George Zucco

George Zucco

1886-01-10 Manchester, England, UK 100 Credits

Biography

From Wikipedia George Zucco (11 January 1886 – 27 May 1960) was an English character actor who appeared, almost always in supporting roles, in 96 films during a career spanning two decades, from 1931 to 1951. In his horror films, he often played a suave villain or a mad doctor.

Known For

Filter by:

Complete Filmography

Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb

Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb

2007

as Dr. Moriarty (archive footage)

Acting

Our intrepid adventurers Ace Zucco and Mike Flannigan from Terror in the Tropics return for another exciting quest in Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb. Ac...

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

1991

as Dr. Joseph Van Ee (archive footage)

10.0
Acting

A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.

The Horror of It All

The Horror of It All

1983

as Dr. Cameron (archive footage)

8.0
Acting

A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them.

Doom of Dracula

Doom of Dracula

1966

as Prof. Lampini (archive footage)

Acting

An EIGHT minute excerpt from the 1944 feature, House of Frankenstein, released in the 1960's to the 16mm & 8mm home movie market.

David and Bathsheba

David and Bathsheba

1951

as Egyptian Ambassador (uncredited)

5.7
Acting

King David enters into an adulterous affair with the beautiful Bathsheba, which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.

The First Legion

The First Legion

1951

as Father Robert Stuart

6.8
Acting

A Catholic priest fights against his colleagues' immediate acceptance of an ambiguous “miracle”.

Flame Of Stamboul

Flame Of Stamboul

1951

as The Voice

4.5
Acting

An American agent working undercover as a cafe pianist in Cairo sets out to capture a notorious spy and jewel thief known as "The Voice".

Let's Dance

Let's Dance

1950

as Judge Mackenzie

5.5
Acting

Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her wealthy and controlling mother-in-law. Alone and joble...

Harbor of Missing Men

Harbor of Missing Men

1950

as H.G. Danziger

6.0
Acting

A smuggler hides from hit men with a Greek fisherman and his daughter.

Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary

1949

as Dubocage

6.8
Acting

A frivolous country girl married to a naïve small-town doctor goes down the path of destruction when she grows tired of her limited social status.

The Barkleys of Broadway

The Barkleys of Broadway

1949

as The Judge

6.8
Acting

Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful musical-comedy team, known for their stormy but passionate relationship. Dinah feels overshadowed by Josh and ...

The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden

1949

as Dr. Fortescue

7.1
Acting

When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Mary changes the lives of those she...

Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc

1948

as Constable of Clervaux

6.1
Acting

In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of A...

The Pirate

The Pirate

1948

as The Viceroy

6.4
Acting

A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and ...

Secret Service Investigator

Secret Service Investigator

1948

as Otto Dagoff

6.0
Acting

Lloyd Bridges plays a flying ace war hero who gets sucked into a counterfeiting scheme by opposing gangs of crooks.

Tarzan and the Mermaids

Tarzan and the Mermaids

1948

as Palanth, the High Priest

6.0
Acting

A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.

Who Killed Doc Robbin?

Who Killed Doc Robbin?

1948

as Doc Robbin

3.7
Acting

A group of people find themselves trapped in a creepy mansion, complete with secret passageways, a mad doctor and a murderous gorilla.

Captain from Castile

Captain from Castile

1947

as Marquis De Carvajal

7.1
Acting

Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced to f...

Where There's Life

Where There's Life

1947

as Paul Stertorius

5.6
Acting

In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only heir is a timid New York radio personality, Michael...

Desire Me

Desire Me

1947

as Father Donnard

5.7
Acting

A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.

Lured

Lured

1947

as H.R. Barrett

6.3
Acting

Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached b...

Moss Rose

Moss Rose

1947

as Craxton

6.4
Acting

When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body. Luckily, another chorus girl saw a gentleman leaving the...

Scared to Death

Scared to Death

1947

as Dr. Josef Van Ee

4.2
Acting

A woman is married to the son of a doctor, the proprietor of a private sanatorium, where she is under unwilling treatment. Both the son and the doctor...

The Imperfect Lady

The Imperfect Lady

1946

as Mr. Mallam

Acting

A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.

The Flying Serpent

The Flying Serpent

1946

as Prof. Andrew Forbes

4.6
Acting

A demented archaeologist discovers a living, breathing serpent creature known to the Aztecs as Quetzalcoatl and accidentally kills his wife by giving ...

Hold That Blonde!

Hold That Blonde!

1945

as Dr. Pavel Storasky

6.4
Acting

Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by a girl. His psychoanalyst advises him to find another...

Confidential Agent

Confidential Agent

1945

as Detective Geddes

5.6
Acting

During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.

Week-End at the Waldorf

Week-End at the Waldorf

1945

as Bey of Aribajan

6.0
Acting

Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for ...

Midnight Manhunt

Midnight Manhunt

1945

as Jelke

4.5
Acting

Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.

Sudan

Sudan

1945

as Horadef

6.3
Acting

A desert pickpocket, his sidekick, and an escaped slave help an incognito queen in danger.

