Charles Bickford
Popularity:0.392
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1890-12-31
Place of Birth:Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Also Known As:チャールズ・ビックフォード

The Dark Wave (1956)
A young girl, normal in every way, is affected with severe epilepsy.

A Star Is Born (1954)
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

Rose Hobart (1936)
Cornell employs clips from 1931's jungle melodrama East of Borneo – more specifically, clips of its lead actress, Rose Hobart – to...

The Unforgiven (1960)
The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their beloved adopted daughter was stolen from the Kiowa tribe.

Duel in the Sun (1946)
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other...

Fallen Angel (1945)
An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely...

Days of Wine and Roses (1963)
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.

Gangs of New York (1938)
An undercover cop infiltrates a powerful New York based crime syndicate.

The Big Country (1958)
Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between his future father-in-law, Major Terrill,...

Winterset (1959)
Immigrant radical Bartolomeo Romagna is falsely condemned and executed for a payroll robbery. Years later, his son Mio sets out to find the truth of...

Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942)
Circus owner Buck Rand kidnaps Boy to perform in his show. He forces a pilot to fly him, Boy and his animal trainer out of the jungle. Tarzan and...

Brute Force (1947)
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of...

Whirlpool (1950)
The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous...

Anna Christie (1930)
Old sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in...

The Woman on the Beach (1947)
A sailor suffering from post-traumatic stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter.

Jim Thorpe – All-American (1951)
The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his...

A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966)
A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose...

Little Miss Marker (1934)
Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies,...

The Babe Ruth Story (1948)
The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.

The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.

The Song of Bernadette (1943)
In 1858 Lourdes, France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be...

The Plainsman (1936)
Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.

The Raging Tide (1951)
A San Francisco hood is rubbed out by rival Bruno Felkin, who himself reports the crime to Homicide Lt. Kelsey in an alibi scheme which fails. To...

Johnny Belinda (1948)
A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.

Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful...

Four Faces West (1948)
Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks about securing a loan that large, McEwen shows him...

Mr. Lucky (1943)
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.

Wing and a Prayer (1944)
An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of...

High, Wide and Handsome (1937)
The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when...

Of Mice and Men (1939)
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.

Not as a Stranger (1955)
Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out...

You Can't Run Away from It (1956)
A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career.

Daughter of Shanghai (1937)
A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.

Riding High (1950)
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.

This Day and Age (1933)
A modern-day tale of gangsterism and revenge. After a notorious mobster murders a Jewish tailor and is let off for the crime, a band of outraged...

The Last Posse (1953)
A posse's pursuit of bank robbers ends with loot missing and a sheriff (Broderick Crawford) wounded.

East of Borneo (1931)
Mrs. Linda Randolph treks through darkened jungles to the land of Maradu to find her missing husband Allan, who'd left her years before when he...

Stand Up and Fight (1939)
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial...

Scandal for Sale (1932)
A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million.

Mister Cory (1957)
An opportunistic young man from the slums gambles his way to wealth, power and high society.

Panama Flo (1932)
An engineer makes a thieving entertainer work off her debts as a housekeeper at his jungle mining camp.

Branded (1950)
A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as...

The Pagan Lady (1931)
Dot starts out as a bartender in Havana when in walks Dingo Mike (Charles Bickford) and orders up a drink that sounds like something you'd consume on...

The Squaw Man (1931)
Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezzlement actually committed by his cousin Lord...

Hell's Heroes (1929)
Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits...

White Woman (1933)
A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his estate in Malaysia, she finds out that he is...

Dynamite (1929)
Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will...

The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935)
A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.

The Sea Bat (1930)
The sister of a sponge diver killed by a stingray loves an escaped convict posing as a priest.

Passion Flower (1930)
A bored society woman invites scandal and heartache when she falls in love with her low-born chauffeur.

A Wicked Woman (1934)
A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she...

Valley of the Giants (1938)
A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive everyone else out of business.

Roseanna McCoy (1949)
It's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the hillbilly Romeo and Juliet whose forbidden romance...

No Other Woman (1933)
A steelworker and his aspiring wife make millions when they become partners in a dyeworks. Unfortunately, success does not bring happiness.

