Mickey McBan (February 27, 1919 – October 30, 1979) was an American child

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. He was born in

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to British theatrical parents. McBan began his acting career at the age of four in ''

Poor Men's Wives ''Poor Men's Wives'' is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Louis J. Gasnier and starring Barbara La Marr, David Butler and Betty Francisco.Connelly p.216 The previous year Gasnier had directed a film called ''Rich Men's Wives''. Syn ...

'' and specialized in portraying the everyday youngster in many films. In ''The Moving Picture Boy,'' John Holmstrom describes him as "mid-way between Jackie Cooper and John Howard Davies: mousier than the one, spunkier than the other, with an amused, reassuring expression." McBan never made the transition to portraying adults and his screen career was already over by 1929. What_Every_Girl_Should_Know_lobby_card

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Daytime Wives ''Daytime Wives'' is a 1923 American drama film directed by Émile Chautard, and written by Helmer Walton Bergman and Wyndham Gittens. The film stars Derelys Perdue, Wyndham Standing, Grace Darmond, William Conklin, Guy Edward Hearn, and Kathe ...

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Not a Drum Was Heard ''Not a Drum Was Heard'' is a 1924 American silent film, silent Western (genre), Western film directed by William A. Wellman. The title is taken from the first line of Charles Wolfe's poem "The Burial of John Moore (British Army officer), Sir Jo ...

'' (1924) *'' The Dawn of a Tomorrow'' (1924) *''

Untamed Youth ''Untamed Youth'' is a 1957 American teen film directed by Howard W. Koch, written by John C. Higgins and Stephen Longstreet, and starring Mamie Van Doren and Lori Nelson as two starstruck sisters who are sentenced to farm labor. Plot Sisters ...

'' (1924) *''

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'' (1924) *''

Peter Pan Peter Pan is a fictional character created by List of Scottish novelists, Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie. A free-spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and Puer aeternus, never grows up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending ...

'' (1924) *''

The Splendid Road ''The Splendid Road'' is a 1925 American historical drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Anna Q. Nilsson, Robert Frazer, and Lionel Barrymore. Based upon the novel of the same name by Vingie E. Roe, the film is set during the 1849 Ca ...

'' (1925) *''

The Splendid Crime ''The Splendid Crime'' is a 1926 American crime drama film directed by William C. deMille and starring Bebe Daniels. Famous Players–Lasky produced and Paramount Pictures distributed. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Jenny, a young ...

'' (1926) * '' Somebody's Mother'' (1926) *''

Beau Geste ''Beau Geste'' is an adventure novel by British writer P. C. Wren, which details the adventures of three English brothers who enlist separately in the French Foreign Legion following the theft of a valuable jewel from the country house of a rel ...

'' (1926) *'' Moonland'' (1926) *'' The Return of Peter Grimm'' (1926) *''

The Way of All Flesh ''The Way of All Flesh'' (sometimes called ''Ernest Pontifex, or the Way of All Flesh'') is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler that attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. Written between 1873 and 1884, it traces four generations of the ...

'' (1927) *'' What Every Girl Should Know'' (1927) *'' Sorrell and Son'' (1927) *''

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'' (1929)

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* 1919 births 1979 deaths American male child actors American male film actors American male silent film actors Place of birth missing Place of death missing 20th-century American male actors {{US-film-actor-1910s-stub