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      Charles Coburn

      Charles Coburn

      Highest Rated: 100% Vivacious Lady (1938)

      Lowest Rated: 33% Rhapsody in Blue (1945)

      Birthday: Jun 19, 1877

      Birthplace: Savannah, Georgia, USA

      A stage star before entering films in his sixties with the title role in "Boss Tweed" (1933). Coburn subsequently became one of Hollywood's most beloved character actors, most typically playing sharp, crusty patriarchal figures, usually sympathetic, very occasionally not. He won a 1943 Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in "The More the Merrier."

      Highest rated movies

      Lured
      The More the Merrier
      Road to Singapore
      In Name Only
      Bachelor Mother
      Vivacious Lady
      The Lady Eve
      The Devil and Miss Jones

      Photos

      THE MORE THE MERRIER, from left: Toddy Peterson, Charles Coburn, 1943 YES SIR, THAT'S MY BABY, Charles Coburn, 1949 COLONEL EFFINGHAM'S RAID, (aka MAN OF THE HOUR), Charles Coburn, 1946, TM and copyright ©20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved WILSON, Madeleine Forbes, Charles Coburn, Henry A. Wallace, 1944 UNEXPECTED UNCLE, Charles Coburn, 1941 TOGETHER AGAIN, Charles Coburn, 1944 TOGETHER AGAIN, Irene Dunne, Charles Coburn, Charles Boyer, 1944 SHADY LADY, Charles Coburn, 1945 YES SIR, THAT'S MY BABY, Charles Coburn, 1949 OVER 21, Charles Coburn, 1945 OVER 21, Charles Coburn, 1945 OVER 21, Charles Coburn, 1945 GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES, Jane Russell, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe, 1953, TM and Copyright (c) 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. All Rights Reserved LOUISA, Charles Coburn, 1950 THE LADY EVE, Eric Blore, Melville Cooper, Charles Coburn, Barbara Stanwyck (seated), 1941 HAS ANYBODY SEEN MY GAL?, Gigi Perreau, Charles Coburn on set, 1952 TROUBLE ALONG THE WAY, Charles Coburn, 1953 THE MORE THE MERRIER, Charles Coburn, 1943 THE MORE THE MERRIER, Charles Coburn, 1943 GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES, Charles Coburn, 1953, TM & Copyright ©20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved.
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      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      No Score Yet 49% Pepe Self - 1961
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker Grampa Pennypacker (Character) - 1959
      No Score Yet 29% John Paul Jones Benjamin Franklin (Character) - 1959
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Stranger in My Arms Vance Beasley (Character) - 1959
      No Score Yet 33% Town on Trial Dr. John Fenner (Character) - 1957
      No Score Yet 10% The Story of Mankind Hippocrates (Character) - 1957
      No Score Yet No Score Yet How to Murder a Rich Uncle Uncle George (Character) - 1957
      No Score Yet 50% The Power and the Prize Guy Eliot (Character) - 1956
      72% 57% Around the World in 80 Days Steamship Company Clerk (Character) - 1956
      No Score Yet No Score Yet How to Be Very, Very Popular Dr. Tweed (Character) - 1955
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Long Wait Gardiner (Character) - 1954
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Rocket Man Mayor Ed Johnson (Character) - 1954
      88% 83% Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Sir Francis "Piggy" Beekman (Character) - 1953
      No Score Yet 62% Trouble Along the Way Fatber Matthew William Burke (Character) - 1953
      79% 68% Monkey Business Mr. Oliver Oxley (Character) - 1952
      No Score Yet 88% Has Anybody Seen My Gal? Samuel Fulton/John Smith (Character) - 1952
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Highwayman Lord Walters (Character) - 1951
      No Score Yet 83% The Doctor and the Girl Dr. John Corday (Character) - 1950
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Peggy Professor "Brooks" Brookfield (Character) - 1950
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Louisa Abel Burnside (Character) - 1950
      No Score Yet 43% Mr. Music Alex Conway (Character) - 1950
      No Score Yet 33% The Gal Who Took the West Gen. Michael O'Hara (Character) - 1949
