Charles Barton


Biography

Filmography

 

Director (Feature Film)

Swingin' Along (1962)
Director
Toby Tyler (1960)
Director
The Shaggy Dog (1959)
Director
Dance with Me, Henry (1956)
Director
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair (1952)
Director
Double Crossbones (1951)
Director
The Milkman (1950)
Director
Africa Screams (1949)
Director
Free for All (1949)
Director
Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer: Boris Karloff (1949)
Director
The Noose Hangs High (1948)
Director
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Director
Mexican Hayride (1948)
Director
Buck Privates Come Home (1947)
Director
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947)
Director
The Time of Their Lives (1946)
Director
Smooth as Silk (1946)
Director
White Tie and Tails (1946)
Director
Spellbound (1945)
2nd Unit Director
Men in Her Diary (1945)
Director
The Beautiful Cheat (1945)
Director
Jam Session (1944)
Director
Hey, Rookie (1944)
Director
Beautiful But Broke (1944)
Director
Louisiana Hayride (1944)
Director
What's Buzzin' Cousin? (1943)
Director
Is Everybody Happy? (1943)
Director
Let's Have Fun (1943)
Director
Reveille with Beverly (1943)
Director
She Has What It Takes (1943)
Director
The Spirit of Stanford (1942)
Director
Hello Annapolis (1942)
Director
Sweetheart of the Fleet (1942)
Director
Lucky Legs (1942)
Director
Laugh Your Blues Away (1942)
Director
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1942)
Director
Parachute Nurse (1942)
Director
A Man's World (1942)
Director
Shut My Big Mouth (1942)
Director
The Big Boss (1941)
Director
Richest Man in Town (1941)
Director
Honolulu Lu (1941)
Director
Sing for Your Supper (1941)
Director
Two Latins from Manhattan (1941)
Director
Harmon of Michigan (1941)
Director
Five Little Peppers at Home (1940)
Director
Nobody's Children (1940)
Director
Five Little Peppers in Trouble (1940)
Director
Island of Doomed Men (1940)
Director
Out West with the Peppers (1940)
Director
Phantom Submarine (1940)
Director
Babies for Sale (1940)
Director
Union Pacific (1939)
Assistant Director
My Son Is Guilty (1939)
Director
Behind Prison Gates (1939)
Director
The Crime Nobody Saw (1937)
Director
Thunder Trail (1937)
Director
Born to the West (1937)
Director
Forlorn River (1937)
Director
And Sudden Death (1936)
Director
Timothy's Quest (1936)
Director
Rose Bowl (1936)
Director
Murder with Pictures (1936)
Director
The Last Outpost (1935)
Director
Nevada (1935)
Director
Car 99 (1935)
Director
Rocky Mountain Mystery (1935)
Director
Wagon Wheels (1934)
Director
Horse Feathers (1932)
Assistant Director
Monkey Business (1931)
Assistant Director
Young Eagles (1930)
Assistant Director

Cast (Feature Film)

Beau Geste (1939)
Paddy McDonigal
The County Fair (1920)
Tim Vail

Writer (Feature Film)

Now and Forever (1934)
Contr on Special seq

Producer (Feature Film)

The Noose Hangs High (1948)
Producer
The Beautiful Cheat (1945)
Producer
Men in Her Diary (1945)
Associate Producer

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Into The Night (1985)
Other
Terror in the Aisles (1984)
Other

Director (Special)

Meet the Girls: The Shape, the Face, and the Brain (1960)
Director

Life Events

Videos

Movie Clip

Toby Tyler (1960) -- (Movie Clip) When No One Else Would Have You! Orphan Kevin Corcoran (title character) having turned down a circus job offer from Tupper (Bob Sweeney), accepts a pass to that night’s show, then finds out from his uncle and aunt (Tom Fadden, Edith Evanson) that he should have skipped the parade, early in Disney’s Toby Tyler, 1960.
Toby Tyler (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Throws A Puny Shadow Kevin Corcoran (title character) on his first morning with the circus caravan, placed in the care of not-so-tough strong-man Ben (Henry Calvin), gets upbraided by his official employer, concessions- man Tupper (Bob Sweeney), in Walt Disney’s Toby Tyler, 1960.
Toby Tyler (1960) -- (Movie Clip) That Chimp In There's Got My .45! After a circus-wagon crash in the center of town, Kevin Corcoran (title character) realizes Mr. Stubbs (as played by “Mr. Stubbs,” the Congo-born chimp hired by Walt Disney) has escaped into the bank and grabbed a gun, Jess Kirkpatrick the sheriff, in Toby Tyler, 1960.
Shaggy Dog, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Missile Interceptor Mailman Wilson and housewife Freida Daniels (Fred MacMurray and Jean Hagen) are discussing discipline while their sons Wilby and Moochie (Tommy Kirk and Kevin Corcoran) launch a rocket from the basement, early in Disney's The Shaggy Dog, 1959.
Shaggy Dog, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) In Canis Corpore... Accidentally uttering an incantation over an ancient Borgia ring, teen Wilby (Tommy Kirk) converts himself into a sheepdog and has to slip away without being noticed by his dad (Fred MacMurray) in The Shaggy Dog, 1961.
Shaggy Dog, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Shake On it? Failing in their indirect approach, Moochie (Kevin Corcoran) and Wilby (Tommy Kirk), who's become a sheepdog break two pieces of news to their skeptical dad Wilson (Fred MacMurray) in Walt Disney's The Shaggy Dog, 1959.
Time Of Their Lives, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Brush With The British In Revolutionary War-era Nassau County, Long Island, with as fancy an opening as any Abbott and Costello movie, we meet lovely Marjorie Reynolds, Bud as servant Cuthbert, Anne Gillis as feisty Nora, who prefers Lou, as tinker Horatio, in the comic ghost romp The Time Of Their Lives, 1946.
Time Of Their Lives, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) How Can Us Be Down There? Joining a borderline shocking scene in which misguided American revolutionaries (Robert Barrat in charge) have shot fellow Yanks Horatio (Lou Costello) and Melody (Marjorie Reynolds), they pop back up, establishing the premise for the rest of the Abbott and Costello vehicle The Time Of Their Lives, 1946.
Time Of Their Lives, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) It's You They're After Revolutionary War ghosts Horatio (Lou Costello) and Melody (Marjorie Reynolds), stirred to action by the arrival of Bud Abbott (as a descendant of Lou's old romantic rival) and friends at their Long Island estate, discovering their powers, Gale Sondergaard an attuned servant, in The Time Of Their Lives, 1946.
Beau Geste (1939) -- (Movie Clip) They're Jewel Thieves! French Legionnaires after a party night in North Africa, sneaky Rasinoff (J. Carrol Naish) snoops on brothers Beau (Gary Cooper), Digby (Robert Preston) and newly-arrived John (Ray Milland), in William A. Wellman's Beau Geste, 1939.
Reveille with Beverly -- (Movie Clip) Thumbs Up and V TCM favorite Ann Miller was never more charming or athletic than in her show-stopping solo tap dance finale in Reveille with Beverly, 1943.
Louisiana Hayride -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Judy Opening credits from the Columbia Pictures Judy Canova vehicle Louisiana Hayride, 1944, followed by introduction of Judy (as Judy "Crocker") and her aunt and uncle (Walter Baldwin, Jessie Arnold).

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