Charles Silas Richard Trowbridge (January 10, 1882 – October 30, 1967) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 230 films from 1915 to 1958 principally playing patrician authority figures.

Charles Trowbridge
Trowbridge in 1920
Born
Charles Silas Richard Trowbridge

(1882-01-10)January 10, 1882
DiedApril 30, 1967(1967-04-30) (aged 85)
Years active1915–1958
RelativesJohn Townsend Trowbridge

Biography

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Trowbridge was born in Veracruz, Mexico, where his father served in the diplomatic corps of the United States and his grandfather was the American consul-general.[1] He was the older brother of character actor Jack Rockwell, and a cousin of 19th century author John Townsend Trowbridge.[1]

Trowbridge ran a coffee plantation in Hawaii[2] and worked in architecture before venturing into acting.[3]

In 1920, Trowbridge — with several Broadway credits — got his first credits as a Leading Man as part of Elitch Theatre's summer stock cast.[4]

Trowbridge's Broadway credits include Dinner at Eight (1932), Ladies of Creation (1931), Congai (1928), The Behavior of Mrs. Crane (1927), We Never Learn (1927), Craig's Wife (1925), It All Depends (1925), The Backslapper (1924), The Locked Door (1924), Sweet Seventeen (1923), The Lullaby (1923), The Last Warning (1922), The Night Call (1921), Just Because (1921), The Broken Wing (1920),[5] Why Worry? (1918), This Way Out (1917), Come Out of the Kitchen (1916) and Daddy Long Legs (1914).[6]

Prematurely gray, with patrician looks and manners, Trowbridge made a career in Hollywood playing governors, generals, admirals, lawyers, bankers, commissioners, deans, ambassadors, senators, rectors, and other authority figures.

Death

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On October 30, 1967, Trowbridge died at age 85 in Los Angeles, California.[3]

