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Charles Kemper is a Actor Néerlandais born on 6 september 1900
Charles Kemper (September 6, 1900 – May 12, 1950) was an American stage-trained film character actor born in Oklahoma. The heavy-set film actor had memorable roles in films including The Southerner (1945), Scarlet Street (1945), Gallant Journey (1946), The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947), and the film noir On Dangerous Ground (as Pop Daly, his last film role). Kemper died at the age of 49 when he was involved in a car accident in Burbank, California.
Au théâtre, Charles Kemper joue à Broadway (New York) en 1936, dans une revue, puis en 1938, dans une comédie musicale de Cole Porter.
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Charles Kemper
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Charles Kemper apparaît d'abord au cinéma entre 1929 et 1938, principalement dans des courts métrages. Puis, de 1945 à 1950, il contribue à vingt-quatre films américains, notamment plusieurs westerns — dont Le Convoi des braves (1950, rôle d’Oncle Shiloh Clegg) de John Ford, avec Ward Bond, Joanne Dru, Ben Johnson et Harry Carey Jr. —. Il meurt prématurèment en 1950, dans un accident de la route, peu après avoir tourné le film noir La Maison dans l'ombre (rôle de Pop Daly) de Nicholas Ray, où il retrouvait Ward Bond, aux côtés d'Ida Lupino et Robert Ryan ; ce dernier film sort en 1952, près de deux ans après sa mort.Au théâtre, Charles Kemper joue à Broadway (New York) en 1936, dans une revue, puis en 1938, dans une comédie musicale de Cole Porter.
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Dimboola: The Stage Play (1973)
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Bruce Spence, Jack Charles, Charles Kemper
Roles The Very Reverend Patrick O'Shea
On Dangerous Ground (1951)
, 1h22Directed by Ida Lupino, Nicholas Ray
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond, Ed Begley, Charles Kemper, Anthony Ross
Roles Pop Daley
Rating71%
Robert Ryan plays Jim Wilson, a tough police detective embittered by years of dealing with low-life urban scum. After severely beating several suspects, Jim is assigned to a case far from the city to find the killer of a young girl. Joining the manhunt, in snow-covered terrain, Wilson finds himself paired with the victim's father, Walter Brent (Ward Bond), who plans to shoot the killer himself. When the two men come upon a cabin occupied by Mary Malden (Ida Lupino), a blind woman who is also the killer's sister, Wilson's life is changed forever. Mary, a generous and loving person who has cared for her mentally ill brother Danny (Sumner Williams) since the death of their parents, convinces Wilson to protect Danny from Brent. Wilson also promises to get help for Danny if he surrenders to him. Inspired by Mary's courage and recognizing Brent's rage as the mirror image of his own, Wilson gains the insight to free himself from his own blindness.
Wagon Master (1950)
, 1h26Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Ben Johnson, Harry Carey, Jr., Joanne Dru, Ward Bond, Charles Kemper, Jane Darwell
Roles Uncle Shiloh Clegg
Rating70%
The film opens with a prelude showing a murderous robbery by the outlaw Clegg family (the patriarch Shiloh (Charles Kemper) and his four "boys"). The credits then follow the prelude, which was a stylistic innovation at its time.
Mr. Music (1950)
, 1h50Directed by Richard Haydn
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Bing Crosby, Nancy Olson, Groucho Marx, Charles Coburn, Ruth Hussey, Robert Stack
Roles Mr. Danforth
Rating60%
New York theater producer Alex Conway (Charles Coburn) travels with composer Paul Merrick (Bing Crosby) to Lawford College, Paul's alma mater, where one of his musicals is being revived by the students. The current campus hero is handsome athlete Jefferson Blake (Robert Stack) so Katherine Holbrook (Nancy Olson), class valedictorian and chairman of the welcoming committee for returning alumni, asks Paul to work in a phrase about Jeff in one of his songs. Paul balks at the suggestion, but Kate's matter-of-fact manner leaves no room for discussion.
California Passage (1950)
, 1h30Directed by Joseph Kane
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Forrest Tucker, Adele Mara, Estelita Rodríguez, Jim Davis, Peter Miles, Charles Kemper
Roles Sheriff Willy Clair
Rating62%
The Nevadan (1950)
, 1h21Directed by Harry Joe Brown, Gordon Douglas, George W. George
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Randolph Scott, Dorothy Malone, Forrest Tucker, Frank Faylen, George Macready, Charles Halton
Roles Sheriff Dyke Merrick
Rating62%
United States Marshal Andrew Barclay (Randolph Scott) arranges the escape of outlaw Tom Tanner (Forrest Tucker) in order to locate the $250,000 in gold stolen by Tanner in stagecoach robbery. Tanner notices he's being followed by Barclay, whose appearance suggests he is a greenhorn. Tanner ambushes Barclay and forces him to trade clothes and accompany him to a bank, where Tanner retrieves an envelope containing a map from a safe deposit box showing the location of the stolen gold.
