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Jack Buchanan
Sign in to saveBritish actor, singer, director and producer (1891-1957)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 34
Top works
- Desert death raid
- Escape from Nicaragua (Stone M.I.A. Hunter, No 8) (Stone M.I.a. Hunter, No 8)
- Exodus from Hell (M. I. A. Hunter, Book 5)
- Invasion U.S.S.R
- M I A Hunter/back (Stone M.I.a. Hunter, No 14)
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Film & TV
Helensburgh, Scotland, UK
Known for
- Get Aboard! 'The Band Wagon' — Self (archive footage)2005
- That's Entertainment! III — (archive footage) (uncredited)1994
- That's Entertainment, Part II — (archive footage)1976
- That's Entertainment! — (archive footage) (uncredited)1974
- The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli — Self (archive footage)1973
- As Long as They're Happy — John Bentley1955
- Josephine and Men — Charles Luton1955
- The French, They Are a Funny Race — Le Major Marmaduke Thompson1955
- The Band Wagon — Jeffrey Cordova1953
- Elstree Story — Himself1952
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Listeners · Last.fm
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- 10,052
- Total plays
- 36,269
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Jack Buchanan (2 April 1891 – 20 October 1957) was a British theatre and film actor, singer, producer and director. He was known for three decades as the embodiment of the debonair man-about-town in the tradition of George Grossmith Jr., and was described by The Times as "the last of the knuts." He is best known in America for his role in the classic Hollywood musical The Band Wagon in 1953. According to the Everything Stops For Tea Songfacts, in spite of his impeccable English accent Buchanan
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jack
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Helensburgh
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- director
- Educated at
- The Glasgow Academy
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Jack Buchanan MGM photo.jpg
- Work location
- Scotland
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- date of birth
- 1891-04-02
- date of death
- 1957-10-20
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Jack Buchanan
- cause of death
- spinal cord neoplasm
- place of burial
- Golders Green Crematorium
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