Charles Drake
Born: 1917-10-02 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: 1994-09-10
Known For: Acting
Biography
Charles Drake (October 2, 1917 – September 10, 1994) was an American actor.Drake was born as Charles Ruppert in New York City. He graduated from Nichols College and became a salesman. In 1939, he turned to acting and signed a contract with Warner Brothers. He wasn't immediately successful. World War II interrupted his career; soon after his military service was complete, Drake returned to Hollywood in 1945, his contract with Warner Brothers ended. In the 1940s, he did some freelance work, like A Night in Casablanca. In 1949 he moved to Universal Studios. In 1955, Drake turned to television as one of the stock-company players on Robert Montgomery Presents and three years later he became the host of the British TV espionage weekly Rendezvous. In 1959, he starred in the Western film, No Name on the Bullet, where he played a doctor dedicated to saving a small town from a dangerous assassin. In 1967 he played the part of Oliver Greer in The Fugitive episode The One That Got Away. He played in 83 films between 1939 and 1975, including Scream, Pretty Peggy. More than 50 were dramas, but he also acted in comedies, science fiction, horror and film noir. He died on September 10, 1994 in East Lyme, Connecticut, aged 76. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charles Drake, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
1987
- James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self (archive footage)
1983
- My Brother's Wedding as Pastor #2
1975
- Switch as Charles Estabrook
- Matt Helm as Mr. Simmons
- Cop on the Beat as Deputy Chief Berliner
- The Lives of Jenny Dolan as Alan Hardesty
1974
- Harry O
- Police Headquarters as David L. Chapin
1973
- Scream, Pretty Peggy as George Thornton
- Partners in Crime as Lt. Fred Harnett
1972
- The Rookies
- The Screaming Woman as Ken Bronson
1971
1969
- The Arrangement as Finnegan
- Hail, Hero! as Senator Murchiston
1968
- The Name of the Game as Tom Laraby
- Land of the Giants as Mr. Erdap
- The Swimmer as Howard Graham
- The Smugglers as Harry Miller
- The Counterfeit Killer as Dolan
1967
- Mannix as Adam Pierson
- Ironside as Mr. Thomas
- The Invaders as Robert Morrison
- Judd, for the Defense
- Valley of the Dolls as Kevin Gillmore
- The Money Jungle as Harvey Sheppard
1966
- Star Trek as Commodore Stocker
- Mission: Impossible as Mitchell Connally
1965
- F Troop
- Dear Heart as Frank Taylor
- The Third Day as Lawrence Conway
1964
- Daniel Boone as Simon Jarvis
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Taggart Coleman
- The Lively Set as Paul Manning
1963
- The Fugitive as Oliver Greer
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
- Showdown as Bert Pickett
1962
- The Virginian as Randolf
- The Lucy Show as Walter Kendricks
1961
- Back Street as Curt Stanton
- Tammy Tell Me True as Buford Woodly
1960
- Checkmate as Mack Weston
- The Barbara Stanwyck Show as Ben Stockton
1959
- No Name on the Bullet as Luke Canfield
1958
- Rendezvous as John Burden
- Step Down to Terror as Johnny Walters
1957
- Wagon Train as Marshal Vern Rothman
- Until They Sail as Capt. Richard Bates
- The Playroom as George Rutherford
- Jeanne Eagels as John Donahue
1956
- The Price of Fear as Pete Carroll
- Walk the Proud Land as Tom Sweeny
1955
- The 20th Century Fox Hour
- To Hell and Back as Brandon
- All That Heaven Allows as Mick Anderson
- Summer Pavilion as Ned Welch
- Female on the Beach as Police Lieutenant Galley
1954
- Climax! as Mickey Wayne
- The Glenn Miller Story as Don Haynes
- Tobor the Great as Dr. Ralph Harrison
- Four Guns to the Border as Sheriff Jim Flannery
- The Road to Edinburgh as Jeff Davis
1953
- Letter to Loretta as Jeff Bertch
- General Electric Theater as Jeff Davis (uncredited)
- War Arrow as Sgt. Luke Schermerhorn
- It Came from Outer Space as Sheriff Matt Warren
- The Lone Hand as George Hadley
- Gunsmoke as Johnny Lake
1952
- The Red Ball Express as Partridge
- The Treasure of Lost Canyon as Jim Anderson
- Bonzo Goes to College as Malcolm Drew
1951
- Air Cadet as Captain Sullivan
- Little Egypt as Oliver Doane
- You Never Can Tell as Perry Collins
1950
- Robert Montgomery Presents as Johnny Bond
- Harvey as Dr. Sanderson
- Winchester '73 as Steve Miller
- Comanche Territory as Stacey Howard
- Peggy as Tom Fielding
- I Was a Shoplifter as Herb Klaxon
- Louisa as Radio Broadcaster (voice) (uncredited)
1949
- Tarzan's Magic Fountain as Dodd
- Johnny Stool Pigeon as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
1948
- Studio One as Ned Welch
- The Tender Years as Bob Wilson
1947
- Kraft Television Theatre
- The Pretender as Dr. Leonard Koster
1946
- Whistle Stop as Ernie
- A Night in Casablanca as Lt. Pierre Delmar
- Winter Wonderland as Steve Kirk
1945
- Conflict as Norman Holsworth
- You Came Along as Lt. R. Janoschek
1943
- Air Force as Navigator
- The Hard Way as Trailer Narrator (Uncredited)
- Proceed and Report as Lt. Johnson
1942
- Now, Voyager as Leslie Trotter (uncredited)
- The Male Animal as Student (uncredited)
- Bullet Scars as Reporter at Police HQ
- Across the Pacific as Officer (uncredited)
- Winning Your Wings as State College Student (uncredited)
- Busses Roar as Eddie Sloan
1941
- The Maltese Falcon as Reporter (uncredited)
- Sergeant York as Scorer (uncredited)
- Dangerously They Live as Joe, Hospital Orderly with Dr. Murdock (uncredited)
- The Man Who Came to Dinner as Sandy
- One Foot in Heaven as Second Bridegroom (uncredited)
- Out of the Fog
- Million Dollar Baby
- Nine Lives Are Not Enough as Snappy Saunders
1939
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Young Priest (uncredited)
- Career as Rex Chaney