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Charles Boswell

Highest Rated: 76% Forrest Gump (1994)

Lowest Rated: 76% Forrest Gump (1994)

Birthday: Apr 28, 1945

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Birthplace: Bossier City, Louisiana, USA

Character actor Charles Boswell spent years performing on stages in New York and Los Angeles before embarking on a successful career in film and television. Boswell developed an interest in acting after he realized he wouldn't become a professional basketball player, and moved from Louisiana to New York to study with famed drama coach Sanford Meisner. After several years of performing in Off-Broadway venues, Boswell moved to Los Angeles and continued performing and training with top-tier instructors like Stella Adler and Meisner disciple Charles Conrad. He made his film debut in 1979 in a bit part in the suspense thriller "When a Stranger Calls," about a babysitter terrorized by a mysterious psychopath. He worked steadily through the '80s, portraying a surly cop in "Lost in America," Albert Brooks' comedy about two L.A. yuppies who give up their cushy lifestyle to travel the country in a Winnebago; and a stoic bodyguard on several episodes of the popular detective series "Matlock." He was cast as a suspicious police officer in "Kiss Me a Killer," an L.A.-set version of the classic noir "The Postman Always Rings Twice," and appeared as a priest in the long-running soap opera "General Hospital." Since then Boswell has played a grieving brother in the TV mini-series "Seduced by Madness: The Diane Borchardt Story" and starred as a sadistic prison guard in the legal drama "Murder in the First."

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Highest rated movies

76% 95% Forrest Gump Watchlist
Last Words of the Holy Ghost
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Voices From Within
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41% Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight
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Kiss Me a Killer
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Last Words of the Holy Ghost Uncle Elmer the Preacher (Character) - 2011
76% 95% Forrest Gump Aging hippie (Character) $330.3M 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet Voices From Within Unknown (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet 41% Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight Taylor (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet Kiss Me a Killer Lt. Dennehy (Character) - 1991

TV

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No Score Yet 85% ER 'Dr.' Lyle Strong (Guest Star) 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet Knots Landing Unknown (Guest Star) 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hunter Frankie Odell (Guest Star) 1986 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet Guns of Paradise Unknown (Guest Star) 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet 21 Jump Street Commandant Max McGee (Guest Star) 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet North and South, Book II Hughes (Guest Star) 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Fall Guy Unknown (Guest Star) 1985