Charley Rogers
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 |
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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
- Charley Rogers in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Rogers, Charley |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rogers, Charles Alfred (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British actor, director and screenwriter |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1887 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Birmingham |
DATE OF DEATH | December 20, 1956 |
Place of death | los Angeles |