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George Bancroft was an American historian and statesman who served as the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1945 to 1947. He was born on September 30, 1882 in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Bancroft attended Harvard University, where he graduated with a degree in history in 1904. After graduation, he worked as a professor of history at Harvard and later at Columbia University.
Bancroft was appointed Secretary of the Navy in 1945 by President Harry S. Truman. He served in this position until 1947. During his tenure, he oversaw the demobilization of the Navy after World War II and the transition to a peacetime force.
Bancroft was also a prolific author, writing several books on American history. His most famous work is the multi-volume History of the United States, which was published between 1834 and 1874.
Bancroft died on January 17, 1891 in Washington, D.C. He was 88 years old.
At the time of his death, George Bancroft had an estimated net worth of $2 million.
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| Occupation |
actor |
| Age |
74 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Libra |
| Born |
30 September 1882 |
| Birthday |
30 September |
| Birthplace |
Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Date of death |
January 17, 1891 |
| Died Place |
Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Nationality |
United States |
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George Bancroft Height, Weight & Measurements
At 74 years old, George Bancroft height
is 6' 2" (1.88 m) .
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6' 2" (1.88 m) |
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Who Is George Bancroft's Wife?
His wife is Sarah Dwight (m. 1827-1837)
Elizabeth Davis Bliss
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| Wife |
Sarah Dwight (m. 1827-1837)
Elizabeth Davis Bliss |
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Not Available |
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George Bancroft Net Worth
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Timeline
Into the 1940s, he only did a handful of films. But he again had a rogue's spotlight with another name director -- Cecil B. DeMille -- in one of his always epic yarns.
This time it was a Texas Ranger chasing a murderer over the Canadian border in North West Mounted Police (1940) with a stellar cast including Gary Cooper, everybody's favorite blond Madeleine Carroll, and Paulette Goddard as fleeing criminal, Jacques Corbeau's (Bancroft) daughter.
Deeds Goes to Town (1936); a doctor in A Doctor's Diary (1937); a few sea captains along the way; and most memorably Marshal Curly Wilcox in the John Ford Western (his first with sound) Stagecoach (1939). Here he is particularly engaging tough lawman but with a big heart.
Bancroft declared, "One bullet can't kill Bancroft!" Although he stayed busy through the 1930s, he was older and stouter -- the stuff of featured characters. And Bancroft was also getting a lot of competition from younger character actors. In the early '30s, his roles continued to typecast him as lead heavies, but increasingly, he was cast as second tier -- if with more variety -- in later roles. He was paper editor MacWade in Mr.
Their work culminated with Sternberg's Thunderbolt (1929) for which Bancroft received an Oscar nomination. He was tops at the box office. Bancroft's various on-screen personas as bigger-than-life strong man was not far from his off-screen character as Hollywood notability got to him. It was recalled that he became more difficult to deal with as his ego grew. At one point, he refused to obey a director's order that he fall down after being shot by the villain.
Through 1924 and into 1925, he did four, culminating with pay dirt in his appealing performance as rogue Jack Slade in the James Cruze Western The Pony Express (1925). With him was another up-and-coming character actor, Wallace Beery. Bancroft's acting made Paramount Pictures take a look at him as star material.
By 1923, he was good enough for Broadway and spent about a year there doing two plays.
But he was already good enough for some early camera work for by 1921, so he had made his first appearance in the silent movie medium. Being a big man with dark features, he was a natural for heavies. And it seemed that early Westerns were an easy fit as well after his first four films.
George Bancroft was raised in Philadelphia and attended high school at Tomes Institute (Philadelphia). He won an impressive appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis and graduated as a commissioned officer. He served in the Navy for the prescribed period of required service but no more. He decided to turn to show business, first as a theater manager. He worked in the old and fading minstrel show variety format into the 1920s but then decided to try his hand at acting.
His roles as tough guy took on more flesh into the later 1920s, especially in association with director Josef von Sternberg and his well-honed gangster films that started with Underworld (1927).