Filmography

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Year Film Role Director Notes
1915 The Fight Joe Keeler
1915 Prohibition Richard 'Dick' Larkin
1915 Sunday Jacky George W. Lederer
1915 The Siren's Song John Wayne/John Gray
1917 Thais Nicias
1919 The Eternal Magdalene Paul Bradshaw
1920 The Fortune Hunter Harry Kellogg Tom Terriss
1922 Island Wives Jimmy Webster Campbell
1931 Damaged Love Ned Indicott
1931 Honor Among Lovers Cunningham, Craig's Attorney Dorothy Arzner uncredited
1931 I Take This Woman Mr. Dowling Marion Gering
1931 The Secret Call Phil Roberts
1931 Silence Mallory Max Marcin
1935 Calm Yourself Mr. Lansell George B. Seitz
1935 The Murder Man District Attorney Tim Whelan uncredited
1935 Mad Love Dr. Marbeau Karl Freund uncredited
1935 Woman Wanted Assistant District Attorney George B. Seitz uncredited
1935 I Live My Life Minister at Wedding W. S. Van Dyke uncredited
1935 It's in the Air Alfred Drake Charles Reisner
1935 Rendezvous Secretary of War Baker William K. Howard
Sam Wood (uncredited)
1935 Whipsaw Doctor Treating Ross Sam Wood uncredited
1935 Last of the Pagans Mine Superintendent Richard Thorpe uncredited
1936 The Garden Murder Case Inspector Colby Edwin L. Marin
1936 Exclusive Story James Witherspoon Sr. George B. Seitz
1936 Wife vs. Secretary Hal Harrington Clarence Brown uncredited
1936 The Robin Hood of El Dorado Ramon de la Cuesta William A. Wellman
1936 The Great Ziegfeld Julian Mitchell Robert Z. Leonard uncredited
1936 Moonlight Murder Stage Manager Edwin L. Marin
1936 Absolute Quiet Doctor George B. Seitz uncredited
1936 Speed Doctor Attending Gadget Edwin L. Marin uncredited
1936 We Went to College President Tomlin Joseph Santley
1936 The Gorgeous Hussy Martin Van Buren Clarence Brown
1936 The Devil Is a Sissy Doctor Rowland Brown uncredited
1936 Libeled Lady Graham Jack Conway
1936 Mad Holiday Ship's Doctor George B. Seitz uncredited
1936 Love on the Run Paris Bureau Chief W.S. Van Dyke uncredited
1936 Born to Dance Model Home Spokesman Roy Del Ruth uncredited
1936 Sinner Take All Coroner Errol Taggart uncredited
1936 After the Thin Man Ballistics Man W. S. Van Dyke uncredited
1937 Dangerous Number Hotel Manager Richard Thorpe
1937 Man of the People Man at Hearing Edwin L. Marin uncredited
1937 Mama Steps Out American Consul George B. Seitz uncredited
1937 Espionage Doyle Kurt Neumann
1937 They Gave Him a Gun Judge W. S. Van Dyke
1937 The Thirteenth Chair Dr. Mason George B. Seitz
1937 Captains Courageous Dr. Dick Walsh Victor Fleming uncredited
1937 A Day at the Races Dr. Wilmerding Sam Wood uncredited
1937 Reported Missing H. M. Hastings Milton Carruth uncredited
1937 Sea Racketeers Maxwell Gordon Hamilton MacFadden
1937 That Certain Woman Dr. James Edmund Goulding
1937 Fit for a King Mr. Marshall Edward Sedgwick
1937 Saturday's Heroes President Horace C. Mitchell Edward Killy
1937 Alcatraz Island Warden Jackson William C. McGann
1937 That's My Story B.L. Martin Sidney Salkow
1937 Exiled to Shanghai Walters Armand Schaefer
1938 The Buccaneer Daniel Carroll Cecil B. DeMille uncredited
1938 City Girl Pierson Alfred L. Werker uncredited
1938 The Patient in Room 18 Dr. Balman Crane Wilbur
1938 The Invisible Menace Dr. Brooks John Farrow
1938 Of Human Hearts Doctor Attending Capt. Griggs Clarence Brown uncredited
1938 No Time to Marry Winthrop Lawyer Harry Lachman
1938 College Swing Dr. Ashburn Raoul Walsh uncredited
1938 Crime School Judge Clinton Lewis Seiler
1938 Gangs of New York District Attorney Lucas James Cruze
1938 Crime Ring Marvin Leslie Goodwins
1938 Racket Busters Martin's Trial Lloyd Bacon uncredited
1938 Men with Wings Alcott William A. Wellman uncredited
1938 Little Tough Guy Judge Thomas Knott Harold Young uncredited
1938 Four's a Crowd Dr. Ives Michael Curtiz uncredited
1938 Smashing the Rackets Grand Juryman Lew Landers uncredited
1938 The Mad Miss Manton Leigh Jason uncredited
1938 The Last Express District Attorney Meredith Otis Garrett
1938 Submarine Patrol Rear Admiral Joseph Maitland John Ford
1938 Gang Bullets Dexter Wayne Lambert Hillyer
1938 Nancy Drew... Detective Hollister William Clemens
1938 Angels with Dirty Faces Norton J. White Michael Curtiz uncredited
1938 Thanks for Everything Draft Doctor
1938 Kentucky Doctor David Butler
1939 Homicide Bureau Committee Spokesman Charles C. Coleman uncredited
1939 Pacific Liner San Francisco Doctor Lew Landers scenes deleted
1939 King of the Underworld Dr. Ryan Lewis Seiler
1939 Risky Business Henry Jameson Arthur Lubin
1939 Pride of the Navy Capt. Tyler Charles Lamont
1939 Boy Trouble Mr. Tatum George Archainbaud
1939 Cafe Society Mr. Tiller, the Lawyer Edward H. Griffith uncredited
