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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 10, 1914
Died
July 29, 1980
Place of Birth
Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Also Known As
- Charles Butters
- Charles Mc Graw
- Чарльз Макгро
- Charles Crisp Butters
Charles McGraw
0.9 Popularity
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.
Known For
6.6
(in "The Killers") (archive footage)
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982
3.8
(archive footage)
The Horror Show
1979
6.4
Air Force Gen. Peter Crane
Twilight's Last Gleaming
1977
4.3
Howard Hendricks
The Killer Inside Me
1976
0.0
Capt. Humphreys
Perilous Voyage
1976
6.3
Preacher
A Boy and His Dog
1975
5.7
Neil Davis
Money to Burn
1973
6.9
Police Story
1973
7.2
Capt. Bates
Hawkins
1973
7.0
Banyon
1972
Credits
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
as (in "The Killers") (archive footage)
1982
6.6
The Horror Show
as (archive footage)
1979
3.8
Twilight's Last Gleaming
as Air Force Gen. Peter Crane
1977
6.4
The Killer Inside Me
as Howard Hendricks
1976
4.3
Perilous Voyage
as Capt. Humphreys
1976
0.0
A Boy and His Dog
as Preacher
1975
6.3
Money to Burn
as Neil Davis
1973
5.7
Police Story
1973
6.9
Hawkins
as Capt. Bates
1973
7.2
Banyon
1972
7.0
The Longest Night
as Father Chase
1972
6.3
Emergency!
1972
7.8
The Night Stalker
as Police Chief Ed Masterson
1972
6.9
The Devil and Miss Sarah
as Marshal Duncan
1971
6.0
Chandler
as Bernie Oakman
1971
4.3
🎬
Monty Nash
as Jeffers
1971
5.5
Nichols
as Hansen
1971
5.0
Nichols
as Luke
1971
5.0
Johnny Got His Gun
as Mike Burkeman
1971
7.5
O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra
as Agent Joe Flagg
1971
10.0
The Smith Family
as Captain Hughes
1971
6.0
The Andersonville Trial
as Board of Military Judges
1970
6.7
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
as Wilson
1969
5.8
Pendulum
as Deputy Chief John P. Hildebrand
1969
5.5
The Mod Squad
1968
6.2
The Outcasts
1968
5.3
Adam-12
as Lars Lowell
1968
7.0
Adam-12
as Rod Decker
1968
7.0
Hang 'em High
as Sheriff Ray Calhoun
1968
6.8
In Cold Blood
as Tex Smith
1967
7.5
Judd for the Defense
1967
7.5
Judd for the Defense
as Jim Larkin
1967
7.5
Hondo
1967
6.5
Ironside
1967
6.8
The Busy Body
as Fred Harwell
1967
6.9
Mission: Impossible
1966
7.6
The Wild Wild West
1965
7.6
Run for Your Life
as Sam Bailey
1965
7.2
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Jules Cutter
1964
7.1
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1964
7.7
Nightmare in Chicago
as Harry Brockman
1964
4.0
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
as Lt. Matthews
1963
7.0
Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Harry Brockman
1963
5.3
Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Nick Stacy
1963
5.3
🎬
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
5.7
🎬
Grindl
1963
5.5
The Lieutenant
1963
6.0
The Birds
as Sebastian Sholes
1963
7.5
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Simon Oliver
1962
7.9
The Virginian
as Big John Beldon
1962
6.4
The Horizontal Lieutenant
as Col. Charles Korotny
1962
4.8
The New Breed
as Dr. Cameron Hill
