Charles Trowbridge

Charles Trowbridge

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Charles Trowbridge was born on Jan 10, 1882 in Mexico. Charles Trowbridge's big-screen debut came with The Fight directed by George W. Lederer in 1915, strarring Joe Keeler. Charles Trowbridge is known for The Last Hurrah directed by John Ford, Spencer Tracy stars as Frank Skeffington and Jeffrey Hunter as Adam Caulfield. The upcoming new movie Charles Trowbridge plays is The Last Hurrah which will be released on Nov 01, 1958.

This veteran character and his younger brother, western actor Jack Rockwell, were born to American parents south of the border in Vera Cruz, Mexico in 1882. Charles Trowbridge was educated in Napa, California and Hawaii, then studied for his degree at Stanford University. He forsook a thriving career as an architect in his twenties for stage acting, receiving early training at the Alcazar Theatre in San Francisco with Bert Lytell and Bessie Barriscale. He then moved to New York where he earned a number of regional roles in the Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia areas before making his Broadway bow with "The Marriage Game" in 1913. He proceeded to build up his resume impressively with the plays "Daddy Long Legs" in 1914 and when it was revived in 1918, "The Broken Wing (1920), "Craig's Wife (1925), "Ladies Leave" (1929) and "Dinner at Eight" (1933). He made a sampling of silents over the years as well, primarily in drama, with The Fight (1915), Thais (1917) and The Eternal Magdalene (1919) to name a few. After co-starring opposite Corinne Griffith in Island Wives (1922), however, he was not seen again for nearly a decade.After a steady diet of Broadway plays, he was signed by Paramount for character roles in sound pictures and proceeded to support the top stars. With his rangy build, piercing blue eyes, premature gray hair and serious countenance, Trowbridge was particularly useful throughout the 1930s and 1940s in crime yarns, horrors and in rugged settings starting out with Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard in the romantic drama I Take This Woman (1931). Trowbridge usually adopted a friendly but intelligent, officious demeanor as assorted doctors, judges, bankers, lawyers, military brass and even U.S. presidents. He appeared rather indiscriminately in a number of "A" quality films including Captains Courageous (1937), Meet John Doe (1941), Sergeant York (1941) and Mildred Pierce (1945), and in popular cliffhangers such as King of the Texas Rangers (1941), Adventures of the Flying Cadets (1943) and Captain America (1944). He often played well-meaning victims who died in the first reel, notably in horrors. His last two films were unbilled bits, courtesy of John Ford, in The Wings of Eagles (1957) and The Last Hurrah (1958). Retired thereafter, Trowbridge passed away a number of years later at age 85.

  • Birthday

    Jan 10, 1882

  • Place of Birth

    Veracruz, Mexico

Known For

The Last Hurrah
Movie
The Last Hurrah

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Mildred Pierce
Movie
Mildred Pierce

19457.9

They Were Expendable
Movie
They Were Expendable

19457.2

Sergeant York
Movie
Sergeant York

19417.7

Meet John Doe
Movie
Meet John Doe

19417.6

King of the Texas Rangers
Movie
King of the Texas Rangers

19417.2

Cadet Girl
Movie
Cadet Girl

19417.2

The Great Lie
Movie
The Great Lie

19417.1

Mysterious Doctor Satan
Movie
Mysterious Doctor Satan

19407.4

Each Dawn I Die
Movie
Each Dawn I Die

19397.3

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