Charles Bickford
Birthday: 1890-12-31
Place of Birth: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Biography: 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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A Star Is Born
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Rose Hobart
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The Unforgiven
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Duel in the Sun
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Fallen Angel
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Days of Wine and Roses
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Gangs of New York
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The Big Country
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Winterset
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Tarzan's New York Adventure
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Brute Force
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Whirlpool
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Anna Christie
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The Woman on the Beach
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Jim Thorpe – All-American
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A Big Hand for the Little Lady
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Little Miss Marker
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The Babe Ruth Story
The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run h...
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The Farmer's Daughter
After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unex...
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The Song of Bernadette
In 1858 Lourdes, France, adolescent peasant Bernadette has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the Mas...
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The Plainsman
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The Raging Tide
A San Francisco hood is rubbed out by rival Bruno Felkin, who himself reports the crime to Homicide ...
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Reap the Wild Wind
The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvage...
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Four Faces West
Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks abo...
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Mr. Lucky
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Wing and a Prayer
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High, Wide and Handsome
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Of Mice and Men
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranc...
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Not as a Stranger
Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He cour...
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You Can't Run Away from It
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Daughter of Shanghai
A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring....
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Riding High
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the b...
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This Day and Age
A modern-day tale of gangsterism and revenge. After a notorious mobster murders a Jewish tailor and ...
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The Last Posse
A posse's pursuit of bank robbers ends with loot missing and a sheriff (Broderick Crawford) wounded....
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East of Borneo
Mrs. Linda Randolph treks through darkened jungles to the land of Maradu to find her missing husband...
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Stand Up and Fight
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom....
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The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High ...
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Scandal for Sale
A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million....
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Mister Cory
An opportunistic young man from the slums gambles his way to wealth, power and high society....
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Panama Flo
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Branded
A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by...
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The Pagan Lady
Dot starts out as a bartender in Havana when in walks Dingo Mike (Charles Bickford) and orders up a ...
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The Squaw Man
Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezz...
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Hell's Heroes
Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wago...
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White Woman
A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his e...
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Dynamite
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The Farmer Takes a Wife
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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The Sea Bat
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Passion Flower
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Valley of the Giants
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A Wicked Woman
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Roseanna McCoy
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No Other Woman
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Queen of the Yukon
The owner of an Alaskan gambling boat and her business partner help thwart a crooked businessman who...
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Della
Della Chappell is a very wealthy and incredibly reclusive woman. When a big company wants to develop...
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Elopement
Two sets of parents frantically race to stop their eloping children's wedding....
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River's End
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Men in Her Life
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Red Wagon
Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan ...
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Forbidden Area
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Thunder Below
Story of an unhappy wife of oil rigger who labors in a Central American oil field. The bored Susan f...
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Under Pressure
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Vanity Street
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Guilty of Treason
The story of Cardinal Josef Mindzhenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary who spoke out against...
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Mutiny in the Big House
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Girl from God's Country
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Night Club Scandal
When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But F...
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Rose of the Rancho
It is California in 1852 that only recently being surrendered by Mexico to the United States and adm...
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Our Leading Citizen
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Thunder Trail
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Burma Convoy
A truck convoy traveling the Burma Road is menaced by a group of smugglers....
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Street of Missing Men
An ex-con vows vengeance on the newspaper responsible for putting him behind bars, but has a change ...
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Riders of Death Valley
The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted weste...
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Song of the Eagle
This drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control over th...
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South Sea Rose
A French girl raised in the south seas is brought to prim and proper New England by her New England ...
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Romance of the Redwoods
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Captain Eddie
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver an...
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Prince of Players
This biopic follows the story of Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth and his rise to fame. Edwin's caree...
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Command Decision
High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing ne...
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Complicated Women
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, u...
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Pride of the Marines
A Marine sacrifices his adopted son and his girlfriend so that they might find a new and more prospe...
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East of Java
Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and t...
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Days of Wine and Roses
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman whom he systematically addicts to ...
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South to Karanga
Passengers bound to an African copper mine at Karanga to quell a native uprising encounter murder an...
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One Hour To Live
Gangsters and police cross each other, including murder, in an attempt to cover up crimes....
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The Farmer's Daughter
Young Swedish-American Katrin "Katie" Holstrom leaves her family farm in Minnesota, headed for nursi...
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Sincerely, Willis Wade
A wealthy mill owner finances the education of a clever, but poor, young man....
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Clipper Ship
A romance on the high seas revolving around the comely widow of a shipping magnate, and her growing ...
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Where's Charley?
Lord Fancourt Babberley is forced to disguise himself as a woman - his aunt from Brazil, "where the ...
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