Myron McCormickFilmography

Born:: February 8, 1907 in Albany, IN
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Heavy-set character actor Myron McCormick attended Princeton University, where he was active in college theatricals. Together with fellow Princetonite Joshua Logan, McCormick was one of the founders of the University Players, a Cape Cod summer stock group that boasted such developing talents as James Stewart...Read More

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A Public Affair

Actors: Myron McCormick, Edward Binns, Judson Pratt, Jackie Loughery, Paul Birch

Synopsis: California politics is the clinically dissected yet informative and interesting topic of this feature-length drama by co-directors Bernard Girard and Robert Lewis. Relegating any character development to secondary status, the two directors have opted for a mode more in keeping with a television Read More

1962
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Museum Piece

Synopsis: A skeleton in a museum collection of Native American artifacts catches the eye of a man named Newton Clovis (Myron McCormick). Curator Clay Hollister (Larry Gates) insists that the skeleton is that of an Indian, but Newton suspects otherwise. In flashback, we learn that Newton is absolutely right Read More

1961
The Hustler

Actors: Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie, George C. Scott, Myron McCormick

Synopsis: As The Hustler's "Fast" Eddie Felson, Paul Newman created a classic antihero, charismatic but fundamentally flawed, and nobody's role model. A pool player from Oakland, CA, as good as anyone who ever picked up a cue, Eddie has an Achilles' heel: arrogance. It's not enough for him to win: he must Read More

1961
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: I Can Take Care of Myself

Synopsis: When mobster Little Dandy Dorf (Frankie Darro) makes a pass at sultry nightclub singer Georgia (Linda Lawson), he is punched out by Georgia's accompanist, Bert Haber (Myron McCormick). Publicly humiliated by the incident, Little Dandy vows to get even with Bert -- but chooses an incredibly Read More

1960
The Untouchables: The Frank Nitti Story

Synopsis: Although his bootlegging operation has been smashed up and his boss Al Capone is in Federal Prison, Frank Nitti (Bruce Gordon) still has plenty of crooked irons in the fire. One his most lucrative enterprises is a Hollywood-based extortion racket, designed to control exhibition prices for theater Read More

1960
The Man Who Understood Women

Actors: Leslie Caron, Henry Fonda, Cesare Danova, Myron McCormick, Marcel Dalio

Synopsis: After making Man Who Understood Women and seeing that the result was an ill-realized, uneven combination of Hollywood satire and tear-jerking melodrama, star Henry Fonda did not make another film until almost three years later. The story centers on a Hollywood producer who becomes so obsessed with Read More

1959
Burning Bright

Actors: Colleen Dewhurst, Dana Elcar, Donald Madden, Myron McCormick

Synopsis: Four-time Emmy Award-winning actress Colleen Dewhurst and Tony Award-winner Myron McCormick star in this performance of the classic John Steinbeck play concerning a veteran circus performer who is crushed to learn that he will soon die without having ever fathered a child. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Read More

1959
No Time for Sergeants

Actors: Andy Griffith, Myron McCormick, Nick Adams, Murray Hamilton, Howard I. Smith

Synopsis: Mac Hyman's hilarious barracks novel No Time for Sergeants was adapted for TV by Ira Levin in 1955, with newcomer Andy Griffith as bumptious Air Force draftee Will Stockdale. This TV version was soon afterward transformed into a Broadway play, and then a movie, again with Griffith in the lead. Read More

1958
Three for the Show

Actors: Betty Grable, Marge Champion, Gower Champion, Jack Lemmon, Myron McCormick

Synopsis: Three for the Show is a musical remake of the 1940 comedy Too Many Husbands, which in turn was based on a play by Somerset Maugham. In her next-to-last film, Betty Grable plays Julie, a popular musical comedy stars whose husband Marty (Jack Lemmon) is reported missing in action during WW2. After Read More

1955
Not as a Stranger

Actors: Olivia de Havilland, Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Charles Bickford

Synopsis: Ambitious but impecunious medical student Lucas Marsh (Robert Mitchum) marries the older and (in this film, at least) not especially attractive Kristina Hedvigson (Olivia de Havilland) so that she can pay his tuition fees. Kristina loves Lucas, but he loves nothing but his work. Emotionally Read More

1955
Jolson Sings Again

Actors: Larry Parks, Barbara Hale, William Demarest, Ludwig Donath, Bill Goodwin

Synopsis: This Technicolor follow-up to Columbia's 1946 blockbuster The Jolson Story again stars Larry Parks as legendary entertainer Al Jolson--and Jolson himself, as Parks' singing voice. The story concentrates on Jolson's tireless activities entertaining the troops during WW II. After VJ day, Jolson Read More

1949
Jigsaw

Actors: Franchot Tone, Jean Wallace, Myron McCormick, Marc Lawrence, Winifrid Lenihan

Synopsis: Made on a miniscule budget primarily financed by its star Franchot Tone, Jigsaw is a strange little crime film. Howard Malloy (Tone), a crusading New York assistant district attorney, is dedicated to exposing a group of supposedly patriotic Americans who have murdered his friend after he Read More

1949
U.S.S. VD: Ship of Shame

Synopsis: The DE 733, a destroyer escort vessel, pulls into port with a gaping hole in her hull from a torpedo attack. At first, her men are curiously silent as to the cause of the disaster that those remaining are so lucky to have escaped. As a Navy commandant (Will Wright) has a casual sit down with the Read More

1942
China Girl

Actors: Gene Tierney, George Montgomery, Lynn Bari, Victor McLaglen, Alan Baxter

Synopsis: China Girl charts the exploits of two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams (George Montgomery), stationed in Burma and China in the early stage of WW II. Captured by the Japanese, he escapes from a concentration camp with the aid of beautiful, enigmatic "China Girl" Miss Young (Gene Tierney Read More

1942
One Third of a Nation

Actors: Sylvia Sidney, Myron McCormick, Sidney Lumet

Synopsis: Adapted from a play which was originally produced by the Federal Theatre Project (part of the WPA), this is a film from the Depression era which shows the disparity between life in the slums and the life of the upper class. When a young man inherits a city block in the ghetto, he begins to meet Read More

1939
Winterset

Actors: Burgess Meredith, Margo, Eduardo Ciannelli, John Carradine, Edward Ellis

Synopsis: Maxwell Anderson combined the Sacco-Vanzetti story with elements of the still-unsolved disappearance of Judge Crater, and the result was the blank-verse theatrical piece Winterset. Burgess Meredith, Margo and Eduardo Cianelli repeat their Broadway roles, respectively playing the grown son of an Read More

1936