Charles McGraw
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Charles McGraw (born Charles Butters) was an American stage, screen, and television actor. He developed into a leading man, especially in film noir classics during the late 1940s and early 1950s. His gravelly voice and rugged looks enhanced his appeal in the noir stylistic genre and provided him many roles as cops, military officers, and the such.
Known for
Credits
The Birds (1963)
as Sebastian Sholes
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Spartacus (1960)
as Marcellus
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
as Lt. Matthews
Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
as Air Force Gen. Peter Crane
The Night Stalker (1972)
as Police Chief Ed Masterson
Hang 'em High (1968)
as Sheriff Ray Calhoun
Blood on the Moon (1948)
as Milo Sweet
T-Men (1947)
as Moxie
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
as (in "The Killers") (archive footage)
Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
as Mike Burkeman
In Cold Blood (1967)
as Tex Smith
A Boy and His Dog (1975)
as Preacher
The Killers (1946)
as Al
Chandler (1971)
as Bernie Oakman
Away All Boats (1956)
as Lieut. Mike O'Bannion
His Kind of Woman (1951)
as Thompson / Narrator
The Devil and Miss Sarah (1971)
as Marshal Duncan
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954)
as Cmdr. Wayne Lee
The Defiant Ones (1958)
as Capt. Frank Gibbons
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969)
as Wilson
Cimarron (1960)
as Bob Yountis
Joe Dakota (1957)
as Cal Moore
The Wonderful Country (1959)
as Dr. Stovall
The Narrow Margin (1952)
as Det. Sgt. Walter Brown
The Long Night (1947)
as Policeman Stevens
The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
as Fisher - Finley's Henchman (uncredited)
Reign of Terror (1949)
as Sergeant
Thunder Over the Plains (1953)
as Ben Westman
Saddle the Wind (1958)
as Larry Venables
Berlin Express (1948)
as USET Col. Johns (uncredited)
One Minute to Zero (1952)
as Sfc. Baker
Border Incident (1949)
as Jeff Amboy
The Man in the Net (1959)
as Sheriff Steve Ritter
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town (1950)
as Shotgun Mike Munger
Pendulum (1969)
as Deputy Chief John P. Hildebrand
Armored Car Robbery (1950)
as Lt. Jim Cordell
The Horror Show (1979)
as (archive footage)
Roadblock (1951)
as Joe Peters
Corvette K-225 (1943)
as Chief Engineer
The Killer Inside Me (1976)
as Howard Hendricks
Twilight for the Gods (1958)
as Yancy
The Gangster (1947)
as Dugas
Two Tickets to London (1943)
as Hendrik (uncredited)
Side Street (1950)
as Det. Stan Simon
Slaughter on 10th Avenue (1957)
as Lt. Anthony Vosnick
The Busy Body (1967)
as Fred Harwell
Destroyer (1943)
as Assistant Chief Engineer (uncredited)
They Came to Blow Up America (1943)
as Zellerbach
The Story of Molly X (1949)
as Police Capt. Breen
The Andersonville Trial (1970)
as Board of Military Judges
The Threat (1949)
as Arnold 'Red' Kluger
The Horizontal Lieutenant (1962)
as Col. Charles Korotny
Toward the Unknown (1956)
as Col. 'Mickey' McKee
O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra (1971)
as Agent Joe Flagg
Double Crossbones (1951)
as Capt. Ben Wickett
Loophole (1954)
as Gus Slavin
Once More, My Darling (1949)
as Herman Schmelz
Nightmare in Chicago (1964)
as Harry Brockman
The Moon Is Down (1943)
as Ole (uncredited)
On the Old Spanish Trail (1947)
as Harry Blaisdell
The Impostor (1944)
as Menessier
War Paint (1953)
as Sgt. Clarke
Hazard (1948)
as Chick
Joe Butterfly (1957)
as Sgt. Jim McNulty
The Undying Monster (1942)
as Strud Strudwick (uncredited)
Money to Burn (1973)
as Neil Davis
Perilous Voyage (1976)
as Capt. Humphreys
The Hunted (1948)
as Detective
The Mad Ghoul (1943)
as Detective Garrity
The Longest Night (1972)
as Father Chase
The Big Fix (1947)
as Armiston
Roses Are Red (1947)
as Duke Arno
The Cruel Tower (1956)
as Harry 'Stretch' Clay