George Bancroft

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Biography

George Bancroft was raised in Philadelphia and attended high school at Tomes Institute daughter. By 1942, Bancroft had decided to move on, retiring with the intention of becoming a Southern California rancher. He quietly assumed this new role for a long run of 14 years before his passing.

  • Primary profession
  • Actor
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 03 October 1800
  • Place of birth
  • Worcester· Massachusetts
  • Death date
  • 1891-01-17
  • Death age
  • 74
  • Place of death
  • Washington· D.C.
  • Education
  • Phillips Exeter Academy·University of Göttingen·Harvard University
  • Knows language
  • English language
  • Member of
  • Russian Academy of Sciences·Accademia dei Lincei·Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities·American Antiquarian Society·Hellenic Philological Society of Constantinople·Prussian Academy of Sciences·American Historical Association·American Academy of Arts and Sciences·Academy of Sciences of Turin·Democratic Party
  • Parents
  • Aaron Bancroft

Movies

TV

Books

Awards

Trivia

Screen and stage actor.

Interred in the mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetary, Santa Monica, California.

His only childs name is Georgette.

Grandson is composer Hial Bancroft King, by way of daughter, Georgette Bancroft.

Quotes

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement,By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another. .

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