Charles Dingle

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Charles Dingle (born December 28, 1887 in Wabash , Indiana , † January 19, 1956 in Worcester , Massachusetts ) was an American actor .

Life

Charles Dingle worked on Broadway since the 1920s . His greatest stage role was from February 1939 to February 1940 that of Benjamin Hubbard in Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes .

After a few appearances in short films, Dingle made his feature film debut in 1939 … One Third of a Nation… ; his breakthrough - and his "official" film debut - he celebrated in 1941 in Die kleine Füchse , where he took over his role from Broadway. Bosley Crowther highlighted him for this performance in his criticism and described him as the "perfect villain in respectable clothes", a designation that Hal Erickson raised to the motto of Dingle's career. Charles Dingle was a popular supporting actor in the 1940s and 1950s. He was particularly strong as a "taciturn and apparently unassailable businessman who would sell his grandmother for a dubious deal." He played under well-known directors such as Busby Berkeley ( Cinderella Jones ), Frank Capra ( The Best Man ), William Dieterle ( Tennessee Johnson ) , Henry Hathaway ( At Home in Indiana ), Mervyn LeRoy ( Deadly Pact , The Dead Lives ), Norman Z. McLeod ( Never Wave at a WAC ), Lewis Milestone ( Aufstand in Trollness ), Otto Preminger ( Centennial Summer , Damned to Silence ) , Robert Siodmak ( Someone to Remember ), George Stevens ( Witness for the Prosecution ), Norman Taurog ( Are Husbands Necessary? ), Richard Thorpe ( Big Jack ), King Vidor ( Duel in the Sun ), William A. Wellman ( Lady of Burlesque ), Sam Wood ( his wife is my wife ) or William Wyler ( The Little Foxes ). His last film was Damned Silent in 1955 .

He was married to Dorothy White from 1916 until his death and had two sons, Charles and John. After his death, he was cremated and his ashes were scattered in an unspecified German river .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Charles Dingle  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Little Foxes. In: International Broadway Database. Accessed May 21, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c Hal Erickson : Charles Dingle. In: AllMovie. Accessed May 21, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Bosley Crowther : 'The Little Foxes,' Full of Evil, Reaches the Screen of the Music Hall - Andy Hardy Becomes a Man at the Capitol - New Film at Palace . In: The New York Times . August 22, 1941 ( online [accessed May 21, 2016]).
  4. ↑ Charles Dingle in nndb (English)
  5. ↑ Charles Dingle. In: Find a Grave. Accessed May 21, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Dingle, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Wabash , Indiana
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1956
Place of death Worcester , Massachusetts