Charles Waldron

Highest Rated: 100% The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)

Lowest Rated: 36% The Garden of Allah (1936)

Birthday: Dec 23, 1874

Birthplace: Not Available

Gnarly looking character actor Charles Waldron began appearing in films in 1915. Throughout most of his screen career, Waldron was cast as saintly looking men of the cloth: vicars, bishops, padres, and the like. Toward the end of his life he began receiving meatier movie assignments, often playing elderly characters forced to face the consequences of a misspent life. Humphrey Bogart fans will remember Charles Waldron as the desiccated General Sternwood in the opening scenes of Bogart's The Big Sleep (1946).

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
97%	The Big Sleep	Gen. Sternwood	—	1946
67%	Dragonwyck	Minister	—	1946
80%	Wing and a Prayer	Admiral	—	1944
No Score Yet	The Adventures of Mark Twain	Dr. Quintard	—	1944
No Score Yet	Once upon a Time	Preacher	—	1944
67%	Mademoiselle Fifi	Cure of Cleresville	—	1944
88%	The Song of Bernadette	Bishop of Tarbes	—	1943
90%	Random Harvest	Mr. Lloyd	—	1942
No Score Yet	The Gay Sisters	Mr. Van Rennseler	—	1942
100%	The Devil and Miss Jones	Needles	—	1941
No Score Yet	The Nurse's Secret	Dr. Stewart	—	1941
No Score Yet	Son of Monte Cristo	Kurt Mirbach	—	1941
No Score Yet	I Wanted Wings	Commanding Officer	—	1941
86%	Stranger on the Third Floor	District Attorney	—	1940
No Score Yet	Three Faces West	Dr. Thorpe	—	1940
80%	Edison, the Man	Commissioner	—	1940
No Score Yet	Dr. Kildare's Strange Case	Dr. Squires	—	1940
No Score Yet	And One Was Beautiful	Stephen Harridge	—	1940
100%	Remember the Night	Judge in New York	—	1940
No Score Yet	The Case Of The Black Parrot	Actor	—	1940
No Score Yet	The Real Glory	Padre Rafael	—	1939
No Score Yet	On Borrowed Time	Rev. Murdock	—	1939
No Score Yet	Kentucky	Thad Goodwin, 1937	—	1938
No Score Yet	Marie Antoinette	Swedish Ambassador	—	1938
No Score Yet	The Emperor's Candlesticks	Dr. Malcher	—	1937
No Score Yet	Navy Blue and Gold	Cmdr. Carter	—	1937
No Score Yet	Escape by Night	Pop Adams	—	1937
36%	The Garden of Allah	The Abbe	—	1936
No Score Yet	Ramona	Dr. Weaver	—	1936
80%	Crime and Punishment	University President	—	1935
No Score Yet	Mary Burns, Fugitive	District Attorney	—	1935

Quotes from Charles Waldron's Characters

General Sternwood:

If I seem a bit sinister as a parent Mr. Marlowe, it's because my hold on life is too slight to include any Victorian hypocrisy. I need hardly add any man who has lived as I have and indulges or the first time in parenthood at my age deserves all he gets.

General Sternwood:	You may smoke, too. I can still enjoy the smell of it. Hum, nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy. You're looking, sir, at a very dull survival of a very gaudy life, crippled, paralyzed in both legs, barely I eat and my sleep is so near waking it's hardly worth a name. I seem to exist largely on heat like a newborn spiderl
General Sternwood:	You may smoke, too. I can still enjoy the smell of it. Hum, nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy. You're looking, sir, at a very dull survival of a very gaudy life, crippled, paralyzed in both legs, barely I eat and my sleep is so near waking it's hardly worth a name. I seem to exist largely on heat like a newborn spider.

General Sternwood:	Do you like orchids?
Philip Marlowe:	Not particularly.
General Sternwood:	Ugh. Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men and their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.

General Sternwood:	How do you like your brandy?
Philip Marlowe:	Just with brandy.

General Sternwood:	How do you like your brandy, sir?
Philip Marlowe:	In a glass.

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Charles Waldron

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Quotes from Charles Waldron's Characters