Charles Coleman
Date of birth: 1885-12-21
Place of birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Charles Pearce Coleman, Charles C. Coleman
Biography
Australia native Charles Coleman was a stage, screen, and television actor who most frequently portrayed butlers or manservants.
Movie Credits
Almost Married
1942-05-22
To avoid a costly breach of contract suit, a rich young man marries a nightclub singer.
Shall We Dance
1937-05-07
Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical sta
It Started with Eve
1941-09-26
A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last mo
Jewel Robbery
1932-07-08
A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a je
The Vagabond Trail
1924-03-09
Searching for his wayward brother, saddle tramp Donnegan (Buck Jones) gets in trouble with a bully a
The Gay Divorcee
1934-10-12
Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. Ther
Big Dan
1923-10-13
Dan O'Hara, known as "Big Dan," returns from the war, and finding that his wife has left him, turns
Good Morning, Judge
1928-04-29
Freddie, a rich young idler, meets Julia Harrington, a wealthy social service worker who runs a have
Melody Lane
1941-12-09
In this musical, four entertaining farmboys from Iowa head for the Big Apple to find fame and fortun
Alexander's Ragtime Band
1938-05-24
Classical violinist Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, bu
The Rage of Paris
1938-06-09
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try
Broadway Melody of 1938
1937-08-20
Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading
The Little Minister
1934-12-28
The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Th
Beauty for the Asking
1939-02-24
Denny breaks up with his fiancée Jean to marries wealthy Flora. When Jean is fired from her job she
Pittsburgh
1942-12-11
Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham rides roughshod over his friends, his lovers, and his ideals in his tre
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
1950-04-01
When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble wi
Never Say Goodbye
1946-11-09
Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very un
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
1932-02-03
A trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and debonair
Becky Sharp
1935-06-28
In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the positio
Second Hand Love
1923-08-26
Andy Hanks is an itinerant fix-it man who comes to town with his horse and dog as his only pals. He
One Hour with You
1932-03-23
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatiou
Merrily We Go to Hell
1932-06-10
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prenti
Two Tickets to London
1943-06-14
Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find th
Bachelor Apartment
1931-04-15
A New York playboy, Wayne Carter, dates wild women until he falls for a hard-working stenographer, H
I Loved a Woman
1933-09-23
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as
The Murder Man
1935-07-12
Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When
Rendezvous
1935-10-25
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
The Runaround
1946-06-04
Two private eyes compete to find an heiress and bring her back, unmarried, to New York.
Colleen
1936-03-21
Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
Variety Girl
1947-08-29
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business char
Danger – Love at Work
1937-09-30
A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina
The Goose and the Gander
1935-09-21
When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romanti
Danger Street
1947-06-20
Magazine owners sell a revealing photo, then play detective when the deal leads to murder.
Sis Hopkins
1941-04-12
An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.
The Heart of New York
1932-03-26
A poor New York plumber's wife and children hope to move "uptown" from their lower East Side neighbo
The Magnificent Rogue
1946-11-07
A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own ver
The Border Patrolman
1936-06-20
When a border patrolman catches their spoiled daughter smoking in a no-smoking area, parents hire hi
Housewife
1934-08-11
Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business,
What a Man
1930-06-01
Wade Rawlings, a former Captain in the Gold Stream Guards, has lost his fortune and has become a wan
The Imperfect Lady
1946-11-29
A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.
That's My Daddy
1927-12-19
A wealthy bachelor lies his way out of a speeding ticket by telling the cops he's on his way to visi
Too Many Wives
1937-04-09
An heiress and a dog-catcher go searching for a priceless stamp.
