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Spencer Charters is a Actor American born on 23 march 1875 at Pennsylvania (USA)
Spencer Charters (March 25, 1875 – January 25, 1943) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 220 films between 1920 and 1943, mostly in small supporting roles.
Spencer Charters first stage work soon after leaving school was a walk on part but it wasn't long before he was being given fair-sized roles. He played on the Broadway between 1910 and 1929 and was a busy character actor in films during the 1930s and early 1940s. He often portrayed somewhat befuddeled judges, doctors, clerks, managers and jailers. He died by suicide, from a mix of sleeping pills and carbon monoxide poisoning.
Le 25 janvier 1943, il se suicide par asphyxie au gaz.
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Nationality USA
Birth 23 march 1875 at Pennsylvania (USA)
Death 25 january 1943 (at 67 years) at Hollywood (USA)
Birth 23 march 1875 at Pennsylvania (USA)
Death 25 january 1943 (at 67 years) at Hollywood (USA)
Spencer Charters (March 25, 1875 – January 25, 1943) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 220 films between 1920 and 1943, mostly in small supporting roles.
Spencer Charters first stage work soon after leaving school was a walk on part but it wasn't long before he was being given fair-sized roles. He played on the Broadway between 1910 and 1929 and was a busy character actor in films during the 1930s and early 1940s. He often portrayed somewhat befuddeled judges, doctors, clerks, managers and jailers. He died by suicide, from a mix of sleeping pills and carbon monoxide poisoning.
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Spencer Charters débute au théâtre en 1910, puis se produit sur les planches jusqu'en 1928. Dès le début du parlant, il se tourne vers le cinéma et apparait dans plus de deux cents films jusqu'à sa mort.Le 25 janvier 1943, il se suicide par asphyxie au gaz.
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, 1h50Directed by Philippe Mora
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Documentary, Historical
Themes Documentary films about historical events
Actors Walt Disney, Bing Crosby, Marlene Dietrich, Charlie Chaplin, Fred Astaire, James Dunn
Roles Self (archive footage)
Rating70%
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
, 1h58Directed by Frank Capra
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes Assassinat, Théâtre, Serial killer films, Films based on plays
Actors Cary Grant, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre, Priscilla Lane
Roles Marriage License Clerk
Rating78%
The plot revolves around the Brewster family of Brooklyn, New York, descended from the Mayflower and composed of illustrious White Anglo-Saxon Protestant ancestors whose portraits line the walls. The religious theme is repeatedly mentioned, and Elaine is the daughter of the minister who lives next door, with some scenes held in its ancient cemetery. Today the Brewster clan comprises insane murderers.
Slightly Dangerous (1943)
, 1h34Directed by Wesley Ruggles
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Lana Turner, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, May Whitty, Eugene Pallette, Alan Mowbray
Roles Claudius Swade- motel owner (uncredited)
Rating66%
The Night Before the Divorce (1942)
, 1h7Directed by Robert Siodmak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Actors Lynn Bari, Mary Beth Hughes, Nils Asther, Kay Linaker, Mary Treen, Thurston Hall
Roles Second Judge
Rating59%
The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
, 2h8Directed by Sam Wood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Sports films, Baseball films
Actors Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Walter Brennan, Dan Duryea, Elsa Janssen, Ludwig Stössel
Roles Mr. Larsen (uncredited)
Rating75%
Lou Gehrig (Cooper) is a young Columbia University student whose old-fashioned mother (Elsa Janssen) wants him to study hard and become an engineer. But the young man has a gift for baseball. A sportswriter (Brennan) befriends Gehrig and persuades a scout to come see him play. Before long Gehrig signs with the team he has always revered, the New York Yankees. With the help of his father (Ludwig Stössel), he endeavors to keep his career change a secret from his mother.
The Remarkable Andrew (1942)
, 1h21Directed by Stuart Heisler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Actors Brian Donlevy, William Holden, Ellen Drew, Montagu Love, Gilbert Emery, Brandon Hurst
Roles Dr. Clarence Upjohn
Rating66%
Silver Queen (1942)
, 1h20Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Western
Actors George Brent, Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Bruce Cabot, Lynne Overman, Eugene Pallette
Roles Doc Stonebraker
Rating58%
En 1873 à New York, le joueur professionnel James Kincaid tombe amoureux de Coralie, fille de l'homme d'affaires Stephen Adams, que courtise également le riche Gerald Forsythe. Après la mort de son père, ruiné par un krach boursier et le jeu, Coralie disparaît alors qu'elle est assaillie par les créanciers. James la retrouve en 1877 à San Francisco, où elle est devenue la propriétaire d'un casino, connue sous le surnom de La Reine de l'argent...
, 1h19Directed by William C. McGann
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Richard Dix, Edgar Buchanan, Kent Taylor, Frances Gifford, Rex Bell, Harvey Stephens
Roles Judge Fred Horgan
Rating59%
Set in the legendary town of Tombstone, Arizona, the plot centers on former gunslinger Wyatt Earp, who helps the sheriff round up criminals. Earp becomes a lawman after he sees an outlaw accidentally kill a child during a showdown. Earp's brothers and Doc Holliday help him take on the outlaw and his gang. More trouble ensues when the sheriff becomes involved with the gang. Earp manages to get them on robbery charges and the situation finally culminates at the infamous O.K. Corral.