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Everybody Does It Major Blair (Character) - 1949
      67% 58% Impact Lt. Quincy (Character) - 1949
      No Score Yet 60% Yes Sir, That's My Baby Professor Jason Hartley (Character) - 1949
      No Score Yet 33% B.F.'s Daughter Burton F. `'B.F.'` Fulton (Character) - 1948
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Green Grass of Wyoming Beaver Greenway (Character) - 1948
      100% 69% Lured Inspector Harley Temple (Character) - 1947
      77% 48% The Paradine Case Sir Simon Flaquer (Character) - 1947
      No Score Yet 53% The Green Years Alexander Gow (Character) - 1946
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Over 21 Robert Drexel Gow (Character) - 1945
      33% 60% Rhapsody in Blue Max Dreyfus (Character) - 1945
      No Score Yet 20% Colonel Effingham's Raid Col. Will Seaborn Effingham (Character) - 1945
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Shady Lady Col. John Appleby (Character) - 1945
      33% 31% A Royal Scandal Chancellor Nicolai Iiyitch (Character) - 1945
      89% 41% Wilson Professor Henry Holmes (Character) - 1944
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Impatient Years William Smith (Character) - 1944
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Together Again Jonathan Crandall Sr. (Character) - 1944
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Knickerbocker Holiday Peter Stuyvesant (Character) - 1944
      No Score Yet 66% The Constant Nymph Charles Creighton (Character) - 1943
      No Score Yet 50% Princess O'Rourke Holman (Character) - 1943
      89% 75% Heaven Can Wait Hugo Van Cleve (Character) - 1943
      100% 81% The More the Merrier Benjamin Dingle (Character) - 1943
      No Score Yet No Score Yet My Kingdom for a Cook Rudyard Morley (Character) - 1943
      No Score Yet 71% George Washington Slept Here Stanley J. Menninger (Character) - 1942
      No Score Yet 77% In This Our Life William Fitzroy (Character) - 1942
      90% 80% The Devil and Miss Jones John P. Merrick (Character) - 1941
      No Score Yet 64% H.M. Pulham, Esq. John Pulham (Character) - 1941
      99% 87% The Lady Eve "Colonel" Harrington (Character) - 1941
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Unexpected Uncle Seton Mansley/Alfred Crane (Character) - 1941
      80% 62% Edison, the Man General Powell (Character) - 1940
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Refugee Dr. Karl Braun (Character) - 1940
      No Score Yet 34% Three Faces West Dr. Karl Braun (Character) - 1940
      100% 68% Road to Singapore Joshua Mallon IV (Character) - 1940
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Florian Dr. Johannes Hofer (Character) - 1940
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Captain Is a Lady Captain Abe Peabody (Character) - 1940
      No Score Yet 58% The Story of Alexander Graham Bell Gardner Hubbard (Character) - 1939
      No Score Yet 54% Stanley and Livingstone Lord Tyce (Character) - 1939
      40% 46% Idiot's Delight Dr. Hugo Waldersee (Character) - 1939
      No Score Yet 56% Made for Each Other Judge Joseph M. Doolittle (Character) - 1939
      100% 73% In Name Only Richard Walker (Character) - 1939
      100% 89% Bachelor Mother J. B. Merlin (Character) - 1939
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Yellow Jack Dr. Finlay (Character) - 1938
      100% 80% Vivacious Lady Peter Morgan Sr. (Character) - 1938
      No Score Yet 54% Of Human Hearts Dr. Charles Shingle (Character) - 1938
      No Score Yet 38% Lord Jeff Captain Briggs (Character) - 1938
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The People's Enemy Judge Hays (Character) - 1935

      TV

      Credit
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Startime Unknown (Character) 1959
      No Score Yet No Score Yet I've Got a Secret Guest 1953-1954 1959
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Red Skelton Show Unknown (Character) 1956
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Star and the Story Unknown (Character) 1955-1956
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The United States Steel Hour Judge Purdy (Character) 1954
      No Score Yet No Score Yet What's My Line? Guest 1953