Charles McGraw

Born: 1914-05-10 in Des Moines, Iowa, USA

Died: 1980-07-29

Known For: Acting

Biography

Charles McGraw (born Charles Butters) was an American stage, screen, and television actor. He developed into a leading man, especially in film noir classics during the late 1940s and early 1950s. His gravelly voice and rugged looks enhanced his appeal in the noir stylistic genre and provided him many roles as cops, military officers, and the such.

Filmography

1982

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid as (in "The Killers") (archive footage)

1979

The Horror Show as (archive footage)

1977

Twilight's Last Gleaming as Air Force Gen. Peter Crane

1976

The Killer Inside Me as Howard Hendricks
Perilous Voyage as Capt. Humphreys

1975

A Boy and His Dog as Preacher

1973

Police Story
Hawkins as Capt. Bates
Money to Burn as Neil Davis

1972

Emergency! as Police Sergeant
Banyon
The Night Stalker as Police Chief Ed Masterson
The Longest Night as Father Chase

1971

Nichols as Hansen
Monty Nash as Jeffers
The Smith Family as Captain Hughes
Johnny Got His Gun as Mike Burkeman
The Devil and Miss Sarah as Marshal Duncan
O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra as Agent Joe Flagg
Chandler as Bernie Oakman

1970

The Andersonville Trial as Board of Military Judges

1969

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here as Wilson
Pendulum as Deputy Chief John P. Hildebrand

1968

Adam-12 as Lars Lowell
The Name of the Game as Sheriff
The Mod Squad
The Outcasts
Hang 'em High as Sheriff Ray Calhoun

1967

Ironside as Marvin Greenleaf
Judd, for the Defense
Hondo
In Cold Blood as Tex Smith
The Busy Body as Fred Harwell

1962

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Simon Oliver
The Virginian as Big John Beldon
The Horizontal Lieutenant as Col. Charles Korotny

1961

Dr. Kildare as Fred Rainey
Ben Casey as Joe Creely
The New Breed as Dr. Cameron Hill
87th Precinct as Douglas King
Cain's Hundred as Earl Klegg

1960

Route 66
Thriller as Sheriff Cliff Wrights
Spartacus as Marcellus
Cimarron as Bob Yountis

1959

Bonanza as Sheriff Gains
The Untouchables as Johnny Torrio
The Detectives
Johnny Staccato
The Man in the Net as Sheriff Steve Ritter
The Wonderful Country as Dr. Stovall

1958

77 Sunset Strip
The Defiant Ones as Capt. Frank Gibbons
Saddle the Wind as Larry Venables
Twilight for the Gods as Yancy

1957

Slaughter on 10th Avenue as Lt. Anthony Vosnick
Joe Dakota as Cal Moore
Joe Butterfly as Sgt. Jim McNulty

1956

Away All Boats as Lieut. Mike O'Bannion
Toward the Unknown as Col. 'Mickey' McKee
The Cruel Tower as Harry 'Stretch' Clay

1955

1954

The Whistler
Adventures Of The Falcon
The Bridges at Toko-Ri as Cmdr. Wayne Lee
Loophole as Gus Slavin

1953

General Electric Theater
Thunder Over the Plains as Ben Westman
War Paint as Sgt. Clarke

1952

Cavalcade of America as Wilkie Bowman
Mr. & Mrs. North
One Minute to Zero as Sfc. Baker
The Narrow Margin as Det. Sgt. Walter Brown

1951

His Kind of Woman as Thompson / Narrator
Double Crossbones as Capt. Ben Wickett
Roadblock as Joe Peters

1950

Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town as Shotgun Mike Munger
Armored Car Robbery as Lt. Jim Cordell
Side Street as Det. Stan Simon

1949

Border Incident as Jeff Amboy
Once More, My Darling as Herman Schmelz
Reign of Terror as Sergeant
The Story of Molly X as Police Capt. Breen
The Threat as Arnold 'Red' Kluger

1948

Blood on the Moon as Milo Sweet
Berlin Express as USET Col. Johns (uncredited)
The Hunted as Detective
Hazard as Chick

1947

The Farmer's Daughter as Fisher - Finley's Henchman (uncredited)
The Long Night as Policeman Stevens
T-Men as Moxie
On the Old Spanish Trail as Harry Blaisdell
The Gangster as Dugas
Roses Are Red as Duke Arno
The Big Fix as Armiston

1946

The Killers as Al

1944

The Impostor as Menessier

1943

The Moon Is Down as Ole (uncredited)
Corvette K-225 as Chief Engineer
They Came to Blow Up America as Zellerbach
Two Tickets to London as Hendrik (uncredited)
Destroyer as Assistant Chief Engineer (uncredited)
The Mad Ghoul as Detective Garrity

1942

The Undying Monster as Strud Strudwick (uncredited)