Charles Coleman
Born: 1885-12-21 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died: 1951-03-08
Known For: Acting
Biography
Australia native Charles Coleman was a stage, screen, and television actor who most frequently portrayed butlers or manservants.
Filmography
1955
- MGM Parade as Self
1950
- Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town as Charles the Butler (uncredited)
1949
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court as Richard - Lord Pendragon's Aide (uncredited)
- My Friend Irma as Henry
1948
- Three Daring Daughters as William (uncredited)
- Grand Canyon Trail as J. Malcolm Vanderpool
1947
- Lured as Sir Charles (uncredited)
- Variety Girl as Man at Steambath (uncredited)
- The Pilgrim Lady as Noel
- Danger Street as Plumley
1946
- Never Say Goodbye as Withers (uncredited)
- I've Always Loved You as Butler
- The Imperfect Lady as Sam Travers
- The Magnificent Rogue as Jefferson O'Neal
- The Runaround as Butler
- Oh, Professor Behave! as The Butler
1945
- Anchors Aweigh as Iturbi's Butler (uncredited)
- Kitty as Majordomo
- Hangover Square as Man at Bonfire (uncredited)
- The Missing Corpse as Egbert
- Roughly Speaking as The Butler (uncredited)
- Earl Carroll Vanities as 2nd Butler
- Voice of the Whistler as Sinclair's Butler (uncredited)
1944
- The White Cliffs of Dover as Captain Davis (uncredited)
- In Society as Van Cleve's Doorman (uncredited)
- The Whistler as Jennings, Butler (Uncredited)
- Frenchman's Creek as Thomas (uncredited)
- Marriage Is a Private Affair as Selworth's Butler (uncredited)
1943
- Jane Eyre as Guard on Coach to Lowood
- Du Barry Was a Lady as Charlie (uncredited)
- Fired Wife as Butler
- It Ain't Hay as Doorman (uncredited)
- The West Side Kid as Butler
- Two Tickets to London as Commander (uncredited)
- He Hired the Boss as Crane
1942
- Arabian Nights as Eunuch
- Miss Annie Rooney as Sidney, the Butler
- Lady in a Jam as Kiddie Party Guest at Auction (uncredited)
- Pittsburgh as Mike (Markham's Butler)
- Between Us Girls as Nightclub Maitre d' (uncredited)
- What's Cookin'? as Butler
- Twin Beds as Butler
- Almost Married as Michael
- The Great Impersonation as Mangan
1941
- It Started with Eve as Roberts
- Maisie Was a Lady as Butler (Uncredited)
- Buck Privates as Edmunds (uncredited)
- West Point Widow as Mr. Appleton
- Repent at Leisure as Jerome
- Sis Hopkins as Butler
- Design for Scandal as Wilton
- Melody Lane as Mr. Abercrombie
- Moonlight in Hawaii as Butler
1940
- The Westerner as Lily Langtry's Manager (uncredited)
- Boom Town as McMasters' Butler
- Brother Orchid as English Diamond Salesma (uncredited)
- Mexican Spitfire Out West as Ponsby - the Butler
- Phantom Raiders as U.S. Agent Hilton
- Andy Hardy Meets Debutante as Headwaiter (uncredited)
- Michael Shayne: Private Detective as Ponsby
- Mexican Spitfire as Bosby - the Butler
- Cross-Country Romance as Hotel Doorman
1939
- In Name Only as Archie Duross (uncredited)
- Bridal Suite as Henry - Bath Attendant
- First Love as George, Clinton's Butler
- They Shall Have Music as Henry - Heifetz's Butler (uncredited)
- Maisie as Hicks (Uncredited)
- Man About Town as Hotel Doorman (uncredited)
- The Under-Pup as Butler
- You Can't Cheat an Honest Man as Robinson - Bel-Goodie's Butler (uncredited)
- Three Smart Girls Grow Up as Henry
- Beauty for the Asking as Mrs. Harrington's Butler (uncredited)
1938
- A Christmas Carol as Charity Solicitor Brummage
