Charles Meredith

Charles Meredith

Birthday: 1894-08-27

Place of Birth: Knoxville, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charles Meredith (August 27, 1894 – November 28, 1964) was an American film and television actor. Meredith was born in Knoxville, Pennsylvania. He was a popular silent film leading man and played opposite such actresses as Blanche Sweet, Mary Miles Minter, Florence Vidor, and others in romantic drama and comedy films. In 1924, he left his film career for work on the stage. He returned to film in 1947 where he played a number of small character roles. Toward the end of his career, he turned to television as well, notably as Secretary Drake in the Rocky Jones, Space Ranger (1954) series. He also appeared in three episodes of The Lone Ranger, each time as a doctor. He died, aged 70 in 1964, in Los Angeles, California.

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The Family Honor
The Family Honor

Beverly Tucker, the daughter of an impoverished aristocratic Southern family, has scraped together h...

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High Tor
High Tor

High Tor is a 1936 play by Maxwell Anderson. Twenty years after the original production, Anderson ad...

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He Walked by Night
He Walked by Night

Roy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens ...

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All My Sons
All My Sons

During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever...

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The Sun Sets at Dawn
The Sun Sets at Dawn

A reporter investigates the story of a young man who may have been wrongly convicted and sentenced t...

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The Big Trees
The Big Trees

In 1900, unscrupulous timber baron Jim Fallon plans to take advantage of a new law and make millions...

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The Boy with Green Hair
The Boy with Green Hair

Peter, an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye after his parents are killed in Europe while doing ...

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A Foreign Affair
A Foreign Affair

In occupied Berlin, a US Army Captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the US Congresswoma...

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They Live by Night
They Live by Night

An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to he...

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Tokyo Joe
Tokyo Joe

An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life ther...

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Chicago Confidential
Chicago Confidential

In the Windy City, the mob infiltrates a powerful union....

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Pistols 'n' Petticoats
Pistols 'n' Petticoats

Compilation of several episodes of the TV series Pistols 'n' Petticoats....

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The Lone Ranger
The Lone Ranger

The territorial governor asks the Lone Ranger to investigate mysterious raids on settlers by Indians...

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Streets of San Francisco
Streets of San Francisco

A police detective (Robert Armstrong) and his wife (Mae Clarke) adopt the wayward son (Gary Gray) of...

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Twelve Hours to Kill
Twelve Hours to Kill

After witnessing a gangland murder, a young Greek immigrant flees for his life and hides out in a sm...

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Cattle Town
Cattle Town

The governor of Texas sends a cowboy to keep the peace between ranchers and a land baron....

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Seven Days in May
Seven Days in May

A U.S. Marine Corps colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him....

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Illegal
Illegal

A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find o...

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Al Jennings of Oklahoma
Al Jennings of Oklahoma

Film based on the story of Al Jennings, a former train robber turned attorney....

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Manhunt in Space
Manhunt in Space

Rocky Jones, Space Ranger fights space pirates over an invisible spaceship....

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For the Love of Mary
For the Love of Mary

Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics....

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In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter

A sequel of sorts, the Jewish ethnic comedy characters of Potash and Perlmutter return from their 19...

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Hail the Woman
Hail the Woman

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The Other Half
The Other Half

Social drama about a friendship that is pressurized by class differences....

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The Foolish Matrons
The Foolish Matrons

Three women, each living in a separate social sphere, work out their destinies in New York....

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Ocean's Eleven
Ocean's Eleven

Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night....

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Dead Ringer
Dead Ringer

The working class twin sister of a callous wealthy woman impulsively murders her out of revenge and ...

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The 13th Commandment
The 13th Commandment

Disillusioned by the transience of wealth when her father's bank balance can no longer support his f...

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Francis
Francis

During World War II, a junior American Army officer, Lt. Peter Stirling, gets sent to the psychiatri...

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That Something
That Something

Drifter Edwin Drake, estranged from his family, has a prophetic vision and gets his life back on tra...

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Noose for a Gunman
Noose for a Gunman

Case Britton, gunslinger and wanted man, comes to town to meet his bride-to-be, stop a stagecoach ro...

