Charles Meredith
Date of birth: 1894-08-27
Place of birth: Knoxville, Pennsylvania, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Charles H. Meredith, Charles Howard Meredith
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charles Meredith (August 27, 1894 – November 28, 1964) was an American film and television actor. Meredith was born in Knoxville, Pennsylvania. He was a popular silent film leading man and played opposite such actresses as Blanche Sweet, Mary Miles Minter, Florence Vidor, and others in romantic drama and comedy films. In 1924, he left his film career for work on the stage. He returned to film in 1947 where he played a number of small character roles. Toward the end of his career, he turned to television as well, notably as Secretary Drake in the Rocky Jones, Space Ranger (1954) series. He also appeared in three episodes of The Lone Ranger, each time as a doctor. He died, aged 70 in 1964, in Los Angeles, California.
Movie Credits
The Family Honor
1920-03-15
Beverly Tucker, the daughter of an impoverished aristocratic Southern family, has scraped together h
High Tor
1956-03-10
High Tor is a 1936 play by Maxwell Anderson. Twenty years after the original production, Anderson ad
He Walked by Night
1949-02-06
Roy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens
All My Sons
1948-05-01
During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever
The Sun Sets at Dawn
1950-11-01
A reporter investigates the story of a young man who may have been wrongly convicted and sentenced t
The Big Trees
1952-02-05
In 1900, unscrupulous timber baron Jim Fallon plans to take advantage of a new law and make millions
The Boy with Green Hair
1948-11-26
Peter, an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye after his parents are killed in Europe while doing
A Foreign Affair
1948-08-20
In occupied Berlin, a US Army Captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the US Congresswoma
They Live by Night
1949-11-01
An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to he
Tokyo Joe
1949-10-26
An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life ther
Chicago Confidential
1957-08-30
In the Windy City, the mob infiltrates a powerful union.
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
1967-09-05
Compilation of several episodes of the TV series Pistols 'n' Petticoats.
The Lone Ranger
1956-02-25
The territorial governor asks the Lone Ranger to investigate mysterious raids on settlers by Indians
Streets of San Francisco
1949-04-15
A police detective (Robert Armstrong) and his wife (Mae Clarke) adopt the wayward son (Gary Gray) of
Twelve Hours to Kill
1960-04-02
After witnessing a gangland murder, a young Greek immigrant flees for his life and hides out in a sm
Cattle Town
1952-09-06
The governor of Texas sends a cowboy to keep the peace between ranchers and a land baron.
Seven Days in May
1964-02-01
A U.S. Marine Corps colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
Illegal
1955-10-09
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find o
Al Jennings of Oklahoma
1951-01-17
Film based on the story of Al Jennings, a former train robber turned attorney.
Manhunt in Space
1954-01-01
Rocky Jones, Space Ranger fights space pirates over an invisible spaceship.
For the Love of Mary
1948-09-01
Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
1924-09-28
A sequel of sorts, the Jewish ethnic comedy characters of Potash and Perlmutter return from their 19
Hail the Woman
1921-11-28
Oliver Beresford is a stern, Puritanical, and uncompromisingly rigid father. When shameful stories a
The Other Half
1919-08-18
Social drama about a friendship that is pressurized by class differences.
The Foolish Matrons
1921-06-19
Three women, each living in a separate social sphere, work out their destinies in New York.
Ocean's Eleven
1960-08-10
Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night.
Dead Ringer
1964-01-29
The working class twin sister of a callous wealthy woman impulsively murders her out of revenge and
The 13th Commandment
1920-01-17
Disillusioned by the transience of wealth when her father's bank balance can no longer support his f
Francis
1950-02-08
During World War II, a junior American Army officer, Lt. Peter Stirling, gets sent to the psychiatri
That Something
1920-05-02
Drifter Edwin Drake, estranged from his family, has a prophetic vision and gets his life back on tra
Noose for a Gunman
1960-05-01
Case Britton, gunslinger and wanted man, comes to town to meet his bride-to-be, stop a stagecoach ro
The Miracle of the Bells
1948-03-27
The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she
The Quick Gun
1964-04-01
Gunslinger Murphy helps an ungrateful town fight off a raid by his former gang.
