Charles Coburn
Highest Rated: 100% In Name Only (1939)
Lowest Rated: 20% Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Birthday: Jun 19, 1877
Birthplace: Savannah, Georgia, USA
A stage star before entering films in his sixties with the title role in "Boss Tweed" (1933). Coburn subsequently became one of Hollywood's most beloved character actors, most typically playing sharp, crusty patriarchal figures, usually sympathetic, very occasionally not. He won a 1943 Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in "The More the Merrier."
Photos
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 51% | Pepe | Self | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker | Grampa Pennypacker (Character) | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | 31% | John Paul Jones | Benjamin Franklin (Character) | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stranger in My Arms | Vance Beasley (Character) | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | 36% | Town on Trial | Dr. John Fenner (Character) | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | 12% | The Story of Mankind | Hippocrates (Character) | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | How to Murder a Rich Uncle | Uncle George (Character) | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | The Power and the Prize | Guy Eliot (Character) | - | 1956 |
| 70% | 57% | Around the World in 80 Days | Steamship Company Clerk (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | How to Be Very, Very Popular | Dr. Tweed (Character) | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Long Wait | Gardiner (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rocket Man | Mayor Ed Johnson (Character) | - | 1954 |
| 88% | 83% | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | Sir Francis "Piggy" Beekman (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | Trouble Along the Way | Fatber Matthew William Burke (Character) | - | 1953 |
| 79% | 68% | Monkey Business | Mr. Oliver Oxley (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | 90% | Has Anybody Seen My Gal? |
Samuel Fulton/ |
- | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Highwayman | Lord Walters (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | The Doctor and the Girl | Dr. John Corday (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Peggy | Professor "Brooks" Brookfield (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Louisa | Abel Burnside (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | Mr. Music | Alex Conway (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | The Gal Who Took the West | Gen. Michael O'Hara (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Everybody Does It | Major Blair (Character) | - | 1949 |
| 67% | 56% | Impact | Lt. Quincy (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Yes Sir, That's My Baby | Professor Jason Hartley (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | B.F.'s Daughter | Burton F. `'B.F.'` Fulton (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Green Grass of Wyoming | Beaver Greenway (Character) | - | 1948 |
| 100% | 69% | Lured | Inspector Harley Temple (Character) | - | 1947 |
| 77% | 48% | The Paradine Case | Sir Simon Flaquer (Character) | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | 53% | The Green Years | Alexander Gow (Character) | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Over 21 | Robert Drexel Gow (Character) | - | 1945 |
| 20% | 60% | Rhapsody in Blue | Max Dreyfus (Character) | - | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Colonel Effingham's Raid | Col. Will Seaborn Effingham (Character) | - | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shady Lady | Col. John Appleby (Character) | - | 1945 |
| 33% | 29% | A Royal Scandal | Chancellor Nicolai Iiyitch (Character) | - | 1945 |
| 89% | 42% | Wilson | Professor Henry Holmes (Character) | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Together Again | Jonathan Crandall Sr. (Character) | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Impatient Years | William Smith (Character) | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Knickerbocker Holiday | Peter Stuyvesant (Character) | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | 66% | The Constant Nymph | Charles Creighton (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | 51% | Princess O'Rourke | Holman (Character) | - | 1943 |
| 88% | 75% | Heaven Can Wait | Hugo Van Cleve (Character) | - | 1943 |
| 100% | 82% | The More the Merrier | Benjamin Dingle (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Kingdom for a Cook | Rudyard Morley (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | George Washington Slept Here | Stanley J. Menninger (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | 77% | In This Our Life | William Fitzroy (Character) | - | 1942 |
| 100% | 79% | The Devil and Miss Jones | John P. Merrick (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | 68% | H.M. Pulham, Esq. | John Pulham (Character) | - | 1941 |
| 99% | 87% | The Lady Eve | "Colonel" Harrington (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Unexpected Uncle |
Seton Mansley/ |
- | 1941 |
| 80% | 63% | Edison, the Man | General Powell (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Refugee | Dr. Karl Braun (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Three Faces West | Dr. Karl Braun (Character) | - | 1940 |
| 100% | 68% | Road to Singapore | Joshua Mallon IV (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Florian | Dr. Johannes Hofer (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Captain Is a Lady | Captain Abe Peabody (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | 58% | The Story of Alexander Graham Bell | Gardner Hubbard (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Stanley and Livingstone | Lord Tyce (Character) | - | 1939 |
| 40% | 46% | Idiot's Delight | Dr. Hugo Waldersee (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | Made for Each Other | Judge Joseph M. Doolittle (Character) | - | 1939 |
| 100% | 73% | In Name Only | Richard Walker (Character) | - | 1939 |
| 100% | 88% | Bachelor Mother | J. B. Merlin (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Yellow Jack | Dr. Finlay (Character) | - | 1938 |
| 100% | 81% | Vivacious Lady | Peter Morgan Sr. (Character) | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | Of Human Hearts | Dr. Charles Shingle (Character) | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | Lord Jeff | Captain Briggs (Character) | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The People's Enemy | Judge Hays (Character) | - | 1935 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Startime | Unknown (Character) | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I've Got a Secret | Guest | 1953-1954 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Red Skelton Show | Unknown (Character) | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Star and the Story | Unknown (Character) | 1955-1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The United States Steel Hour | Judge Purdy (Character) | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1953 |