Charles Coburn
Nascimento : 1877-06-19, Macon, Georgia, USA
Morte : 1961-08-30
História
Charles Douville Coburn (June 19, 1877 – August 30, 1961) was an American film and theatre actor. Best known for his work in comedies, Coburn received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for 1943's The More the Merrier.
Coburn was born in Macon, Georgia, the son of Scotch-Irish Americans Emma Louise Sprigman (May 11, 1838 Springfield, Ohio – November 12, 1896 Savannah, Georgia) and Moses Douville Coburn (April 27, 1834 Savannah, Georgia – December 27, 1902 Savannah, Georgia). Growing up in Savannah, he started out at age 14 doing odd jobs at the local Savannah Theater, handing out programs, ushering, or being the doorman. By age 17 or 18, he was the theater manager. He later became an actor, making his debut on Broadway in 1901. Coburn formed an acting company with actress Ivah Wills in 1905. They married in 1906. In addition to managing the company, the couple performed frequently on Broadway.
After his wife's death in 1937, Coburn relocated to Los Angeles, California and began film work. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a retired millionaire playing Cupid in The More the Merrier in 1943. He was also nominated for The Devil and Miss Jones in 1941 and The Green Years in 1946. Other notable film credits include Of Human Hearts (1938), The Lady Eve (1941), Kings Row (1942), The Constant Nymph (1943), Heaven Can Wait (1943), Wilson (1944), Impact (1949), The Paradine Case (1947), Everybody Does It (1950), Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952), Monkey Business (1952), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), and John Paul Jones (1959). He usually played comedic parts, but Kings Row and Wilson were dramatic parts, showing his versatility.
For his contributions to motion pictures, in 1960, Coburn was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6268 Hollywood Boulevard.
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Self (from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes [1953]) (archive footage)
Her story is well-known - the lonely child who yearned for affection and approval which she finally seemed to find as Hollywood's greatest love goddess. But even though she scaled heights few could even dream of, she was one of the loneliest of stars. And yet, in spite of the breakdowns, the failed marriages, the sordid rumors surrounding her life -- and her death.
Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.
Self (archive footage)
A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.
Sir Francis 'Piggy' Beekman (archive footage) (uncredited)
This 1963 documentary, released less than a year after Marilyn Monroe's death, showcases the star in memorable scenes from her 20th Century Fox films, including wardrobe tests and clips from her last, uncompleted project, "Something's Got To Give". Hosted and narrated by Rock Hudson.
Charles Coburn
Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss. Pepe, determined to get the horse back (as he considers it his family), decides to take off to Hollywood. There he meets film stars including Jimmy Durante, Frank Sinatra, Zsa Zsa Gabór, Bing Crosby, Maurice Chevalier and Jack Lemmon in drag as Daphne from Some Like It Hot. He is also surprised by things that were new in America at the time, such as automatic swinging doors. When he finally reaches the man who bought the horse, he is led to believe there is no hope of getting it back. However, the last scene shows both him and the stallion back at the ranch with several foals.
Benjamin Franklin
The career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia.
Vance Beasley
An Air Force pilot finds romance with his war buddy's widow.
Grampa Pennypacker
In early 1900s' Pennsylvania, Mr. Pennypacker has two company offices and two families with a combined total of 17 children. With an office in Harrisburg and an office in Philadelphia, he has successfully kept two separate homes. However, when an emergency requires his oldest son to find him, Mr. Pennypacker's dual life is revealed.
Hippocrates
The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
Dr. John Fenner
When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort out all the red herrings, and finally after a confrontation at the top of the local church spire, arrest the culprit. Another fascinating look at what life was like in Britain during the 50's.
Uncle George Clitterbern
A broke British nobleman (Nigel Patrick) targets his Canadian uncle (Charles Coburn), but other relatives get in the way.
Steamship Company Clerk
Em 1872, o nobre inglês Phileas Fogg (David Niven) aposta vinte mil libras com seus colegas do Clube Reformatório de Londres de que ele consegue dar a volta no planeta em exatamente oitenta dias. Ao lado do engenhoso Valet Passepartout (Mario Moreno), ele busca cumprir o seu objetivo com aventuras em todos os continentes, acaba conhecendo e se encantando pela bela viúva Aouda (Shirley MacLaine), ao mesmo tempo que, em uma conspiração, é acusado de ter roubado o dinheiro que investiu na aposta.
