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Charles Dingle is a Actor American born on 27 december 1887
Charles Dingle est un acteur américain, né à Wabash (Indiana) le 28 décembre 1887, décédé à Worcester (Massachusetts) le 19 janvier 1956.
Il contribue également, pour la télévision, à quelques séries entre 1951 et 1955.
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Charles Dingle
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Charles Dingle se produit au cinéma de 1937 à 1955 (comme second rôle de caractère) et au théâtre, à Broadway, entre 1928 et 1954 (dans douze pièces et une comédie musicale). En particulier, il participe à la création de la pièce The Little Foxes de Lillian Hellman, représentée 410 fois à Broadway, de février 1939 à février 1940. Il y crée le rôle de Benjamin 'Ben' Hubbard, qu'il reprend dans l'adaptation au cinéma de 1941, sous le même titre original (un des ses films les plus connus ; titre français : La Vipère), avec Bette Davis reprenant le rôle de Regina Giddens, tenu initialement par Tallulah Bankhead.Il contribue également, pour la télévision, à quelques séries entre 1951 et 1955.
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, 1h40Directed by Otto Preminger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Gary Cooper, Charles Bickford, Rod Steiger, Ralph Bellamy, Elizabeth Montgomery, Peter Graves
Roles Senator Fullerton
Rating67%
Brigadier General William Mitchell tries to prove the worth of the Air Service as an independent service by sinking a battleship under restrictive conditions agreed to by Army and Navy. He disobeys their orders to limit the attack to bombs under 1,000 pounds and instead loads 2,000 pounders. With these, he proves his aircraft can sink the ex-German World War I battleship Ostfriesland, previously considered unsinkable. But his superiors are outraged.
The President's Lady (1953)
, 1h36Directed by Henry Levin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance, Western
Themes Political films, Children's films
Actors Susan Hayward, Charlton Heston, John McIntire, Fay Bainter, Carl Betz, John George
Roles Capt. Irwin
Rating67%
Call Me Madam (1953)
, 1h54Directed by Walter Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Monde imaginaire, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Vera-Ellen, George Sanders, Helmut Dantine, Billy De Wolfe
Roles Senator Brockway
Rating66%
A wealthy Washington, D.C., socialite, Sally Adams, has political connections and is appointed U.S. ambassador to the tiny country of Lichtenburg, even though nothing in her background qualifies her for the job. A young journalist, Kenneth Gibson, persuades her to let him tag along as her press attache.
Half a Hero (1953)
, 1h11Directed by Don Weis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors Red Skelton, Jean Hagen, Jerry Hausner, Charles Dingle, Willard Waterman, Mary Wickes
Roles Mr. Bascomb
Rating57%
Freelance writer Ben Dobson (Skelton) who lands his first full-time writing job at a national magazine, tasked with rewriting other authors' work. His wife Martha (Hagen) uses this as the perfect time to start their family, and four years later pressuring Ben into moving from New York to the suburbs, where he's swiftly living beyond his means. His boss then wants him to write a story on those suburbs, titled "slums of tomorrow." While Martha happily embraces her new environment and friendly neighbors, Ben is cynical about their life there, and decides they should return to the city. However, while showing their home to another prospective buyer, he realizes he would miss the home's personal touches, and they should stay.
Never Wave at a WAC (1953)
, 1h27Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Military humor in film
Actors Rosalind Russell, Paul Douglas, Marie Wilson, William Ching, Leif Erickson, Arleen Whelan
Roles Sen. Tom Reynolds
Rating58%
A divorced socialite and daughter (Russell) of a United States senator (Douglas) asks her father to get her an officer's commission in the Women's Army Corps, so that she can be near her officer boyfriend.
Big Jack (1949)
, 1h25Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Western
Actors Wallace Beery, Richard Conte, Marjorie Main, Edward Arnold, Vanessa Brown, Clinton Sundberg
Roles Mathias Taylor
Rating60%
À la frontière entre le Maryland et la Virginie en 1802, un jeune médecin est sur le point d'être pendu, lorsqu'il est sauvé par des hommes de la bande de Big Jack qui recherchent un médecin pour soigner le chef de la bande, blessé à la jambe.
State of the Union (1948)
, 2h4Directed by Frank Capra
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Van Johnson, Angela Lansbury, Howard Smith, Adolphe Menjou
Roles Bill Nolard Hardy
Rating71%
Republican newspaper magnate Kay Thorndyke (Angela Lansbury) intends to make her lover, aircraft tycoon Grant Matthews (Spencer Tracy), President of the United States with her as the power behind the throne. Thorndyke plans to use her newspaper chain's influence to deadlock the 1948 Republican National Convention, so it will choose Matthews as a compromise dark horse candidate instead of Dewey, Taft, or another.
