Charles Bickford

Born: 1890-12-31

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Charles Bickford (January 1, 1891 – November 9, 1967) was an American actor best known for his supporting roles.  He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for The Song of Bernadette (1943), The Farmer's Daughter (1947), and Johnny Belinda (1948). Other notable roles include Whirlpool (1948), A Star is Born (1954) and The Big Country (1958). Description above from the Wikipedia article Charles Bickford, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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The Big Country

as Major Henry Terrill
Released: 1958-09-30

Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a...

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The Unforgiven

as Zeb Rawlins
Released: 1960-04-06

The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their beloved adopted...

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Days of Wine and Roses

as Ellis Arnesen
Released: 1963-02-04

An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically...

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Duel in the Sun

as Sam Pierce
Released: 1946-12-31

Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds...

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A Star Is Born

as Oliver Niles
Released: 1954-10-01

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own...

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Brute Force

as Gallagher
Released: 1947-07-16

Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic,...

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The Song of Bernadette

as Father Peyramale
Released: 1943-12-21

In 1858 Lourdes, France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful...

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Reap the Wild Wind

as Mate of the 'Tyfib'
Released: 1942-03-26

The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the...

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Whirlpool

as Lt. James Colton
Released: 1950-01-13

The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an...

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Tarzan's New York Adventure

as Buck Rand
Released: 1942-05-01

Circus owner Buck Rand kidnaps Boy to perform in his show. He forces a pilot to fly him, Boy and...

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A Big Hand for the Little Lady

as Benson Tropp
Released: 1966-06-08

A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area,...

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Fallen Angel

as Mark Judd
Released: 1945-11-15

An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging...

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The Last Posse

as Sampson Drune
Released: 1953-07-04

A posse's pursuit of bank robbers ends with loot missing and a sheriff (Broderick Crawford) wounded.

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Mr. Lucky

as Hard Swede
Released: 1943-07-01

A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his...

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Johnny Belinda

as Black MacDonald
Released: 1948-09-14

A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.

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Little Miss Marker

as Big Steve Halloway
Released: 1934-06-01

Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need...

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Of Mice and Men

as Slim
Released: 1939-12-24

An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's...

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Riding High

as J.L. Higgins
Released: 1950-04-12

A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win...

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Hell's Heroes

as Bob Sangster
Released: 1929-12-27

Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered...

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Wing and a Prayer

as Captain Waddell
Released: 1944-01-01

An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat,...

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You Can't Run Away from It

as A.A. Andrews
Released: 1956-10-30

A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career.

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Anna Christie

as Matt Burke
Released: 1930-02-21

Old sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he...

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The Farmer's Daughter

as Joseph Clancy
Released: 1947-03-26

After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an...

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The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell

as Gen. Jimmy Guthrie
Released: 1955-12-31

A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about...

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The Plainsman

as John Lattimer
Released: 1936-11-16

Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.

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Branded

as Mr. Lavery
Released: 1950-11-03

A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million...

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Jim Thorpe – All-American

as Glenn S. 'Pop' Warner
Released: 1951-08-24

The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon...

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The Woman on the Beach

as Tod Butler
Released: 1947-06-07

A sailor suffering from post-traumatic stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic...

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The Farmer Takes a Wife

as Jotham Klore
Released: 1935-07-05

A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.

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Command Decision

as Elmer Brockhurst
Released: 1948-12-23

High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories...

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One Hour To Live

as Insp. Sid Brady
Released: 1939-11-10

Gangsters and police cross each other, including murder, in an attempt to cover up crimes.

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No Other Woman

as Jim Stanley
Released: 1933-01-06

A steelworker and his aspiring wife make millions when they become partners in a dyeworks....

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Valley of the Giants

as Howard Fallon
Released: 1938-09-17

A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to...

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The Storm

as Bob "Sparks" Roberts
Released: 1938-10-28

A passenger ship unexpectedly runs into a typhoon.

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Our Leading Citizen

as Shep Muir
Released: 1939-08-23

Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm...

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Not as a Stranger

as Dr. Dave W. Runkleman
Released: 1955-07-01

Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He...

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Complicated Women

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2003-05-06

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound...

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Mister Cory

as Jeremiah Des Plains 'Biloxi' Caldwell
Released: 1957-02-23

An opportunistic young man from the slums gambles his way to wealth, power and high society.

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Dynamite

as Hagon Derk
Released: 1929-12-13

Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is...

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White Woman

as Ballister
Released: 1933-11-10

A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to...

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Passion Flower

as Dan Wallace
Released: 1930-12-06

A bored society woman invites scandal and heartache when she falls in love with her low-born...

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The Raging Tide

as Hamil Linder
Released: 1951-11-01

A San Francisco hood is rubbed out by rival Bruno Felkin, who himself reports the crime to...

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Romance of the Redwoods

as Steve Blake
Released: 1939-03-29

June Martin is a dishwasher in a California logging camp boarding house. Steve Blake fights Jed...

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Scandal for Sale

as Jerry Strong
Released: 1932-04-01

A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million.

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Rose Hobart

as Man (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1936-12-09

Cornell employs clips from 1931's jungle melodrama East of Borneo – more specifically, clips of...

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Stand Up and Fight

as Arnold
Released: 1939-01-06

A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.

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Four Faces West

as Pat Garrett
Released: 1948-08-03

Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks...

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This Day and Age

as Louis Garrett
Released: 1933-08-25

A modern-day tale of gangsterism and revenge. After a notorious mobster murders a Jewish tailor...

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A Wicked Woman

as Pat Naylor
Released: 1934-12-07

A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's...