Guy Eliot
An ambitious executive jeopardizes his career to marry a European refugee.
Dr. Tweed
Two strippers on the run hide out in a college fraternity. Director Nunnally Johnson's 1955 musical comedy stars Betty Grable, Sheree North, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Tommy Noonan, Orson Bean, Fred Clark, Alice Pearce, Rhys Williams, Willard Waterman, Leslie Parrish and Jesslyn Fax.
Gardiner
An amnesiac finally learns his true identity...as a murder suspect. A mystery thriller based on the novel by Mickey Spillane.
Mayor Ed Johnson
Wacky complications ensue when a little boy comes into possession of a ray gun that compels anyone caught in its beam to tell the truth. He uses it to prevent his orphanage from being shut down by creditors and to help a cute couple fall in love.
Sir Francis Beekman
Duas dançarinas, Lorelei e Dorothy, embarcam num cruzeiro rumo a Paris, a convite do noivo de Lorelei, que é um milionário. O pai do noivo contrata um detetive para segui-las e conseguir provas de infidelidade da futura nora. Em consequência, criam-se uma série de confusões em alto-mar.
le Père Matthew William Burke
Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.
Oliver Oxley
Um químico descobre que sua vida pessoal e profissional virou de cabeça para baixo quando um de seus chimpanzés encontra a fonte da juventude. Barnaby Fulton, um químico, está trabalhando em uma fórmula da fonte da juventude para uma empresa química, testando-a em chimpanzés. Ao testar uma dose de amostra em si mesmo, ele recebe acidentalmente uma dose de uma mistura que foi adicionada ao bebedouro de água e acredita que sua poção é o que está funcionando. A mistura faz com que temporariamente ele passe a se sentir e agir como um adolescente, inclusive corrigindo sua visão. Quando sua esposa toma uma dose que é ainda maior, ela regride ainda mais em sua infância. Quando um antigo namorado a encontra neste estado, acredita que ela nunca mais queira vê-lo, significa um divórcio, e uma chance para ele.
Samuel Fulton / John Smith
When a 1920s millionaire tests the fiber of his Vermont family, a young lady and her boyfriend feel the repercussions.
Lord Walters
Alex Conway
Um compositor louco pelo golfe tenta evitar as longas horas solitárias de concentração necessárias para produzir um musical de sucesso. Seu produtor e sua secretária conspiram para colocá-lo de volta nos trilhos.
Professor Brookfield
Professor Brookfield along with daughters Peggy and Susan move to small town Pasadena, California. Their new neighbor Mrs. Fielding helps them move in, and urges the girls to participate in the annual Rose Bowl beauty pageant. Meanwhile Mrs. Fielding's son Tom makes eyes at Peggy but she's smitten with a famous football star so she tries to redirect his interest to Susan.
Mr. Burnside
Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to discover the sweet elderly lady is romantically involved with what seems to be every old coot in town.
Major Blair
Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to try again to become an opera singer he indulges her. While organising a concert for her he meets glamorous Cecil Carver. She in turn discovers Leonard has a splendid voice, and encourages him to use it for reasons very much her own.
Dr. John Corday
Dr. Michael Corday, a recent graduate of the Harvard Medical School, is the son of Dr. John Corday, an eminent New York City surgeon who has a tendency to continue to direct the lives of his grown children. The daughter, Fabienne, runs away from home, and Michael, after first following his father's advice of being callous to the point of cruelty toward patients, changes when he falls in love with a patient, marries her and sets up his practice on the lower East Side in New York.
Professor Jason Hartley
At a college, a group of ex-GIs clash with their wives about over playing football.
General Michael O'Hara
In order to gain passage to the West, a woman poses as an opera singer, and causes a feud between two cousins.
Lieutenant Quincy
After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.
Beaver Greenway
The romance of a rancher's niece and a rival rancher's son parallels that of a stallion and a mare.
Burton F. 'B.F.' Fulton
Wealthy Polly Fulton marries a progressive scholar whose attitudes toward capitalism and acquired wealth puts their marriage in jeopardy.
