Charles McGraw
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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 |
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No Score Yet | Nightmare In Chicago |
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— | 2012 |
80% | Twilight's Last Gleaming |
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— | 1977 |
40% | The Killer Inside Me |
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— | 1976 |
76% | A Boy and His Dog |
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— | 1975 |
No Score Yet | Chandler |
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— | 1971 |
67% | Johnny Got His Gun |
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— | 1971 |
86% | The Night Stalker |
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— | 1971 |
73% | Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here |
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— | 1969 |
92% | Hang 'em High |
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— | 1968 |
83% | In Cold Blood |
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— | 1967 |
No Score Yet | The Busy Body |
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— | 1967 |
70% | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World |
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— | 1963 |
95% | The Birds |
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— | 1963 |
No Score Yet | The Horizontal Lieutenant |
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— | 1961 |
No Score Yet | Cimarron |
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— | 1960 |
93% | Spartacus |
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— | 1960 |
No Score Yet | The Man in the Net |
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— | 1959 |
No Score Yet | The Wonderful Country |
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— | 1959 |
92% | The Defiant Ones |
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— | 1958 |
No Score Yet | Saddle the Wind |
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— | 1958 |
No Score Yet | Slaughter on Tenth Avenue |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | Toward the Unknown |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | Away All Boats |
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— | 1956 |
80% | The Bridges at Toko-Ri |
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— | 1954 |
No Score Yet | Loophole |
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— | 1954 |
No Score Yet | Thunder Over the Plains |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | War Paint |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | One Minute to Zero |
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— | 1952 |
100% | The Narrow Margin |
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— | 1952 |
No Score Yet | His Kind of Woman |
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— | 1951 |
No Score Yet | Roadblock |
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— | 1951 |
No Score Yet | Double Crossbones |
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— | 1951 |
No Score Yet | Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town |
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— | 1950 |
83% | Side Street |
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— | 1950 |
No Score Yet | Armored Car Robbery |
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— | 1950 |
No Score Yet | The Threat |
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— | 1949 |
No Score Yet | The Story of Molly X |
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— | 1949 |
67% | Border Incident |
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— | 1949 |
No Score Yet | Once More, My Darling |
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— | 1949 |
No Score Yet | Berlin Express |
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— | 1948 |
No Score Yet | Corvette K-225 |
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— | 1948 |
100% | Blood on the Moon |
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— | 1948 |
No Score Yet | The Hunted |
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— | 1948 |
100% | T-Men |
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— | 1947 |
No Score Yet | The Gangster |
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— | 1947 |
No Score Yet | Roses Are Red |
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— | 1947 |
No Score Yet | On the Old Spanish Trail |
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— | 1947 |
100% | The Farmer's Daughter |
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— | 1947 |
94% | Brute Force |
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— | 1947 |
No Score Yet | The Long Night |
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— | 1947 |
100% | The Killers |
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— | 1946 |
No Score Yet | The Imposter (Strange Confession) |
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— | 1944 |
No Score Yet | Destroyer |
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— | 1943 |
No Score Yet | The Moon Is Down |
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— | 1943 |
No Score Yet | They Came to Blow Up America |
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— | 1943 |
No Score Yet | The Mad Ghoul |
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— | 1943 |
No Score Yet | The Undying Monster (The Hammond Mystery) |
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— | 1942 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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Mission: Impossible
1966-1973
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No Score Yet |
Ironside
1967-1975
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No Score Yet |
Gunsmoke
1955-1975
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No Score Yet |
Bonanza
1959-1973
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No Score Yet |
The Wild Wild West
1965-1969
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No Score Yet |
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962-1965
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