A Southern Yankee (1948)
, 1h30Directed by Edward Sedgwick
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Red Skelton, Brian Donlevy, Arlene Dahl, George Coulouris, Lloyd Gough, John Ireland
Roles Col. Weatharby
Rating65%
In 1865, Aubrey Filmore works as a bell boy at the Palmer Hotel in St. Louis. Aubrey wants to work as a spy for the Union Government, and contacts Colonel Clifford M. Baker at the Union Secret Service, to ask if he can be of service in their elite spy unit. Aubrey has asked before, and the answer from Colonel Baker is still no.
If You Knew Susie (1948)
, 1h30Directed by Gordon Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Eddie Cantor, Joan Davis, Allyn Joslyn, Charles Dingle, Bobby Driscoll, Sheldon Leonard
Roles Mr. Whitley
Rating59%
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My Favorite Brunette (1947)
, 1h27Directed by Elliott Nugent
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Alan Ladd, Peter Lorre, Lon Chaney, Jr., Frank Puglia
Roles Major Simon Montague
Rating66%
The story is told in flashback from Death Row as Ronnie Jackson (Hope) relates to a group of reporters the events that lead to his predicament. Jackson is a baby photographer who dreams about being a real private detective like his friend Sam McCloud (Ladd). One day he is mistaken for a detective by a mysterious lady in distress (Lamour) and soon finds himself involved in a murder mystery. In the end of the flashback, Ronnie is released from prison.
Welcome Stranger (1947)
, 1h47Directed by Elliott Nugent
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Bing Crosby, Joan Caulfield, Barry Fitzgerald, Wanda Hendrix, Elizabeth Patterson, Frank Faylen
Roles Charles 'C.J.' Chesley
Rating67%
Crusty Dr. McRory (Barry Fitzgerald) of Fallbridge, Maine, hires a replacement for his vacation sight unseen. Alas, he and young singing doctor Jim Pearson (Bing Crosby) don't hit it off; but Pearson is delighted to stay, once he meets teacher Trudy Mason (Joan Caulfield). The locals, taking their cue from McRory, cold-shoulder Pearson, especially Trudy's stuffy fiancée. But then, guess who needs an emergency appendectomy.
The Beast with Five Fingers (1947)
, 1h28Directed by Robert Florey
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Ghost films, Piano, Films about disabilities
Actors Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen, J. Carrol Naish, Charles Dingle
Roles Raymond Arlington
Rating64%
Francis Ingram (Victor Francen) is a noted pianist who lives in a large manor house near a small, isolated Italian village. Ingram suffered a stroke which left his right side immobile, and he has to use a wheelchair to get around. He has retreated to the manor house for the past few years—seen by only a few close friends. These include his nurse, Julie Holden (Andrea King); a musicologist (and amateur astrologist), Hillary Cummins (Peter Lorre); a friend, Bruce Conrad (Robert Alda); and his sister's son, Donald Arlington (John Alvin). Ingram has fallen in love with Julie Holden, and has changed his will so that she receives the vast bulk of his enormous estate when he dies. But Julie is secretly in love with Conrad. The change in the will disinherits Arlington and Cummins, and Cummins tries to expose Holden's affair. Ingram, outraged at the slander on his beloved's good name, tries to choke Cummins to death. Only Julie's arrival (after meeting Conrad in the garden) saves him.
The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947)
, 1h41Directed by Roy Rowland
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance, Western
Actors Van Johnson, Thomas Mitchell, Janet Leigh, Marshall Thompson, Selena Royle, Charles Dingle
Roles John Dessark
Rating69%
Henry Carson (Van Johnson), a schoolteacher before the Civil War, shows up in a rural region of the Missouri hills. He spends the night with a family consisting of Gill MacBean (Thomas Mitchell), his wife Sairy (Selena Royle), and two of their children, Lissy Anne (Janet Leigh), and youngster Andrew (Dean Stockwell). Another son, Ben (Marshall Thompson), had run off to fight in the war; the family's hope that he will someday return is gradually waning.
Duel in the Sun (1946)
, 2h9Directed by William Dieterle, Otto Brower, David Selznick, Josef von Sternberg, King Vidor, William Cameron Menzies, Sidney Franklin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Themes Films about capital punishment
Actors Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lionel Barrymore, Herbert Marshall, Lillian Gish
Roles Sheriff Hardy
Rating66%
Pearl Chavez (Jennifer Jones) is orphaned after her father Scott Chavez (Herbert Marshall) kills her mother (Tilly Losch), having caught his wife with a lover (Sidney Blackmer). Before Scott Chavez is executed as a punishment for killing his wife, he arranges for his daughter Pearl to live with his second cousin and old sweetheart, Laura Belle (Lillian Gish).
Three Wise Fools (1946)
, 1h30Directed by Edward Buzzell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy
Themes Films about children, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Margaret O'Brien, Lionel Barrymore, Ray Collins, Lewis Stone, Thomas Mitchell, Jane Darwell
Roles Paul Badger
Rating64%