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Charles Ambrose Bickford was an American actor best known for his supporting roles. He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for The Song of Bernadette (1943), The Farmer's Daughter (1947), and Johnny Belinda (1948). Other notable roles include Whirlpool (1948), A Star Is Born (1954), and The Big Country (1958).
Birth Name
Charles Ambrose Bickford
Born
Thursday, 01 January 1891
Died
Thursday, 09 November 1967
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Garbo | Matt Burke | 2005 |
Complicated Women | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2003 |
A Big Hand for the Little Lady | Benson Tropp | 1966 |
Hollywood My Home Town | Self | 1965 |
Della | Hugh Stafford | 1964 |
Suspense | Christopher Bell | 1964 |
Days of Wine and Roses | Ellis Arnesen | 1962 |
The Eleventh Hour | Howard Ellendale | 1962 |
The Virginian | John Grainger / Tucker McCallum | 1962 |
The Mike Douglas Show | Himself - Actor | 1961 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Garbo | Matt Burke | 2005 |
Complicated Women | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2003 |
A Big Hand for the Little Lady | Benson Tropp | 1966 |
Hollywood My Home Town | Self | 1965 |
Della | Hugh Stafford | 1964 |
Suspense | Christopher Bell | 1964 |
Days of Wine and Roses | Ellis Arnesen | 1962 |
The Eleventh Hour | Howard Ellendale | 1962 |
The Virginian | John Grainger / Tucker McCallum | 1962 |
The Mike Douglas Show | Himself - Actor | 1961 |
Alcoa Premiere | Dr. Barry Logan | 1961 |
Theatre '62 | Butler | 1961 |
Dr. Kildare | Dr. Charles Dubro | 1961 |
The Dick Powell Theatre | Emmet Peabody / Big Jake Hollander | 1961 |
The Americans | Peterson | 1961 |
The Islanders | Adam Smith | 1960 |
The Barbara Stanwyck Show | Isaiah B. Richardson | 1960 |
Checkmate | Whitney P. Thorne | 1960 |
The Unforgiven | Zeb Rawlins | 1960 |
Buick-Electra Playhouse | Mr. Frazer | 1959 |
The Big Country | Maj. Henry Terrill / Major Henry Terrill | 1958 |
Wagon Train | Daniel Barrister | 1957 |
Mister Cory | Jeremiah Des Plains 'Biloxi' Caldwell | 1957 |
You Can't Run Away from It | A.A. Andrews | 1956 |
Playhouse 90 | Captain Joel Kingdom / Ellis Arnesen / Gen. Keaton / Henry Harcourt / Marvin / Old Man Grant / Pa Fentry / Self - Introductory Host | 1956 |
The Dark Wave | 1956 | |
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell | Gen. Jimmy Guthrie | 1955 |
The 20th Century-Fox Hour | John Macready | 1955 |
Screen Directors Playhouse | Dr. Stone | 1955 |
Celebrity Playhouse | Father O'Neil | 1955 |
MGM Parade | Matt Burke | 1955 |
Not as a Stranger | Dr. Dave Runkleman / Dr. Dave W. Runkleman | 1955 |
Prince of Players | Dave Prescott | 1955 |
Climax! | Martin Seaford | 1954 |
A Star Is Born | Oliver Niles | 1954 |
The Man Behind the Badge | Self - Host / Narrator | 1953 |
The Last Posse | Sampson Drune | 1953 |
The Revlon Mirror Theater | 1953 | |
General Electric Theater | Chief Peter Farrel | 1953 |
The Ford Television Theatre | Norman Forrester / Sam Callahan / Stanley Hunter | 1952 |
Elopement | Tom Reagan | 1951 |
The Raging Tide | Hamil Linder | 1951 |
Schlitz Playhouse | Dr. Joseph Gunther / Enoch Prentiss | 1951 |
Jim Thorpe -- All-American | Glenn S. 'Pop' Warner | 1951 |
Branded | Mr. Lavery / Richard Lavery | 1950 |
Riding High | J.L. Higgins | 1950 |
