Birthday:
May 10, 1914
Place of Birth: Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Place of Birth: Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Charles McGraw
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
| Movie | Cast | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Spartacus | Marcellus | 1960 |
| The Birds | Sebastian Sholes | 1963 |
| A Boy and His Dog | Preacher | 1975 |
| Hang 'em High | Sheriff Ray Calhoun | 1968 |
| Armored Car Robbery | Lt. Jim Cordell | 1950 |
| The Defiant Ones | Capt. Frank Gibbons | 1958 |
| The Wonderful Country | Dr. Stovall | 1959 |
| It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | Lt. Matthews | 1963 |
| The Narrow Margin | Det. Sgt. Walter Brown | 1952 |
| Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid | (in "The Killers") (archive footage) | 1982 |
| The Gangster | Dugas | 1947 |
| Loophole | Gus Slavin | 1954 |
| His Kind of Woman | Thompson / Narrator | 1951 |
| T-Men | Moxie | 1947 |
| Border Incident | Jeff Amboy | 1949 |
| Reign of Terror | Sergeant | 1949 |
| The Horror Show | (archive footage) | 1979 |
| Roadblock | Joe Peters | 1951 |
| The Bridges at Toko-Ri | Cmdr. Wayne Lee | 1954 |
| Berlin Express | Colonel Johns | 1948 |
| The Busy Body | Fred Harwell | 1967 |
| Blood on the Moon | Milo Sweet | 1948 |
| The Killers | Al | 1946 |
| Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here | Wilson | 1969 |
| The Killer Inside Me | Howard Hendricks | 1976 |
| The Night Stalker | Police Chief Ed Masterson | 1972 |
| The Long Night | Policeman Stevens | 1947 |
| Johnny Got His Gun | Mike Burkeman | 1971 |
| The Cruel Tower | Harry 'Stretch' Clay | 1956 |
| The Man in the Net | Sheriff Steve Ritter | 1959 |
| The Hunted | Detective | 1948 |
| Cimarron | Bob Yountis | 1960 |
| Side Street | Det. Stan Simon | 1950 |
| In Cold Blood | Tex Smith | 1967 |
| Away All Boats | Lieut. Mike O'Bannion | 1956 |
| Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town | Shotgun Mike Munger | 1950 |
| The Story of Molly X | Police Capt. Breen | 1949 |
| The Threat | Arnold 'Red' Kluger | 1949 |
| Slaughter on 10th Avenue | Lt. Anthony Vosnick | 1957 |
| The Impostor | Menessier | 1944 |
| Double Crossbones | Capt. Ben Wickett | 1951 |
| The Mad Ghoul | Detective Garrity | 1943 |
| Twilight's Last Gleaming | Air Force Gen. Peter Crane | 1977 |
| Two Tickets to London | Hendrik (uncredited) | 1943 |
| Saddle the Wind | Larry Venables | 1958 |
| Chandler | Bernie Oakman | 1971 |
| The Horizontal Lieutenant | Col. Charles Korotny | 1962 |
| War Paint | Sgt. Clarke | 1953 |
| Roses Are Red | Duke Arno | 1947 |
| Nightmare in Chicago | Harry Brockman | 1964 |
| Toward the Unknown | Col. 'Mickey' McKee | 1956 |
| One Minute to Zero | Sfc. Baker | 1952 |
| Joe Dakota | Cal Moore | 1957 |
| Once More, My Darling | Herman Schmelz | 1949 |
| The Devil and Miss Sarah | Marshal Duncan | 1971 |
| Money to Burn | Neil Davis | 1973 |
| Joe Butterfly | Sgt. Jim McNulty | 1957 |
| Thunder Over the Plains | Ben Westman | 1953 |
| Pendulum | Deputy Chief John P. Hildebrand | 1969 |
| They Came to Blow Up America | Zellerbach | 1943 |
| O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra | Agent Joe Flagg | 1971 |
| Destroyer | Assistant Chief Engineer (uncredited) | 1943 |
| Hazard | Chick | 1948 |
| The Moon Is Down | Ole (uncredited) | 1943 |
| The Andersonville Trial | Board of Military Judges | 1970 |
| The Farmer's Daughter | Fisher - Finley's Henchman (uncredited) | 1947 |
| On the Old Spanish Trail | Harry Blaisdell | 1947 |
| Corvette K-225 | Chief Engineer | 1943 |
| The Longest Night | Father Chase | 1972 |
| Twilight for the Gods | Yancy | 1958 |
| Perilous Voyage | Capt. Humphreys | 1976 |
| The Big Fix | Armiston | 1947 |
| The Undying Monster | Strud Strudwick (uncredited) | 1942 | Series | Cast | Year |
| 77 Sunset Strip | 1958 | |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | 1964 | |
| Cain's Hundred | Earl Klegg | 1961 |
| Kraft Suspense Theatre | Harry Brockman | 1963 |
| Route 66 | 1960 | |
| Hawkins | Capt. Bates | 1973 |
| The Mod Squad | 1968 | |
| Gunsmoke | Calvin | 1955 |
| General Electric Theater | 1953 | |
| Mission: Impossible | 1966 | |
| Emergency! | 1972 | |
| Johnny Staccato | 1959 | |
| Ironside | 1967 | |
| 87th Precinct | 1961 | |
| The Wild Wild West | 1965 | |
| Run for Your Life | Sam Bailey | 1965 |
| Police Story | 1973 | |
| The Outcasts | 1968 | |
| The Virginian | Big John Beldon | 1962 |
| Thriller | Sheriff Cliff Wrights | 1960 |
| Banyon | 1972 | |
| The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp | 1955 | |
| Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | 1963 | |
| Judd for the Defense | 1967 | |
| Hondo | 1967 | |
| Grindl | 1963 | |
| Ben Casey | 1961 | |
| The New Breed | Dr. Cameron Hill | 1961 |
| The Whistler | 1954 | |
| The Detectives | 1959 | |
| Cavalcade of America | Wilkie Bowman | 1952 |
| The Lieutenant | 1963 | |
| Casablanca | 1955 | |
| Adventures Of The Falcon | 1954 | |
| Dr. Kildare | Fred Rainey | 1961 |
| The Smith Family | Captain Hughes | 1971 |
| Mr. & Mrs. North | 1952 | |
| Nichols | Hansen | 1971 |
| Dr. Kildare | Dr. Kenneth Hasker | 1961 |
| Nichols | Luke | 1971 |
| Adam-12 | Lars Lowell | 1968 |
| Gunsmoke | Dolen | 1955 |
| Gunsmoke | Squawman | 1955 |
| General Electric Theater | Forel | 1953 |
| The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | Jules Cutter | 1964 |
| Cavalcade of America | 1952 | |
| Adam-12 | Rod Decker | 1968 |
| Kraft Suspense Theatre | Nick Stacy | 1963 |
| Monty Nash | Jeffers | 1971 |
| Judd for the Defense | Jim Larkin | 1967 |
| The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Simon Oliver | 1962 |
