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Charley Rogers is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Co-Director British born on 13 january 1887 at Birmingham (United-kingdom)
Charley Rogers (15 January 1887 – 20 December 1956) was an English film actor, director and screenwriter, best known for his association with Laurel and Hardy. He appeared in 37 films between 1912 and 1954. He also directed 14 films between 1929 and 1936.
He was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England and died in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Au cinéma, il débute comme acteur en 1912, dans deux courts métrages muets, dont Oliver Twist, adaptation à l'écran de la pièce pré-citée. En tout, il apparaît dans trente-sept films américains ; l'avant-dernier est Les Feux de la rampe de Charlie Chaplin (1952), où il tient un petit rôle non crédité ; le dernier est Two April Fools, court métrage de Jules White — où il joue le rôle de... Charley —, sorti en 1954, deux ans et demi avant sa mort accidentelle, dans un accident de voiture. Parmi les sept films muets qu'il interprète (le dernier sorti en 1928), citons également Les Conquérants de Cecil B. DeMille (1917), avec Wallace Reid, Raymond Hatton, Geraldine Farrar et Hobart Bosworth.
Comme réalisateur, on lui doit quatorze films sortis de 1929 à 1936 (précédés par un quinzième de 1917, comme assistant-réalisateur). Enfin, il est scénariste (ou auteur des histoires originales) de treize films, sortis entre 1932 et 1944.
Au sein de sa filmographie (comprenant notamment des westerns), Charley Rogers reste surtout connu pour sa collaboration (comme acteur, réalisateur ou scénariste) à près de trente films avec le duo comique Laurel et Hardy (voir la filmographie ci-après). Parmi eux, mentionnons Les Sans-soucis (1932, où il est acteur), Fra Diavolo (1933), qu'il réalise conjointement avec Hal Roach — producteur de bon nombre des films auxquels Rogers contribue —, et Laurel et Hardy conscrits (1939, en tant que scénariste, d'après son histoire originale).
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Birth name Charles Alfred Rogers
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 13 january 1887 at Birmingham (United-kingdom)
Death 20 december 1956 (at 69 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 13 january 1887 at Birmingham (United-kingdom)
Death 20 december 1956 (at 69 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
He was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England and died in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Installée aux États-Unis, Charley Rogers débute au théâtre à Broadway (New York) en 1912, dans la pièce Oliver Twist (aux côtés de sa compatriote Constance Collier), adaptation du roman éponyme de Charles Dickens. Quatre ans plus tard, en 1916, il fait une seconde (donc dernière) apparition à Broadway, dans la pièce A King of Nowhere, avec Sydney Greenstreet et Lou Tellegen.Au cinéma, il débute comme acteur en 1912, dans deux courts métrages muets, dont Oliver Twist, adaptation à l'écran de la pièce pré-citée. En tout, il apparaît dans trente-sept films américains ; l'avant-dernier est Les Feux de la rampe de Charlie Chaplin (1952), où il tient un petit rôle non crédité ; le dernier est Two April Fools, court métrage de Jules White — où il joue le rôle de... Charley —, sorti en 1954, deux ans et demi avant sa mort accidentelle, dans un accident de voiture. Parmi les sept films muets qu'il interprète (le dernier sorti en 1928), citons également Les Conquérants de Cecil B. DeMille (1917), avec Wallace Reid, Raymond Hatton, Geraldine Farrar et Hobart Bosworth.
Comme réalisateur, on lui doit quatorze films sortis de 1929 à 1936 (précédés par un quinzième de 1917, comme assistant-réalisateur). Enfin, il est scénariste (ou auteur des histoires originales) de treize films, sortis entre 1932 et 1944.
Au sein de sa filmographie (comprenant notamment des westerns), Charley Rogers reste surtout connu pour sa collaboration (comme acteur, réalisateur ou scénariste) à près de trente films avec le duo comique Laurel et Hardy (voir la filmographie ci-après). Parmi eux, mentionnons Les Sans-soucis (1932, où il est acteur), Fra Diavolo (1933), qu'il réalise conjointement avec Hal Roach — producteur de bon nombre des films auxquels Rogers contribue —, et Laurel et Hardy conscrits (1939, en tant que scénariste, d'après son histoire originale).