Guilty of Treason | Joszef Cardinal Mindszenty / Cardinal Joszef Mindszenty | 1950 |
Whirlpool | Lt. James Colton | 1950 |
Roseanna McCoy | Devil Anse Hatfield | 1949 |
Command Decision | Elmer Brockhurst | 1948 |
Johnny Belinda | Black MacDonald | 1948 |
The Babe Ruth Story | Brother Matthias | 1948 |
Four Faces West | Pat Garrett | 1948 |
The Ed Sullivan Show | Self | 1948 |
Brute Force | Gallagher | 1947 |
The Woman on the Beach | Tod / Tod Butler | 1947 |
Duel in the Sun | Sam Pierce | 1947 |
The Farmer's Daughter | Joseph Clancy | 1947 |
Fallen Angel | Mark Judd | 1945 |
Captain Eddie | William Rickenbacker | 1945 |
Wing and a Prayer | Capt. Waddell / Captain Waddell | 1945 |
The Song of Bernadette | Father Peyramale | 1943 |
Mr. Lucky | Hard Swede | 1943 |
Tarzan's New York Adventure | Buck Rand | 1942 |
Reap the Wild Wind | Mate of the 'Tyfib' | 1942 |
Burma Convoy | Cliff Weldon | 1941 |
Riders of Death Valley | Wolf Reade | 1941 |
Queen of the Yukon | Ace Rincon | 1940 |
South to Karanga | Jeff Worthing | 1940 |
Girl from God's Country | Bill Bogler | 1940 |
Of Mice and Men | Slim | 1940 |
Thou Shalt Not Kill | Rev. Chris Saunders | 1939 |
One Hour to Live | Insp. Sid Brady | 1939 |
Mutiny in the Big House | Father Joe Collins | 1939 |
Our Leading Citizen | Shep Muir | 1939 |
Street of Missing Men | Cash Darwin | 1939 |
Romance of the Redwoods | Steve Blake | 1939 |
Stand Up and Fight | Arnold | 1939 |
The Storm | Bob 'Sparks' Roberts / Bob "Sparks" Roberts | 1938 |
Valley of the Giants | Howard Fallon | 1938 |
Gangs of New York | John Franklyn / 'Rocky' Thorpe / Rocky Thorpe / John Franklin | 1938 |
Daughter of Shanghai | Otto Hartman | 1937 |
Night Club Scandal | Det. Capt. McKinley / Police Capt. McKinley | 1937 |
Thunder Trail | Lee Tate | 1937 |
High, Wide and Handsome | Red Scanlon | 1937 |
The Plainsman | John Lattimer | 1936 |
Rose of the Rancho | Joe Kincaid | 1936 |
East of Java | Red McGovern aka Harvey Bowers / Red McGovern / Harvey Bowers | 1935 |
The Farmer Takes a Wife | Jotham Klore | 1935 |
Under Pressure | Nipper Moran | 1935 |
A Wicked Woman | Pat Naylor | 1934 |
Little Miss Marker | Big Steve Halloway | 1934 |
White Woman | Ballister | 1933 |
This Day and Age | Louis Garrett | 1933 |
Song of the Eagle | Joe (Nails) Anderson | 1933 |
No Other Woman | Jim Stanley | 1933 |
Red Wagon | Joe Prince | 1933 |
Vanity Street | Brian Murphy | 1932 |
The Last Man | Bannister | 1932 |
Thunder Below | Walt | 1932 |
Scandal for Sale | Jerry Strong | 1932 |
Panama Flo | Dan McTeague / Pearl | 1932 |
Men in Her Life | 'Flashy' Madden / Flashy Madden | 1931 |
The Pagan Lady | Dingo Mike | 1931 |
The Squaw Man | Cash Hawkins | 1931 |
East of Borneo | Dr. Allan Randolph / Allan Clark | 1931 |
Passion Flower | Dan Wallace | 1930 |
River's End | Sgt. Conniston / John Keith / Keith / Conniston | 1930 |
The Sea Bat | John Dennis aka Reverend Sims / Reverend Sims | 1930 |
Anna Christie | Matt Burke / Matt | 1930 |
Dynamite | Hagon Derk / Hagon Derk aka The Fire Boss | 1929 |
Hell's Heroes | Bob Sangster | 1929 |
South Sea Rose | Capt. Briggs | 1929 |
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1949 | Oscar | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Nominated |
1948 | Oscar | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Nominated |
1944 | Oscar | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Nominated |