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Your personal choice of actors who have portrayed Lincoln
08-30-2012, 09:15 PM
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(08-08-2012 08:18 AM)Hess1865 Wrote:  Lets not forget Frank McGlynn who played Lincoln in 'The Prisoner of Shark Island' [1936]
According to IMDB, McGlynn basically made a career of playing Lincoln in the movies.
He played Abe in THIRTEEN films and shorts between 1914-1939

I forgot about McGlynn. Here is a pic I found on wikipedia.

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08-30-2012, 09:19 PM
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Wonder who the fellow was who played Lincoln in the Geiko commercial? That was such a hoot? And Mary!

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08-30-2012, 09:41 PM
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(08-30-2012 09:19 PM)LincolnMan Wrote:  Wonder who the fellow was who played Lincoln in the Geiko commercial? That was such a hoot? And Mary!

That was a great one Bill!
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08-30-2012, 10:16 PM (This post was last modified: 08-30-2012 10:26 PM by emma1231.)
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11-11-2012, 10:25 AM
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Yesterday's Washington Times had an article on actors who have played Lincoln.
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11-11-2012, 10:33 AM
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Joseph Leisch Jr. was a dead ringer I thought. He was in "They've Killed President Lincoln", the David L. Wolper TV docudrama. The man who played Stanton was also a doppelganger. The resemblances were uncanny.

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11-11-2012, 11:08 AM
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I am still going with Raymod Massey!
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06-12-2013, 09:28 PM
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I watched Walter Houston's 1930 portrayal of Abraham Lincoln this week. I had to think that in 1930 it must have seemed pretty good. It holds up fairly well, today I'd say.

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06-13-2013, 10:52 PM
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My apologies to Fritz Klein, Jim Getty, and Roy Dotrice, among others. Huston is still my all-time favt. Lincoln. Too bad the film was so awful, esp. the scenes with Una Merkel (Ann Rutledge).
LEisch was pretty bad in the Wolper show, which encouraged the thought that Stanton might have been beh. the murder. (Other than that, it was a great show!) The Stanton of the piece was the young Robt. Prosky, who told me in person that he devised his own make-up. Reminds me of Joe Henabery, who also did his own make-up for Griffith's "Birth of a Nation" . Griffith's film marred by Abe reprising words from the second inaugural from the Prez. box at the theatre. Real corn. Ian Keith as JWB also corney as hell, but that's the way Booth had been depicted , as a cardboard villain. (By the way, 26 yrs. later Ian Keith played Booth's father on Bway in a Bway play ("Edwin Booth"), and Massey played his dad 17 yrs. after "Abe Lincoln in Ill." (in "Prince of Players")
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06-14-2013, 06:26 AM
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(06-13-2013 10:52 PM)emma1231 Wrote:  My apologies to Fritz Klein, Jim Getty, and Roy Dotrice, among others. Huston is still my all-time favt. Lincoln. Too bad the film was so awful, esp. the scenes with Una Merkel (Ann Rutledge).
LEisch was pretty bad in the Wolper show, which encouraged the thought that Stanton might have been beh. the murder. (Other than that, it was a great show!) The Stanton of the piece was the young Robt. Prosky, who told me in person that he devised his own make-up. Reminds me of Joe Henabery, who also did his own make-up for Griffith's "Birth of a Nation" . Griffith's film marred by Abe reprising words from the second inaugural from the Prez. box at the theatre. Real corn. Ian Keith as JWB also corney as hell, but that's the way Booth had been depicted , as a cardboard villain. (By the way, 26 yrs. later Ian Keith played Booth's father on Bway in a Bway play ("Edwin Booth"), and Massey played his dad 17 yrs. after "Abe Lincoln in Ill." (in "Prince of Players")


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06-14-2013, 03:01 PM
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But was the film so bad for 1930? Yes, it contained "bad" history. Wonder how it was perceived in 1930? Did the audience walk away admiring Lincoln? Broad questions, I know.

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06-14-2013, 03:16 PM
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Ask Laurie or Roger Big Grin

So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in?
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06-14-2013, 03:22 PM
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Oh Gene you're bad!

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06-15-2013, 05:07 AM
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(06-14-2013 03:16 PM)Gene C Wrote:  Ask Laurie or Roger

Laurie was sitting in the row in front of me, and the one thing I recall about her reaction was her excitement over seeing the daguerreotype of Ann Rutledge. She was unaware of its existence.

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LINCOLN HOLDING THE ANN RUTLEDGE DAGUERROTYPE
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06-15-2013, 08:52 AM
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Where's this going? HaHa
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