Charles Winninger

Charles Winninger

Birthday: 1884-05-25

Place of Birth: Athens, Wisconsin, USA

Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charles Winninger (May 26, 1884 – January 27, 1969) was an American stage and film actor, most often cast in comedies or musicals, but equally at home in dramas.

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Beyond Tomorrow
Beyond Tomorrow

The ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help reuni...

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Show Boat
Show Boat

Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the ...

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The Get-Away
The Get-Away

A jailed cop befriends a mob chieftain and stages a breakout with him....

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Babes in Arms
Babes in Arms

Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his gir...

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State Fair
State Fair

During their annual visit to the Iowa State Fair, the Frake family enjoy many adventures. Proud patr...

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The Miracle of the White Reindeer
The Miracle of the White Reindeer

Xmas-themed kiddie matinee film....

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Nothing Sacred
Nothing Sacred

When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing newspaper ...

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Little Nellie Kelly
Little Nellie Kelly

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

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Destry Rides Again
Destry Rides Again

Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the...

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Something in the Wind
Something in the Wind

A grandson of a recently deceased millionaire mistakes a beautiful female disc jockey for her aunt, ...

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Belle of the Yukon
Belle of the Yukon

Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest c...

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Three Smart Girls
Three Smart Girls

The three Craig sisters – Penny, Kay, and Joan – go to New York to stop their divorced father from m...

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Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Three Smart Girls Grow Up

Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until ...

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A Lady Takes a Chance
A Lady Takes a Chance

A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her ci...

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Pot o' Gold
Pot o' Gold

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

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My Life with Caroline
My Life with Caroline

A man thinks his high-spirited wife is cheating on him....

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Broadway Rhythm
Broadway Rhythm

Broadway producer Johnny Demming is only interested in big-name talent and scoffs that his sister, f...

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Night Nurse
Night Nurse

Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training sh...

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She Wouldn't Say Yes
She Wouldn't Say Yes

Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her prac...

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The Sun Shines Bright
The Sun Shines Bright

With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involve...

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The Canadian
The Canadian

A couple undergo hardship homesteading in Alberta, where they are plagued by bad weather and financi...

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A Perilous Journey
A Perilous Journey

A ship of women embarks on a voyage to California. Director R. G. Springsteen's 1953 adventure drama...

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Every Day's a Holiday
Every Day's a Holiday

When a turn-of-century confidence trickster poses as a famous French chanteuse to avoid arrest, she ...

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Las Vegas Shakedown
Las Vegas Shakedown

A teacher writing a book about gambling meets a hotel/casino owner threatened by a gangster....

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Flesh and Fantasy
Flesh and Fantasy

Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New O...

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The Bad Sister
The Bad Sister

Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsemen...

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Flying High
Flying High

An inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption....

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Living in a Big Way
Living in a Big Way

A World War II pilot (Gene Kelly) comes home to a bride (Marie McDonald) who, spoiled by her father ...

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The Inside Story
The Inside Story

A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the far...

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Café Metropole
Café Metropole

An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress....

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Father Is a Bachelor
Father Is a Bachelor

Johnny Rutledge is a drifter who comes to and discovers a cabin in the forest where five kids: Janua...

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My Love Came Back
My Love Came Back

Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arran...

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Summer Bachelors
Summer Bachelors

Derry Thomas is a pretty girl from a good family who earns her own living, but is disillusioned abou...

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Hers to Hold
Hers to Hold

Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" film...

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The Go-Getter
The Go-Getter

A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success....

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Lover Come Back
Lover Come Back

A wife decides to take revenge when she learns her husband has been unfaithful....

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Goodbye Broadway
Goodbye Broadway

Pat and Molly Malloy, once famed vaudeville and Broadway performers, arrive to play the small town o...

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Give My Regards to Broadway
Give My Regards to Broadway

A family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play baseball. Mu...

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Barricade
Barricade

In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits....

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Sunday Dinner for a Soldier
Sunday Dinner for a Soldier

A poor family in Florida saves all the money they can in order to plan something special for the sol...

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Sunday Dinner for a Soldier
Sunday Dinner for a Soldier

A poor family in Florida saves all the money they can in order to plan something special for the sol...

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Hard to Get
Hard to Get

When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill...

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God's Gift to Women
God's Gift to Women

A notorious womanizer sets his sights on a pretty American tourist, only to be told by his doctor th...

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Social Register
Social Register

Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love,...

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You Can't Have Everything
You Can't Have Everything

Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of st...

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Ziegfeld Girl
Ziegfeld Girl

Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautif...

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Woman Chases Man
Woman Chases Man

A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing de...

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White Fang
White Fang

A woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accus...

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You're a Sweetheart
You're a Sweetheart

A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production...

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The Sin of Madelon Claudet
The Sin of Madelon Claudet

Out of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her i...

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Raymie
Raymie

Raymie, an eight-year-old boy and an avid fisherman, dreams of catching a legendary giant barracuda ...

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Children of Dreams
Children of Dreams

One day, Molly Standing is picking apples in her father's apple orchard in California, with her frie...

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Coney Island
Coney Island

Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at f...

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Torpedo Alley
Torpedo Alley

After carrier pilot Lt Bingham is rescued at sea by a submarine when he crashes, he applies for subm...

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Friendly Enemies
Friendly Enemies

During World War I, two German men friends who emigrated to the US and become millionaires agree on ...

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Gun Smoke
Gun Smoke

Following a killing and robbery in a big city back east, gang leader Kedge Darvas and some of his he...

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Soup to Nuts
Soup to Nuts

Mr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions...

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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 2: 'Chip Shots'
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 2: 'Chip Shots'

Bobby Jones teaches a group of truant businessman how to improve their chip shots....

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A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind th...

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Champ for a Day
Champ for a Day

An up-and-coming heavyweight fighter, George Wilson, arrives in Vulcan City, a small mid-western tow...

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If I Had My Way
If I Had My Way

Construction worker Buzz Blackwell becomes the guardian of 12-year-old Pat Johnson after one of his ...

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Mr. Gardenia Jones
Mr. Gardenia Jones

Documentary short film depicting the work of the United Service Organizations (USO) in providing rec...

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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life....

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Pied Piper Malone
Pied Piper Malone

Pied Piper Malone (1924)...

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