, 1h12Directed by Bernard Vorhaus
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Actors Dennis O'Keefe, Ruth Terry, Gloria Dickson, Roman Bohnen, George E. Stone, Spencer Charters
Roles Cheevers Snow
Rating60%
To boost listener ratings, radio personality Mike Jason (Dennis O'Keefe) encourages sponsors, of his murder mystery radio show, to offer a reward to anyone who can locate safe cracker Jimmy Valentine, who is reportedly retired. The reward for the person who finds the legendary gentleman burglar is set to $10,000. There is little tough guy Mousey (George Stone), who becomes over zealous over the possibility of winning the reward. Valentine is rumored to have thrown down his hat in a picturesque small town called Fernville in Illinois. Jason and co worker Cleo Arden (Gloria Dickson) lead the hunt, together with Mousey, and it takes them to the small and previously quiet town. The search begins in the small town's local newspaper, where Jason hopes to find some old files that can reveal Jimmy Valentine's whereabouts. Jason meets the daughter of the newspaper editor, Bonnie Forbes (Ruth Terry), who takes him to see her father, Tom Forbes (Roman Bohnen). It turns out Tom isn't willing to help out in the search for Valentine. But Bonnie has taken a romantic interest in Jason, and offers to help out. She takes the party to Tom's gardener, Pinky (Harry Shannon), who she has heard tell stories about Valentine in the past. The lead is a dead end, as Pinky claims to know nothing about Valentine of use to Jason. But when Jason and Mousey visits the Forbes' house, Mousey finds Pinky rummaging about in Tom's office, destroying old files, and there is a photo of Pinky when he was younger, where his hair color matches the color of Valentine's side kick back in the day. Mousey turns out to be the son of an infamous mobster who was framed by Valentine, and kills Pinky to revenge his father. When Jason finds out about the killing, he suspects Valentine of being the murderer. He goes about town to collect fingerprints of important persons, and stirs up the whole town, since they are all ex-convicts, having settled down in this peacful place to live a quiet law-abiding life. The fingerprints are stored in a safe at the sheriff's office, and Jason plans to ambush Valentine and catch him red-handed when he tries to crack the safe open to get hold of the prints. Just as planned, Jason catches Tom, who turns out to be Jimmy Valentine, as he breaks the safe. In an effort to save the rest of the town from being caught, Tom wants to give Jason his prints in exchange for all the others'. Mousey enters the scene and tries to get his revenge on Tom/Jimmy. Mousey manages to kill himself, and Jason realizes that Tom/Jimmy wasn't the one who killed Pinky. Jason tells the police that Pinky was Jimmy Valentine in disguise, thus saving Tom and his daughter from ruin. Then Jason decides to stay in the small town with Bonnie.
Dr. Broadway (1942)
, 1h7Directed by Anthony Mann, Harve Foster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Actors Macdonald Carey, Eduardo Ciannelli, Richard Lane, J. Carrol Naish, Joan Woodbury, Arthur Loft
Roles Oscar Titus
Rating64%
Le Docteur Timothy "Doc" Kane, surnommé "Dr. Broadway", se retrouve mêlé au meurtre de Vic Telli, qui lui avait confié la mission de retrouver sa fille Margie Dove qu'il n'a pas vue depuis qu'elle avait six ans...
, 1h6Directed by Christy Cabanne
Origin USA
Actors Guy Kibbee, John Archer, Margaret Hayes, Wallace Ford, Spencer Charters, Eily Malyon
Roles Sheriff
Rating62%
Juke Girl (1942)
, 1h30Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan, Richard Whorf, George Tobias, Gene Lockhart, Alan Hale
Roles Keeno
Rating62%
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The Postman Didn't Ring (1942)
, 1h8Directed by Harold D. Schuster
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Richard Travis, Brenda Joyce, Spencer Charters, Stanley Andrews, William Bakewell, Emma Dunn
Roles Judge Ben Holt
Rating65%
So Ends Our Night (1941)
, 1h57Directed by John Cromwell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Fredric March, Margaret Sullavan, Glenn Ford, Frances Dee, Anna Sten, Erich von Stroheim
Roles Swiss Policeman
Rating67%
The story begins in 1937 Austria, before the German occupation which would arrive the following year. Josef Steiner (Fredric March) is a middle-aged German veteran who has been an ideological opponent to the Nazi regime from its inception and already escaped from two years in a concentration camp. He's in hiding in a dodgy Austrian boarding house with young Ludwig Kern (Glenn Ford in an early and outstanding performance), a bewildered 19-year-old German from a prosperous family that was found to have Jewish forebears when the Nazis came to power and now "half-Aryan," are abruptly deprived of their German citizenship and passports, rendered stateless and ordered to leave the country.
Bedtime Story (1941)
, 1h25Directed by Alexander Hall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Fredric March, Loretta Young, Robert Benchley, Allyn Joslyn, Eve Arden, Helen Westley
Roles Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
Rating66%
Jane Drake (Loretta Young) wants to retire from the stage to a Connecticut farm. Her husband Luke (Fredric March) feels differently and continues working on his latest play, which is being written for her. Fed up, Jane takes off for Reno to get a divorce. Reading an article in the newspaper that Luke is not well and has given up working, she rushes back to his side, only to find that it is not true. She sees through his charade and in a fit of anger, she leaves.