Stars in My Crown (1950)
, 1h29Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Themes Films about religion
Actors Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell, Alan Hale, Lewis Stone, James Mitchell
Roles Prof. Sam Houston Jones
Rating73%
Shortly after the American Civil War, preacher Josiah Gray (Joel McCrea) arrives in the town of Walesburg. He heads straight for the saloon to give his first sermon. When the patrons laugh at him, he pulls out two guns, cowing the men into listening.
A Ticket to Tomahawk (1950)
, 1h30Directed by Richard Sale
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Western
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films, Children's films
Actors Dan Dailey, Rory Calhoun, Walter Brennan, Anne Baxter, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Kemper
Roles Chuckity
Rating60%
In 1876, Johnny Jameson (Dan Dailey), a "drummer," or traveling salesman, is the only passenger on the inaugural run of the Tomahawk and Western Railroad's narrow gauge train through the Colorado Rockies. During the ride, the conductor tells Johnny that certain people, stagecoach operators for example, would like to see the railroad's franchise fail. Soon after, Dakota (Rory Calhoun), Trancas and Gila, who work for Colonel Dawson, the area stageline operator, cause a giant boulder to fall directly in the path of the train. Engineer Terence Sweeny (Walter Brennan) manages to stop the train in time, and he and the crew then disembark to move the rock.
Where Danger Lives (1950)
, 1h22Directed by John Farrow
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Psychologie
Actors Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains, Maureen O'Sullivan, Ralph Dumke, Charles Kemper
Roles Postville Police Chief
Rating66%
Dr. Jeff Cameron (Mitchum) saves an attempted suicide victim (Domergue) brought to San Francisco General Hospital. She checks out, but sends a telegram telling him her name, Margo, and address. To his surprise, he finds she lives in a mansion. He breaks a date with his nurse girlfriend, Julie (Maureen O'Sullivan), because he is worried Margo may try to commit suicide again.
Intruder in the Dust (1949)
, 1h27Directed by Clarence Brown
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernández, Porter Hall, Elizabeth Patterson, Charles Kemper
Roles Crawford Gowrie
Rating75%
The film closely follows the plot line of the Faulkner novel. It tells the story of Lucas Beauchamp, a respectable and rich black man, who is unjustly accused of the murder of a white man.
Adventure in Baltimore (1949)
, 1h29Directed by Richard Wallace, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Robert Young, Shirley Temple, John Agar, Albert Sharpe, Josephine Hutchinson, Charles Kemper
Roles Mr. Steuben
Rating60%
In 1905, Dinah Sheldon (Shirley Temple), an enthusiastic art student, is expelled from Miss Ingram's Seminary for wearing two petticoats instead of five, attending political rallies and insisting that she be allowed to study nudes. When she is sent home to Baltimore, Dinah's understanding father, Dr. Andrew Sheldon (Robert Young), an Episcopalian pastor, easily forgives his headstrong daughter this latest calamity, but her mother Lily (Josephine Hutchinson) encourages her to be more conventionally feminine. Dinah's childhood sweetheart, Tom Wade (John Agar), also believes that she should settle down and confesses that, since her absence, he has begun dating the more "continental" Bernice Eckert (Carol Brannon).
Fury at Furnace Creek (1948)
, 1h28Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Victor Mature, Coleen Gray, Glenn Langan, Reginald Gardiner, Albert Dekker, Fred Clark
Roles Peaceful Jones
Rating67%
Troops are massacred at a Furnace Creek fort in 1880 after an army captain, Walsh, cites orders forcing him to abandon a wagon train. Apache Indians hid inside the wagons to gain access to the fort.
Yellow Sky (1948)
, 1h34Directed by William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Action, Crime, Western
Themes Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Children's films
Actors Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Victor Kilian, John Russell, Robert Arthur
Roles Walrus
Rating73%
In 1867, a gang led by James "Stretch" Dawson (Gregory Peck) robs a bank and flees into the desert. Out of water, the outlaws come upon a ghost town called Yellow Sky and its only residents, a hostile young woman called "Mike" (Anne Baxter) by her prospector grandfather (played by James Barton). Stretch is attracted to Mike. While the men recover from their ordeal, Dude (Richard Widmark) snoops around. Dude tells the others that the old man is mining gold, but Stretch is unimpressed. The next day, Mike and Grandpa take to the hills. A confrontation between Stretch and Dude over the leadership of the gang is interrupted by Mike shooting at them. However, when Grandpa is hit in the leg by a ricochet, Mike surrenders.
Fighting Father Dunne (1948)
, 1h33Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Crime
Actors Pat O'Brien, Darryl Hickman, Charles Kemper, Una O'Connor, Arthur Shields, Harry Shannon
Roles Emmett Mulvey
Rating65%
Belle Starr's Daughter (1948)
, 1h26Directed by Lesley Selander
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors George Montgomery, Rod Cameron, Ruth Roman, Wallace Ford, Charles Kemper, William Phipps
Roles Deputy Gaffer
Rating57%
Après que sa mère, la hors-la-loi Belle Starr, ait été tuée, sa fille Rose décide de marcher sur ses pas et de rejoindre la bande de Bob Yauntis qui multiplient les coups de force et attaques meurtrières. Son objectif : se venger de Tom Jackson, le marshal qu’elle croit coupable du meurtre de la femme qui l’a mise au monde.