Queen of the Yukon (1940)
The owner of an Alaskan gambling boat and her business partner help thwart a crooked businessman who attempts to steal claims from local miners.

Della (1964)
Della Chappell is a very wealthy and incredibly reclusive woman. When a big company wants to develop some land that Della owns, the town sends out...

Elopement (1951)
Two sets of parents frantically race to stop their eloping children's wedding.

River's End (1930)
Sgt. Conniston and his alcoholic guide O'Toole are on the trail of an escaped murderer named Keith. When they catch up with him in the farthest...

Men in Her Life (1931)
A wealthy ex-bootlegger comes to the rescue of a formerly rich society girl after her gold-digging fiancé leaves her stranded when he finds...

A Notorious Gentleman (1935)
A lawyer sets out to commit the perfect murder.

Red Wagon (1933)
Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many...

Forbidden Area (1956)
Why are so many B-99 bombers from Hibiscus Air Base crashing or simply disappearing? Colonel Price comes up with a terrifying explanation, but will...

Thunder Below (1932)
Story of an unhappy wife of oil rigger who labors in a Central American oil field. The bored Susan falls in love with Walt's good friend Ken but...

Under Pressure (1935)
Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs...

Vanity Street (1932)
A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".

Guilty of Treason (1950)
The story of Cardinal Josef Mindzhenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary who spoke out against both the Nazi occupation of his country during...

Mutiny in the Big House (1939)
A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison...

Girl from God's Country (1940)
Jim Holden, a young doctor practicing in Alaska, eagerly awaits the arrival of his new nurse, Anne Webster. All of his previous left within a few...

Night Club Scandal (1937)
When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn't do it.....

Rose of the Rancho (1936)
It is California in 1852 that only recently being surrendered by Mexico to the United States and admitted into the union. Most of the land-owners of...

Our Leading Citizen (1939)
Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to...

Thunder Trail (1937)
A wagon train is robbed by a gang of bandits who kill everyone but a pair of young brothers. Years later, the brothers join force to bring the...

Burma Convoy (1941)
A truck convoy traveling the Burma Road is menaced by a group of smugglers.

Street of Missing Men (1939)
An ex-con vows vengeance on the newspaper responsible for putting him behind bars, but has a change of heart when another racketeer threatens to...

Thou Shalt Not Kill (1939)
Thou Shalt Not Kill (1939)

Riders of Death Valley (1941)
The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former singing cowboy Dick...

Song of the Eagle (1933)
This drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control over the liquor industry. Much of the tale is focused...

South Sea Rose (1929)
A French girl raised in the south seas is brought to prim and proper New England by her New England born and bred sea captain husband. She wears...

Romance of the Redwoods (1939)
June Martin is a dishwasher in a California logging camp boarding house. Steve Blake fights Jed Malone for her and loses, thus casting suspicion on...

Lincoln's Doctor's Dog (1955)
During the dark days of the Civil War, a doctor gives President Lincoln a puppy to buoy his spirits.

Captain Eddie (1945)
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the...

Prince of Players (1955)
Prince of Players is a biographical film about the 19th century American actor Edwin Booth.

Command Decision (1948)
High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties...

The Storm (1938)
A passenger ship unexpectedly runs into a typhoon.

Complicated Women (2003)
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...

Pride of the Marines (1936)
A Marine sacrifices his adopted son and his girlfriend so that they might find a new and more prosperous life.

East of Java (1935)
Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.

Woman on the Run (1959)
Pilot episode, directed by Dick Powell.

Days of Wine and Roses (1958)
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.

South to Karanga (1940)
Passengers bound to an African copper mine at Karanga to quell a native uprising encounter murder and intrigue on the way.

One Hour To Live (1939)
Gangsters and police cross each other, including murder, in an attempt to cover up crimes.

The Farmer's Daughter (1962)
Young Swedish-American Katrin "Katie" Holstrom leaves her family farm in Minnesota, headed for nursing school. After her tuition money runs out, she...

Playhouse 90 (1956)
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The Man Behind the Badge (1953)
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The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1960)
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Playhouse 90 (1956)
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Bambi Awards (1948)
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