul finds himself rejected by both the Pawnee tribe and the white community. He manages to attain a job as a wagon train scout, but even in this...
Cast: Maria Montez Travis Banton Preston S. Foster
Tags: Drama
Length: 76min
A rare black-and-white Maria Montez vehicle, Tangier can be described as a second-echelon Casablanca. Montez plays a Spanish dancer named Rita, who is determined to bring Nazi collaborator Colonel Jose Artiego (Preston Foster) to justice. Artiego is...
Cast: Randolph Scott Bruce Cabot
Tags: Outlaw (Gunfighter) Film Western
Length: 87min
Zane Grey, that bottomless bounty of inspiration for Hollywood westerns, wrote the novel upon which Gunfighters was based. Randolph Scott stars as a gunslinger who's vowed to kill no more. He goes to work for a land baron (Griff Barnett) who's been...
Cast: Andy Devine Turhan Bey George Waggner Alan Curtis
Length: 63min
In this costume drama, a woman travels from New England to California's Barbary coast to avenge her brother's death. There she becomes a saloon singer in a sleazy bar, the bar frequented by the killer. The bar's owner, and the local crime lord begin...
Cast: Charles Coburn Ginny Simms
Length: 94min
In this crime drama, a former card shark finally gets paroled and decides to take his singing niece to Chicago to make a new start. Unfortunately, the musical niece ends up working at a gangster's nightclub and the gambler, unable to resist the lure...
Cast: Boris Karloff Gale Sondergaard Jack Pierce
Tags: Thriller Psychological Thriller Horror
Length: 85min
The Climax was hurriedly and economically filmed on leftover sets from Universal's super-production The Phantom of the Opera. In his Technicolor debut, Boris Karloff plays Dr. Hohner, a brilliant but unstable theatrical physician who murders a...
Portions of Content Provided by All Movie Guide ®, a trademark of All Media Guide, LLC.© 2009 All Media Guide, LLC.