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Barton MacLane
Acting
25 Dec 1902
† 01 Jan 1969
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, instea...
Also Known As
Ernest Barton MacLane, Barton Mac Lane, Barton Maclane, Barton McLane, Бартон Маклейн


