The Missing Corpse
1945-06-01
A feud between rival newspapermen Kruger (Bromberg) and McDonald (Guilfoyle) goes deadly when blackm
Radio City Revels
1938-02-11
A down-on-his-luck songwriter attempts to peddle musical compositions of a naive Arkansas hillbilly
Fight for Your Lady
1937-11-05
Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich
Down to Their Last Yacht
1934-08-31
Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sai
Little Miss Broadway
1938-07-29
An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
1940-12-19
Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyll
The Pilgrim Lady
1947-01-22
Dennis Carter, the head of a detective agency, and his secretary, Henrietta Rankin, get involved in
Boom Town
1940-08-30
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both lov
Master Will Shakespeare
1936-06-13
A short biography of William Shakespeare that highlights the various jobs he worked at in the theate
Mexican Spitfire Out West
1940-10-29
Dennis heads west to work on an important business deal minus the Mexican Spitfire, Carmelita. His h
Mexican Spitfire
1940-01-12
Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita'
Miss Annie Rooney
1942-05-29
A poor girl falls for a wealthy young man. He invites her to his gala birthday party, but she doesn'
Sandy
1926-04-10
Sandy McNeil adopts strictly unconventional jazz ethics and against the wishes of her parents runs w
Blond Cheat
1938-06-17
Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan duri
The Affairs of Annabel
1938-09-09
Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve
Lawful Larceny
1930-08-17
When Marion Corsey's husband, Andrew, is conned out of a small fortune by Vivian Hepburn, she dedica
Roughly Speaking
1945-01-31
In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerou
Walking on Air
1936-09-11
A strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him hom
The Devil Is a Sissy
1936-09-18
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-wel
Million Dollar Ransom
1934-09-01
To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helpi
Manhattan Parade
1931-12-24
Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the o
Kind Lady
1935-12-06
Mary, a woman with good intentions, takes pity on Henry, an artist with no home. What begins as a si
His Family Tree
1935-09-29
A father leaves his native Ireland and travels to America to visit the son he hasn't heard from in m
The Merry Frinks
1934-05-26
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
Moonlight in Hawaii
1941-10-09
Deciding to quit his singing act and become a tourist guide, Pete Fleming escorts wealthy Mrs. Floto
Mummy's Boys
1936-10-02
Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, g
The White Angel
1936-06-25
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurs
Her Master's Voice
1936-01-17
Besieged by his adoring female fans, radio celebrity Ned "The Fireside Troubadour" Farrar hides out
Repent at Leisure
1941-04-04
Everyone in a large department store knows that a rising star is married to the owner's daughter, ex
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
1939-02-17
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
1939-03-24
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until
They Shall Have Music
1939-08-18
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step f
Man About Town
1939-06-29
Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't t
In Name Only
1939-08-18
A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrive
First Love
1939-11-10
In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncl
The Perfect Gentleman
1935-11-22
A strait-laced country vicar is very embarrassed by his father's naughty exploits with a lively actr
The Under-Pup
1939-08-31
A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy
Three Smart Girls
1936-12-20
The three Craig sisters – Penny, Kay, and Joan – go to New York to stop their divorced father from m
Grand Canyon Trail
1948-11-04
Sintown is just a deserted ghost town until Vanerpool starts looking for silver. Cookie and Roy's pa
Sins of Man
1936-06-19
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to lo
Bridal Suite
1939-05-26
A carefree playboy with an aversion to marriage falls for a lass he meets in the French Alps.
Maisie
1939-06-22
Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer cl
Shock
1934-07-19
Captain Bob Hayworth, his brother Lieutenant Gilroy Hayworth and Captain Derek Marbury are in a Worl
Brother Orchid
1940-06-07
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, h
As the Devil Commands
1933-09-01
Slowly dying of a terminal illness, wealthy invalid John Duncan wants his aide Dr. Graham to end hi
High Stakes
1931-08-18
High Stakes is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy drama produced and released by RKO Pictures. The pict
What's Cookin'?
1942-02-20
J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Cour
The Whistler
1944-03-30
A guilt-ridden man blames himself for his wife's death and secretly pays an assassin to kill him. Bu
Voice of the Whistler
1945-10-30
A dying millionaire marries his nurse for companionship, only to experience a miracle cure.
Captains Courageous
1937-06-25
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transat
He Hired the Boss
1943-04-02
A shy bookkeeper accidentally discovers that the company where he works is targeted in a series of l
Boom Town
1940-08-30
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both lov
The Westerner
1940-09-18
Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bea
Between Us Girls
1942-09-04
A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mothe
Love Is News
1937-02-26
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns th
Three Daring Daughters
1948-02-12
Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.
Gateway
1938-08-05
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists th
That Certain Age
1938-10-06
Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, new
Phantom Raiders
1940-06-07
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Lle
Cross-Country Romance
1940-07-12
A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.
Beyond Victory
1931-04-03
Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.