Having Wonderful Crime

Having Wonderful Crime

1945

as King aka The Great Movel

6.3
Acting

Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain resort on a search for a missing magician.

Watchtower Over Tomorrow

Watchtower Over Tomorrow

1945

as Security Council Chair

5.0
Acting

Short documentary film about the Dumbarton Oaks plan and the proposed formation of the United Nations.

Fog Island

Fog Island

1945

as Leo Grainger

5.2
Acting

Leo, a former convict, is living in seclusion on an island with his step-daughter, the daughter of his late wife. Leo was framed by a group of former ...

House of Frankenstein

House of Frankenstein

1944

as Prof. Bruno Lampini

6.0
Acting

Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count...

Shadows in the Night

Shadows in the Night

1944

as Frank Swift

5.3
Acting

A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion.

The Seventh Cross

The Seventh Cross

1944

as Fahrenburg

6.7
Acting

In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee ...

Return of the Ape Man

Return of the Ape Man

1944

as Ape Man

5.4
Acting

The discovery of a perfectly preserved caveman prompts a mad scientist to attempt a daring brain transplant.

The Mummy's Ghost

The Mummy's Ghost

1944

as Andoheb, High Priest of Arkan

5.7
Acting

An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning th...

Voodoo Man

Voodoo Man

1944

as Nicholas

5.0
Acting

A mad doctor (Bela Lugosi) and his helpers (John Carradine, George Zucco) lure girls to his lab for brain work, to help his wife.

Never a Dull Moment

Never a Dull Moment

1943

as Tony Rocco

6.0
Acting

Nightclub gangsters hire a vaudeville act called the Three Funny Bunnies (Ritz Brothers).

The Mad Ghoul

The Mad Ghoul

1943

as Dr. Alfred Morris

6.0
Acting

A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning the would-be surgeon into a murdering ghoul as pa...

Holy Matrimony

Holy Matrimony

1943

as Mr. Crepitude

6.6
Acting

An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.

The Black Raven

The Black Raven

1943

as Amos Bradford

5.4
Acting

One dark and stormy night, an escaped convict, an embezzler, a runaway daughter, her intended and her father, and a gangster take refuge in a remote ...

Dead Men Walk

Dead Men Walk

1943

as Lloyd Clayton / Elwyn Clayton

4.4
Acting

When a small town doctor buries his twin brother, a practitioner of the black arts, he believes him dead; but subsequent events force him to realize ...

Sherlock Holmes in Washington

Sherlock Holmes in Washington

1943

as Heinrich Hinckel aka Richard Stanley

6.7
Acting

In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on She...

The Black Swan

The Black Swan

1942

as Lord Denby

6.4
Acting

When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of buccane...

The Mummy's Tomb

The Mummy's Tomb

1942

as Andoheb

5.6
Acting

A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian...

Dr. Renault's Secret

Dr. Renault's Secret

1942

as Dr. Robert Renault

5.2
Acting

A remake of the 1927 horror film "The Wizard". Dr. Larry Forbes arrives in a remote French village to visit his fiancée who lives with her scientist ...

Half Way to Shanghai

Half Way to Shanghai

1942

as Peter van Hoost

Acting

A murder occurs on a train bound for Shanghai during World War II.

The Mad Monster

The Mad Monster

1942

as Lorenzo Cameron

3.2
Acting

A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly crazy scientific theories - and exact revenge.

My Favorite Blonde

My Favorite Blonde

1942

as Dr. Hugo Streger

6.4
Acting

Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded...

Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring

Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring

1941

as Dr. Edwin L. Jannery

5.7
Acting

The benefactor of the Stack Memorial Hospital dies after an operation. Ellery Queen investigates when it is revealed the cause of death was murder by ...

International Lady

International Lady

1941

as Webster

6.4
Acting

Tim Hanley, an American agent, posing as a lawyer with the United States Embassy in London, and Reggie Oliver, a Scotland Yard detective, posing as a...

A Woman's Face

A Woman's Face

1941

as Defense Attorney

6.9
Acting

A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.

Topper Returns

Topper Returns

1941

as Dr. Jeris

6.4
Acting

Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Gail Richards, accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of her wealt...

The Monster and the Girl

The Monster and the Girl

1941

as Dr. Parry

5.8
Acting

After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape ...

Dark Streets of Cairo

Dark Streets of Cairo

1940

as Abbadi

6.0
Acting

A rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing some precious jewels.

Arise, My Love

Arise, My Love

1940

as Prison Governor

6.3
Acting

A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.

The Mummy's Hand

The Mummy's Hand

1940

as Professor Andoheb

5.7
Acting

A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving ...

New Moon

New Moon

1940

as Vicomte Ribaud

6.8
Acting

A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1939

as Procurator

7.3
Acting

Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback...

The Cat and the Canary

The Cat and the Canary

1939

as Lawyer Crosby

7.0
Acting

Ten years after the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his will is to be read out to his six relatives, including Joyce Norman and Wally Campbell. Org...

