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His acting career started when he was 15 in a theatre (Centro Teatro Spazio). In 1969 he founded the group "I saraceni" (later renamed "La smorfia") with Enzo Decaro and Lello Arena. He became famous to the TV audience between 1976 and 1979 with two TV programs "Non Stop" and "Luna Park". First movie "Ricomincio da tre" in 1981.- Dark-haired, rugged-looking Stephen McNally forsook a thriving career as an attorney in the late 1930s in order to pursue an acting career. This impulsive decision to switch gears in mid-life was rewarded in the end, playing a steady stream of hard-edged, noirish characters and more than his share of cold-hearted villains and thugs for nearly four decades.
Born Horace Vincent McNally on July 29, 1911 in New York City of Irish descent, he attended Fordham University Law School. Like fellow Irish-American performers J. Farrell MacDonald, Pat O'Brien, and Dennis Day, McNally's voice often carried at least the trace of an innate, rather than acquired, working-class/transatlantic Irish accent. He practiced law until the late 1930s when the acting bug finally hit hard. Beginning on the stage, Horace made his Broadway debut in a bit part as a waiter in "The Man Who Killed Lincoln" (1940). This was immediately followed by more prominent roles in the plays "Johnny Belinda" (1940) and "The Wookey" (1941).
MGM took an interest in the nascent actor during the war-era years. Continuing to use his real name of Horace McNally, he appeared in a series of film shorts while moving gradually up the credits ranks with featured roles in such full-length films as Grand Central Murder (1942), The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942), Eyes in the Night (1942), For Me and My Gal (1942), Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant (1942), the Tracy/Hepburn drama Keeper of the Flame (1942), the Laurel & Hardy comedy Air Raid Wardens (1943), The Man from Down Under (1943), Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944), An American Romance (1944), and Bewitched (1945).
By 1948, the actor was freelancing and made a strong impression in the Warner Bros. movie version of the Canadian-set Johnny Belinda (1948), playing menacing brute "Locky McCormick", a fisherman who sexually assaults deaf mute Belinda played by Jane Wyman (who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance), who bears his child. This was a far different role than the doctor part he played years earlier on Broadway. With this movie, Horace also changed his marquee name to Stephen McNally, taking the first name of his then-2-year-old son.
Alternating between anti-heroes and villains, Stephen is best recalled for his sturdy niche of "bad guy" roles. He played a Nazi war criminal pursued by Army agent Dick Powell in the action adventure Rogues' Regiment (1948); a casino owner who prods Barbara Stanwyck's gambling habit in The Lady Gambles (1949); a foreign terrorist in the historical action pic Sword in the Desert (1949); Ida Lupino's murderous husband in Woman in Hiding (1950); a rifle-stealing bully in the James Stewart western Winchester '73 (1950); a gambler who uses his hot-headed brother Jeff Chandler for prizefighting profit in Iron Man (1951); a murderous Austrian count in the swashbuckler The Black Castle (1952); an escaped killer on the lam in Split Second (1953); a paroled gangster out to exact revenge on Dorothy McGuire and her daughter in Make Haste to Live (1954); a bank robber in Violent Saturday (1955); an avenging ranch hand in Tribute to a Bad Man (1956); and a wanted member of the James gang in the western Hell's Crossroads (1957).
In his first top-billed role, McNally starred as a decent guy who runs a youth center in an effort to save kids from a life of crime in the dramatic film City Across the River (1949). Other "good guy" leads and second leads came with such parts as Sidney Poitier's doctor boss in No Way Out (1950); a government agent in Wyoming Mail (1950); an exiled town gambler who returns to warn and assist his town pending an Indian attack in Apache Drums (1951); another casino owner who tries to help and falls for weak-willed teacher/gambler Linda Darnell in the romantic film The Lady Pays Off (1951); a marshal after a gang of claim jumpers in the Audie Murphy western The Duel at Silver Creek (1952); a sheriff battling Indians in The Stand at Apache River (1953); and a plant engineer whose family his threatened by disgruntled ex-employee Vic Morrow in Hell's Five Hours (1958).
