Academy Award Best Actor · birth-card coordinate
Victor McLaglen's Birth Card: The 8 of Clubs
The Ambitious Builder
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict an Academy Award.
In the record
Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen (10 December 1886 – 7 November 1959) was a British-American actor and boxer. The birth-card coordinate for December 10 is the 8 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1936 Best Actor — The Informer win.
Academy Award record
- 1936 Best Actor — The Informer
The 8 of Clubs coordinate
Victor McLaglen's birthday maps to the 8 of Clubs (The Ambitious Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about an Academy Award and not a verdict on Victor McLaglen. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You run a knowledge system other people can follow, and you stand behind the call.
Victor McLaglen in the public record
His film career spanned from the early 1920s through the 1950s, initially as a leading man, though he was better known for his character acting. He was a well-known member of John Ford’s Stock Company, appearing in 12 of the director’s films, seven of which co-starred John Wayne. For his performance as a treacherous Irish Republican in the 1935 film The Informer, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Quiet Man, both directed by Ford. In 1960, he was posthumously given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. McLaglen claimed to have been born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, although his birth certificate records 505 Commercial Road, Stepney in the East End of London as his true birthplace. His father, Andrew Charles Albert Mclaglen, was a missionary in the Free Protestant Church in South Africa, and was later a bishop of the Free Protestant Episcopal Church of England. The McLaglen family is ultimately of Scottish origin, descended from a MacLachlan who settled in South Africa in the 19th century. The name was rendered into McLaglen from Dutch pronunciation.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Victor McLaglen (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 8 of Clubs
A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Victor McLaglen, and not a forecast of an Oscar.
Cards in Victor McLaglen's fixed path
Birth card and karma
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 6♦ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 4♠ — Life Spread — Venus
- 10♥ — Life Spread — Mars
- 8♠ — Life Spread — Saturn
- A♥ — Life Spread — Uranus
- A♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- Q♦ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 5♥ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 10♦ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Wealthy Master
- Q♠ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Wise Guide
- Q♣ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Nurturing Leader
- 3♣ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Creative Communicator
- 3♠ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Sorrowful Truth
- 9♥ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Compassionate Idealist
- 7♣ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Analytical Creator
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
You run a knowledge system other people can follow, and you stand behind the call. Your mind calculates power, influence, and success. You're ambitious and know how to leverage ideas into position. You think like a chess player.
McLaglen was visiting a sporting club when spotted by a film producer who was looking for a boxer to play the lead in a film, The Call of the Road (1920).
Paired on shared wording: call, play.
Also on the record
- A.C.A.
- McLaglen was christened Andries Carel Albertus McLaglen in Cape Town on 4 April 1851.
- Victor had eight brothers and a sister.
- Four of his brothers also became actors: Arthur, an actor and sculptor, and Clifford, Cyril, and Kenneth.
Other winners with this card
- Grace Kelly — 1955 Best Actress — The Country Girl
- Meryl Streep — 1983 Best Actress — Sophie's Choice; 2012 Best Actress — The Iron Lady
FAQ
- What is Victor McLaglen's birth card?
- The 8 of Clubs. December 10 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict an Oscar?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.
- Where do Victor McLaglen's dates come from?
- Birth date 1886-12-10 is the day-precision date on Victor McLaglen's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Winner identity comes from the Wikipedia Best Actor / Best Actress lists, which cite Oscars.org ceremony pages. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Oscars.org (AMPAS ceremony record) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Best Actor list, Best Actress list, Victor McLaglen) + Wikidata CC0 (Q329577). Birth date 1886-12-10 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).