Charles Arnt
Born: 1906-08-20 in Michigan City, Indiana, USA
Died: 1990-08-06
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charles Arnt (August 20, 1906 – August 6, 1990) was an American film actor from 1933 to 1962. Arnt was born in Michigan City, Indiana, the son of a banker. He graduated from Phillips Academy and Princeton University. While at Princeton, he helped to found the University Playes and was president of the Princeton Triangle Club theatrical troupe. He became a banker after he graduated from college. In the early 1930s, Arnt acted with the University Repertory Theater in Maryland. On Broadway, he appeared in Carry Nation (1932), Three Waltzes (1937), and Knickerbocker Holiday (1938). Arnt appeared as a character actor in more than 200 films. In 1962, Arnt retired from acting and began to import and breed Charolais cattle on a ranch in Washington state. Arnt died in Orcas Island, Washington from pancreatic and liver cancer. He was survived by his wife, two sons, a daughter, and four grandchildren.
Filmography
1962
- Sweet Bird of Youth as Mayor Henricks
1961
- Wild in the Country as Mr. Parsons (uncredited)
1960
- Harrigan and Son as Sweetzer
1959
- Hawaiian Eye as Fleems
- Black Saddle as Burnett
- Bourbon Street Beat
- The Miracle of the Hills as Fuzzy
1958
- The Rifleman as Wes Tippert
- The Texan as Ed Kingman
- The Ed Wynn Show as Mr. Lagenauer
- Flood Tide as Mr. Appleby
1957
- Maverick as Charlie Mason
- Sugarfoot as Judge Lawson
- The Thin Man
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Wes Tippert
- The Gale Storm Show as Mr. Sneed
1955
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Mayor
1954
- Lassie as Ralph Trumble
1953
- The Great Sioux Uprising as Gist
- The Veils of Bagdad as Zapolya
1950
- Wabash Avenue as Horace Carter
- The Man Who Cheated Himself as Ernest Quimby (as Charles E. Arnet)
- He's a Cockeyed Wonder as J.B. Caldwell
- The Sun Sets at Dawn as Reporter, Globe Express
1949
- Masked Raiders as Dr. Nichols
- Any Number Can Play as Joe Josephs (uncredited)
- Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture as Pop Gerard
- Bride for Sale as Dobbs
1948
- Sitting Pretty as Mr. Taylor (uncredited)
- Hollow Triumph as Coblenz
- The Boy with Green Hair as Mr. Hammond
- Michael O'Halloran as Doc Douglas Bruce
- Big Town Scandal as Amos Peabody
1947
- Big Town After Dark as Amos Peabody
- High Wall as Sidney X. Hackle
- Fall Guy as Uncle Jim Grossett
- Saddle Pals as William Schooler
- Calendar Girl as Olsen
- My Favorite Brunette as Crawford
1946
- Cinderella Jones as Mahoney
- Without Reservations as Salesman
- Big Town as Amos Peabody
- Somewhere in the Night as Little Man with Glasses (uncredited)
- The Hoodlum Saint as Cy Nolan - O'Neill's Secretary
- Just Before Dawn as Attorney Allen S. Tobin (uncredited)
- Behind Green Lights as Daniel Boone Wintergreen
- That Brennan Girl as Fred, Natalie's 2nd Husband
- Miss Susie Slagle's as Mr. Johnson
- Blondie's Lucky Day as Mayor Richard Denby
1945
- Sudan as Khafra
- Christmas in Connecticut as Homer Higgenbottom (uncredited)
- The Girl of the Limberlost as Hodges
- The Crime Doctor's Courage as Butler
- Pardon My Past as Clothes Salesman
- She Wouldn't Say Yes as Train Conductor (uncredited)
- Strange Illusion as Professor Muhlbach
- Dangerous Intruder as Max Ducone
1944
- Roaring Guns as Colonel Chris Ferris
- The Seventh Cross as Herr Binder (uncredited)
- Greenwich Village as Author
- Up in Arms as Mr. Higginbotham
- Once Upon a Time as Fred Stacy (uncredited)
- Gambler's Choice as Honest John McGrady
- My Pal, Wolf as Papa Eisdaar
- Dangerous Passage as Daniel
- Double Exposure as Sonny Tucker
- Three Little Sisters as Ezra Larkin
- The Impatient Years as Marriage Clerk
1943
- Young Ideas as Station Master (uncredited)
- In Old Oklahoma as Joe, the Train Conductor
- Gangway for Tomorrow as Jim Benson
- Henry Aldrich Swings It as Boyle
- Gildersleeve's Bad Day as Judge Horace Hooker
1942
- Young America as Principal Rice
- The Lady Has Plans as Pooly
- This Gun for Hire as Male Dressmaker
- Reunion in France as Honoré
- Take a Letter, Darling as Fud Newton
- The Great Gildersleeve as Judge Horace Hooker
- Twin Beds as Manager
- That Other Woman as Bailey
1941
- Great Guns as Doctor
- Ball of Fire as McNeary
- Blossoms in the Dust as G. Harrington Hedger
- Play Girl as Grady (uncredited)
- Marry the Boss's Daughter as Blodgett
- Pot o' Gold as Parks (butler)
- We Go Fast as Refrigerator Salesman
- Hold Back the Dawn as Mr. MacAdams
- Dressed to Kill as Hal Brennon
- Mr. District Attorney as Herman Winkle
- Paris Calling as Lt. Lantz
1940
- The Shop Around the Corner as Policeman (uncredited)
- Little Men as Drunk in Medicine Show
- Buyer Beware as Les Carter (uncredited)
- We Who Are Young as Eckman (uncredited)
- I Love You Again as Mr. Billings
- Remember the Night as Tom
- Dr. Kildare's Crisis as Mr. Stubbins, Man with Pain
1937
- Swing High, Swing Low as Georgie Herman
- It Happened in Hollywood as Jed Reed
- Angel's Holiday as Ralph Everett
1936
- College Holiday as Ticket Clerk
- Wedding Present
- After the Thin Man as Drunk (uncredited)
- Rhythm on the Range as Dining Car Steward
- And Sudden Death as Archie Sloan
- Sinner Take All as Lampier's Secretary (uncredited)
- The Witness Chair as Mr. Henshaw
1935
- Two for Tonight as Benny
- She Married Her Boss as Victor Jessup
- Spring Night as The Father
- Stolen Harmony as Clem Walters
1934
- Ladies Should Listen as Albert, the manservant
- Ready for Love as Sam Gardner
- Here Is My Heart as Higgins
1933
- Roman Scandals as Caius - the Food Taster (uncredited)