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Charles Ambrose Bickford (January 1, 1891 – November 9, 1967) was an American actor best known for his strong 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).
Bickford was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during the first minute of 1891. The fifth of seven children, Charles was an intelligent but very independent and unruly child. He had a particularly strong relationship with his maternal grandfather (a sea captain) who was a powerful influence during his formative years. At the age of nine he was tried and acquitted of the attempted murder of a trolley motorman who had callously driven over and killed his beloved dog. Always more interested in experiencing life than reading about it, Charles was generally considered "the wild rogue" of this family, causing his parents frequent consternation. In his late teens he drifted aimlessly around the United States for a time. Before breaking into acting he worked as a lumberjack, investment promoter, and for a short time, ran a pest extermination business. He was a stoker and fireman in the United States Navy when a friend dared him to get a job in Burlesque. Bickford served as a Engineer Lieutenant in the United States Army during World War I. His first entry into acting was on the stage, eventually including Broadway. This venue provided him with an occasional living and served as the principal training ground for developing his acting and vocal talents.
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Plot: The movie starts off at the beginning of Judy Garland's life singing when she was two years old. It jumps to when she was 12 and was signed by MGM and later when her father dies. The movie tells about her early struggles with MGM and with the addiction to barbiturates. It then jumps to the marriage to Vincette Minelli and the struggles with that, and leads into the rest of the movie and her marriages to Sid Luft, Mark Herron, and Mickey Deans and ends when she dies in 1969
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Joel McCrea, Frances Dee, Charles Bickford 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 his six-gun collateral. The banker hands ...
The undercover cop Rocky Thorpe infiltrates a crime syndicate being run by the incarcerated mob boss John Franklin. Franklin conducts his business via a short-wave radio concealed in his cell. One day Franklin is caught and placed in solitary confinement. Thorpe, Franklin's physical double, takes his place. Soon changes in the gang's activities are subtly made. Thorpe orders the mob to keep careful records of their activities, to gather enough evidence to convict them all. Trouble ensues when Franklin escapes from jail. Written by Robert
Queen of the Yukon (1940) Charles Bickford, Irene Rich, June Carlson Sadie owns a riverboat that gold-miners are using to travel to their claims, while gambling and drinking on the way. The Yukon Mining Company sends Thorne to take over Sadie's boat and then cheat the miners out of their claims. Meanwhile, Sadie has kept her life a secret from her daughter Helen, whom she has sent away to school to live a more refined life, but one day Helen arrives unexpectedly. Her naive boyfriend Bob goes to work for the dishonest Thorne, while Helen enjoys the wild Yukon more than her mother wants her to. Sadie turns to her trusted friend Ace to sort out all the complications.
Released Date: Mar. 18, 1942 Produced: Cecil B. DeMille Directed: Cecil B. DeMille Music: Victor Young Screenplay: Alan Le May, Charles Bennett, Jesse Lasky Jr., from Thelma Strabel novel. Ray Milland John Wayne Paulette Goddard Raymond Massey Robert Preston Susan Hayward Lynne Overman Charles Bickford Plot: Florida ship salvager, Loxi, falls for Jack, captain of a ship wrecked on the Key West shore. However, their romance is complicated by the arrival of another suitor, and eventually leads to tragedy.
Brute Force is a 1947 American crime film noir directed by Jules Dassin, from a screenplay by Richard Brooks with cinematography by William H. Daniels. It stars . Prison Film-Noir 1947. Brute Force is a 1947 film noir starring Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn and Charles Bickford. It was directed by Jules Dassin, with a screenplay by Richard Brooks .
Doug McClure and Albert Salmi can be seen in the background on the horse in this scene with Burt Lancaster, Charles Bickford, Audrey Hepburn and Audie Murphy. As in several of his movies, such as The Enemy Below and Shenandoah, Doug provides the one light hearted scene in a otherwise serious movie. As Bickford's daughter complains how the older two Zachary brothers haven't come courting her, Andy pipes up with "Maybe you ain't asked the right Zachary" and when she pins him up against the wall, explains he has to go to Wichita, "I ain't ever had.......(then pausing, realising he is in mixed company and can't mention the real reason) says.." a glass of beer"!
