George macready biography

American actor (–)

George Peabody Macready Jr.^[1] (August 29, – July 2, )^[2] was an American stage, film, and television actor often cast in roles as polished villains.^[3]

Early life

Macready was born in Providence, Rhode Island^[4] on August 29, He claimed to be a descendent of the 19th-century English actor William Charles Macready, whose example he cited as the chief inspiration for his own pursuit of acting.^[5] He graduated from the local Classical High School^[1] and, in , from Brown University.^[6]

Shortly thereafter, Macready suffered a disfiguring injury in a car accident, 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.^[6][7] As of October , by Macready's own count, he had been cast as the "mastermind criminal" type in at least 65 of his 75 television and