Charley Rogers

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Charley Rogers (born January 15, 1887 in Birmingham , England as Charles Alfred Rogers , † December 20, 1956 in Los Angeles , California ) was a British actor, director and screenwriter. In all three functions he worked with the comedian duo Laurel and Hardy .

life and career

Charley Rogers began his acting career as a theater comedian. He moved from England to the United States at a young age . Between February and March 1912 Rogers appeared on Broadway in a version of Oliver Twist as the young bandit "Artful Dodger". In the film adaptation, which was also made in early 1912, he represented the role again. The Oliver Twist film was Roger's film debut, and he was the first Artful Dodger film actor ever. He continued to appear in films occasionally, but his work during the silent film era focused on the theater. In 1916, Rogers played A King of Nowhere one more time on Broadway.

In 1928 he joined Hal Roach Studios in Culver City . In the same year he had his first appearance in a Laurel and Hardy film with Two Sailors and in the following years he was to play supporting roles in a total of nine comedies by the comedian duo, mainly in venerable roles as butler or pastor, but also once as Criminal. In 1929 Charley Rogers made the short film Sky Boy with Harry Langdon in the lead role, this was his first directorial work. Between 1929 and 1930 Rogers made a total of five films with Langdon, but these were not particularly successful, also because Langdon had already passed the zenith of his success. After three years of working exclusively as an actor, he returned behind the camera in 1933 for the Laurel and Hardy film Me and My Pal . The comedian duo and their director and occasional co-actor Rogers made ten other films together by 1936, including the musical operetta Revenge is Sweet (1934) and the short film The Dirty Honor (1935), which was nominated for the Oscar for Best Short Film.

After Das Mädel aus dem Böhmerwald (1936), Rogers ended his career as a director, but continued to work for Laurel and Hardy: He was a gag writer on several of their feature films, including successes such as Zwei ritten nach Texas (1937) and Die Klotzköpfe (1938) Screenwriter responsible. After the comedian duo left Roach Studios in 1940 and studio boss Hal Roach was deployed in the war, Rogers had to look for new occupations and worked for the film Double Trouble (1941) for the first time as an actor again in seven years. In 1943 there was another collaboration with Laurel and Hardy, who were meanwhile under contract with MGM: Rogers acted as screenwriter for their film Bombenkerle and for Dick and Doof, he took on a small supporting role for the dance masters . Until his last film in 1954, Rogers took on supporting roles in several short films and Charlie Chaplin's limelight (1952).

One month before his 70th birthday, Charley Rogers died in a car accident in Los Angeles in December 1956.

Filmography

year Movie Functions
1912 Oliver Twist actor
1912 The Shanghai Cowboys actor
1914 A ticket to Red Horse Gulch actor
1917 The Woman God Forgot actor
1918 The Light of the Western Stars actor
1928 The Movie Man actor
1928 Two sailors (Two Tars) actor
1928 Habeas corpus actor
1929 When money comes actor
1929 Movie night actor
1929 The Prince in the Elevator Shaft (Double Whoopee) actor
1929 Madame Q actor
1929 Sky boy Director
1929 Skirt Shy Director
1929 A Country Party (Perfect Day) actor
1930 Sirens at midnight (Outside the Law) actor
1930 The Fighting Parson Director
1930 The shrimp Director
1930 The King Director
1931 The bride is stolen (Our Wife) actor
1931 Let's do things actor
1931 Under lock and key (Pardon Us) actor
1932 Wild babies actor
1932 Strange inner tube actor
1932 The Devil Brothers (Pack Up Your Troubles) actor
1932 Fresh fish (Towed in a Hole) Screenwriter
1933 Keg o 'My Heart actor
1933 Twin screws Actors (cut scenes)
1933 Laurel and Hardy as dowry hunters (Me and My Pal) Director, actor
1933 Hands up - or not Assistant Director to Hal Roach
1934 Babes in the Goods actor
1934 Mrs. Barnacle Bill actor
1934 Going bye-bye! Director, screenwriter
1934 Maid in Hollywood actor
1934 Those distant mountains (Them Tharr Hills) Director
1934 The Live Ghost Director
1934 Movie Daze actor
1934 I'll be suing you actor
1934 Revenge is sweet (babes in toyland) Director, actor
1935 The Tainted Honor (Tit for Tat) Director
1935 The Fixer Uppers Director
1935 We're from the Scottish Infantry Regiment (Bonnie Scotland) Screenwriter
1936 The girl from the Bohemian Forest (The Bohemian Girl) Director, screenwriter
1936 The Doppelgangers (Our Relations) Screenwriter
1937 Two rode to Texas (Way Out West) Screenwriter
1937 As a salon tyrolean (Swiss Miss) Screenwriter
1938 The block heads Screenwriter
1939 In the Foreign Legion (Flying Deuces) Screenwriter
1940 On the high seas (Saps at Sea) Screenwriter
1940 In Oxford (A Chump at Oxford) Screenwriter
1941 Double trouble actor
1942 House of Errors actor
1942 They Raid by Night actor
1943 Nazty Nuisance actor
1943 Terror of All Spies (Air Raid Wardens) Screenwriter
1943 The Dancing Master (The Dancing Masters) actor
1944 Abroad with Two Yanks Screenwriter
1945 A miner affair actor
1945 A hit with a miss actor
1946 God's Country actor
1952 Spotlight (Limelight) actor
1954 Two April Fools actor

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Artful Dodger" at the Internet Movie Database
  2. ^ Charley Rogers at the Internet Broadway Database