Charles McAvoy

Born: 1885-04-02


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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

as Cop (uncredited)
Released: 1932-11-09

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of...

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Union Pacific

as Railwayman (uncredited)
Released: 1939-05-05

One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad...

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The Great McGinty

as Guard (uncredited)
Released: 1940-08-01

Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine...

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Lady for a Day

as Detective (uncredited)
Released: 1933-09-13

Never-wed, poor, rough around the edges Apple Annie has always written to her daughter, Louise,...

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The Dark Mirror

as Janitor O'Brien (uncredited)
Released: 1946-10-17

A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure...

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No Way Out

as Riley (uncredited)
Released: 1950-08-16

Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies...

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The Sea of Grass

as Homesteader (uncredited)
Released: 1947-04-25

On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant...

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Pot o' Gold

as Turnkey (uncredited)
Released: 1941-04-03

Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food...

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Midnight Mary

as Detective (uncredited)
Released: 1933-06-30

While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with...

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Take One False Step

as Policeman (uncredited)
Released: 1949-08-14

Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's...

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The Velvet Touch

as Mr. Soper
Released: 1948-07-13

After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.

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The Man They Could Not Hang

as Prison Official (uncredited)
Released: 1939-08-17

Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is...

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Strike Me Pink

as Mr. Selby
Released: 1936-01-24

Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.

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Let Us Live

as Death Row Guard (uncredited)
Released: 1939-03-29

When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is...

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X Marks the Spot

as Officer McAvoy (uncredited)
Released: 1942-11-04

A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police...

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Woman in Hiding

as Electrician (uncredited)
Released: 1950-01-06

As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead,...

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Honky Tonk

as Miner
Released: 1941-10-01

Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but...

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Murder at the Vanities

as uncredited
Released: 1934-05-18

Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's...

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Shivering Shakespeare

as Man whose son is splattered (uncredited)
Released: 1930-01-25

The gang is participating in a program sponsored by the Golden Age Dramatic League. They present...

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The Defense Rests

as Guard
Released: 1934-07-15

A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.

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Wells Fargo

as Miner
Released: 1937-12-31

In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company,...

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Captive Wild Woman

as Cop (uncredited)
Released: 1943-06-04

An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with...

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The Mandarin Mystery

as Officer Jones
Released: 1936-12-23

Ellery Queen solves a mystery involving a valuable stamp.

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Little Nellie Kelly

as Policeman (uncredited)
Released: 1940-11-22

Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and...

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Top Man

as Tool Attendant / Railroad Conductor
Released: 1943-09-17

In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his...

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Junior G-Men

as Policeman (uncredited)
Released: 1940-11-01

A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals,...

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Hazard

as Cop in L.A. (uncredited)
Released: 1948-05-28

A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But...

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Rulers of the Sea

as O'Brien
Released: 1939-11-08

The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all...

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Wedding Present

as uncredited
Released: 1936-10-09

Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically...

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Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.

as Police Guard at Chandler's Gate
Released: 1941-12-27

Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.

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The Bridge of Sighs

as Lacy's Henchman (uncredited)
Released: 1936-02-14

Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the...

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Maid of Salem

as Father (Uncredited)
Released: 1937-02-12

When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes...

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That Girl from Paris

as Policeman (uncredited)
Released: 1936-12-31

Nikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping...

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The Mad Doctor

as Officer Riley (Uncredited)
Released: 1940-12-20

A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious...

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Pacific Blackout

as Cop
Released: 1941-12-31

Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout...

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The Shadow

as Police Guard at Rand's
Released: 1940-01-05

The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself...

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Rhythm on the River

as Train Announcer
Released: 1940-08-28

Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his...

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Women Without Names

as Police Officer
Released: 1940-03-14

Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused...

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A Tragedy at Midnight

as Second Charles Miller (uncredited)
Released: 1942-02-02

The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to...

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Below the Deadline

as Officer Rooney (uncredited)
Released: 1936-06-07

After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a...

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King of the Turf

as Policeman
Released: 1939-02-17

Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death...

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Shoot the Works

as Cop
Released: 1934-07-18

The story of seedy sideshow barker Nicky, who uses everyone he meets to get ahead. Nicky isn't...

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Dark Streets of Cairo

as Man in Fez
Released: 1940-12-01

A rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing...

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Carnival Lady

as Detective
Released: 1933-11-11

When his bank fails, a young man loses not only all his money but his fiancée, deserts him, too....

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Honky Donkey

as Policeman
Released: 1934-06-02

Rich kid Wally brings the gang back home to play, along with their mule.

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Fired Wife

as Minor Role
Released: 1943-09-04

A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it...

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When the Wind Blows

as Henry - Jackie's Dad (uncredited)
Released: 1930-04-05

Jackie throws his schoolbook out the window in disgust, but then climbs outside to retrieve it....

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Those Who Dance

as Prison Guard
Released: 1930-04-18

A policeman doubles as a gunman to get in with the mob.

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Anything for a Thrill

as Guard
Released: 1937-06-15

Despite his older brother's objections, a young man vows to become a newsreel cameraman.

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Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen

as Lieutenant Parker
Released: 1934-01-12

Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son...

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The King

as Guard (uncredited)
Released: 1930-06-14

The king is a juvenile dolt who tries the patience of the shrewish queen. While she's in the...

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Cipher Bureau

as uncredited
Released: 1938-10-25

The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a...

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The Housekeeper's Daughter

as Sergeant
Released: 1939-10-26

A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.

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Badge of Honor

as 'Trim' Fuller
Released: 1934-04-01

Hoping to impress a pretty girl he's after, a playboy poses as a newspaperman and goes after a...

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Dragnet Patrol

as Lookout
Released: 1931-12-14

A sailor falls for a gangster's moll, leaves his wife and finds himself caught up in a life of...

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Strange Holiday

as Leonard, the Guard
Released: 1945-10-19

An American businessman returns from a hunting trip to find fascists have overrun the country in...

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Diamond Jim

as Cop
Released: 1935-09-01

A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.

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Love on Tap

as Cop Escort (uncredited)
Released: 1939-03-18

In this musical short, a man tries to woo the manager of a dance troupe.

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The Shrimp

as Mr. Black - Orderly (uncredited)
Released: 1930-05-03

A timid man undergoes a personality change, and turns the tables on the people who've bullied him.

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Atlantic Adventure

as Plainclothesman
Released: 1935-08-25

When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he...

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The Big Kick

as Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: 1930-03-29

Revenuers have been chasing a gang of bootleggers for years. They're hot on the trail near a gas...

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