1939 King of Chinatown Dr. Jones Nick Grinde
1919 Sergeant Madden Commissioner in 1919 Josef von Sternberg
1939 Let Us Live Trial Judge John Brahm uncredited
1939 On Trial Henry Dean Terry O. Morse
1939 The Story of Alexander Graham Bell George Pollard Irving Cummings
1939 The Lady's from Kentucky Charles Butler Alexander Hall uncredited
1939 Confessions of a Nazi Spy Maj. Williams Anatole Litvak uncredited
1939 Undercover Doctor Lt. Watson Louis King
1939 Grand Jury Secrets Mr. Halliday James P. Hogan uncredited
1939 Waterfront Judge H. Franklin Scott Terry O. Morse uncredited
1939 Each Dawn I Die Judge William Keighley
1939 Mutiny on the Blackhawk Gen. Fremont Christy Cabanne
1939 Hotel for Women Foley Gregory Ratoff uncredited
1939 Lady of the Tropics Alfred Z. Harrison Jack Conway
1939 The Man They Could Not Hang Judge Bowman
1939 The Angels Wash Their Faces Reform School Superintendent Ray Enright uncredited
1939 Tropic Fury Dr. Taylor Christy Cabanne
1939 Full Confession First Doctor John Farrow uncredited
1939 Smashing the Money Ring Judge B.A. Royer Terry O. Morse uncredited
1939 Disputed Passage Dean Frank Borzage
1939 Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President Cabinet Member Robert B. Sinclair
1939 Swanee River Mr. Foster Sidney Lanfield
1940 The Man Who Wouldn't Talk Judge David Burton uncredited
1940 The Fatal Hour John T. Forbes William Nigh
1940 I Take This Woman Dr. Morris uncredited
1940 The House of the Seven Gables Judge Joe May
1940 Johnny Apollo Judge Henry Hathaway
1940 Virginia City Aide to Jefferson Davis Michael Curtiz uncredited
1940 The Man with Nine Lives Dr. Harvey Nick Grinde
1940 Edison, the Man Clark Clarence Brown uncredited
1940 Our Town Dr. Ferguson Sam Wood
1940 Sailor's Lady Aide Allan Dwan uncredited
1940 Andy Hardy Meets Debutante Davis, Fowler's Butler George B. Seitz uncredited
1940 My Love Came Back Dr. Downey Curtis Bernhardt
1940 Dr. Kildare Goes Home Atkinson Harold S. Bucquet
1940 Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum Judge Lynn Shores uncredited
1940 Before I Hang Judge Braden Nick Grinde (ad Nick Grindé) uncredited
1940 The Mummy's Hand Dr. Petrie Christy Cabanne
1940 Knute Rockne All American Professor Lloyd Bacon
William K. Howard (uncredited)
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1940 Cherokee Strip Sen. Cross Lesley Selander
1940 Life with Henry Executive Assistant Theodore Reed uncredited
1940 The Son of Monte Cristo Priest Rowland V. Lee
1940 Trail of the Vigilantes John Thornton
1940 Mysterious Doctor Satan Gov. Bronson Serial, Ch. 1
1940 This Thing Called Love Bit Part Alexander Hall uncredited
1941 Four Mothers Festival Committee Member William Keighley uncredited
1941 Let's Make Music Doctor Leslie Goodwins uncredited
1941 Back Street Ship Capt. Anderson Robert Stevenson uncredited
1941 The Great Mr. Nobody Grover Dillon Benjamin Stoloff
1941 Tobacco Road Rector John Ford scenes deleted
1941 Meet John Doe Frank Capra
1941 The Great Lie Senator Ted Greenfield Edmund Goulding
1941 Strange Alibi Governor Phelps D. Ross Lederman
1941 Too Many Blondes John V. Burton Thornton Freeland uncredited
1941 The Nurse's Secret Arthur Glenn Noel M. Smith
1941 They Met in Bombay British Medical Major Clarence Brown uncredited
1941 Sergeant York Cordell Hull Howard Hawks
1941 Hurricane Smith Mark Harris Bernard Vorhaus
1941 Rags to Riches Prosecutor Joseph Kane
1941 Dressed to Kill David Earle Eugene J. Forde
1941 Belle Starr Colonel Bright Irving Cummings
1941 We Go Fast Defense Attorney William C. McGann
1941 King of the Texas Rangers Robert Crawford [Chs. 2as6,10,12] John English Serial
1941 Great Guns Col. Ridley Monty Banks
1941 Cadet Girl Col. Bradley Ray McCarey
1941 Design for Scandal Northcott's Aide Norman Taurog uncredited
1942 Blue, White and Perfect Capt. Brown Herbert I. Leeds
1942 Sex Hygiene Medical officer Otto Brower (medical footage)
John Ford (dramatic sequences)
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1942 Who Is Hope Schuyler? Judge Rossiter
1942 Sweetheart of the Fleet Cmdr. Hawes
1942 Meet the Stewarts Mr. Martin, Country Club Lunch Guest Alfred E. Green uncredited
1942 Ten Gentlemen from West Point George Clinton Henry Hathaway vice president
1942 The Magnificent Dope Examining Doctor Walter Lang uncredited
1942 Wake Island George Nielson John Farrow uncredited
1942 That Other Woman Linkletter Ray McCarey
1942 Over My Dead Body Honest Tom Mardley Malcolm St. Clair
1942 Tennessee Johnson Lansbury William Dieterle
1943 The Amazing Mrs. Holliday Immigration Officer Bruce Manning uncredited
1943 Mission to Moscow Secretary of State Cordell Hull Michael Curtiz uncredited
