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
Complete Filmography
Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
2007
as Dr. Moriarty (archive footage)
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
1991
as Dr. Joseph Van Ee (archive footage)
A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.
The Horror of It All
1983
as Dr. Cameron (archive footage)
A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them.
Doom of Dracula
1966
as Prof. Lampini (archive footage)
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
1951
as Egyptian Ambassador (uncredited)
King David enters into an adulterous affair with the beautiful Bathsheba, which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.
The First Legion
1951
as Father Robert Stuart
A Catholic priest fights against his colleagues' immediate acceptance of an ambiguous “miracle”.
Flame Of Stamboul
1951
as The Voice
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
1950
as Judge Mackenzie
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
1950
as H.G. Danziger
A smuggler hides from hit men with a Greek fisherman and his daughter.
Madame Bovary
1949
as Dubocage
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
1949
as The Judge
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
1949
as Dr. Fortescue
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
1948
as Constable of Clervaux
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
1948
as The Viceroy
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
1948
as Otto Dagoff
Lloyd Bridges plays a flying ace war hero who gets sucked into a counterfeiting scheme by opposing gangs of crooks.
Tarzan and the Mermaids
1948
as Palanth, the High Priest
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?
1948
as Doc Robbin
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
1947
as Marquis De Carvajal
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
1947
as Paul Stertorius
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
1947
as Father Donnard
A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.
Lured
1947
as H.R. Barrett
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
1947
as Craxton
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
1947
as Dr. Josef Van Ee
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
1946
as Mr. Mallam
A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.
The Flying Serpent
1946
as Prof. Andrew Forbes
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!
1945
as Dr. Pavel Storasky
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
1945
as Detective Geddes
During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.
Week-End at the Waldorf
1945
as Bey of Aribajan
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
1945
as Jelke
Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.
Sudan
1945
as Horadef
A desert pickpocket, his sidekick, and an escaped slave help an incognito queen in danger.
Having Wonderful Crime
1945
as King aka The Great Movel
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
1945
as Security Council Chair
Short documentary film about the Dumbarton Oaks plan and the proposed formation of the United Nations.
Fog Island
1945
as Leo Grainger
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
1944
as Prof. Bruno Lampini
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
1944
as Frank Swift
A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion.
The Seventh Cross
1944
as Fahrenburg
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
1944
as Ape Man
The discovery of a perfectly preserved caveman prompts a mad scientist to attempt a daring brain transplant.
The Mummy's Ghost
1944
as Andoheb, High Priest of Arkan
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
1944
as Nicholas
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
1943
as Tony Rocco
Nightclub gangsters hire a vaudeville act called the Three Funny Bunnies (Ritz Brothers).
The Mad Ghoul
1943
as Dr. Alfred Morris
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
1943
as Mr. Crepitude
An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.
The Black Raven
1943
as Amos Bradford
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
1943
as Lloyd Clayton / Elwyn Clayton
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
1943
as Heinrich Hinckel aka Richard Stanley
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
1942
as Lord Denby
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
1942
as Andoheb
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
1942
as Dr. Robert Renault
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
1942
as Peter van Hoost
A murder occurs on a train bound for Shanghai during World War II.
The Mad Monster
1942
as Lorenzo Cameron
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
1942
as Dr. Hugo Streger
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
1941
as Dr. Edwin L. Jannery
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
1941
as Webster
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
1941
as Defense Attorney
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
1941
as Dr. Jeris
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
1941
as Dr. Parry
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
1940
as Abbadi
A rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing some precious jewels.
Arise, My Love
1940
as Prison Governor
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
The Mummy's Hand
1940
as Professor Andoheb
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
1940
as Vicomte Ribaud
A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939
as Procurator
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
1939
as Lawyer Crosby
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
1939
as James K. Spaulding
The story of a young man's discovery of his father.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1939
as Professor Moriarty
Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis, Sherlock Holmes, ...
The Magnificent Fraud
1939
as Dr. Luis Virgo
A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator.
Captain Fury
1939
as Arnold Trist
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
1938
as Dr. Cardigan
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
1938
as Rolf Alferson
The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.
Suez
1938
as Prime Minister
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
1938
as Dr. Waxton
A socialite dumps her fiancé on their wedding day and runs off with a saxophone player. Comedy.
Marie Antoinette
1938
as Governor of Conciergerie (uncredited)
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
1938
as Otto Brockler
Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.
Lord Jeff
1938
as James 'Jim' Hampstead
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
1938
as Prefect of Police
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
1937
as General Maroff
West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom.
The Firefly
1937
as Secret Service Chief
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
1937
as Count Armalia
A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.
Madame X
1937
as Dr. LaFarge
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
1937
as Woodley
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
1937
as Inspector Jefferson
A newspaperman, his canine companion, and an adventurous socialite investigate an umbrella-wielding murderer who is terrorizing a London neighborhood.
Saratoga
1937
as Dr. Bierd
A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Parnell
1937
as Sir Charles Arthur Russell
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
1936
as Dr. Adolph Kammer
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
1936
as Crowley Bascomb
A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
1936
as The Colonel's Butler
An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them.
The Common Round
1936
as Dr. Pyke
"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
1935
as Officer of the Firing Squad
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
“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
1935
as Convict
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
1934
as Proprietor of the Maison de Paris
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
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?
1934
as Inspector Hull
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
1934
as Bailiff
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
1934
as Revered Mayne
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
1933
as Fauntley
Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
The Roof
1933
as James Renton
Inspector Darrow investigates the death of a wealthy man.
The Man from Toronto
1933
as Squire
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
1932
as Lord Dore
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
1932
as Prosecutor (uncredited)
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
1931
as Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac
In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into t...