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Street of Missing Men

as Cash Darwin
Released: 1939-04-24

An ex-con vows vengeance on the newspaper responsible for putting him behind bars, but has a...

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Captain Eddie

as William Rickenbacker
Released: 1945-06-18

WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race...

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High, Wide and Handsome

as Red Scanlon
Released: 1937-07-21

The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in...

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Gangs of New York

as Rocky Thorpe / John Franklin
Released: 1938-05-23

An undercover cop infiltrates a powerful New York based crime syndicate.

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Thunder Below

as Walt
Released: 1932-06-17

Story of an unhappy wife of oil rigger who labors in a Central American oil field. The bored...

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Panama Flo

as Pearl
Released: 1932-01-19

An engineer makes a thieving entertainer work off her debts as a housekeeper at his jungle...

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Days of Wine and Roses

as Ellis Arnesen
Released: 1958-10-02

An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman whom he systematically addicts...

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Vanity Street

as Brian Murphy
Released: 1932-10-14

A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to...

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Riders of Death Valley

as Wolf Reade
Released: 1941-07-01

The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted...

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River's End

as Keith / Conniston
Released: 1930-11-01

Sgt. Conniston and his alcoholic guide O'Toole are on the trail of an escaped murderer named...

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The Squaw Man

as Cash Hawkins
Released: 1931-07-21

Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for...

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Roseanna McCoy

as Devil Anse Hatfield
Released: 1949-10-12

It's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the...

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Daughter of Shanghai

as Otto Hartman
Released: 1937-12-17

A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.

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Forbidden Area

as Gen. Keaton
Released: 1956-10-04

Why are so many B-99 bombers from Hibiscus Air Base crashing or simply disappearing? Colonel...

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Night Club Scandal

as Det. Capt. McKinley
Released: 1937-11-11

When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian....

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Thunder Trail

as Lee Tate
Released: 1937-10-21

A wagon train is robbed by a gang of bandits who kill everyone but a pair of young brothers....

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Mutiny in the Big House

as Father Joe Collins
Released: 1939-10-24

A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years...

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Rose of the Rancho

as Joe Kincaid
Released: 1936-01-09

It is California in 1852 that only recently being surrendered by Mexico to the United States and...

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Della

as Hugh Stafford
Released: 1964-08-08

Della Chappell is a very wealthy and incredibly reclusive woman. When a big company wants to...

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Prince of Players

as Dave Prescott
Released: 1955-01-11

Prince of Players is a biographical film about the 19th century American actor Edwin Booth.

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Burma Convoy

as Cliff Weldon
Released: 1941-10-16

A truck convoy traveling the Burma Road is menaced by a group of smugglers.

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The Babe Ruth Story

as Brother Matthias
Released: 1948-09-16

The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees...

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Men in Her Life

as Flashy Madden
Released: 1931-11-10

A wealthy ex-bootlegger comes to the rescue of a formerly rich society girl after her...

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South to Karanga

as Jeff Worthing
Released: 1940-08-02

Passengers bound to an African copper mine at Karanga to quell a native uprising encounter...

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Pride of the Marines

as Steve Riley
Released: 1936-04-02

A Marine sacrifices his adopted son and his girlfriend so that they might find a new and more...

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Elopement

as Tom Reagan
Released: 1951-11-23

Two sets of parents frantically race to stop their eloping children's wedding.

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Queen of the Yukon

as Ace Rincon
Released: 1940-08-26

The owner of an Alaskan gambling boat and her business partner help thwart a crooked businessman...

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Girl from God's Country

as Bill Bogler
Released: 1940-07-30

Jim Holden, a young doctor practicing in Alaska, eagerly awaits the arrival of his new nurse,...

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Under Pressure

as Nipper Moran
Released: 1935-02-02

Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each...

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South Sea Rose

as Capt. Briggs
Released: 1929-12-09

A French girl raised in the south seas is brought to prim and proper New England by her New...

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The Pagan Lady

as Dingo Mike
Released: 1931-09-07

Dot starts out as a bartender in Havana when in walks Dingo Mike (Charles Bickford) and orders...

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Guilty of Treason

as Cardinal Joszef Mindszenty
Released: 1950-02-20

The story of Cardinal Josef Mindzhenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary who spoke out...

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Song of the Eagle

as Joe (Nails) Anderson
Released: 1933-04-27

This drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control...

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East of Java

as Red McGovern / Harvey Bowers
Released: 1935-12-01

Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions...

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East of Borneo

as Allan Clark
Released: 1931-08-01

Mrs. Linda Randolph treks through darkened jungles to the land of Maradu to find her missing...

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A Notorious Gentleman

as uncredited
Released: 1935-01-21

A lawyer sets out to commit the perfect murder.

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Red Wagon

as Joe Prince
Released: 1933-12-06

Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an...

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The Sea Bat

as Reverend Sims
Released: 1930-07-05

The sister of a sponge diver killed by a stingray loves an escaped convict posing as a priest.

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The Dark Wave

as uncredited
Released: 1956-06-01

A young girl, played by Pamela Beaird, normal in every way is affected with severe epilepsy....

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The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 1948-06-20

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...

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The Barbara Stanwyck Show

as Isaiah B. Richardson
First aired: 1960-09-19

The Barbara Stanwyck Show is an American anthology drama television series which ran on NBC from...

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Bambi Awards

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 1948-01-01

The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented...

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The Man Behind the Badge

as uncredited
First aired: 1953-10-11

The Man Behind the Badge is the title of a half-hour American television police drama series...

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Playhouse 90

as Gen. Keaton
First aired: 1956-10-04

Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from 1956 to...

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Playhouse 90

as uncredited
First aired: 1956-10-04

Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from 1956 to...

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