Charles McAvoy
Acting
Biography
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Born: April 2, 1885
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known For
Hazard
A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before he can collect, she skips town, with a private detective hot on her trail.
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
Lady for a Day
Apple Annie is an aging New York City fruit seller whose daughter Louise has been raised in a Spanish convent since she was an infant. As she grows up, Louise is led to believe that her mother is a society matron called Mrs. E. Worthington Manville. Annie worries that her lie is in danger of being uncovered when she learns that Louise is sailing to New York with her new fiancé and his nobleman father.
King of the Turf
Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of one of his jockeys. One day he meets Goldie who has run away from home, hoping to find a job around horses; his biggest hobby. When he finds out the real identity of Mason, Goldie takes care of him. The two find an occasion to buy a horse for only two dollars, and start entering competitions. Goldie is an instant celebrity, but his mom reads the newspapers and tracks him down. Mason is very surprised to see her, his ex-wife, and even more astonished to hear that Goldie is his own son. However, Goldie must go back to school and so they decide to keep the secret. Since Goldie does not want to leave Mason behind, he goes to the bookies and fixes the next race, hoping to disappoint Goldie by asking him to lose on purpose.
The Defense Rests
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
The Dark Mirror
A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure out which one's the killer.
The Great McGinty
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
No Way Out
Two hoodlum brothers are brought into hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one dies, the other accuses their Black doctor of murder.
Let Us Live
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
Rhythm on the River
Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both writers meet at an inn, they fall in love and then try to sell their songs under their own name. The problem is every song publisher thinks they're copying Courtney's style.
Filmography
as Counterman (uncredited)
as Riley (uncredited)
as Electrician (uncredited)
as Policeman (uncredited)
as Mr. Soper
as Cop in L.A. (uncredited)
as Homesteader (uncredited)
as Janitor O'Brien (uncredited)
as Leonard, the Guard
as Tool Attendant / Railroad Conductor
as Minor Role
as Cop (uncredited)
as Officer McAvoy (uncredited)
as Second Charles Miller (uncredited)
as Cop
as Police Guard at Chandler's Gate
as Miner (uncredited)
as Turnkey (uncredited)
as Officer Riley (Uncredited)
as Man in Fez
as Policeman (uncredited)
as Policeman (uncredited)
as Train Announcer
as Guard (uncredited)
as Police Officer
as Police Guard at Rand's
as O'Brien
as Sergeant
as Prison Official (uncredited)
as Railwayman (uncredited)
as Death Row Guard (uncredited)
as Cop Escort (uncredited)
as Policeman
as Miner
as Guard
as Father (Uncredited)
as Policeman (uncredited)
as Officer Jones
as Officer Rooney (uncredited)
as Lacy's Henchman (uncredited)
as Mr. Selby
as Prison Guard (uncredited)
as Cop
as Plainclothesman
as Prison Guard Kelly (uncredited)
as Detective
as Cop
as Guard
as Policeman
as Ben (uncredited)
as 'Trim' Fuller
as Steel Worker (uncredited)
as Lieutenant Parker
as Detective
as Waiter (uncredited)
as Detective (uncredited)
as Detective (uncredited)
as Cop (uncredited)
as Lookout
as Guard (uncredited)
as Mr. Black - Orderly (uncredited)
as Prison Guard
as Henry - Jackie's Dad (uncredited)
as Minor Role (uncredited)
as Man whose son is splattered (uncredited)