Sir Simon Flaquer
Anthony Keane (Gregory Peck) é um advogado que fora contratado para defender o caso da Sra. Paradine (Alida Valli), acusada de matar o própio marido. Só que ele acaba por se apaixonar por ela, colocando em risco sua carreira profissional e seu casamento. O que Keane não espera é que a Sra. Paradine tem um caso com outra pessoa, e isso poderá influenciar decisivamente o julgamento final.
Inspector Harley Temple
Um serial killer em Londres está assassinando jovens mulheres, que encontra através das colunas pessoais de jornais; ele anuncia cada um de seus crimes à polícia, enviando-lhes um poema enigmático. Depois de uma dançarina desaparecer, a polícia convoca uma amiga americana dela, Sandra Carpenter, para responder aos anúncios nas colunas pessoais e assim atrair o assassino.
Alexander Gow
An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather stands in his way.
Colonel Will Seaborn Effingham
The story takes place in 1940. On the eve of America's entry in World War II, a colonel retired to his small Southern town, and discovers that there is a plan afoot to tear down Confederate Monument Square. He begins a campaign to rally the townspeople to save the square.
Col. John Appleby
A crook becomes the victim of a crafty card player who works for the District Attorney.
Robert Drexel Gow
A woman screenwriter lives in a shabby bungalow in order to be near her husband, a 39-year-old newspaper editor who has just joined the army.
Max Dreyfus
Ascensão de George Gershwin, de uma editora musical em Manhattan aos píncaros da fama internacional. O excesso de trabalho cobra seu preço e Gershwin falece aos trinta e nove anos, de hemorragia cerebral, em 1937.
Nicolai Iiyitch
Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.
Jonathan Crandall Sr
Anne Crandall is the mayor of a small town in Vermont. Her deceased husband had been the mayor for years and when he died, she was left to carry on and to raise his daughter from his first marriage. She lives with the daughter, her father-in-law and a housekeeper. In the town square, there was a statue of her late husband and every year since his death, they have an anniversary celebration there. This year during a thunderstorm, the statue is hit by lightning and the head falls off. The daughter insists that a new statue be erected instead of patching the old one. Mayor Crandall is sent to New York to interview the prospective sculptor, George Corday.
William Smith
Standing before a divorce court judge are Sergeant Andy Anderson and Janie Anderson asking him to dissolve their marriage. Janie's father, William Smith, objects and the judge allows him to give his version of their story. They had met in San Francisco fifteen months earlier and, after knowing each other only three days, had gotten married. Andy was sent overseas the day after the wedding and when he returns and despite the fact that Janie had borne him a son, they find they are almost strangers. Mr. Smith suggests, and the judge orders, that if they retrace their actions over the four days they knew each other they would regain their love.
Professor Henry Holmes
The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to the Presidency of the United States. During his terms in office, Wilson must deal with the death of his first wife, the onslaught of German hostilities leading to American involvement in the Great War, and his own country's reticence to join the League of Nations.
Peter Stuyvesant
The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this period musical-comedy. In 1650, Peter Stuyvesant (Charles Coburn) arrives in New Amsterdam to assume his duties as governor. Stuyvesant is hardly the fun-loving type, and one of his first official acts is to call for the death of Brom Broeck (Nelson Eddy), a newspaper publisher well-known for his fearless exposes of police and government corruption. However, Broeck hasn't done anything that would justify the death penalty, so Stuyvesant waits (without much patience) for Broeck to step out of line. Broeck is romancing a beautiful woman named Tina Tienhoven (Constance Dowling), whose sister Ulda (Shelley Winters) happens to be dating his best friend, Ten Pin (Johnnie "Scat" Davis). After Stuyvesant's men toss Broeck in jail on a trumped-up charge, Stuyvesant sets his sights on winning Tina's affections.
Rudyard Morley
While visiting Massachusetts, a famous English author (Charles Coburn) faces the wrath of a socialite (Isobel Elsom) after stealing her chef.
Uncle Holman
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.
Hugo Van Cleve
Henry Van Cleve apresenta-se às portas do inferno mas descobre que está sendo rigorosamente criticado em suas qualificações para a entrada. Surpreso por existir qualquer dúvida sobre sua idoneidade, ele relata sua vida animada e as mulheres que ele conheceu, começando por sua mãe, mas, principalmente, concentrando-se em seus felizes, mas por vezes difíceis, 25 anos de casamento com Martha.
