Charles Middleton
Born: 1874-10-02 in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, USA
Died: 1949-04-22
Known For: Acting
Biography
Charles Brown Middleton (October 3, 1874 – April 22, 1949) was an American stage and film actor. During a film career that began at age 46 and lasted almost 30 years, he appeared in nearly 200 films as well as numerous plays. Sometimes credited as Charles B. Middleton, he is perhaps best remembered for his role as the villainous emperor Ming the Merciless in the three Flash Gordon serials made between 1936 and 1940.
Filmography
1996
- The Boy from Mercury as Ming the Merciless (Archive Footage)
1984
- Going Hollywood: The '30s as (archive footage)
1982
- Dance of the Cookoos as Commandant
1973
- A Look at the World of 'Soylent Green' as Self (archive footage)
1966
- Spaceship to the Unknown as Ming the Merciless (archive footage)
- Peril from the Planet Mongo as Ming the Merciless
- Purple Death from Outer Space as Ming the Merciless
1949
- The Last Bandit as Blindfolded Circuit Rider
1948
- Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House as Wrecker (uncredited)
- Here Comes Trouble as Reporter (uncredited)
- Jiggs and Maggie in Court as Mr. Burton, an Attorney
- My Girl Tisa
- Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin' as Townsman (uncredited)
- The Decision of Christopher Blake as President in Dream (uncredited)
- Station West as Sheriff
1947
- Gunfighters as Sheriff #1 (uncredited)
- The Pretender as William the butler
- Welcome Stranger as Farmer Pinkett (uncredited)
- The Sea of Grass as Charley - Saloon Owner (uncredited)
1946
- Spook Busters as Mr. Stiles
- The Killers as Farmer (uncredited)
- Strangler of the Swamp as Ferryman Douglas
1945
- Our Vines Have Tender Grapes as Mr. Jensen
- Hollywood and Vine as Attorney
- How DOooo You Do as Sheriff Hayworth
- Northwest Trail as Pierre
1944
- The Desert Hawk as Koda Bey
- The Town Went Wild as Sam, Midvale District Attorney
- Black Arrow as Tom Whitney
1943
- Oklahoma Outlaws as Judge Ringle
- Spook Louder as Graves' Valet
- Batman as Ken Colton
- Crazy House as Sheriff
- The Black Raven as Sheriff
- Wagon Wheels West as Phineas Hook
- Boobs in the Night
1942
- The Mystery of Marie Roget as Curator
- Perils of Nyoka as Cassib
- Wild Bill Hickok Rides as Claim Jumping Leader
- Men of San Quentin as Saunderson
1941
- Western Union as Stagecoach Rider
- Sergeant York as Mountaineer (uncredited)
- Jungle Man as Rev. James 'Jim' Graham
- Belle Starr as Carpetbagger
- The Shepherd of the Hills as Blacksmith (uncredited)
- Stick to Your Guns as Long Ben, gambler-saloon owner
- Wild Geese Calling as Doctor Jed Sloan
1940
- Virginia City as Jefferson Davis
- The Grapes of Wrath as Leader
- Brigham Young as Mob Member
- Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise as Jeremiah Walters
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois as Tom Lincoln
- Island of Doomed Men as Captain Cort
- Gold Rush Maisie as Camp Owner with a Pig (Uncredited)
- Rangers of Fortune as Water Thug
- Women in Hiding as Alice's Father (uncredited)
- Eyes of the Navy as Farmer (uncredited)
- Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe as Emperor Ming
- Santa Fe Trail as Gentry
- Shooting High as Hod Carson
1939
- Gone with the Wind as Man with Stove Pipe Hat in Charge of Convict Workers (uncredited)
- Jesse James as Doctor
- Wyoming Outlaw as Luke Parker
- Allegheny Uprising as Dr. Stoke
- The Flying Deuces as Commandant
- Thou Shalt Not Kill as Lars Olsen
- Way Down South as Cass
- One Against the World as Mr. Crumley (uncredited)
- Daredevils of the Red Circle as 39013
- Cowboys from Texas as Kansas Jones
- Blackmail as Southern Deputy (uncredited)
- $1,000 a Touchdown as Stage Manager (uncredited)
- The Oklahoma Kid as Alec Martin
- Captain Fury as Mergon
1938
- Flaming Frontiers as Ace Daggett
- Joaquin Murrieta as Politician (uncredited)
- Kentucky as Southerner
- Dick Tracy Returns as Pa Stark
- Jezebel as Officer (uncredited)
- Mars Attacks the World as Ming the Merciless
- Flash Gordon: The Deadly Ray From Mars as Ming the Merciless
- Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars as Emperor Ming
- Rocket Ship as Emperor Ming
- The Strange Case of Dr. Meade as Lacey
1937
- Stand-In as Actor Dressed as Abraham Lincoln
- The Good Earth as Banker (uncredited)
- The Man Without a Country as President Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)
- Two Gun Law as Wolf Larson
- Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge as Gene Autry Sr.
