Charles Coburn
American film, theater actor (1877-1961) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 84
Charles Douville Coburn was an American actor and theatrical producer. He was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award three times - for The Devil and Miss Jones (1941), The More the Merrier (1943) and The Green Years (1946) - winning for his performance in The More the Merrier.
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PepeFilm, Charles Coburn1959
StartimeSeries, Colonel Sykes
John Paul JonesFilm, 1959Benjamin Franklin1956The Rosemary Clooney ShowSeries
Around the World in 80 DaysFilm, 1956Steamship Company Clerk1955
How to Be Very, Very PopularFilm, Dr. Tweed1954
December BrideSeries
Studio 57Series, 1954The George Gobel ShowSeries1953
Gentlemen Prefer BlondesFilm, Sir Francis 'Piggy' Beekman1952
This Is Your LifeSeries
Has Anybody Seen My Gal?Film, 1952Samuel Fulton / John Smith1950
Lux Video TheatreSeries, Pa Harrington
The Colgate Comedy HourSeries, 19501948
Studio OneSeries, Louis Hurst
The Ed Sullivan ShowSeries, 1948
Green Grass of WyomingFilm, 1948Beaver Greenway1947
LuredFilm, Harley Temple1945
A Royal ScandalFilm, Nicolai Iiyitch1944Academy Award for Best Supporting ActorAward
WilsonFilm, 1944Professor Henry Holmes1942
In This Our LifeFilm, William Fitzroy1941
H.M. Pulham, Esq.Film, John Pulham1939
Bachelor MotherFilm, J. B. Merlin1938
Of Human HeartsFilm, Dr. Charles Shingle1877Born19 June 1877Known for
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The Devil and Miss Jones 1941
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953
The Lady Eve 1941
Bachelor Mother 1939
In Name Only 1939
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Hal B. Wallis Produced Kings Row and Princess O'Rourke
Darryl F. Zanuck Produced Wilson (1944)
Sam Wood Directed Kings Row and The Devil and Miss Jones
Clarence Brown Directed Idiot's Delight and Of Human Hearts
Sol C. Siegel Produced Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1954)
Cedric Hardwicke Also in Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Ernst Lubitsch Directed Heaven Can Wait (1943)
Howard Hawks Directed Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1954)
David O. Selznick Produced The Paradine Case (1947)
George Stevens Produced The More the Merrier and Vivacious Lady
Douglas Sirk Directed Has Anybody Seen My Gal? and Lured
Henry King Directed Wilson and Stanley and Livingstone
Robert Cummings Also in Kings Row and The Devil and Miss Jones- Charles Vidor Directed Together Again and Over 21
Irving Cummings Directed The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
John Cromwell Directed Made for Each Other and In Name Only
Edmund Goulding Directed The Constant Nymph (1943)
Nunnally Johnson Directed How to Be Very, Very Popular (1955)- Norman Krasna Directed Princess O'Rourke (1943)
- Victor Saville Directed The Green Years and The Long Wait
- Fred de Cordova Directed Peggy and The Gal Who Took the West
Charles Waldron Also in Rhapsody in Blue and Edison, the Man
Lamar Trotti Produced Colonel Effingham's Raid (1946)
Kenneth Macgowan Produced The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
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He was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 for his contribution to the film industry.