Charles Creighton
The daughter of a musical mentor adores a promising composer, who is quite fond of the adolescent. When her father dies, an uncle arrives with his own grown daughter, who begins a romance with the composer which culminates in marriage but creates an emotional rivalry that affects the three.
Benjamin Dingle
Washington. Durante a 2ª Guerra Mundial uma jovem, Connie Milligan, aluga metade da sua casa para Benjamin Dingle, um amável senhor. Ele por sua vez aluga metade da sua parte para Joe Carter, um sargento da força aérea. Esta situação resulta em um inocente ménage à trois, na qual Benjamin banca o cupido.
Stanley Menninger
New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill's knowledge, Connie purchases a delapidated old farmhouse in Pennsylvania, where George Washington was supposed to have actually slept during the American Revolution.
William Fitzroy
An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.
Henry Gordon
Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.
Self
This is a collection of bloopers and film manipulation by The Warner Studio Club for an annual dinner for the staff at Warner Brothers.
John Pulham
A man who lived his life as he was told he should, not as he would have chosen to, is brought out of his shell by a beautiful young woman.
Seton Mansley
An elderly gentleman comes to a young woman's aid by pretending to be her uncle. Comedy.
Professor Drake
A musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success.
John P. Merrick/Thomas Higgins
O milionário J.P. Merrick, tirânico dono de uma loja de departamento, é o diabo em pessoa para todos os seus empregados. Quando Merrick resolve se passar por empregado da loja para descobrir o que os funcionários dizem e pensam sobre ele, ele conhece a Srta. Jones. Tentando ajudá-lo, a Srta. Jones acaba por colocar Merrick em uma série de problemas. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
'Colonel' Harrington
Depois de um ano estudando ofídios amazônicos, o rico - porém rústico - Charles Pike conhece em um navio Jean Harrington, uma golpista. Eles se apaixonam, mas um engano os separa. Para reconquistá-lo, Jean se disfarça como uma senhora inglesa e volta para atormentá-lo.
Dr. Karl Braun
Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the townsfolk in moving to greener pastures in Oregon. He falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped her and her father escape from the Third Reich. She must decide between the two men.
Captain Abe Peabody
Because of a bad investment, Captain and Mrs. Peabody are evicted from their home. Mrs. Peabody finds lodging at a retirement home, but as only single women are allowed, the Captain has to make other arrangements. However, after witnessing their tearful goodbye, the home's residents vote to allow the couple to move in together. The Captain is a reluctant lodger, uncomfortable at being surrounded by so much femininity, and bristles when his pals start referring to him as "Old Lady". The time has come for Captain Peabody to reassert his manhood!
Dr. Johannes Hofer
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
General Powell
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
Joshua Mallon IV
Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet Dorothy Lamour...
Lord Tyce
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.
Richard Walker
A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.
J. B. Merlin
Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.
Gardner Hubbard
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.
Judge Joseph M. Doolittle
A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.
Dr. Hugo Waldersee
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
Captain Briggs
Spoiled child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and steal jewelry from exclusive shops. During a a caper, Geoffrey is caught and is sentenced to a reformatory where young men are trained to be sailors. He is befriended by model in-mate Terry O'Mulvaney but soon starts to get them both in trouble.
Dr. Finlay
A fairly accurate historical account of Walter Reed's search for the cause of "Yellow Jack" or Yellow Fever and those who risked their lives in the pursuit.
Peter Morgan Sr.
College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.
Dr. Charles Shingle
This is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil War. Ethan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who ministers to the human soul, while his son Jason yearns to be a doctor, helping people in the earthly realm. It is a rich story about striving for excellence, the tension of father-son rebellion, and the love of a mother that can never die.
Judge
Money was what gangster Vince M. Falcone wanted most and he did lay hands on millions of dollars by fair means or (mostly) foul. But once he became rich what he craved for was respectability. So why not marry a lovely society lady? And with a young daughter as a bonus Mister Falcone could show off among the creme de la creme. Of course when times got rough he felt free to desert his wife and little girl. Fortunately Taps, a lawyer working for the underworld, will console them both.