- The Affairs of Annabel as Perkins (uncredited)
- Lord Jeff as Hotel Desk Clerk
- The Cowboy and the Lady as Horace Smith's Butler (uncredited)
- Alexander's Ragtime Band as Head Waiter
- Gateway as Purser
- The Shining Hour as Henry's Butler (uncredited)
- That Certain Age as Stevens
- Little Miss Broadway as Simmons
- The Rage of Paris as Rigley
- Little Orphan Annie as The Butler
- Blond Cheat as Officer Salsby (uncredited)
- Radio City Revels as Butler
1937
- Captains Courageous as Burns the Butler (uncredited)
- Broadway Melody of 1938 as Louis (uncredited)
- Shall We Dance as Policeman (uncredited)
- The Go-Getter as Thomas, the Second Butler (uncredited)
- Love Is News as Bevins
- Danger – Love at Work as Edmond, MacMorrow's valet
- Big Town Girl as Doorman
- Fight for Your Lady as Densmore's Butler
- Too Many Wives as Rogers, the Jackson's Butler
1936
- Lloyd's of London as Waiter #3
- Poor Little Rich Girl as Stebbins
- Sins of Man as Doorman
- Mummy's Boys as Kendall
- Walking on Air as Vincent, Bennett's Butler (uncredited)
- Three Smart Girls as Stevens
- The Devil Is a Sissy as Doorman
- Her Master's Voice as Craddock
- The White Angel as Sentry at Balaclava Hospital (uncredited)
- Colleen as Butler
- Everybody's Old Man as Mansfield
- The Border Patrolman as Collins the Servant
- Master Will Shakespeare as John Decker (uncredited)
- Don’t Get Personal as The Butler
1935
- Gold Diggers of 1935 as Manders the Doorman (uncredited)
- The Widow from Monte Carlo as Torrent's Butler
- Kind Lady as Doorman (uncredited)
- Becky Sharp as Bowles
- The Goose and the Gander as Jones the Butler
- The Murder Man as Doorman (uncredited)
- His Family Tree as Hopkins - the Butler
- 3 Kids and a Queen as Chef
- Magnificent Obsession as Simpson
- Rendezvous as Café Doorman (uncredited)
- The Perfect Gentleman as First Theater Doorman (uncredited)
- No More Ladies as Stafford (uncredited)
1934
- The Gay Divorcee as Valet
- Housewife as Bolton
- David Harum as Flowers (uncredited)
- Million Dollar Ransom as Towers (Uncredited)
- The Little Minister as Sergeant of the Guard
- Down to Their Last Yacht as Sir Guy
- Shock as Colonel
- The Richest Girl in the World as (uncredited)
- The Merry Frinks as Witherspoon
1933
- Baby Face as Hodges (uncredited)
- Diplomaniacs as Butler
- The Little Giant as Tailor
- I Loved a Woman as Hayden's First Butler (uncredited)
- Hunting Trouble as Winchell
- As the Devil Commands as Malcom
1932
- Jewel Robbery as Charles (uncredited)
- Merrily We Go to Hell as Richard Damery
- The Greeks Had a Word for Them as Waiter
- Union Depot as Reverend Harvey Pike (uncredited)
- One Hour with You as Marcel (uncredited)
- A Successful Calamity as Emmy's Musicale Butler
- The Heart of New York as The butler
- The Washington Masquerade as Bitler's Butler
1931
- Manhattan Parade as Laffingwell - Hired Butler
- High Stakes as Murray
- Bachelor Apartment as Rollins, Wayne's Butler
- Beyond Victory as Sparrow
- Young as You Feel as Butler
1930
- Lawful Larceny as Butler
- What a Man as William
1928
- Good Morning, Judge as Butler
1927
- That's My Daddy as Norton's Butler
1926
- Sandy as Bob McNeil
1924
- The Vagabond Trail as Aces
1923
- Big Dan as Doc Snyder
- Second Hand Love as Dugg
1920
- The Place of Honeymoons as Jimmie Harrigan
1919
- The Love Cheat as William West
1915
- The Mummy and the Humming-Bird as Ronalds
- When We Were Twenty-One as The Trinity