1943 Action in the North Atlantic Rear Adm. Hartridge Lloyd Bacon uncredited
1943 The Falcon in Danger Palmer's Doctor uncredited
1943 Salute to the Marines Mr. Selkirk S. Sylvan Simon uncredited
1943 Adventures of the Flying Cadets Maj. William Elliott Ray Taylor Serial, Ch. 1
1943 Sweet Rosie O'Grady Husband Irving Cummings scenes deleted
1943 She's for Me Dr. Folsom
1943 Madame Curie Board Member Mervyn LeRoy uncredited
1944 The Fighting Seabees Randolph Edward Ludwig uncredited
1944 Captain America Dryden John English Serial
1944 Hey, Rookie General Willis Charles Barton
1944 The Story of Dr. Wassell Captain of the 'Surabaya' Cecil B. DeMille uncredited
1944 Summer Storm Doctor Douglas Sirk
1944 Wing and a Prayer Cmdr. L.M. Hale, Medical Officer Henry Hathaway uncredited
1944 Heavenly Days Alvin Clark Howard Estabrook uncredited
1944 Faces in the Fog Mr. White John English
1945 Youth for the Kingdom Mr. Webber
1945 Keep Your Powder Dry
1945 Within These Walls Gov. Edward Rice H. Bruce Humberstone uncredited
1945 Mildred Pierce Mrs. Forrester's lawyer Michael Curtiz uncredited
1945 They Were Expendable Admiral Blackwell John Ford
1945 The Red Dragon Prentiss Phil Rosen
1946 Shock Dr. H.J. Harvey Alfred L. Werker
1946 Colonel Effingham's Raid Bank President Irving Pichel uncredited
1946 Smooth as Silk Fletcher Holliday Charles Barton
1946 The Hoodlum Saint Uncle Joe Lorrison Norman Taurog
1946 Valley of the Zombies Dr. Rufus Maynard Philip Ford
1946 Don't Gamble with Strangers Warren Creighton William Beaudine
1946 The Secret of the Whistler Dr. Winthrop George Sherman uncredited
1946 Undercurrent Justice Putnam Vincente Minnelli
1946 Gallant Bess Mr, Riley, Glen Cove Stud Farm Andrew Marton uncredited
1947 The Beginning or the End Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Norman Taurog
1947 Mr. District Attorney Longfield Robert B. Sinclair uncredited
1947 The Michigan Kid Banker John Nash Ray Taylor
1947 The Sea of Grass George Cameron Elia Kazan
1947 Shoot to Kill John Forsythe William Berke
1947 Buck Privates Come Home Mr. Quince Charles Barton
1947 Tarzan and the Huntress King Farrod Kurt Neumann
1947 The Private Affairs of Bel Ami Lawyer Albert Lewin uncredited
1947 Honeymoon Judge Riberol William Keighley uncredited
1947 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Dr. Renshaw Norman Z. McLeod uncredited
1947 Black Gold Judge Wilson Phil Karlson
1947 Key Witness John Ballin D. Ross Lederman
1947 Her Husband's Affairs Attorney Brewster S. Sylvan Simon uncredited
1947 Tycoon Señor Tobar Richard Wallace
1948 Song of My Heart Jurgensen Benjamin Glazer
1948 Stage Struck Police Capt. Webb William Nigh
1948 Hollow Triumph Deputy Steve Sekely
1948 For the Love of Mary Deputy Commissioner Frederick de Cordova uncredited
1948 The Paleface Gov. Johnson Norman Z. McLeod
1949 The Sun Comes Up Dr. Gage Richard Thorpe uncredited
1949 Bad Boy Dr. Fletcher Kurt Neumann uncredited
1949 The Fountainhead Director King Vidor uncredited
1949 Mr. Soft Touch Judge Fuller Henry Levin uncredited
1950 Unmasked Dr. Lowell George Blair
1950 When Willie Comes Marching Home Gen. Merrill John Ford uncredited
1950 A Woman of Distinction Jewelry Salesman Edward Buzzell uncredited
1950 Peggy Dean William Stockwell Frederick De Cordova
1951 The Texas Rangers Texas Governor Phil Karlson uncredited
1952 The Bushwackers Justin Stone Rod Amateau
1952 Hoodlum Empire Commissioner Garrison Joseph Kane uncredited
1957 The Wings of Eagles Adm. Crown John Ford uncredited
1958 The Last Hurrah Plymouth Club Member at Front Door John Ford uncredited

References

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  1. ^ a b Nunan, Thomas (September 3, 1916). "How a young architect with stage ambitions has achieved success". The San Francisco Examiner. California, San Francisco. p. 44. Retrieved January 26, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "It Seems He's Seen Life, as They Say". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. New York, Brooklyn. May 6, 1934. p. 54. Retrieved January 23, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.  
  3. ^ a b Feramisco, Thomas M. (2007). The Mummy Unwrapped: Scenes Left on Universal's Cutting Room Floor. McFarland. pp. 181–182. ISBN 978-0-7864-3734-4. Retrieved January 26, 2020.
  4. ^ R, Greg. "1920". Historic Elitch Theatre. Retrieved February 27, 2023.
  5. ^ "("Charles Trowbridge" search results)". Playbill Vault. Playbill. Retrieved January 24, 2017.
  6. ^ "("Charles Trowbridge" search results continued)". Playbill Vault. Playbill. Retrieved January 24, 2017.
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