Charles Dingle Biography

Charles Dingle began acting in the first decade of the 20th century, and stayed at it until his last performance in 1955's The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell. His forte was playing brusque, seemingly above-reproach businessmen who'd sell their grandmothers to close a shady financial deal. Though he'd been cast in the New York-filmed One Third of a Nation (1939), Dingle's "official" movie debut was in 1941's The Little Foxes, recreating his stage role as the duplicitous Ben Hubbard. In this and many other film assignments, Charles Dingle lived up to critic Bosley Crowther's succinct description: "a perfect villain in respectable garb." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

• 1. Dr. Martin Stensgard: Why must everything in the world be black or white?
  2. Kaspar Torgersen: I'm a man that deals in facts.
  3. Dr. Martin Stensgard: Shut your fat evil mouth.
  4. Hammer: They slaughtered us in the streets and you call it murder. [defending the town]
  5. Sixtus Andresen: In all the books I have read, they never gave me an answer.
  From Edge of Darkness. Submitted by rick b (57 days ago)