Highest rated movie: The Mississippi Gambler (1953)
Lowest rated movie: Bride of the Gorilla (1951)
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Movies starring Paul Cavanagh have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 60%.
The Mississippi Gambler - released in 1953 - is Paul Cavanagh's highest rated movie, with a score of 74% based on 2 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Paul Cavanagh is Bride of the Gorilla - released in 1951 - with a score of 39% based on 13 reviews.
Paul Cavanagh (8 December 1888 – 15 March 1964) was an English film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1928 and 1959.
Cavanagh was born in Chislehurst, Kent, and attended the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Cavanagh studied law in England, earning a master of arts degree at Cambridge. A newspaper article published 17 June 1931, reported, "It is on record that Cavanagh won high honors in mathematics and history."
Cavanagh practised "for several years" before he changed professions. He went to Canada "for a year of sightseeing and wandering" before he joined the Royal Northwest Mounted Police.
After serving in World War I, he returned to Canada, where he practised law, including revising the statutes of Alberta, but eventually went back to England to practise law.
Cavanagh went onto the stage after a stroke of bad luck in 1924 caused him to lose his savings, and later he went into films.
In 1926, Cavanagh lost $22,000 in one evening on a roulette wheel in Monte Carlo. An observer offered to provide a letter "to some of my theatrical acquaintances" in London, England. Those contacts led to Cavanagh's role in It Pays to Advertise.
Cavanagh first film contract and film came in 1929 with Paramount Pictures.
Cavanagh died In London from a heart attack in 1964, aged 75.
Paul Cavanagh has acted in films with Rhys Williams, Ian Wolfe, Gino Corrado and Arthur Tovey.
Paul Cavanagh has worked with these film directors: Michael Curtiz, D. Ross Lederman, Hugo Fregonese and John Sturges.
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