Charles McGraw

Highest Rated: 100% The Narrow Margin (1952)

Lowest Rated: 40% The Killer Inside Me (1976)

Birthday: May 10, 1914

Birthplace: Not Available

Gravel-voiced, granite-faced stage actor Charles McGraw made his first film The Moon is Down in 1943. At first it seemed as though McGraw would spend his movie career languishing in villainy, but while working at RKO in the late 1940s-early 1950s, the actor developed into an unorthodox but fascinating leading man. His shining hour (actually 72 minutes) was the role of the embittered detective assigned to protect mob witness Marie Windsor in the 1952 noir classic The Narrow Margin. McGraw continued being cast in the raffish-hero mold on television, essaying the lead in the 1954 syndicated series Adventures of Falcon and assuming the Bogartesque role of café owner Rick Blaine in the 1955 weekly TV adaptation of Casablanca (1955) (his last regular TV work was the supporting part of Captain Hughes on the 1971 Henry Fonda starrer The Smith Family). Active until the mid-1970s, Charles McGraw growled and scowled his way through such choice character roles as gladiator trainer Marcellus in Spartacus (1960), Sebastian Sholes in Hitchcock's The Birds (1963), and The Preacher in the cult favorite A Boy and His Dog (1975).

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	Nightmare In Chicago	Actor	—	2012
80%	Twilight's Last Gleaming	Gen. Peter Crane	—	1977
40%	The Killer Inside Me	Hendricks	—	1976
76%	A Boy and His Dog	Preacher	—	1975
No Score Yet	Chandler	Bernie Oakman	—	1971
67%	Johnny Got His Gun	Mike	—	1971
86%	The Night Stalker	Chief Masterson	—	1971
73%	Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here	Frank Wilson	—	1969
92%	Hang 'em High	Actor	—	1968
83%	In Cold Blood	Smith's Father	—	1967
No Score Yet	The Busy Body	Fred Harwell	—	1967
70%	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World	Lieutenant	—	1963
95%	The Birds	Sebastian Sholes	—	1963
No Score Yet	The Horizontal Lieutenant	Col. Charles Korotny	—	1961
No Score Yet	Cimarron	Bob Yountis	—	1960
93%	Spartacus	Marcellus	—	1960
No Score Yet	The Man in the Net	Steve Ritter	—	1959
No Score Yet	The Wonderful Country	Doc Stovall	—	1959
92%	The Defiant Ones	Capt. Frank Gibbons	—	1958
No Score Yet	Saddle the Wind	Larry Venables	—	1958
No Score Yet	Slaughter on Tenth Avenue	Lt. Anthony Vosnick	—	1957
No Score Yet	Toward the Unknown	Col. 'Mickey' McKee	—	1956
No Score Yet	Away All Boats	Lt. Mike O'Bannion	—	1956
80%	The Bridges at Toko-Ri	Cmdr. Wayne Lee	—	1954
No Score Yet	Loophole	Gus Slavin	—	1954
No Score Yet	Thunder Over the Plains	Ben Westman	—	1953
No Score Yet	War Paint	Sgt. Clarke	—	1953
No Score Yet	One Minute to Zero	Sfc. Baker	—	1952
100%	The Narrow Margin	Det. Sgt. Walter Brown	—	1952
No Score Yet	His Kind of Woman	Thompson	—	1951
No Score Yet	Roadblock	Joe Peters	—	1951
No Score Yet	Double Crossbones	Capt. Ben Wickett	—	1951
No Score Yet	Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town	`Shotgun' Mike Munger	—	1950
83%	Side Street	Stanley Simon	—	1950
No Score Yet	Armored Car Robbery	Lt. Jim Cordell	—	1950
No Score Yet	The Threat	Arnold 'Red' Kluger	—	1949
No Score Yet	The Story of Molly X	Capt. Breen	—	1949
67%	Border Incident	Jeff Amboy	—	1949
No Score Yet	Once More, My Darling	Herman Schmelz, Chauffeur	—	1949
No Score Yet	Berlin Express	Col. Johns	—	1948
No Score Yet	Corvette K-225	Engineroom Chief	—	1948
100%	Blood on the Moon	Milo Sweet	—	1948
No Score Yet	The Hunted	Detective	—	1948
100%	T-Men	Moxie	—	1947
No Score Yet	The Gangster	Dugas	—	1947
No Score Yet	Roses Are Red	Duke	—	1947
No Score Yet	On the Old Spanish Trail	Harry Blaisdell	—	1947
100%	The Farmer's Daughter	Fisher	—	1947
94%	Brute Force	Andy	—	1947
No Score Yet	The Long Night	Policeman	—	1947
100%	The Killers	Killer	—	1946
No Score Yet	The Imposter (Strange Confession)	Menessier	—	1944
No Score Yet	Destroyer	Assistant Chief Engineer	—	1943
No Score Yet	The Moon Is Down	Ole	—	1943
No Score Yet	They Came to Blow Up America	Zellerbach	—	1943
No Score Yet	The Mad Ghoul	Detective Garrity	—	1943
No Score Yet	The Undying Monster (The Hammond Mystery)	Stredwick	—	1942

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
No Score Yet	Mission: Impossible 1966-1973	Stevens	1973
No Score Yet	Ironside 1967-1975	Marvin	1972
No Score Yet	Gunsmoke 1955-1975	Guest Calvin Dolen Squawman	1971 1967 1966 1964
No Score Yet	Bonanza 1959-1973	Sheriff Luke	1969 1962
No Score Yet	The Wild Wild West 1965-1969	Baggs	1968
No Score Yet	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 1962-1965	Oliver	1963

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