McNally made a notably adjustment to TV in the late 1950's with such anthologies as "Lux Video Theatre," "Goodyear Playhouse," "Schlitz Playhouse," "Ford Theatre Playhouse," "Zane Grey Theatre" and "Climax!" Into the 1960's he was frequent guest on a number of popular rugged westerns and suspense series including "Wagon Train," "The Texan," "Laramie", "Rawhide", "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour", "The Outer Limits", "Burke's Law", "Ben Casey", "The Big Valley", "Gunsmoke", "Branded", and "Iron Horse." He starred in the short-lived drama series Target: The Corruptors (1961) as a news reporter and earned a brief, recurring part on Run for Your Life (1965). He went on to be seen in such 1970s TV series as "Mission: Impossible", "The Rockford Files", "Medical Story", "Policy Story", "Police Woman", "The F.B.I.", "Starsky & Hutch", and "Charlie's Angels", he was spotted on a 1980s episode of "Fantasy Island" before retiring.
Long married to Rita Wintrich, with whom he had eight children, McNally was a one-time president of the Catholic Actors Guild. He died of heart failure on June 4, 1994, at age 82, at his Beverly Hills home. - Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Additional Crew
Adam C. Taylor was born on 7 June 1966 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an assistant director, known for Far and Away (1992), Tombstone (1993) and Leprechaun (1992). He was married to Anne Lockhart. He died on 4 June 1994 in Ennis, Montana, USA.- Actor
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Derek Leckenby was born on 14 May 1943 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Hold On! (1966), Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter (1968) and When the Boys Meet the Girls (1965). He died on 4 June 1994 in Manchester, England, UK.- Actress
- Composer
- Additional Crew
Toto Bissainthe was born in 1934 in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti. She was an actress and composer, known for L'homme au contrat (1974), West Indies (1979) and En l'autre bord (1978). She died on 4 June 1994 in Pétionville, Haiti.- Dirk Nawrocki was born on 30 April 1958. He was an actor, known for Jadup und Boel (1988), Einer vom Rummel (1983) and Beethoven - Tage aus einem Leben (1976). He died on 4 June 1994 in Berlin, Germany.
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Zeke Clements was born on 6 September 1911 in Empire, Alabama, USA. He was an actor, known for Two-Fisted Stranger (1946), Norwood (1970) and Hoedown (1950). He died on 4 June 1994 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.- Gregory Scarpa was born on 8 May 1928 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was married to Connie Forrest. He died on 4 June 1994 in Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
- Burle Marx was born on 4 August 1909 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. He died on 4 June 1994 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Earle Warren was born on 1 July 1914 in Springfield, Ohio, USA. He died on 4 June 1994 in Springfield, Ohio, USA.- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Miroslav Hornák was born on 18 March 1931 in Skalice, Czechoslovakia. He was a director and writer, known for Údolie vecných karaván (1968), Hladaci svetla (1971) and Ohnivé krizovatky (1974). He died on 4 June 1994 in Bratislava, Slovakia.- Greg Scarpa was born in 1928 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He died on 4 June 1994 in Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
- Music Department
Jean Daetwyler was born on 24 January 1907 in Basel, Switzerland. He is known for An heiligen Wassern (1960) and Personnalités suisses (1958). He died on 4 June 1994 in Sierre, Switzerland.- Actress
- Producer
Catherine Anglade was born on 3 November 1929 in Paris, France. She was an actress and producer, known for L'éventail de Lady Windermere (1961), Le secret des Flamands (1974) and Calembredaines (1965). She was married to Philippe Ragueneau. She died on 4 June 1994 in Paris, France.- Nancy Rubensová was born on 30 May 1915 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. She was an actress, known for Bílá jachta ve Splitu (1939), Svetlo jeho ocí (1936) and U svatého Mateje (1939). She died on 4 June 1994 in Prague, Czech Republic.