George Bailey (It's a Wonderful Life) top ten movie dads. George Bailey (It's a Wonderful Life) George Bailey is a fictional character and the protagonist in Frank Capra's 1946 film "It's a Wonderful Life". The character is a building and loan banker who sacrifices his dreams in order to help his community, to the point where he feels life has passed him by. Eventually, due to a cruel business rival's manipulations, Bailey falls into despair so deep that he contemplates suicide, until his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody, gives him a valuable perspective on the worth of his life. The character was listed ninth on the American
The Wonderful Story (1922 film) The Wonderful Story (1922 film) The Wonderful Story is a 1922 British drama film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Lillian Hall-Davis, Herbert Langley and Olaf Hytten. It was based on the novel "The Wonderful Story" by I. A. R. Wylie. The fiancée of a farmer falls in love with his brother. Herbert Wilcox had a lot of success distributing a British film, "A Peep Behind the Scenes" (1919) and decided to produce a British film himself. He raised £1,400 and picked "The Wonderful Story" because he believed as it was homely and had few characters it would be suited