Charles Judels
Charles Judels (born August 17, 1882 in Amsterdam , † February 14, 1969 in San Francisco , California ) was a Dutch - American actor .
life and career
Charles Judels, sometimes also Charles Judel , was born in the Netherlands in 1882. As a young man, however, he already lived in the United States, and from 1902 up to and including 1947 he appeared in around two dozen Broadway productions. Judels played comic roles in successful musicals such as George M. Cohans Mary (1920) and also appeared with the Ziegfeld Follies . Parallel to his stage career, he was also active in the film business from 1915, among others at the side of Marion Davies in Little Old New York . With comedians like Fatty Arbuckle , Jack Haley and Shemp Howard , he appeared in many short film comedies for Warner Brothers ' Vitaphone in the early 1930s .
In the 1930s and 1940s he played many minor supporting roles in major films, especially those of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , where he specialized in the depiction of foreigners: Italians, Greeks, and Germans because of his talent for imitating accents , French, Russians, Swiss and Spaniards embodied Judels in the course of his career. In 1937, for example, in Als Salontiroler, he played a Swiss cheese manufacturer who had a feud with Laurel and Hardy ; two years later he was a Parisian landlord in Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotschka , in whose restaurant Greta Garbo's character learns to laugh. He became known for his work on Walt Disney's cartoon Pinocchio (1940), in which he lent his voice to the two villains Stromboli and Kutscher .
Judels played his last of over 140 cinema roles in 1949 as a Danish dealer in the Bible film Samson and Delilah by Cecil B. DeMille . He died in San Francisco twenty years later at the age of 86.
Filmography (selection)
- 1915: Old Dutch
- 1923: Little Old New York
- 1930: The Doorway to Hell
- 1931: Heart at the Crossroads (The Easiest Way)
- 1932: A clever crook (high pressure)
- 1932: One Hour with You (One Hour with You)
- 1936: The Plainsman (The Plainsman)
- 1936: Suzy
- 1936: The Great Ziegfeld (The Great Ziegfeld)
- 1936: San Francisco
- 1936: Love on the Run
- 1937: You're Only Young Once
- 1937: The Hero in the Ring (When's Your Birthday?)
- 1937: Maienzeit (Maytime)
- 1937: The Bride Wore Red (The Bride Wore Red)
- 1938: Laurel and Hardy - Als Salontiroler (Swiss Miss)
- 1938: Mad About Music
- 1939: Ninotschka (Ninotchka)
- 1939: Idiot's Delight
- 1939: Balalaika
- 1939: Dance on the Ice (The Ice Follies of 1939)
- 1940: A Nightclub for Sarah Jane (It All Came True)
- 1940: Bitter Sweet
- 1940: The Miraculous Rescue (Strange Cargo)
- 1940: Stranger on the Third Floor
- 1940: Gallop into Luck (Down Argentine Way)
- 1940: Pinocchio (voice)
- 1941: Cheers for Miss Bishop
- 1941: This Woman Is Mine
- 1941: Dad needs a wife (Kathleen)
- 1942: The King of Texas (American Empire)
- 1942: Tortilla Flat
- 1943: You Barry Was a Lady
- 1943: Bloody Snow (Northern Persuit)
- 1944: Knickerbocker Holiday
- 1944: Kismet
- 1945: Sunbonnet Sue
- 1946: Whistle Stop
- 1948: The Avenger of Texas (Panhandle)
- 1949: Samson and Delilah (Samson and Delilah)
Web links
- Charles Judels in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ The Broadway League: Charles Judels - Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB. Retrieved June 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Charles Judels | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos | AllMovie. Retrieved June 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Charles Judels | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos | AllMovie. Retrieved June 8, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Judels, Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch-American actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th August 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amsterdam , Netherlands |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 14, 1969 |
| Place of death | San Francisco , California , USA |