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
- Money to Burn as Neil Davis
- Hawkins as Capt. Bates
1972
- Emergency!
- The Night Stalker as Police Chief Ed Masterson
- The Longest Night as Father Chase
- Banyon
1971
- Chandler as Bernie Oakman
- Nichols as Hansen
- Johnny Got His Gun as Mike Burkeman
- O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra as Agent Joe Flagg
- Monty Nash as Jeffers
- The Smith Family as Captain Hughes
- The Devil and Miss Sarah as Marshal Duncan
1970
- The Andersonville Trial as Board of Military Judges
1969
- Pendulum as Deputy Chief John P. Hildebrand
- Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here as Wilson
1968
- Adam-12 as Lars Lowell
- The Mod Squad
- Hang 'em High as Sheriff Ray Calhoun
- The Outcasts
1967
- Ironside
- Judd for the Defense
- Hondo
- In Cold Blood as Tex Smith
- The Busy Body as Fred Harwell
1966
1965
- The Wild Wild West
- Run for Your Life as Sam Bailey
1964
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Jules Cutter
- Nightmare in Chicago as Harry Brockman
1963
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
- Kraft Suspense Theatre as Harry Brockman
- The Birds as Sebastian Sholes
- The Lieutenant
- Grindl
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
- Cain's Hundred as Earl Klegg
- The New Breed as Dr. Cameron Hill
- 87th Precinct as Douglas King
1959
- The Untouchables as Johnny Torrio
- The Detectives
- Johnny Staccato
- The Wonderful Country as Dr. Stovall
- The Man in the Net as Sheriff Steve Ritter
1958
- 77 Sunset Strip
- The Defiant Ones as Capt. Frank Gibbons
- Saddle the Wind as Larry Venables
- Twilight for the Gods as Yancy
1957
- Joe Dakota as Cal Moore
- Slaughter on 10th Avenue as Lt. Anthony Vosnick
- Joe Butterfly as Sgt. Jim McNulty
1956
- Toward the Unknown as Col. 'Mickey' McKee
- The Cruel Tower as Harry 'Stretch' Clay
- Away All Boats as Lieut. Mike O'Bannion
1955
1954
- The Whistler
- Loophole as Gus Slavin
- The Bridges at Toko-Ri as Cmdr. Wayne Lee
- Adventures Of The Falcon
1953
- War Paint as Sgt. Clarke
- Thunder Over the Plains as Ben Westman
- General Electric Theater
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
- Roadblock as Joe Peters
- Double Crossbones as Capt. Ben Wickett
- His Kind of Woman as Thompson / Narrator
1950
- Side Street as Det. Stan Simon
- Armored Car Robbery as Lt. Jim Cordell
- Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town as Shotgun Mike Munger
1949
- Border Incident as Jeff Amboy
- The Threat as Arnold 'Red' Kluger
- The Story of Molly X as Police Capt. Breen
- Once More, My Darling as Herman Schmelz
- Reign of Terror as Sergeant
1948
- Berlin Express as Colonel Johns
- Hazard as Chick
- The Hunted as Detective
- Blood on the Moon as Milo Sweet
1947
- The Gangster as Dugas
- T-Men as Moxie
- The Big Fix as Armiston
- The Farmer's Daughter as Fisher - Finley's Henchman (uncredited)
- The Long Night as Policeman Stevens
- Roses Are Red as Duke Arno
- On the Old Spanish Trail as Harry Blaisdell
1946
- The Killers as Al
1944
- The Impostor as Menessier
1943
- Destroyer as Assistant Chief Engineer (uncredited)
- The Moon Is Down as Ole (uncredited)
- Two Tickets to London as Hendrik (uncredited)
- They Came to Blow Up America as Zellerbach
- The Mad Ghoul as Detective Garrity
- Corvette K-225 as Chief Engineer
1942
- The Undying Monster as Strud Strudwick (uncredited)