George Mathews
George Mathews may refer to:
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George Mathews (judge)
George Mathews, Jr. (September 30, 1774 – November 14, 1836), was a Judge of the Superior Courts of the Territory of Mississippi and the Territory of Orleans, and Presiding Judge of the Louisiana Supreme Court from 1813 until his death in 1836. His ruling in Marie Louise v. Marot was cited as precedent by dissenting U.S. Supreme Court Justice John McLean in the 1856 landmark Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
Early life
Mathews was born in Augusta County, Virginia, on September 30, 1774, the son of a planter and Revolutionary War officer, George Mathews and his wife, Polly. The elder Mathews would later serve twice as Governor of Georgia. In 1785, the elder Mathews moved himself and his whole family to Wilkes County, Georgia, to land that today is in Oglethorpe County.
Mathews returned to Virginia for his education at Liberty Hall Academy (which later became Washington and Lee University). He originally set out to become a physician but was persuaded by his father to study law under his brother, John Mathews, in Augusta, Georgia. He married Harriet Flowers in 1809 and they resided near St. Francisville, Louisiana, at her family's Butler Greenwood Plantation.
George Mathews (actor)
George Mathews (10 October 1911 – 7 November 1984) was an American actor whose career stretched from an uncredited appearance in Stage Door Canteen in 1943 to Going Home in 1971. Burly, heavy-featured, and tall (6' 5") he had an extensive career on stage which began in the early 1930s, when he failed to get a job with the U.S. Mail. He joined the W.P.A. Theatre, and landed a key role in the play Processional (1937) as Dynamite Jim.
With his broad face, strong eyebrows, pug nose, and jutting lower lip, Mathews was often cast as heavies or hardened military types. He appeared in both the stage (1942–43) and film version (1944) of The Eve of St. Mark, as Sergeant Ruby. He also succeeded in effectively portraying comic thugs, which he did in Pat and Mike (1952), starring Katharine Hepburn, and in the Garson Kanin-directed musical comedy Do Re Mi (1960–62), as Fatso O'Rear, starring Phil Silvers. He also demonstrated his comedic talent in the short-lived television comedy series Glynis (1963), playing ex-cop Chick Rogers, who assists a mystery writer and amateur sleuth, played by Glynis Johns, in solving "whodunnits", He was also in the Broadway play Catch Me If You Can in 1965. Perhaps his most memorable role was as Harvey in The Bensonhurst Bomber episode of The Honeymooners.
'George Mathews' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Broken Promise (1981)
Actors: David Askell (actor), James Bodean (actor), William H. Burkett (actor), George Coe (actor), Norman Colvin (actor), Canaan Crouch (actor), Tony Frank (actor), Nik Hagler (actor), David Haskell (actor), Harlan Jordan (actor), John McCaffrey (actor), Randy Moore (actor), Miles Mutchler (actor), Chris Sarandon (actor), Marc Alaimo (actor),
Genres: Drama,The Millionaire (1978)
Actors: Domingo Ambriz (actor), Martin Balsam (actor), Ralph Bellamy (actor), William Demarest (actor), Patrick Driscoll (actor), Bill Hudson (actor), Brett Hudson (actor), Mark Hudson (actor), John Ireland (actor), Paul Jackson (actor), Milt Kogan (actor), Mike Minor (actor), P.R. Paul (actor), Robert Quarry (actor), Edward Albert (actor),
Plot: This was an attempt to revive the old television series wherein a millionaire gives a million dollars to total strangers and how it affects their lives. In this case he first gives to a man who works in a garage with his two brothers, and their boss is a slave driver. And a lawyer who is the son of a successful one but chooses not to have anything to do with his father and is a poor public defender and whose wife is the director of a youth center which is about to lose its funding. And a man whose missing partner might be guilty of embezzlement but since his is not around he's going to have to answer for it.
Keywords: remakeGenres: Drama,
Mathews, George Filmography
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1971, role: actor , character name: Malloy
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1967, role: actor , character name: Centurion
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1962, role: actor
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1960, role: actor , character name: Sam Pierce
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1959, role: actor , character name: Shadow
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1958, role: actor , character name: Pyke
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1957, role: actor , character name: John Shanssey
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1956, role: actor , character name: Dillon
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1956, role: actor , character name: Sheriff Bull Harper
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1955, role: actor , character name: Williams
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1954, role: actor , character name: Duke Fargoh
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1953, role: actor , character name: Capt. Meade aka Ralph Sorensen
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1953, role: actor , character name: Henderson
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1953, role: actor , character name: Romany O'Rattigan
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1952, role: actor , character name: Chief Petty Officer Link
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1952, role: actor , character name: Sylvester 'Spec' Cauley
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1952, role: actor , character name: Father Kennedy
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1946, role: actor
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1945, role: actor
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1945, role: actor , character name: Trap Driver
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1945, role: actor , character name: John Flood
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1944, role: actor , character name: Blackie
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1944, role: actor , character name: Army Sergeant
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1944, role: actor , character name: Dooley
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1944, role: actor , character name: Guardian Angel
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1944, role: actor , character name: Sgt. Ruby
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1943, role: actor , character name: Marine Sergeant with Ray Bolger
Mathews, George Filmography
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2011, role: actor , character name: George
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2003, role: producer
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