Charles Halton

Actor

About

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Birth Place

Washington, Washington D.C., USA

Born

March 16, 1876

Died

April 16, 1959

Filmography

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High School Confidential! (1958)

Friendly Persuasion (1956)

A Star Is Born (1954)

A Slight Case of Larceny (1953)

Willard Maibrunn

I Love Melvin (1953)

The Moonlighter (1953)

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Black Legion (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Do I Have To Say This?

To Be Or Not To Be (1942) -- (Movie Clip) August 1939

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

High School Confidential! (1958)

Friendly Persuasion (1956)

A Star Is Born (1954)

A Slight Case of Larceny (1953)

Willard Maibrunn

I Love Melvin (1953)

The Moonlighter (1953)

The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953)

Factory foreman

Gasoline Alley (1951)

Here Comes the Groom (1951)

The Nevadan (1950)

When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950)

The Traveling Saleswoman (1950)

Joe Palooka in the Squared Circle (1950)

The Daring Caballero (1949)

The Sickle or the Cross (1949)

3 Godfathers (1949)

If You Knew Susie (1948)

The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer (1947)

The Ghost Goes Wild (1947)

T. O'Connor Scott

Singin' in the Corn (1946)

Sister Kenny (1946)

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

Three Little Girls in Blue (1946)

Because of Him (1946)

Mama Loves Papa (1945)

Rhapsody in Blue (1945)

The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)

The Fighting Guardsman (1945)

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

She Went to the Races (1945)

Midnight Manhunt (1945)

Enemy of Women (1944)

Up in Arms (1944)

It Happened Tomorrow (1944)

Government Girl (1944)

Address Unknown (1944)

Shadows in the Night (1944)

Rationing (1944)

The Town Went Wild (1944)

My Kingdom for a Cook (1943)

Olvier Bradbury

Whispering Footsteps (1943)

Flesh and Fantasy (1943)

Old man prospector

Heaven Can Wait (1943)

Brentano's clerk

Lady Bodyguard (1943)

Jitterbugs (1943)

Henry Aldrich, Editor (1942)

Across the Pacific (1942)

Priorities on Parade (1942)

The Spoilers (1942)

[Jonathan] Struve

Saboteur (1942)

Captains of the Clouds (1942)

The Lady Is Willing (1942)

They All Kissed the Bride (1942)

My Sister Eileen (1942)

Whispering Ghosts (1942)

Juke Box Jenny (1942)

There's One Born Every Minute (1942)

[Pete] Trumbull

You Can't Escape Forever (1942)

To Be or Not to Be (1942)

Producer Dobosh

Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die (1942)

In Old California (1942)

That Other Woman (1942)

Dance Hall (1941)

Mr. [Frederick] Newmeyer

Tobacco Road (1941)

I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island (1941)

Lady Scarface (1941)

Million Dollar Baby (1941)

The Great Mr. Nobody (1941)

One Foot in Heaven (1941)

Footlight Fever (1941)

Mr. Fingernoggle

Three Girls About Town (1941)

The Lady from Cheyenne (1941)

The Body Disappears (1941)

Professor Moggs

Three Sons O'Guns (1941)

Look Who's Laughing (1941)

Blonde Inspiration (1941)

The Smiling Ghost (1941)

Great-uncle Ames Bentley

Unholy Partners (1941)

Meet the Chump (1941)

Dr. Stephanowsky

Mr. District Attorney (1941)

Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)

Mr. [Harry] Deever

H. M. Pulham, Esq. (1941)

A Very Young Lady (1941)

[Oliver] Brixton

Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)

Calling All Husbands (1940)

Tugboat Annie Sails Again (1940)

Behind the News (1940)

Dr. Cyclops (1940)

Dr. [Rupert] Bullfinch

Young People (1940)

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

Lillian Russell (1940)

Virginia City (1940)

The Ghost Comes Home (1940)

Brigham Young--Frontiersman (1940)

Little Nellie Kelly (1940)

Lucky Partners (1940)

They Drive by Night (1940)

Swanee River (1940)

20 Mule Team (1940)

The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Gangs of Chicago (1940)

The Westerner (1940)

The Doctor Takes A Wife (1940)

No Place to Go (1939)

Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939)

Sudden Money (1939)

They Made Her a Spy (1939)

Dodge City (1939)

Surrett's lawyer

Lady of the Tropics (1939)

Manager of rubber company

Indianapolis Speedway (1939)

I'm from Missouri (1939)

Jesse James (1939)

Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

Bachelor Mother (1939)

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939)

Ex-Champ (1939)

They Asked for It (1939)

News Is Made at Night (1939)

[Lieutenant Governor] Elmer Hinge

Penrod and His Twin Brother (1938)

Federal Man-Hunt (1938)

Penitentiary (1938)

Leonard Nettleford

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)

Monsieur de la Coste President

The Girl Downstairs (1938)

Karovian ambassador

Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)

The Mad Miss Manton (1938)

A Man to Remember (1938)

