Editing Victor McLaglen (section)

===Supporting actor===
McLaglen began to be exclusively a supporting actor, with parts in ''[[Love, Honor and Goodbye]]'' (1945), ''[[Whistle Stop (1946 film)|Whistle Stop]]'' (1946) with [[George Raft]] and [[Ava Gardner]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Skegness Cinemas |work=Skegness Standard |date=13 November 1946 |access-date=22 September 2018 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001935/19461113/058/0004| via = [[British Newspaper Archive]]|url-access=subscription }}</ref> ''[[Calendar Girl (1947 film)|Calendar Girl]]'' (1947), ''[[The Michigan Kid]]'' (1947), and ''[[The Foxes of Harrow]]'' (1947).

McLaglen was back with John Ford for ''[[Fort Apache (film)|Fort Apache]]'' (1948) with [[John Wayne]] and [[Henry Fonda]]. It was very much a support part, as a cavalry sergeant, but so well received that McLaglen basically reprised it in the other two films in the Ford-Wayne "cavalry trilogy": ''[[She Wore a Yellow Ribbon]]'' (1949) and ''[[Rio Grande (1950 film)|Rio Grande]]'' (1950) with [[Maureen O'Hara]] and [[Ben Johnson (actor)|Ben Johnson]].

McLaglen was later nominated for another Oscar, this time for a [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]] for his role opposite John Wayne in ''[[The Quiet Man]]'' (1952).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1953|title=The 25th Academy Awards {{!}} 1953|website=www.oscars.org|date=4 October 2014 |language=en|access-date=2023-09-03}}</ref> He continued to be in demand as a support actor in action films: ''[[Fair Wind to Java]]'' (1953) with [[Fred MacMurray]] and ''[[Prince Valiant (1954 film)|Prince Valiant]]'' (1954) with [[James Mason]] and [[Robert Wagner]]. He went to Britain for ''[[Trouble in the Glen]]'' (1954), an unsuccessful attempt to do for Scotland what ''The Quiet Man'' did for Ireland. Back in Hollywood, he was in ''[[Many Rivers to Cross (film)|Many Rivers to Cross]]'' (1955) at MGM with [[Robert Taylor (American actor)|Robert Taylor]] and [[Eleanor Parker]].