
Gaunt-looking American character actor Frank McGlynn Sr. is best remembered for his many portrayals in 1930s and 1940s historical films of US President Abraham Lincoln. McGlynn began performing on stage in 1896. Prior to that, he had been a practicing lawyer, a graduate of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.

Sergeant York
1941 · as Mountaineer (uncredited)

Captain Blood
1935 · as Reverend Ogle

The Wet Parade
1932 · as Food Control Speaker (uncredited)

Parnell
1937 · as Pat Hogan

Love Affair
1939 · as Orphanage Superintendent (uncredited)

Hello, Everybody!
1933 · as Jonathan Reed

The Last of the Mohicans
1936 · as Gamut

The Plainsman
1936 · as Abraham Lincoln

Strange Glory
1938 · as Abraham Lincoln

The Great Barrier
1937 · as Sir John Macdonald

Folies Bergère de Paris
1935 · as Joseph

Boom Town
1940 · as Deacon

The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936 · as Abraham Lincoln

These Three
1936 · as Judge (uncredited)

In Old California
1942 · as Undetermined Minor Role

Trail Street
1947 · as Tim McKeon (uncredited)

Charlie Chan's Greatest Case
1933 · as Amos Winterslip

The Littlest Rebel
1935 · as Abraham Lincoln