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Charles Coburn

Charles Coburn
  • Name: Charles Coburn
  • Birthday: 1877-06-18
  • Also known as: Charles Douville Coburn
  • Place of birth: Macon, Georgia, USA
  • Popularity: 0.195
Biography: Charles Douville Coburn (June 19, 1877 – August 30, 1961) was an American film and theatre actor. Best known for his work in comedies, Coburn received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for 1943's The More the Merrier. Coburn was born in Macon, Georgia, the son of Scotch-Irish Americans Emma Louise Sprigman (May 11, 1838 Springfield, Ohio – November 12, 1896 Savannah, Georgia) and Moses Douville Coburn (April 27, 1834 Savannah, Georgia – December 27, 1902 Savannah, Georgia). Growing up in Savannah, he started out at age 14 doing odd jobs at the local Savannah Theater, handing out programs, ushering, or being the doorman. By age 17 or 18, he was the theater manager. He later... Read More

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Title Release date
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line   as  Self (archive footage) 1997-05-12
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend   as  Self (from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes [1953]) (archive footage) 1986-04-19
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey   as  Self (archive footage) (uncredited) 1985-03-03
It's Showtime   as  Self (archive footage) 1976-03-31
Marilyn   as  Sir Francis 'Piggy' Beekman (archive footage) (uncredited) 1963-04-18
Pepe   as  Charles Coburn 1960-12-21
John Paul Jones   as  Benjamin Franklin 1959-06-16
A Stranger in My Arms   as  Vance Beasley 1959-03-03
The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker   as  Grampa Pennypacker 1959-02-20
The Story of Mankind   as  Hippocrates 1957-11-08
How to Murder a Rich Uncle   as  Uncle George Clitterbern 1957-06-01
Town on Trial   as  Dr. John Fenner 1957-01-24
Around the World in Eighty Days   as  Steamship Company Clerk 1956-10-17
The Power and the Prize   as  Guy Eliot 1956-09-26
How To Be Very, Very Popular   as  Dr. Tweed 1955-07-22
The Long Wait   as  Gardiner 1954-05-26
The Rocket Man   as  Mayor Ed Johnson 1954-04-01
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes   as  Sir Francis Beekman 1953-07-14
Trouble Along the Way   as  le Père Matthew William Burke 1953-04-04
Monkey Business   as  Oliver Oxley 1952-09-03
Has Anybody Seen My Gal?   as  Samuel Fulton / John Smith 1952-06-25
The Highwayman   as  Lord Walters 1951-08-11
Mr. Music   as  Alex Conway 1950-12-08
Peggy   as  Professor Brookfield 1950-07-01
Louisa   as  Mr. Burnside 1950-05-31
Everybody Does It   as  Major Blair 1949-10-24
The Doctor and the Girl   as  Dr. John Corday 1949-09-29
Yes Sir, That's My Baby   as  Professor Jason Hartley 1949-09-14
The Gal Who Took the West   as  General Michael O'Hara 1949-09-01
Impact   as  Lieutenant Quincy 1949-03-20
Green Grass of Wyoming   as  Beaver Greenway 1948-06-03
B.F.'s Daughter   as  Burton F. 'B.F.' Fulton 1948-03-24
The Paradine Case   as  Sir Simon Flaquer 1947-12-31
Lured   as  Harley Temple 1947-08-28
The Green Years   as  Alexander Gow 1946-07-04
Colonel Effingham's Raid   as  Colonel Will Seaborn Effingham 1946-01-24
Shady Lady   as  Col. John Appleby 1945-09-07
Over 21   as  Robert Drexel Gow 1945-08-08
Rhapsody in Blue   as  Max Dreyfus 1945-06-27
A Royal Scandal   as  Nicolai Iiyitch 1945-03-26
Together Again   as  Jonathan Crandall Sr 1944-12-23
The Impatient Years   as  William Smith 1944-09-10
Wilson   as  Professor Henry Holmes 1944-08-01
Knickerbocker Holiday   as  Peter Stuyvesant 1944-03-17
My Kingdom for a Cook   as  Rudyard Morley 1943-10-27
Princess O'Rourke   as  Uncle Holman 1943-10-23
Heaven Can Wait   as  Hugo Van Cleve 1943-08-05
The Constant Nymph   as  Charles Creighton 1943-06-23
The More the Merrier   as  Benjamin Dingle 1943-05-13
Breakdowns of 1942   as  Self 1942-12-31
George Washington Slept Here   as  Stanley Menninger 1942-10-30
In This Our Life   as  William Fitzroy 1942-05-08
Kings Row   as  Henry Gordon 1942-02-02
H.M. Pulham, Esq.   as  John Pulham 1941-12-04
Unexpected Uncle   as  Seton Mansley 1941-11-07
Our Wife   as  Professor Drake 1941-08-20
The Devil and Miss Jones   as  John P. Merrick/Thomas Higgins 1941-04-11
The Lady Eve   as  'Colonel' Harrington 1941-02-25
Three Faces West   as  Dr. Karl Braun 1940-07-03
The Captain Is a Lady   as  Captain Abe Peabody 1940-06-21
Florian   as  Dr. Johannes Hofer 1940-06-05
Edison, the Man   as  General Powell 1940-05-10
Road to Singapore   as  Joshua Mallon IV 1940-03-22
Stanley and Livingstone   as  Lord Tyce 1939-08-18
In Name Only   as  Richard Walker 1939-08-18
Bachelor Mother   as  J. B. Merlin 1939-06-30
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell   as  Gardner Hubbard 1939-04-04
Made for Each Other   as  Judge Joseph M. Doolittle 1939-02-10
Idiot's Delight   as  Dr. Hugo Waldersee 1939-01-27
Lord Jeff   as  Captain Briggs 1938-06-17
Yellow Jack   as  Dr. Finlay 1938-05-19
Vivacious Lady   as  Mr. Morgan 1938-05-13
Of Human Hearts   as  Dr. Charles Shingle 1938-02-11
The People's Enemy   as  Judge 1935-04-29