Stars: Rose Hobart, Charles Bickford, Georges Renavent Director: George Melford Woman treks through jungle to find her missing husband!
Doug McClure and Albert Salmi can be seen in the background on the horse in this scene with Burt Lancaster, Charles Bickford, Audrey Hepburn and Audie Murphy. As in several of his movies, such as The Enemy Below and Shenandoah, Doug provides the one light hearted scene in a otherwise serious movie. As Bickford's daughter complains how the older two Zachary brothers haven't come courting her, Andy pipes up with "Maybe you ain't asked the right Zachary" and when she pins him up against the wall, explains he has to go to Wichita, "I ain't ever had.......(then pausing, realising he is in mixed company and can't mention the real reason) says.." a glass of beer"!
Brute Force is a 1947 American crime film noir directed by Jules Dassin, from a screenplay by Richard Brooks with cinematography by William H. Daniels. It stars Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn and Charles Bickford. This was among several noir films made by Dassin during the postwar period. The others were Thieves' Highway, Night and the City and The Naked City. Burt Lancaster as Joe Collins Hume Cronyn as Capt. Munsey Charles Bickford as Gallagher Yvonne De Carlo as Gina Ferrara Ann Blyth as Ruth Ella Raines as Cora Lister Anita Colby as Flossie Sam Levene as Louie Miller #7033 Public Domain.
This aired on March 30, 1950.
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Joel McCrea, Frances Dee, Charles Bickford 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 his six-gun collateral. The banker hands ...
The undercover cop Rocky Thorpe infiltrates a crime syndicate being run by the incarcerated mob boss John Franklin. Franklin conducts his business via a short-wave radio concealed in his cell. One day Franklin is caught and placed in solitary confinement. Thorpe, Franklin's physical double, takes his place. Soon changes in the gang's activities are subtly made. Thorpe orders the mob to keep careful records of their activities, to gather enough evidence to convict them all. Trouble ensues when Franklin escapes from jail. Written by Robert
A woman searches for her lost husband in the jungle.
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A bored society woman invites scandal and heartache when she falls in love with her low-born chauffeur.
The Big Country movie clips: http://j.mp/16WO3vt BUY THE MOVIE: http://j.mp/19dJL8T Don't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u2y6pr CLIP DESCRIPTION: Jim (Gregory Peck) tries to stop the Major (Charles Bickford) and his men from going out to kill the Hannasseys. FILM DESCRIPTION: In The Big Country Gregory Peck plays a seafaring man who heads west to marry Carroll Baker, the daughter of rancher Charles Bickford. Bickford is currently embroiled in a water-rights feud with covetous Burl Ives, so both he and his daughter are hoping that Peck can take care of himself. But Peck, who doesn't belief in fisticuffs, appears to be a coward, especially when challenged by Bickford's cocksure foreman Charlton Heston. The far-from-cowardly Peck decides to distance himself from the machismo ...
Stars: Rose Hobart, Charles Bickford, Georges Renavent Director: George Melford Woman treks through jungle to find her missing husband!
Queen of the Yukon (1940) Charles Bickford, Irene Rich, June Carlson Sadie owns a riverboat that gold-miners are using to travel to their claims, while gambling and drinking on the way. The Yukon Mining Company sends Thorne to take over Sadie's boat and then cheat the miners out of their claims. Meanwhile, Sadie has kept her life a secret from her daughter Helen, whom she has sent away to school to live a more refined life, but one day Helen arrives unexpectedly. Her naive boyfriend Bob goes to work for the dishonest Thorne, while Helen enjoys the wild Yukon more than her mother wants her to. Sadie turns to her trusted friend Ace to sort out all the complications.
BRUTALIDADE''1947' Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford
Brutalidade 1947 leg de Jules Dassin, com Burt Lancaster Yvonne De Carlo Charles Bickford
BRUTALIDADE...Brute Force 1947 -Stars: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford
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Stars: Rose Hobart, Charles Bickford, Georges Renavent Director: George Melford