Charles Groves
Acting
Biography
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Born: November 20, 1875
Place of Birth: Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
Known For
The Winslow Boy
In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
The Great Mr Handel
This classic film reveals how the great composer Georg Friedrich Handel rose above the personal anguish and difficulties in his life to create the sublime musical composition, The Messiah.
Out West with the Hardys
Judge Hardy goes to his friend's Arizona ranch to help her in a legal dispute, and he takes his family with him.
Love on the Dole
Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.
One Wild Oat
A lawyer's plan to break up his daughter's budding romance backfires when the boyfriend's father becomes involved.
Filmography
as Charles
as Clerk of the Court
as Old Man
as Al, a Ranchhand (uncredited)