Personal Life
A cultured and expert art collector, he and his good friend, fellow-actor Vincent Price, were partners in a Beverly Hills art gallery in the 1940s. They later closed it as their acting careers mushroomed.
The veteran actor is father of actor/producer Michael Macready and the grandfather of the gymnast John Macready.
Macready died from emphysema in 1973, and he was among entertainers who donated their bodies to a medical school, joining Walter Pidgeon, Bobby Darin, Butterfly McQueen, and Spring Byington.
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