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George Macready (August 29, 1908 - July 2, 1973) was a movie actor with a distintive scar (from an auto accident) that helped him land roles as aristocratic villains. Macready was an art collector, and he claimed to be a descendant of the 19th-century Shakespearean actor William Macready. He established a profitable Los Angeles art gallery with his friend and fellow actor Vincent Price during the 1940s. His movies include A Kiss Before Dying
(1956), Vera Cruz (1954), The Big Clock
(1948), and, maybe most famously, as sexually ambivalent casino owner Ballin Mundson in Gilda
(1946).

However, some film aficionados consider his best role to be the fanatical French general from World War I he played in Stanley Kubrick's classic, Paths of Glory
, where he ordered his artillery to fire on his own troops when they failed to take an impossible objective.

Later in his career, Macready appeared in many television programs. He portrayed the character of Martin Peyton in the television series Peyton Place (1965-68).

Macready was born in Providence, Rhode Island and graduated from Brown University.

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