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Limelight (1952)
, 2h17Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Charlie Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Buster Keaton, Sydney Chaplin, Wheeler Dryden
Roles Man in Saloon (uncredited)
Rating79%
The movie is set in London in 1914, on the eve of World War I (and the year Chaplin made his first film). Calvero (Chaplin), once a famous stage clown but now a washed-up drunk, saves a young dancer, Thereza "Terry" Ambrose, (Claire Bloom), from suicide. Nursing her back to health, Calvero helps Terry regain her self-esteem and resume her dancing career. In doing so he regains his own self-confidence, but his attempts to make a comeback meet with failure. Terry says she wants to marry Calvero despite their age difference, although she has befriended Neville (Sydney Earl Chaplin), a young composer Calvero believes would be better suited to her. In order to give them a chance, Calvero leaves home and becomes a street entertainer. Terry, now starring in her own show, eventually finds Calvero and persuades him to return to the stage for a benefit concert. Reunited with an old partner (Keaton), Calvero gives a triumphant comeback performance. He suffers a heart attack during a routine, however, and dies in the wings while watching Terry, the second act on the bill, dance on stage.
Nazty Nuisance (1943)
, 43minutesDirected by Glenn Tryon
Origin USA
Genres War, Action, Adventure
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Johnny Arthur, Jean Porter, Ian Keith, Sam Lufkin, Henry Victor, Emory Parnell
Roles Joseph Goebbels
Rating45%
Germany's Führer Adolf Hitler embarks on a secret journey to the oriental country of Norom to negotiate a treaty with the blood-thirsty High Chief Paj Mub, mostly because Paj Mub insists on meeting Hitler personally instead of making relations through Hitler's emissary, Kapitän von Popoff. Unfortunately, despite Hitler's insistence that they shouldn't be told and Goebbels' efforts to mislead them, his Axis partners Benito Mussolini of Italy and General Suki Yaki of Japan unsolicitedly appear at the submarine dock and invite themselves to the trip.
The Dancing Masters (1943)
, 1h3Directed by Malcolm St. Clair
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films, Children's films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Trudy Marshall, Bob Bailey, Margaret Dumont, Allan Lane
Roles Butler (uncredited)
Rating60%
Dancing instructors Laurel and Hardy decide to help a young inventor promote a new invisible ray machine that will revolutionize jungle warfare during World War II. During the course of their travels Stan and Ollie hide from a munitions tycoon, demonstrate the invisible ray ineptly, upset an auction, try to stage an accident to collect on their insurance policy, and ride on the upper deck of a runaway bus.
They Raid by Night (1942)
, 1h13Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Political films
Actors Lyle Talbot, June Duprez, Victor Varconi, George N. Neise, Charley Rogers, John Beck
Roles Sgt. Harry Hall
Rating44%
The story follows the insertion of British Commandos into Norway to rescue a Norwegian general from captivity and take him to the United Kingdom to lead the Free Norwegian Forces.
Babes in Toyland (1934)
, 1h17Directed by Charley Rogers, Gus Meins, Gordon Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Christmas films, Musical films, Films about toys, Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Bletcher, Charlotte Henry, Baldwin Cooke, Jean Darling
Roles Simple Simon
Rating70%
Stannie Dum (Stan Laurel) and Ollie Dee (Oliver Hardy), live in a shoe (as in the nursery rhyme There Was An Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe), along with Mother Peep (the Old Woman), Bo Peep (Charlotte Henry), a mouse resembling Mickey Mouse (and actually played by a live monkey in a costume), and many other children. The mortgage on the shoe is owned by the villainous Silas Barnaby (Henry Brandon), who is looking to marry Bo Peep. Knowing the Widow Peep is having a difficult time paying the mortgage, Barnaby offers the old woman an ultimatum – unless Bo Peep agrees to marry him he will foreclose on the shoe. Widow Peep refuses, but is worried about where she'll get the money to pay the mortgage. Ollie offers her all the money he has stored away in his savings can, only to learn that Stannie has taken it to buy peewees (a favored toy consisting of a wooden peg with tapered ends that rises in the air when struck with a stick near one end and is then caused to fly through the air by being struck again with the stick). He and Stannie set out to get the money for the mortgage from their boss, the Toymaker (William Burress). But Stannie has mixed up an order from Santa Claus (building 100 wooden soldiers at six feet tall, instead of 600 soldiers at one foot tall) and one of the soldiers, when activated, wrecks the toy shop. Stannie and Ollie are fired without getting the money.
Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)
, 1h8Directed by Lloyd French, George Marshall, Ray McCarey
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Political films, Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Richard Tucker, Don Dillaway, Jacquie Lyn
Roles Rogers
Rating71%
The film begins in 1917 with Stan (Stan Laurel) and Ollie (Oliver Hardy) being drafted into the American Expeditionary Force to fight in World War I. The two mess up badly during drilling, antagonizing the drill sergeant and wind up in kitchen duties. Misunderstanding the cook's instructions on disposing of the garbage cans results in dumping the garbage in the general's private dining room. While in prison, they are threatened by the cook (George Marshal), also jailed due to their "snitching", with violence, once he is out and has his knife again. While serving in the trenches of France, the pair befriend a man named Eddie Smith, who is killed in action by the Imperial German Army.In the same battle, the boys manage to capture several enemy soldiers, in a rather unusual way.
Our Wife (1931)
, 20minutesDirected by James W. Horne
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Babe London, Blanche Payson, Charley Rogers
Roles Finlayson's butler
Rating72%
Oliver is making plans to be married to his sweetheart Dulcy with Stan as his best man, but the plans are thwarted when Dulcy's father sees a picture of Ollie and forbids the marriage. The couple plan to elope, and steal away at night to a Justice of the Peace. After typical Laurel and Hardy blundering, they manage to sneak the girl away from her father's house.
Pardon Us (1931)
Directed by James Gibbons Parrott
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Prison films, Buddy films
Actors Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Walter Long, June Marlowe, James Finlayson, Wilfred Lucas
Roles un détenu insurgé
Rating67%
During Prohibition, beer barons Laurel and Hardy are sent to prison for concocting their own home brew. They are put in a cell with "Tiger" Long, the roughest, toughest and meanest of all inmates. Stan has a loose tooth that causes him to emit a razzberry at the end of every sentence; the inmate interprets this as a coolly defiant attitude and is impressed — nobody else ever stood up to him like that. He and Stan and Ollie become fast friends.
Outside the Law (1930)
, 1h10Directed by Tod Browning
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Edward G. Robinson, Mary Nolan, Owen Moore, Eddie Sturgis, John George, Delmar Watson
Roles Cigar Clerk
Rating56%
Robinson plays the ruthless boss of a criminal gang, willing to do anything to prevent a rivial gangster from pulling off a bank robbery on 'his' patch.
Perfect Day (1929)
, 19minutesDirected by James Gibbons Parrott
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Baldwin Cooke, Lyle Tayo, Harry Bernard
Roles Minister
Rating70%
Two families embark on a pleasant Sunday picnic in their Ford Model T, but manage to run into a variety of issues with the temperamental automobile. Each incident requires repeated exits and reboardings by Laurel, Hardy, their wives and grouchy, gout-ridden Uncle Edgar. A brick-throwing argument with a neighbor threatens to escalate into an all-out turf war until the local parson gets involved. The families manage to finally get their day underway, only to plunge neck-deep into a seemingly shallow, water-filled pothole.
Double Whoopee (1929)
, 20minutesDirected by Lewis R. Foster
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean Harlow, Ed Brandenburg, William Gillespie, Charlie Hall
Roles Prime Minister
Rating68%
Laurel and Hardy play the roles of a footman (Hardy) and doorman (Laurel) at an upper class hotel. Jean Harlow also makes a brief appearance in this film, as a blonde bombshell who gets partially stripped by Laurel & Hardy. One of the funnier scenes is one with an automatic elevator. A haughty prince tries to get on the elevator from the first floor. Simultaneously Oliver summons the elevator. For some reason the outer doors don't close and when the prince (who has been busy giving a speech) tries to step in, he falls into the elevator well. Oliver rides down in the elevator and disappears. The prince is pulled out of the well, all disheveled and dirty. He tries it again. This time Stan summons the elevator and the whole thing repeats.
Madame Q (1929)
, 20minutesDirected by Leo McCarey, Hal Roach
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Edgar Kennedy, Charley Rogers, Frank Alexander, Gino Corrado
Roles Photographer (uncredited)
Rating62%
Habeas Corpus (1928)
, 19minutesDirected by Leo McCarey, James Gibbons Parrott
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Richard Carle, Charles A. Bachman, Charley Rogers
Roles Ledoux - the Butler (as Charlie Rogers)
Rating66%
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Two Tars (1928)
, 21minutesDirected by Leo McCarey, James Gibbons Parrott
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Charlie Hall, Thelma Hill, Harry Bernard
Roles l'automobiliste avec les ailes froissées
Rating71%
Sailors on leave, Laurel and Hardy pick up two girls and spend the afternoon driving in the country. They find themselves in the middle of a huge traffic jam. Tempers boil over among the motorists, and soon the street is a mess of mangled cars and car parts.