Here I Am a Stranger

Here I Am a Stranger

1939

as James K. Spaulding

7.0
Acting

The story of a young man's discovery of his father.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

1939

as Professor Moriarty

6.9
Acting

Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis, Sherlock Holmes, ...

The Magnificent Fraud

The Magnificent Fraud

1939

as Dr. Luis Virgo

Acting

A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator.

Captain Fury

Captain Fury

1939

as Arnold Trist

4.9
Acting

An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.

Charlie Chan in Honolulu

Charlie Chan in Honolulu

1938

as Dr. Cardigan

6.4
Acting

While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freigh...

Arrest Bulldog Drummond

Arrest Bulldog Drummond

1938

as Rolf Alferson

6.6
Acting

The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.

Suez

Suez

1938

as Prime Minister

5.2
Acting

Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.

Vacation from Love

Vacation from Love

1938

as Dr. Waxton

Acting

A socialite dumps her fiancé on their wedding day and runs off with a saxophone player. Comedy.

Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette

1938

as Governor of Conciergerie (uncredited)

6.6
Acting

The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the riv...

Fast Company

Fast Company

1938

as Otto Brockler

5.4
Acting

Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.

Lord Jeff

Lord Jeff

1938

as James 'Jim' Hampstead

7.1
Acting

Spoiled child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and steal jewelry from exclusive shops. During a a ca...

Arsène Lupin Returns

Arsène Lupin Returns

1938

as Prefect of Police

5.8
Acting

A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy ...

Rosalie

Rosalie

1937

as General Maroff

5.5
Acting

West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom.

The Firefly

The Firefly

1937

as Secret Service Chief

6.4
Acting

Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French officers, in order fo...

The Bride Wore Red

The Bride Wore Red

1937

as Count Armalia

6.7
Acting

A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.

Madame X

Madame X

1937

as Dr. LaFarge

6.2
Acting

An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her i...

Souls at Sea

Souls at Sea

1937

as Woodley

6.0
Acting

Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.

London by Night

London by Night

1937

as Inspector Jefferson

5.9
Acting

A newspaperman, his canine companion, and an adventurous socialite investigate an umbrella-wielding murderer who is terrorizing a London neighborhood.

Saratoga

Saratoga

1937

as Dr. Bierd

6.2
Acting

A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Parnell

Parnell

1937

as Sir Charles Arthur Russell

4.6
Acting

Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ...

After the Thin Man

After the Thin Man

1936

as Dr. Adolph Kammer

7.3
Acting

Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady...

Sinner Take All

Sinner Take All

1936

as Crowley Bascomb

4.8
Acting

A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.

The Man Who Could Work Miracles

The Man Who Could Work Miracles

1936

as The Colonel's Butler

5.7
Acting

An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them.

The Common Round

1936

as Dr. Pyke

Acting

"The Common Touch" tells of an elderly headmaster (George Zucco) whose Christian beliefs are re-affirmed when he hears news from two of his ex-pupils ...

Abdul the Damned

Abdul the Damned

1935

as Officer of the Firing Squad

5.3
Acting

In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the le...

What’s in a Name?

1935

as Foot

Acting

“Comedy concerning a clerk pretending to be a European composer who falls in love with a woman who poses as an actress.” - BFI.

It's a Bet

It's a Bet

1935

as Convict

Acting

A young English reporter makes a bet with a wealthy publisher that he can disappear for a month. In his absence the publisher makes much of the myster...

Something Always Happens

Something Always Happens

1934

as Proprietor of the Maison de Paris

6.0
Acting

Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol station...

Road House

1934

as Hotel Manager

5.5
Acting

Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson.

What Happened Then?

What Happened Then?

1934

as Inspector Hull

5.0
Acting

Young Raymond Rudford,sculptor, is on trial for slitting the throat of his uncle, who had adopted and raised him after Raymond's parent's died when he...

The Lady Is Willing

The Lady Is Willing

1934

as Bailiff

6.0
Acting

In this comedy-mystery, a private detective helps three businessmen get even with the man who misused their investments. The detective plans to kidnap...

Autumn Crocus

Autumn Crocus

1934

as Revered Mayne

7.0
Acting

A teacher falls in love with the married owner of the guest house in which she is staying during a holiday to Austria.

The Good Companions

The Good Companions

1933

as Fauntley

5.8
Acting

Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.

The Roof

The Roof

1933

as James Renton

5.4
Acting

Inspector Darrow investigates the death of a wealthy man.

The Man from Toronto

The Man from Toronto

1933

as Squire

4.0
Acting

According to the terms of a will two strangers must marry. Leila (Jessie Matthews) is an English widow, and Fergus (Ian Hunter) is a Canadian bachelo...

The Midshipmaid

The Midshipmaid

1932

as Lord Dore

Acting

Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along and organizes a morale-boosting show util...

There Goes the Bride

There Goes the Bride

1932

as Prosecutor (uncredited)

6.4
Acting

A businessman's daughter runs away from an arranged marriage, only to find herself penniless and suspected of theft after she becomes the victim of a ...

Dreyfus

Dreyfus

1931

as Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac

Acting

In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into t...