GEORGE CLEVELAND BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Canadian film actor George Cleveland had a nearly sixty year career, working on the vaudeville circuit, on stage, in television, on radio, and in over 180 motion pictures. The actor was born on September 17, 1885 in Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada.
He spent his early professional days in his native country, until he went to the U.S. with his own stock company. He eventually settled in New York, and then went to Hollywood in 1934 for the Noah Beery Sr. film Mystery Liner. For the next twenty years he stayed in Hollywood, acting in a large number of pictures.
Cleveland originally appeared in minor roles in westerns and serials, like three John Wayne westerns The Star Packer, The Man from Utah and Blue Steel (all 1934), The Plainsman (1936) and West Bound Limited (1937). However, in the early 1940's he was signed with RKO and began having more substantial roles. Some of his more significant parts were in the Elizabeth Taylor family drama Courage of Lassie (1946), the Abbott and Costello comedies Little Giant (1946) and The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947), and Roy Rogers’ western Trigger, Jr. (1950). The actor also found roles in a few television shows. They include an episode each of Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1953) and Death Valley Days (1954), as well as a three year stint as Gramps on the series Lassie (1954-57), starring Tommy Rettig and Jan Clayton, which kept him busy for the rest of his career.
George Cleveland passed away while working on Lassie on July 15, 1957 in Burbank, California from a heart attack.
Filmography:
1930 The Thoroughbred
1931 The Sky Raiders
1933 He Couldn't Take It
1934 A Woman's Man
1934 Blue Steel
1934 City Limits
1934 Girl o' My Dreams
1934 House of Mystery
1934 Monte Carlo Nights
1934 Mystery Liner
1934 School for Girls
1934 The Man from Utah
1934 The Star Packer
1934 Voice in the Night
1935 Cheers of the Crowd
1935 Do Your Stuff
1935 Forced Landing
1935 His Night Out
1935 Keeper of the Bees
1935 Make a Million
1935 She Gets Her Man
1935 The Hoosier Schoolmaster
1935 The Public Menace
1935 The Spanish Cape Mystery
1936 Black Gold
1936 Brilliant Marriage
1936 Don't Get Personal
1936 Flash Gordon
1936 Foolproof
1936 I Conquer the Sea!
1936 North of Nome
1936 Phantom Patrol
1936 Put on the Spot
1936 Revolt of the Zombies
1936 Rio Grande Romance
1936 Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island
1936 The Plainsman
1936 Two-Fisted Gentleman
1937 A Girl with Ideas
1937 Adventure's End
1937 Atlantic Flight
1937 Behind the Mike
1937 Boy of the Streets
1937 Breezing Home
1937 Night Key
1937 Paradise Express
1937 Prescription for Romance
1937 Small Town Boy
1937 Swing It, Professor
1937 The Devil Diamond
1937 The Toast of New York
1937 Trapped by G-Men
1937 West Bound Limited
1938 Born to Be Wild
1938 Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars
1938 Ghost Town Riders
1938 Outlaws of Sonora
1938 Port of Missing Girls
1938 Prison Break
1938 Romance of the Limberlost
1938 Rose of the Rio Grande
1938 Strange Case of Dr. Meade
1938 The Lone Ranger
1938 Under the Big Top
1939 Convict's Code
1939 Dick Tracy's G-Men
1939 Home on the Prairie
1939 Konga, the Wild Stallion
1939 Mutiny in the Big House
1939 Overland Mail
1939 Streets of New York
1939 Stunt Pilot
1939 The Phantom Stage
1939 The Sap Takes a Wrap
1939 Wolf Call
1940 Blazing Six Shooters
1940 Chasing Trouble
1940 Drums of Fu Manchu
1940 Haunted House
1940 Hidden Enemy
1940 Midnight Limited
1940 One Man's Law
1940 Pioneers of the West
1940 Queen of the Yukon
1940 Soak the Old
1940 The Ape
1940 The Old Swimmin' Hole
1940 The Wild Stallion
1940 Tomboy
1940 West of Abilene
1941 A Crime Does Not Pay Subject: 'Forbidden Passage'
1941 A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
1941 Look Who's Laughing
1941 Man at Large
1941 Nevada City
1941 Playmates
1941 Riders of the Purple Sage
1941 Sucker List
1941 Sunset in Wyoming
1941 The Devil and Daniel Webster
1941 Two in a Taxi
1941 Two-Faced Woman
1941 Wide Open Town
1942 Army Surgeon
1942 Call Out the Marines
1942 Here We Go Again
1942 Highways by Night
1942 Hold 'Em Jail
1942 Mail Trouble
1942 Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
1942 My Favorite Spy
1942 Obliging Young Lady
1942 Powder Town
1942 Seven Miles from Alcatraz
1942 The Big Street
1942 The Falcon Takes Over
1942 The Spoilers
1942 The Traitor Within
1942 Valley of the Sun
1943 Cowboy in Manhattan
1943 Johnny Come Lately
1943 Klondike Kate
1943 Ladies' Day
1943 Man from Music Mountain
1943 The Woman of the Town
1944 Abroad with Two Yanks
1944 Alaska
1944 Can't Help Singing
1944 It Happened Tomorrow
1944 Man from Frisco
1944 My Best Gal
1944 My Pal Wolf
1944 The Yellow Rose of Texas
1944 When the Lights Go on Again
1945 Dakota
1945 God Is My Co-Pilot
1945 Her Highness and the Bellboy
1945 It's in the Bag!
1945 Pillow of Death
1945 Senorita from the West
1945 She Wouldn't Say Yes
1945 Song of the Sarong
1945 Sunbonnet Sue
1946 Angel on My Shoulder
1946 Boys' Ranch
1946 Courage of Lassie
1946 Little Giant
1946 Step by Step
1946 The Runaround
1946 The Show-Off
1946 Wake Up and Dream
1946 Wild Beauty
1947 Easy Come, Easy Go
1947 I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
1947 Mother Wore Tights
1947 My Wild Irish Rose
1947 The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
1948 A Date with Judy
1948 Albuquerque
1948 Fury at Furnace Creek
1948 Miraculous Journey
1948 The Plunderers
1949 Home in San Antone
1949 Kazan
1949 Miss Grant Takes Richmond
1949 Rimfire
1950 Frenchie
1950 Please Believe Me
1950 The Boy from Indiana
1950 Trigger, Jr.
1951 Fort Defiance
1952 Carson City
1952 Cripple Creek
1952 Flaming Feather
1952 The WAC from Walla Walla
1953 Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1953 Affair with a Stranger
1953 San Antone
1953 Walking My Baby Back Home
1954 Death Valley Days
1954 Fireman Save My Child
1954 Lassie
1954 Outlaw's Daughter
1954 Racing Blood
1954 Rails Into Laramie
1954 Untamed Heiress
