Charles Coburn
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1877-06-18 (84 years old)
Deathday
1961-08-30
Place of Birth
Macon, Georgia, USA
Also known As
Charles Douville Coburn
Charles Coburn
Biography
Charles Douville Coburn (June 19, 1877 – August 30, 1961) was an American film and theatre actor. Best known for his work in comedies, Coburn received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for 1943's The More the Merrier. Coburn was born in Macon, Georgia, the son of Scotch-Irish Americans Emma Louise Sprigman (May 11, 1838 Springfield, Ohio – November 12, 1896 Savannah, Georgia) and Moses Douville Coburn (April 27, 1834 Savannah, Georgia – December 27, 1902 Savannah, Georgia). Growing up in Savannah, he started out at age 14 doing odd jobs at the local Savannah Theater, handing out programs, ushering, or being the doorman. By age 17 o...
Acting
1953
as Sir Francis Beekman
1941
as 'Colonel' Harrington
1947
as Harley Temple
1952
as Oliver Oxley
1947
as Sir Simon Flaquer
1944
as Jonathan Crandall Sr
1949
as Lieutenant Quincy
1939
as Richard Walker
1943
as Uncle Holman
1938
as Mr. Morgan
1942
as Stanley Menninger
1953
as le Père Matthew William Burke
1940
as Dr. Karl Braun
1939
as J. B. Merlin
1957
as Hippocrates
1949
as General Michael O'Hara
1954
as Gardiner
1945
as Max Dreyfus
1942
as William Fitzroy
1941
as John P. Merrick/Thomas Higgins
1940
as General Powell
1939
as Dr. Hugo Waldersee
1939
as Judge Joseph M. Doolittle
1939
as Gardner Hubbard
1943
as Hugo Van Cleve
1948
as Beaver Greenway
1943
as Benjamin Dingle
1960
as Charles Coburn
1942
as Henry Gordon
1952
as Samuel Fulton / John Smith
1959
as Benjamin Franklin
1948
as Burton F. 'B.F.' Fulton
1944
as Professor Henry Holmes
1935
as Judge
1943
as Charles Creighton
1945
as Nicolai Iiyitch
1941
as Professor Drake
1941
as John Pulham
1945
as Robert Drexel Gow
1949
as Dr. John Corday
1939
as Lord Tyce
1946
as Alexander Gow
1957
as Dr. John Fenner
1938
as Captain Briggs
1950
as Alex Conway
1938
as Dr. Charles Shingle
1945
as Col. John Appleby
1957
as Uncle George Clitterbern
1955
as Dr. Tweed
1954
as Mayor Ed Johnson
1938
as Dr. Finlay
1944
as William Smith
1951
as Lord Walters
1956
as Guy Eliot
1941
as Seton Mansley
1986
as Self (from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes [1953]) (archive footage)
1940
as Dr. Johannes Hofer
1959
as Vance Beasley
1944
as Peter Stuyvesant
1949
as Major Blair
1940
as Joshua Mallon IV
1959
as Grampa Pennypacker
1997
as Self (archive footage)
1949
as Professor Jason Hartley
1943
as Rudyard Morley
1956
as Steamship Company Clerk
1950
as Professor Brookfield
1950
as Mr. Burnside
1940
as Captain Abe Peabody
1946
as Colonel Will Seaborn Effingham
1963
as Sir Francis 'Piggy' Beekman (archive footage) (uncredited)
1985
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1976
as Self (archive footage)
1942
as Self
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