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Buckskin

as Dr. H. 'Doc' Raymond

1968
Arizona Bushwhackers

as Sheriff Grover

1968
The Rounders

as Tanner

1965
Town Tamer

as James Fell

1965
Law of the Lawless

as Big Tom Stone

1964
Outlaws

as Marshal Frank Caine

1960
Noose for a Gunman

as Carl Avery

1960
Hell's Crossroads

as Clyde O'Connell

1957
The Man Is Armed

as Det. Lt. Dan Coster

1956
Three Violent People

as Yates

1956
Wetbacks

as Karl Shanks

1956
Naked Gun

as Joe Barnum

1956
Jaguar

as Steve Bailey

1956
Foxfire

as Mr. Mablett

1955
The Glenn Miller Story

as General Arnold

1954
Jubilee Trail

as Deacon Bartlett

1954
Rails Into Laramie

as Lee Graham

1954
Kansas Pacific

as Cal Bruce

1953
Captain Scarface

as Captain Scarface

1953
Cow Country

as Marvin Parker

1953
The Half-Breed

as Marshal Cassidy

1952
Drums in the Deep South

as Sgt. Mac McCardle

1951
Best of the Badmen

as Joad

1951
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

as Lieutenant John Reece

1950
The Bandit Queen

as Sheriff Jim Harden

1950
Red Light

as Detective Strecker

1949
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

as Pat McCormick

1948
Silver River

as 'Banjo' Sweeney

1948
Unknown Island

as Capt. Tarnowski

1948
Relentless

as Tex Brandow

1948
Barton MacLane Barton MacLane

Birthday

1902-12-25

Place of Birth

Columbia, South Carolina, USA

Biography

Barton MacLane graduated from Wesleyan University, where he displayed a notable aptitude for sports, in particular football and basketball. Not surprisingly, his physical prowess led to an early role in The Quarterback (1926) with Richard Dix. MacLane once commented that, as an actor, he needed to have the physical strength to tear the bad guys "from limb to limb", if necessary. Ironically, it was usually Barton himself who was destined to be at the end of a hiding (when not getting shot, instead), typically as snarling henchmen, outlaws and other assorted dubious or abrasive types throughout most of his 40-year acting career. In fact, Barton became so typecast that his name was for a time used proverbially, to generally describe a shouting, hard-nosed ruffian. After training at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, MacLane joined a stock company in Brooklyn. In 1927 he had his first part on Broadway, a brief moment as an assistant district attorney, in the melodrama "The Trial of Mary Dugan". He then played a small featured role as a police officer in "Subway Express" (1929-30), a drama enacted in the interior of a subway car. In mid-1932 MacLane tried his hand at writing his own starring vehicle for the stage, entitled "Rendezvous". While the play closed after just 21 performances, it led to a contract with Warner Brothers. Barton had already appeared in bit roles for Paramount at their Astoria Studios, including The Marx Brothers' debut film The Cocoanuts (1929). He portrayed mobster Brad Collins in 'G' Men (1935) (with James Cagney), which set the tone for most of his future assignments. Brawny, with squinty eyes and a rasping voice, MacLane was the ideal surly tough guy, particularly suitable for westerns and the type of films noir Warner Brothers excelled at. He was often cast as cops, be they bent or honest. Some of his most representative performances include gangster Al Kruger in Bullets or Ballots (1936), which won him some of the best critical notices of his career; outlaw Jack Slade in Western Union (1941); crooked construction boss Pat McCormick, who gets beaten up by Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt over past-due wages in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948); hard-nosed cops Detective Dundy in The Maltese Falcon (1941) and Lt. Reece in Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950). MacLane, on loan to Universal, also had a starring role in Prison Break (1938) as an innocent tuna fisherman who is framed for murder. He was prominent as a tough but sympathetic cop, foil to sleuthing girl reporter Glenda Farrell in the "Torchy Blaine" series of the mid- to late 1930s. In the 1960s Barton began to cultivate a good-guy image as Marshal Frank Caine in the NBC western series Outlaws (1960) as well as showing up in a small recurring role as Air Force Gen. Martin Peterson in I Dream of Jeannie (1965). Barton was married to the actress Charlotte Wynters, who appeared with him in six of his films. When not on the set, the couple spent time on their 2000-acre cattle ranch in Madera County, California. For his work in television, Barton has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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