Charles McGraw

Charles McGraw was born on May 10, 1914 in USA. Charles McGraw's big-screen debut came with The Moon Is Down directed by Irving Pichel in 1943, strarring Ole (uncredited). Charles McGraw is known for Money to Burn directed by Robert Michael Lewis, E.G. Marshall stars as Jed Finnegan and Mildred Natwick as Emily Finnegan. Charles McGraw has got 1 awards and 1 nominations so far. The most recent award Charles McGraw achieved is Walk of Fame. The upcoming new movie Charles McGraw plays is Twilight's Last Gleaming which will be released on Feb 09, 1977.

Stony-faced, grizzled-looking tough guy Charles McGraw (real name Charles Butters) notched up dozens of TV and film credits, usually portraying law enforcement figures or military officers, plus the odd shifty gangster. While at high school he worked as a theatre usher and was nicknamed "Chick" by his friends. At 17, he returned to his home town of Akron to study at university. He hitchhiked to New York from Ohio, enjoyed a substantial period in the boxing ring as a middleweight pugilist and then found his first success as an actor in 1937 on the Broadway stage in the Clifford Odets play "Golden Boy". Afterwards, stage work proved hard to come by. Therefore, to make ends meet, McGraw began to earn his living as a hoofer in dime-a-dance establishments. His career in Hollywood began in 1942 with bit parts and stalled again after a brief sojourn in the army. However, by 1947, he had picked up a solid amount of work as radio actor thanks to his gravelly voice which was perfectly suited for crime dramas. This did eventually re-open the door to Hollywood. Before long, McGraw regularly plied his trade as assorted hard cases who perfectly matched his craggy looks and steely-eyed visage. Best remembered among his standout roles are the dogged cop protecting a mob witness in the 1952 classic thriller L'énigme du Chicago Express (1952) , as resolute Lt. Jim Cordell pursuing armed bandits in Armored Car Robbery (1950), as a hit man in Robert Siodmak's seminal film noir Les tueurs (1946), as sadistic gladiatorial trainer Marcellus taunting slave Kirk Douglas (and ending up in a vat of boiling soup) in the epic Spartacus (1960), as William Holden's naval commander in the Korean War drama Les ponts de Toko-Ri (1954) and as jaded police officer Lt. Matthews assisting Spencer Tracy in the all-star comedy Un monde fou, fou, fou, fou (1963). McGraw died in 1980 after a tragic accident in which he slipped and fell through a glass shower door.