Charles Coburn
Born in Macon, Georgia, USA — Jun 18 1877• Died Aug 30 1961
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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…
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Studio One
Louis Hurst
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
What's My Line?
Self
Studio 57
December Bride
This Is Your Life
Self
Lux Video Theatre
Pa Harrington
The George Gobel Show
Self
Around the World in 80 Days
Steamship Company Clerk
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Sir Francis Beekman
The Paradine Case
Sir Simon Flaquer
Made for Each Other
Judge Joseph M. Doolittle
Vivacious Lady
Mr. Morgan
Pepe
Charles Coburn
Heaven Can Wait
Hugo Van Cleve
In This Our Life
William Fitzroy
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Self (archive footage)
Monkey Business
Oliver Oxley
John Paul Jones
Benjamin Franklin
The Rosemary Clooney Show
Self
The Devil and Miss Jones
John P. Merrick/Thomas Higgins
Kings Row
Henry Gordon
The Lady Eve
'Colonel' Harrington
The More the Merrier
Benjamin Dingle
Lured
Harley Temple
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Gardner Hubbard
A Royal Scandal
Nicolai Iiyitch
Of Human Hearts
Dr. Charles Shingle
Wilson
Professor Henry Holmes
Stanley and Livingstone
Lord Tyce
The Story of Mankind
Hippocrates
Impact
Lieutenant Quincy
In Name Only
Richard Walker
Bachelor Mother
J. B. Merlin
Over 21
Robert Drexel Gow
Edison, the Man
General Powell
Together Again
Jonathan Crandall Sr
Breakdowns of 1942
Self
Peggy
Professor Brookfield
Lord Jeff
Captain Briggs
Road to Singapore
Joshua Mallon IV
Idiot's Delight
Dr. Hugo Waldersee
Florian
Dr. Johannes Hofer
The Long Wait
Gardiner
Trouble Along the Way
le Père Matthew William Burke
Mr. Music
Alex Conway
Louisa
Mr. Burnside
The Green Years
Alexander Gow
The Constant Nymph
Charles Creighton
Colonel Effingham's Raid
Colonel Will Seaborn Effingham
Yellow Jack
Dr. Finlay
Our Wife
Professor Drake
The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker
Grampa Pennypacker
The Power and the Prize
Guy Eliot
The Doctor and the Girl
Dr. John Corday
A Stranger in My Arms
Vance Beasley
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
John Pulham
Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
Samuel Fulton / John Smith
George Washington Slept Here
Stanley Menninger
The Impatient Years
William Smith
It's Showtime
Self (archive footage)
My Kingdom for a Cook
Rudyard Morley
Three Faces West
Dr. Karl Braun
B.F.'s Daughter
Burton F. 'B.F.' Fulton
Town on Trial
Dr. John Fenner
Knickerbocker Holiday
Peter Stuyvesant
Unexpected Uncle
Seton Mansley
The Rocket Man
Mayor Ed Johnson
Everybody Does It
Major Blair
The Gal Who Took the West
General Michael O'Hara
How to Murder a Rich Uncle
Uncle George Clitterbern
Princess O'Rourke
Uncle Holman
Green Grass of Wyoming
Beaver Greenway
How to Be Very, Very Popular
Dr. Tweed
The Highwayman
Lord Walters
Rhapsody in Blue
Max Dreyfus
Shady Lady
Col. John Appleby
The Captain is a Lady
Captain Abe Peabody
The People's Enemy
Judge
Yes Sir, That's My Baby
Professor Jason Hartley