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The Miracle of the Bells
The Miracle of the Bells

The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she ...

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The Quick Gun
The Quick Gun

Gunslinger Murphy helps an ungrateful town fight off a raid by his former gang....

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Crash of Moons
Crash of Moons

A three-part episode from the TV series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger edited together and released as a ...

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The Beautiful Liar
The Beautiful Liar

Directed by Wallace Worsley....

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The Incredible Mr. Limpet
The Incredible Mr. Limpet

Milquetoast Henry Limpet experiences his fondest wish and is transformed into a fish. As a talking f...

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The Sea Hornet
The Sea Hornet

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The Cave Girl
The Cave Girl

Margot Sperry, who keeps house for her guardian, a professor who wants to revert to primitive modes ...

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Silver Needle in the Sky
Silver Needle in the Sky

Rocky Jones tries to free the hostages and thwart the plans of the evil Queen Cleolantha....

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Forbidden Moon
Forbidden Moon

Rocky Jones is dispatched to investigate an SOS received from a space station. He finds that the sta...

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Room for One More
Room for One More

Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innoce...

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Beyond
Beyond

Avis Langley's dying mother begs her to look after Avis's errant brother and continues after death t...

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The Cradle
The Cradle

A socialite couple thinks only of themselves. When they become bored with one another, they divorce ...

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The Perfect Woman
The Perfect Woman

Mary Blake can charm any man, young or old, with her winning ways -- except for the one she really w...

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Luck in Pawn
Luck in Pawn

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Bright Leaf
Bright Leaf

Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market....

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Submarine Command
Submarine Command

Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew m...

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The Guns of Fort Petticoat
The Guns of Fort Petticoat

Opposing his commanding officer's decision to attack a group of innocent Indians and wipe them out, ...

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The Gypsy Moon
The Gypsy Moon

Rocky Jones and his buddies happen upon two strange moons orbiting each other. They soon discover th...

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Beyond the Moon
Beyond the Moon

This outer space adventure marked the debut of Rocky Jones and his Space Rangers. Two of Rocky's all...

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Silver Needle in the Sky
Silver Needle in the Sky

Rocky Jones tries to free the hostages and thwart the plans of the evil Queen Cleolantha....

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Menace from Outer Space
Menace from Outer Space

A nontheatrical (16mm) film comprise of three contiguous episodes of the TV series "Rocky Jones, Sp...

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Judy of Rogues' Harbor
Judy of Rogues' Harbor

Judy, an orphaned waif, lives with Grandpap Ketchel, a cruel and often brutal man. The sole protecto...

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The Lucky Stiff
The Lucky Stiff

A lawyer spooks gangsters by faking a framed singer's electrocution....

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Along the Great Divide
Along the Great Divide

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Perfect Strangers
Perfect Strangers

Romance at a murder trial with a pair of sequestered jurors who are the only ones who think that the...

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Caged
Caged

A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments...

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New York Confidential
New York Confidential

Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who dec...

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Three Lives
Three Lives

A short film made for the United Jewish Appeal, reuniting the main players behind The Sniper, writer...

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Fort Worth
Fort Worth

Ex-gunfighter Ned Britt returns to Fort Worth after the civil war to help run a newspaper which is a...

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Strangers on a Train
Strangers on a Train

A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit th...

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The Ladder of Lies
The Ladder of Lies

To save her good friend, Peter Gordon, from marrying a gold digger named Dora, Edith Parrish introdu...

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Poor Relations
Poor Relations

Dorothy Perkins, the eldest daughter of a simple, wholesome country family, leaves for the big city ...

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Simple Souls
Simple Souls

When the Duke of Wynningham, a "simple soul" who prefers science to royalty, meets Molly Shine, a Lo...

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The Little 'Fraid Lady
The Little 'Fraid Lady

Cecelia Carne, dubbed "the little 'fraid lady" because she shuns society, seeks the solitude of the ...

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The Lady Takes a Sailor
The Lady Takes a Sailor

Jennifer Smith heads a "Consumer Reports"-type company and her reputation for honesty is her greates...

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