Alec Craig


Biography

Alec Craig was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Craig's earliest roles were in film, including the Burgess Meredith dramatic adaptation "Winterset" (1936), "Mary of Scotland" (1936) with Katharine Hepburn and "Wise Girl" (1937). He also appeared in "Meet the Missus" (1937), "The Woman I Love" (1937) and "Vivacious Lady" (1938). His passion for acting continued to his...

Biography

Alec Craig was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Craig's earliest roles were in film, including the Burgess Meredith dramatic adaptation "Winterset" (1936), "Mary of Scotland" (1936) with Katharine Hepburn and "Wise Girl" (1937). He also appeared in "Meet the Missus" (1937), "The Woman I Love" (1937) and "Vivacious Lady" (1938). His passion for acting continued to his roles in projects like the crime flick "Stranger on the Third Floor" (1940) with Peter Lorre, the comedy "Three Cheers For the Irish" (1940) with Thomas Mitchell and "Phantom Raiders" (1940). He also appeared in "A Date With the Falcon" (1941). In the latter half of his career, he continued to act in the action film "Northern Pursuit" (1943) with Errol Flynn, the Roddy McDowall drama "Lassie Come Home" (1943) and the drama "Forever and a Day" (1943) with Anthony Collins. He also appeared in "Dangerous Passage" (1944) and the Basil Rathbone mystery "The Spider Woman" (1944). Craig was most recently credited in "Three Strangers" (1946) with Sydney Greenstreet. Craig passed away in June 1945 at the age of 61.

Filmography

 

Cast (Feature Film)

Three Strangers (1946)
Old man
Kitty (1946)
McNab
Girl on the Spot (1946)
Murgatriod
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
Werner
Love Letters (1945)
Dodd
The House of Fear (1945)
Angus
National Velvet (1945)
Tim
The Brighton Strangler (1945)
Hotel porter
Tonight and Every Night (1945)
Englishman
Bring on the Girls (1945)
Stage doorman
Passport to Destiny (1944)
Cook
Gaslight (1944)
Turnkey
The Woman in the Window (1944)
Garageman
Ghost Catchers (1944)
Diggs
Career Girl (1944)
Pop [Theodore Billings]
The Spider Woman (1944)
Radlik
Dangerous Passage (1944)
Dawson
Jungle Woman (1944)
Caretaker
Jane Eyre (1944)
Footman
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
Billings
And Now Tomorrow (1944)
Mr. Meade
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
McGonigle
It's a Great Life (1943)
Alf
The Ghost Ship (1943)
Blind beggar
Holy Matrimony (1943)
Aylmer
Lassie Come Home (1943)
Buckles
Northwest Rangers (1943)
McKenzie
Calling Dr. Death (1943)
Watchman [Bill]
Appointment in Berlin (1943)
Smitty
Northern Pursuit (1943)
Angus McBain
Coney Island (1943)
Forever and a Day (1943)
Pomfret's butler
This Above All (1942)
Conductor
The Old Homestead (1942)
McTavish
Roxie Hart (1942)
Idler
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Joe
Life Begins at Eight-Thirty (1942)
Santa Claus
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Scottish farmer
Random Harvest (1942)
Comedian
The Lone Star Ranger (1942)
Mr. Strong
Orchestra Wives (1942)
Henry Fink
The Mad Martindales (1942)
Coachman
Her Cardboard Lover (1942)
Danny
Tennessee Johnson (1942)
Andrews
Wildcat (1942)
Joseph D. Campbell
The Undying Monster (1942)
Will
A Date with the Falcon (1942)
Waldo Sampson/Herman Sampson
Cat People (1942)
Zoo keeper
Wrecking Crew (1942)
Charley
The Night Before the Divorce (1942)
Jitters [Noonan]
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942)
Printer
Meet the Chump (1941)
Justice
Ride on Vaquero (1941)
Limey
Three Girls About Town (1941)
Samuel
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)
Thomas, clerk
Shining Victory (1941)
Jeweler
All That Money Can Buy (1941)
Eli Higgins
Barnacle Bill (1941)
MacDonald
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
Waiter
Out of the Fog (1941)
Suspicion (1941)
Man in Hogarth club
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
Trem Cogdall
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Chartmaker
And One Was Beautiful (1940)
Michael
Zanzibar (1940)
Sailor Brown
A Dispatch from Reuters (1940)
Grant
Golden Gloves (1940)
McDonald
Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
Defense attorney
Phantom Raiders (1940)
Andy MacMillan
Tom Brown's School Days (1940)
Old Thomas
I'm Still Alive (1940)
Mr. Briggs
Three Cheers for the Irish (1940)
Callahan
The Earl of Chicago (1940)
Son
The Blue Bird (1940)
Groom
The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939)
Little man
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
Postman
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Second speaker
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939)
Marriage bureau clerk
Charlie McCarthy, Detective (1939)
Bounds
Let Us Live (1939)
Bookkeeper juror
Rulers of the Sea (1939)
Foreman [MacNeil]
They Made Her a Spy (1939)
Canby
Night Work (1939)
Mr. Day
The Arkansas Traveler (1938)
Drunken printer
Double Danger (1938)
Gardener
Crashing Hollywood (1938)
Miss Miggs
Vivacious Lady (1938)
Joseph
If I Were King (1938)
Spy
Lord Jeff (1938)
Gardener
That Girl from Paris (1937)
Justice of the peace
Wise Girl (1937)
Dermont O'Neil
China Passage (1937)
Harvey Dinwiddle
There Goes My Girl (1937)
"Godfrey"
The Woman I Love (1937)
Doctor
She's Got Everything (1937)
Justice of the peace
Meet the Missus (1937)
College president
Hideaway (1937)
Jerry Nolan
Super-Sleuth (1937)
Eddie, doorman
The Man Who Found Himself (1937)
Hobo
Parnell (1937)
Middle aged man
Mary of Scotland (1936)
Donal
Winterset (1936)
Hobo
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)
Man in church
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
McCoy
Dressed to Thrill (1935)
Scottish soldier

Cast (Short)

Forbidden Passage (1941)

Life Events

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