- The Last Train from Madrid as Warden (uncredited)
- Slave Ship as Slave Dealer
- We're on the Jury as Mr. Martin
- Hollywood Cowboy as 'Doc' Kramer
1936
- Flash Gordon as Ming the Merciless
- Ramona as American Settler (uncredited)
- Career Woman as Matt Clay
- Show Boat as Sheriff Ike Vallon
- Road Gang as Grayson
- Wedding Present as Turnbull
- Empty Saddles as Cim White
- The Texas Rangers as Lawyer (uncredited)
- Song of the Saddle as Phineas P. Hook
- The Trail of the Lonesome Pine as Blacksmith
- A Son Comes Home as Prosecutor
- Sunset of Power as Neil Brannum
- Jailbreak as Dan Stone
- Rose of the Rancho as Horse Doctor (uncredited)
1935
- Frisco Kid as Speaker (uncredited)
- Reckless as District Attorney (uncredited)
- Square Shooter as Miller
- Steamboat Round the Bend as Fleety Belle's Father
- Special Agent as State Police Commander (uncredited)
- The Miracle Rider as Zaroff
- The Fixer Uppers as Pierre Gustave
- In Spite of Danger as Mr. Merritt
- Hop-a-long Cassidy as Buck Peters
1934
- Broadway Bill as Veterinarian (uncredited)
- Red Morning as Stanchon
- Massacre as Sheriff Scatters
- Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch as Mr. Bagby
- Whom the Gods Destroy as Constable Malcolm (uncredited)
- Murder at the Vanities as Homer Boothby
- The Last Round-up as Sheriff
- Behold My Wife! as Juan Storm Cloud
- David Harum as Deacon
1933
- White Woman as Fenton
- Big Executive as Sheriff
- Duck Soup as Prosecutor
- Pick-up as Mr. Brewster
- Sunset Pass as Williams
- The Bowery as Detective (uncredited)
- Destination Unknown as Turk
- Doctor Bull as Mr. Upjohn
- Lone Cowboy as U.S. Marshal
- Mr. Skitch as Joe
- The Three Musketeers as El Shaitan (voice)
- This Day and Age as District Attorney
- Tomorrow at Seven as Jerry Simons
- At Twelve Midnight as Roger Thurston
- The World Changes as Sheriff Wild Bill Hickok (uncredited)
- The Road Is Open Again as Abraham Lincoln
- Disgraced! as District Attorney
1932
- Silver Dollar as Jenkins
- Rockabye as District Attorney (uncredited)
- High Pressure as Mr. Banks
- The Strange Love of Molly Louvain as Police Capt. Slade
- The Sign of the Cross as Tyros
- Pack Up Your Troubles as Welfare Association Officer
- The Hatchet Man as Lip Hop Fat
- I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang as Train Conductor (uncredited)
- Too Busy to Work as Chief of Police
- The Phantom President as Abe Lincoln (uncredited)
- Hell's Highway as Matthew the Hermit
- Mystery Ranch as Henry Steele
- Breach of Promise as Joe Pugmire
1931
- Sob Sister as City Editor Baker
- An American Tragedy as Attorney Reuben Jephson
- Caught Plastered as Sheriff Flint
- Safe in Hell as Lawyer Jones
- X Marks the Spot as Kirby
- Palmy Days as Yolando
- Beau Hunks as Commandant
- The Miracle Woman as Simpson
- Ships of Hate as Captain Lash
- A Dangerous Affair as Tupper
- A House Divided as Minister
- The Ruling Voice as Board Member (uncredited)
- Manhattan Parade as Sheriff Casey
1930
- Beau Bandit as Lucius J. Perkins
- East Is West as Dr. Fredericks
- Way Out West as Buck Rankin
- The Devil's Cabaret as Mr. Satan (uncredited)
1929
- Welcome Danger as John Thorne / The Dragon
- The Bellamy Trial as District Attorney
- The Far Call as Kris Larsen