Spencer Charters

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Spencer Charters (born March 25, 1875 in Duncannon , Pennsylvania , † January 25, 1943 in Hollywood , California ) was an American actor.

life and career

Spencer Charters was born in a small community in the US state of Pennsylvania. After school, he began a career as a theater actor and traveled with acting troupes through America. 1910 Charters was first seen on Broadway with the play Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford . He made his film debut as early as 1920 in Number 17 , but it was not until the beginning of the sound film in the late 1920s that he played regularly in films. In the 1920s, he was mainly seen in comedies on Broadway. In 1930 Charters moved to Hollywood , where he worked on more than 200 feature films until his death in 1943 , making him a very busy character actor of his time. In the late phase of his film career, in particular, he only played minor supporting roles, but in some B-films Charters also took on larger roles. The moon-faced, slightly corpulent Charters initially played mainly bad-tempered or spiteful authority figures. Later in his career, he was mostly seen in comical, slightly confused roles; he often embodied judges, doctors, officials, sheriffs or hotel managers.

In 1943, at the age of 67, Charters committed suicide with a poison cocktail. He was married to his wife Irene from 1913 until her death in 1941, the couple had a son. Charter's last film, Arsenic and Lace , in which he played an almost deaf registrar alongside Cary Grant , wasn't released until a year after his death. His grave is in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale .

Filmography (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Spencer Charters at Allmovie

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personal data
SURNAME Charters, Spencer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theater and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Duncannon , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1943
Place of death Hollywood , Los Angeles , California