Crash of Moons
1954-07-10
A three-part episode from the TV series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger edited together and released as a
The Beautiful Liar
1921-12-26
Directed by Wallace Worsley.
The Incredible Mr. Limpet
1964-03-28
Milquetoast Henry Limpet experiences his fondest wish and is transformed into a fish. As a talking f
The Sea Hornet
1951-11-06
"The Sea Hornet" was a merchant ship sunk, supposedly by a torpedo, less than a mile off the Califor
The Cave Girl
1921-12-26
Margot Sperry, who keeps house for her guardian, a professor who wants to revert to primitive modes
Forbidden Moon
1956-01-01
Rocky Jones is dispatched to investigate an SOS received from a space station. He finds that the sta
Silver Needle in the Sky
1954-05-29
Rocky Jones tries to free the hostages and thwart the plans of the evil Queen Cleolantha.
Room for One More
1952-01-10
Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innoce
The Cradle
1922-03-04
A socialite couple thinks only of themselves. When they become bored with one another, they divorce
Beyond
1921-09-04
Avis Langley's dying mother begs her to look after Avis's errant brother and continues after death t
The Perfect Woman
1920-07-01
Mary Blake can charm any man, young or old, with her winning ways -- except for the one she really w
Luck in Pawn
1919-11-19
Country girl Annabel Lee has big dreams of being a famous artist. Her widowed mother encourages her
Bright Leaf
1950-06-16
Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.
Submarine Command
1951-11-01
Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew m
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
1957-04-01
Opposing his commanding officer's decision to attack a group of innocent Indians and wipe them out,
Menace from Outer Space
1956-01-01
A nontheatrical (16mm) film comprise of three contiguous episodes of the TV series "Rocky Jones, Sp
The Gypsy Moon
1954-12-25
Rocky Jones and his buddies happen upon two strange moons orbiting each other. They soon discover th
Beyond the Moon
1954-04-05
This outer space adventure marked the debut of Rocky Jones and his Space Rangers. Two of Rocky's all
Silver Needle in the Sky
1954-05-29
Rocky Jones tries to free the hostages and thwart the plans of the evil Queen Cleolantha.
Judy of Rogues' Harbor
1920-02-29
Judy, an orphaned waif, lives with Grandpap Ketchel, a cruel and often brutal man. The sole protecto
The Lucky Stiff
1949-05-26
A lawyer spooks gangsters by faking a framed singer's electrocution.
Along the Great Divide
1951-06-02
US marshal Len Merrick saves Tim Keith from lynching at the hands of the Roden clan, and hopes to ge
Perfect Strangers
1950-03-11
Romance at a murder trial with a pair of sequestered jurors who are the only ones who think that the
Caged
1950-05-19
A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments
New York Confidential
1955-02-15
Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who dec
Three Lives
1953-09-17
A short film made for the United Jewish Appeal, reuniting the main players behind The Sniper, writer
Fort Worth
1951-07-14
Ex-gunfighter Ned Britt returns to Fort Worth after the civil war to help run a newspaper which is a
Strangers on a Train
1951-06-27
A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit th
The Ladder of Lies
1920-07-11
To save her good friend, Peter Gordon, from marrying a gold digger named Dora, Edith Parrish introdu
Poor Relations
1919-11-01
Dorothy Perkins, the eldest daughter of a simple, wholesome country family, leaves for the big city
Simple Souls
1920-05-23
When the Duke of Wynningham, a "simple soul" who prefers science to royalty, meets Molly Shine, a Lo
The Little 'Fraid Lady
1920-12-14
Cecelia Carne, dubbed "the little 'fraid lady" because she shuns society, seeks the solitude of the