Clyde Perkins, Esquire

I Am the Law (1938)

Room Service (1938)

I'll Give a Million (1938)

The Saint in New York (1938)

Stolen Heaven (1938)

Penrod's Double Trouble (1938)

Talent Scout (1937)

Black Legion (1937)

Ready, Willing and Able (1937)

The Road Back (1937)

The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)

Passport officer

Dead End (1937)

Blossoms on Broadway (1937)

Dr. Joseph C. Gillgallon

Sing Me a Love Song (1937)

Penrod and Sam (1937)

Woman Chases Man (1937)

Pick a Star (1937)

Stolen Holiday (1937)

Trouble at Midnight (1937)

[Everett] Benson

Partners in Crime (1937)

Dodsworth (1936)

Come and Get It (1936)

Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)

More Than a Secretary (1936)

The Tower of Jewels (1919)

The Climbers (1919)

Behind the Mask (1917)

The Adventurer (1917)

God's Man (1917)

Cast (Short)

Broadway Ballyhoo (1934)

Life Events

Videos

Black Legion (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Do I Have To Say This? Xenophobic factory worker Frank (Humphrey Bogart) hesitates a little, being sworn into his new anti-immigrant club, hooded Hargrave (Alonzo Price) officiating, in Warner Bros.' Black Legion, 1936.

To Be Or Not To Be (1942) -- (Movie Clip) August 1939 Director Ernst Lubitsch's famous opening, Tom Dugan as the German chancellor, stopping traffic in Warsaw, Jack Benny as the Nazi colonel, Charles Halton tangling with actor Felix Bressart, revealing the narrative device, in To Be Or Not To Be, 1942.

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938) -- (Movie Clip) American Understood The opening shot established the French Riviera, now we meet Gary Cooper, the implied American, shopping, met by Rolfe Sedan, then Lionel Pape, which leads to Charles Halton on the phone, in Ernst Lubitsch’s Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife, 1938, also starring Claudette Colbert, from a screenplay by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder.

Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Yessiree Bob In his first piece of lawyering, Abe (Henry Fonda) settles a dispute between clients Hawthorne (Charles Halton) and Woolridge (Russell Simpson), in John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln, 1939.

More Than A Secretary -- (Movie Clip) Stimulates The Liver Secretarial school owner Carol (Jean Arthur), working incognito at "Body And Brain" magazine, with fitness chief Ernest (Lionel Stander) and boss Fred (George Brent), in More Than A Secretary, 1936.

Rhapsody In Blue (1945) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Just A Song Plugger Working in Tin Pan Alley, Robert Alda as George Gershwin (who would have been a teenager at the time) receives the improbably charming and fictional Julie Adams (Joan Leslie), samples his own famous tune, then gets fired by Charles Halton, in the Warner Bros.’ bio-pic Rhapsody In Blue, 1945.

Prisoner of Zenda, The (1937) -- (Movie Clip) British Subject Joining the end of producer David O. Selznick's elaborate credits, Ronald Colman as Englishman Rassendyll disembarks from the Orient Express in Ruritania, not realizing, as all the locals do, that he's a dead ringer for their king, in The Prisoner of Zenda, 1937.

Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) A Printing Press! Harry Davenport (as King Louis XI) takes a progressive view as printer Fisher (Charles Halton) demonstrates new technology and Frollo (Cedric Hardwicke) warns against it in the 1939 version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

To Be Or Not To Be (1942) -- (Movie Clip) While He's Still Young Warsaw stage star Maria Tura (Carole Lombard) with dresser (Maude Eburne), receives a note from a fan, hammy husband Joseph (Jack Benny) beginning his soliloquy, handsome lieutenant Stanislav (Robert Stack) paying his first visit, in Ernst Lubitsch's To Be Or Not To Be, 1942.

They Drive By Night -- (Movie Clip) Keep The Change Second part of Ann Sheridan (as waitress "Cassie") in her first scene, helping trucking brothers Paul (Humphrey Bogart) and Joe (George Raft) duck creditor Farnsworth (Charles Halton) in Raoul Walsh's They Drive By Night, 1940.

Moonlighter, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) If I'm What You Want Rela (Barbara Stanwyck) learning from Usqubaugh (Charles Halton) years later of the exploits of the man she is now certain must have been her supposedly deceased suitor Wes (Fred MacMurray), then discussing plans with his brother (William Ching), with whom she's since taken up, in The Moonlighter, 1953.

H.M. Pulham, Esq. -- (Movie Clip) Wings Of Beauty First World War vet Harry (Robert Young) is introduced by pal Bill (Van Heflin) to his New York ad agency boss Bullard (Douglas Wood), instantly hired, then meets knockout copy writer Marvin (Hedy Lamarr), inside a flashback in King Vidor's H.M. Pulham Esq., 1941.

Shop Around the Corner, The - (Original Trailer) Feuding co-workers don't realize they're secret romantic penpals in The Shop Around the Corner (1940).

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