Charles La Torre

Birth : 1894-04-15, New York City, New York, USA

Death : 1990-02-20

Movies

The Man Who Understood Women
Taxi Driver (uncredited)
A film director turns his actress wife into a star, leading to marital problems.
Paris Playboys
French Diplomat
Sach is the exact double of a famous French scientist who has invented a powerful rocket fuel. Enemy agents, mistaking Sach for the scientist, attempt to kidnap him and get the formula for the fuel.
Phantom Stallion
Escobar (uncredited)
Ex-cavalry buddies, Rex and Slim, band together to capture a wild stallion, solve a murder and thwart the killers from cheating a boy out of his inheritance.
Talk About a Stranger
Batastini, Grocer
Small-town gossips rage over the arrival of a mysterious stranger.
Secrets of Monte Carlo
Tony Retella
A U.S. businessman (Warren Douglas) abroad is the patsy for the theft of a rajah's jewels.
Sunset in the West
Nick Corella
Roy puts a stop to gun smuggling.
Bomba and the Hidden City
Abdullah
A photographer and his guide meet a corrupt Emir with a dirty secret. Only jungle-dwelling Bomba knows the truth.
711 Ocean Drive
Rocco (uncredited)
The Horatio Alger parable gets the film noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmund O’Brien as a whip-smart telephone technician who moves up the ladder of a Syndicate gambling empire in Southern California until distracted by an inconveniently married Joanne Dru and his own greed. Ripped from the headlines of the 1950 Kevaufer Organized Crime Hearings, this fast-moving picture is laden with location sequences shot in Los Angeles, the Hoover Dam and Palm Springs including the famous Doll House watering hole on North Palm Canyon Drive!
Harbor of Missing Men
John
A smuggler hides from hit men with a Greek fisherman and his daughter.
French Leave
Fourcher
Merchant seaman Skitch Kilroy (Jackie Cooper) and "Pappy" Reagan (Jackie Coogan)arrive in Marseilles, eager to resume their combative rivalry for Mimi. But they are ordered by their skipper Muldoon (Ralph Sanford) to remain on board and guard against theft of foodstuffs by a black market gang.
Panhandle
Juan
An ex-gunfighter woos two women while avenging his brother, victim of a crooked gambler.
A Double Life
Stellini
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.
Adventure
Tony the Merchant (uncredited)
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
Yolanda and the Thief
Police Lieutenant
Johnny Riggs, a con man on the lam, finds himself in a Latin-American country named Patria. There, he overhears a convent-bred rich girl praying to her guardian angel for help in managing her tangled business affairs. Riggs decides to materialize as the girl's "angel", gains her unquestioning confidence, and helps himself to the deluded girl's millions. Just as he and his partner are about to flee Patria with their booty, Riggs realizes he has fallen in love with the girl and returns the money, together with a note that is part confession and part love letter. But the larcenous duo's escape from Patria turns out to be more difficult than they could ever have imagined.
A Thousand and One Nights
Innkeeper
On the run after being found sweet-talking the Sultan's daughter, Aladdin comes upon a lamp which, when rubbed, summons up Babs the genie. He uses it to return as a visiting prince asking for the princess's hand. Unfortunately for him, the sultan's wicked twin brother has secretly usurped the throne, someone else is after the lamp for his own ends, and Babs has taken a shine to Aladdin herself and is bent on wrecking his endeavours.
A Bell for Adano
Mercurio Salvatore
Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without interfering with troop movements, all the while dealing with colorful citizens of the town. One of his quests is to replace the bell which orders the town's life.
A Song to Remember
Postman (uncredited)
Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world, to the exclusion of his old friends and patriotic feelings towards Poland.
Enter Arsène Lupin
Inspector Cogswell
A rich but naive young woman is in possession of some priceless jewels. She herself doesn't know it, but a gang of jewel thieves does.
The Hairy Ape
Portuguese Proprietor
Aboard ship, a spoiled woman (Susan Hayward) insults the brutish stoker (William Bendix) while watching him work.
Jam Session
Coletti
A young woman from Kansas (Ann Miller) arrives in Hollywood with hopes of a movie career.
Secret Service In Darkest Africa
Sufi
An American secret agent travels to Africa to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring.
Background to Danger
Moustaffa - Typesetter
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
Mission to Moscow
Rosso - Italian Ambassador (uncredited)
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
Mr. Spano
Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her father in her small world, Kathy is delighted to meet fellow tenant Robert. When Madden is offered the lead in a new King Lear and Robert lands a composing job in Hollywood, better times seem for a while to beckon.
Casablanca
Italian Officer Tonnelli (uncredited)
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Dr. Renault's Secret
Marcel Perron (uncredited)
A remake of the 1927 horror film "The Wizard". Dr. Larry Forbes arrives in a remote French village to visit his fiancée who lives with her scientist father Dr. Renault and his Ape-like manservant Noel. Several Murders coincide with Dr. Forbes arrival, with clues pointing in multiple directions.
Louisiana Purchase
Gaston, Waiter
A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.
The Notorious Elinor Lee
Farbacher
Gangsters use a woman to get to a boxer and convince him to throw a big fight.
Lying Lips
Garotti, a club owner
A nightclub singer refuses to "date" customers, so she's framed for the murder of her aunt.