I've Always Loved You
1946-12-02
A beautiful young concert pianist is torn between her attraction to her arrogant but brilliant maest
Earl Carroll Vanities
1945-04-05
Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring a
Arabian Nights
1942-12-25
Two half brothers battle each other for the power of the throne and the love of sensual, gorgeous da
Hunting Trouble
1933-02-08
A wife tries to hide a surprise birthday present from her husband but the butler causes trouble.
The Washington Masquerade
1932-07-09
An honest, talented and well respected attorney defeats a corrupt incumbent U.S. Senator. After a ve
The White Cliffs of Dover
1944-05-11
American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan m
Little Orphan Annie
1938-12-02
Annie (Ann Gillis), an orphan, (based on Harold Gray's comic strip but who is at no point in the fil
Young as You Feel
1931-08-06
Lemuel Morehouse, the owner of a profitable meatpacking company in Chicago, bemoans the fact that ne
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
1940-07-05
Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He
Big Town Girl
1937-12-03
When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Maske
Twin Beds
1942-04-30
Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany fr
The Great Impersonation
1942-12-18
An Englishman kills a German look-alike and poses as a Nazi spy in London.
Baby Face
1933-07-13
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins t
The Little Giant
1933-05-20
Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a hou
The Go-Getter
1937-05-22
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
Design for Scandal
1941-12-01
A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry bos
Diplomaniacs
1933-04-28
Barbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they
Magnificent Obsession
1935-12-30
A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death.
Gold Diggers of 1935
1935-03-15
Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a
Marriage Is a Private Affair
1944-08-23
Theo has had many boyfriends who wanted to marry her. Since her mother, Mrs. Selworth, has been marr
Poor Little Rich Girl
1936-07-18
Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap
A Christmas Carol
1938-12-16
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable e
Lord Jeff
1938-06-17
Spoiled child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and
Fired Wife
1943-09-04
A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets
The West Side Kid
1943-08-23
Millionaire Sam Winston is an unhappy man. His wife Constance lives a gay life, devoting all her tim
Du Barry Was a Lady
1943-08-13
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a p
West Point Widow
1941-06-20
In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but th
Jane Eyre
1943-12-24
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happi
The Widow from Monte Carlo
1935-12-19
In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befrien
Lloyd's of London
1936-11-25
Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close f
The Shining Hour
1938-11-18
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
3 Kids and a Queen
1935-10-21
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subseq
Hangover Square
1945-02-07
When composer George Harvey Bone wakes with no memory of the previous night and a bloody knife in hi
Buck Privates
1941-01-31
Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop
It Ain't Hay
1943-02-22
Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feedin
In Society
1944-08-16
Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the p
Lured
1947-08-28
Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared
Anchors Aweigh
1945-08-13
Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affai
Kitty
1945-10-16
Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gai
Frenchman's Creek
1944-09-20
An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on t
No More Ladies
1935-06-14
A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.
Oh, Professor Behave!
1946-03-01
Leon, sight unseen, rents a room in his house to a professor, who turns out to be a beautiful blonde
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1949-04-18
A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1905 auto mechanic, to Arthurian England, 528 A.D., where he i
Union Depot
1932-01-14
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metr
A Successful Calamity
1932-09-17
Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wil
The Cowboy and the Lady
1938-11-17
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out
Maisie Was a Lady
1941-01-10
Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires h
The Love Cheat
1919-08-24
Henry, a struggling Greenwhich Villiage artist, accidentally finds an invitation to Louise Gordon's
The Mummy and the Humming-Bird
1915-11-11
The Mummy and the Humming-Bird recounts the tragedy of a neglected wife who seeks amusement in the c
When We Were Twenty-One
1915-04-05
Richard "The Imp" Audaine is a clever but dissolute orphan whose guardian and friends are trying to
Lady in a Jam
1942-06-19
A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned
David Harum
1934-03-02
Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom
The Place of Honeymoons
1920-11-01
Parisian opera star Nora Harrigan is idolized by legions but not her rival Flora Desimone. Edward Co
Everybody's Old Man
1936-03-20
An elderly businessman thinking about aging and death takes time off to help teach a dead friend's c
My Friend Irma
1949-10-14
Prototype dumb blonde Irma and her slacker, wheeler-dealer boyfriend Al interfere in the love life o
The Richest Girl in the World
1934-09-21
Millionairess Dorothy Hunter is tired of finding out that her boyfriends love her for her money, and