1961
7.0
Ben Casey
as Joe Creely
1961
5.6
Dr. Kildare
as Fred Rainey
1961
5.5
Dr. Kildare
as Dr. Kenneth Hasker
1961
5.5
87th Precinct
as Douglas King
1961
7.5
Cain's Hundred
as Earl Klegg
1961
4.7
Cimarron
as Bob Yountis
1960
6.0
Spartacus
as Marcellus
1960
7.5
Route 66
1960
6.3
Thriller
as Sheriff Cliff Wrights
1960
6.6
The Wonderful Country
as Dr. Stovall
1959
6.0
The Detectives
1959
6.1
The Untouchables
as Johnny Torrio
1959
7.8
Johnny Staccato
1959
5.0
The Man in the Net
as Sheriff Steve Ritter
1959
4.9
77 Sunset Strip
1958
6.7
The Defiant Ones
as Capt. Frank Gibbons
1958
7.1
Twilight for the Gods
as Yancy
1958
3.6
Saddle the Wind
as Larry Venables
1958
6.5
Joe Dakota
as Cal Moore
1957
6.3
Slaughter on 10th Avenue
as Lt. Anthony Vosnick
1957
5.4
Joe Butterfly
as Sgt. Jim McNulty
1957
5.8
The Cruel Tower
as Harry 'Stretch' Clay
1956
4.7
Toward the Unknown
as Col. 'Mickey' McKee
1956
5.6
Away All Boats
as Lieut. Mike O'Bannion
1956
5.1
Casablanca
1955
10.0
Gunsmoke
as Calvin
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Dolen
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Squawman
1955
6.6
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955
6.8
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
as Cmdr. Wayne Lee
1954
6.0
🎬
The Whistler
1954
0.0
Adventures Of The Falcon
1954
6.0
Loophole
as Gus Slavin
1954
6.6
Thunder Over the Plains
as Ben Westman
1953
5.4
War Paint
as Sgt. Clarke
1953
5.5
General Electric Theater
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
as Forel
1953
6.4
Mr. & Mrs. North
1952
4.3
Cavalcade of America
as Wilkie Bowman
1952
3.5
Cavalcade of America
1952
3.5
One Minute to Zero
as Sfc. Baker
1952
5.8
The Narrow Margin
as Det. Sgt. Walter Brown
1952
7.3
Roadblock
as Joe Peters
1951
5.8
His Kind of Woman
as Thompson / Narrator
1951
6.6
Double Crossbones
as Capt. Ben Wickett
1951
5.4
Armored Car Robbery
as Lt. Jim Cordell
1950
6.5
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
as Shotgun Mike Munger
1950
6.1
Side Street
as Det. Stan Simon
1950
6.4
The Threat
as Arnold 'Red' Kluger
1949
5.8
The Story of Molly X
as Police Capt. Breen
1949
4.6
Border Incident
as Jeff Amboy
1949
6.9
Reign of Terror
as Sergeant
1949
6.9
Once More, My Darling
as Herman Schmelz
1949
5.7
Blood on the Moon
as Milo Sweet
1948
6.2
Hazard
as Chick
1948
8.0
Berlin Express
as Colonel Johns
1948
6.2
The Hunted
as Detective
1948
5.2
T-Men
as Moxie
1947
6.8
The Gangster
as Dugas
1947
5.1
Roses Are Red
as Duke Arno
1947
5.5
On the Old Spanish Trail
as Harry Blaisdell
1947
5.2
The Long Night
as Policeman Stevens
1947
5.6
The Big Fix
as Armiston
1947
0.0
The Farmer's Daughter
as Fisher - Finley's Henchman (uncredited)
1947
6.9
The Killers
as Al
1946
7.3
The Impostor
as Menessier
1944
6.0
The Mad Ghoul
as Detective Garrity
1943
5.9
Corvette K-225
as Chief Engineer
1943
6.1
Destroyer
as Assistant Chief Engineer (uncredited)
1943
6.6
Two Tickets to London
as Hendrik (uncredited)
1943
6.0
They Came to Blow Up America
as Zellerbach
1943
6.2
The Moon Is Down
as Ole (uncredited)
1943
6.7
The Undying Monster
as Strud Strudwick (uncredited)
1942
5.7