Name Alec Craig | Role Character actor | |
Movies National Velvet, Lassie Come Home, Tom Brown's School D, Three Cheers for the Irish, Crashing Hollywood Similar People Joseph Santley, Lloyd Bacon, Roy Webb, Fred M Wilcox, Herbert Stothart | ||
Alexander Younger Craig "Alec" Craig (30 March 1884 – 25 June 1945), was a Scottish character actor, particularly known for his roles in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and National Velvet (1944). He was particularly known for portraying stereotypically tight-fisted Scotsmen.
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Alec Craig was born on 30 March 1884 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, the son of James Chapman Craig and his wife Isabella.
Criag died of tuberculosis on 25 June 1945 in Glendale, California, US. He is buried there at Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Personal life
He married his wife Margaret L. (born 8 July 1888 in Dunfermline) in Edinburgh on 24 September 1919. They arrived in the US on 2 November 1919. They had a son James C Craig (born 4 December 1922, Berkeley, California). He became a naturalized US citizen on 14 July 1939.