Clifford McLaglen was a Stepney, London or Cape Town, Cape Colony - born British film actor.
10 Facts About Clifford McLaglen
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Clifford McLaglen was one of nine or ten children and brother of several actors including Victor McLaglen, Oscar winner for best actor, The Informer, and nominated for best supporting actor The Quiet Man.
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Clifford McLaglen was born Clifford Henrich McLaglen from Scottish, Irish, and Dutch ancestry.
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Clifford McLaglen served in the Second World War going out to Iceland to help guard Sir Winston Churchill, for which he obtained a bulldog and polar bear badge.
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Clifford McLaglen was part of a film unit at that time in the army.
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Clifford McLaglen's father was born in Cape Town, South Africa where he was a missionary for the Free Protestant Episcopal Church and came to London to study as Clerk in Orders, eventually becoming Titular Bishop of Claremont in Cape Town but forgoing this to help with the work he dedicated to the helping of poverty stricken children in London and beggars.
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Clifford McLaglen worked in a tin mine in Cornwall before joining up in 1914.
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Clifford McLaglen starred in many silent films in Britain, in Boadicea in 1927; France and Germany, making in 1929 the reputedly first German Talkie with Conrad Veidt, Bride 68 or Das Land Ohne Frauen, set in Australia with camels and the desert but all filmed in a Berlin studio with a tank of water spilling from overhead and an aeroplane propeller.
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In 1929 Clifford McLaglen filmed in Majorca, in Die Schmugglerbraut von Sorrento, bringing over horses with him, which he said were seasick.
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Clifford McLaglen was going to make a film called Ropes of Sand but nothing came of it.