Charles West
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia Charles West (November 30, 1885 – October 10, 1943) was an American film actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 300 films between 1908 and 1937. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and died in Los Angeles, California.
Born: November 29, 1885
Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Known For
The Grapes of Wrath
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
Polly of the Storm Country
Polly Hopkins belongs to a family of squatters living in Silent City. The poor squatters are constantly at odds with the wealthy "hilltoppers," but Polly's grandmother has gone against popular opinion by teaching Polly to love everybody. Polly keeps the faith, even when her sister's husband is railroaded into jail.
Duck Soup
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
The Prisoner of Shark Island
After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865, during a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington; Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.
The Unchanging Sea
In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young couple's happy life is turned about by an accident. The husband, although saved from drowning, loses his memory. A child is on the way, and soon a daughter is born to his wife. We watch the passage of time, as his daughter matures and his wife ages. The daughter becomes a lovely young woman, herself ready for marriage. One day on the beach, the familiarity of the sea and the surroundings triggers a return of her father's memory, and we are reminded that although people age and change, the sea and the ways of the fisherfolk remain eternal.
The Road to Yesterday
Malena's apparent frigidity toward her husband Kenneth is a result of injustice done in an earlier incarnation when he was a knight and she was a gypsy headed for burning at the stake. This becomes evident when their unconscious minds travel back from a train wreck in the American plains to Elizabethan England.
A Child's Impulse
Mrs. Thurston, a socially ambitious widow, is holding one of her famous Bohemian parties. To these functions are invited the leading lights of the several professions, actors, artists, musicians, etc. Surrounded by these men and women of art and letters, she was at first entertained, but they soon palled and bored. On this evening in particular, she is especially possessed of ennui, until the appearance of Raymond Hartley, a wealthy young bachelor, who is introduced into the circle by a newspaper man. An attachment immediately springs up between the widow and Raymond.
Go and Get It
Wrestling legend Bull Montana plays a murderous gorilla with a human brain transplant who is tracked by a feisty newspaper reporter.
Along Came Youth
Broke and stranded in England, American sportsman Larry Brooks and his pal Ambrose take on increasingly odd jobs to remain in proximity to the aristocratic lady that Larry would woo.
Revenge
Easterner Alva Leigh arrives in the mining town of Magnet just after her fiancé, Donald Jaffray, has been murdered. Because Alva has sworn vengeance, "Sudden" Duncan, the real murderer, accuses Donald's partner, Dick Randall, of the crime. Knowing that Dick is planning a journey across the desert, Duncan fills his canteen with poison, but Alva, who also is determined to kill Dick, drills a hole in the canteen so that the water will drain out. After Dick's departure, Alva learns from "Tiger Lil'," who is jealous of Duncan's attention to the Eastern newcomer, that it was Duncan who killed Donald. Frantic, Alva immediately mounts a horse and rides into the desert to save the man she now recognizes as her true love. Tiger Lil' shoots Duncan in a dance hall quarrel, and Alva marries Dick.
Filmography
as Migrant (uncredited)
as Washington (DC) Citizen (uncredited)
as Gorman
as Minister (uncredited)
as Harry
as Informant
as Dad Tracy
as Chauffeur (uncredited)
as Joe
as McManus
as No. 1
as Valet
as Bowker
as Harron
as Edward Kimm (prologue)
as Eddie Graham
as Watt Earnshaw
as Allen Keane
as Detective
as 'Spider' Welch
as Al Keeley
as The Conductor
as Jimmy Watson
as Member of the Jury (uncredited)
as Maj. Brant
as Herbert Welch
as Jimmy Munroe
as Slim Hogan
as Oscar Bennett
as Peter Kirkstone
as Rufus Couch
as Harvey Kirkland
as Undetermined Role
as Jack Holiday
as Chester Naismith
as Paul Holmquist
as Walter Cosgrove
as Donald Jaffray
as Philadelphia Johnson
as Tip Morgan
as George Drake
as Ben Carden
as Fleming
as 'English' Hal
as Jack Morgan
as Jack Murray
as William Burton
as William Jones
as The Half-Breed
as Steve Montieth
as Lieutenant Quinnox
as Second Counterfeiter
as Stephen's Ward's Husband
as On Street
as The Outlaw
as The Prospector
as Racing Spectator (as Charles H. West)
as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
as Dick Logan
as The Go-Between
as Poor Husband
as The Miner (as Charles H. West)
as Blue Grass Pete
as The Waiter
as The Poor Woman's Brother - the Neurasthenic Worker
as Bartender
as Tom - The Little Mender's Sweetheart
as The Son
as Police
as A Thug
as Dave
as The Boy
as Ned
as The suitor
as The partner
as Jim
as Waiter
as Supporting Character
as John Lawson Jr.
as Man at Farewell
as John Watson
as In First Bar
as Lionel - Julian's Rival
as Harry - the Summer Boarder
as The Chief of Police's Son (as an adult)
as Bud Miller
as Aristocrat
as Suitor
as Agnes's First Suitor
as John Rogers
as A Farmer (uncredited)
as Raymond Hartley
as Young father
as The Proprietor's Son
as Steve
as Man in Chapel
as A Suitor / A Mexican
as Footman
as The Daughter's Sweetheart
as Son-in-Law
as Soldier / Governor's Servant
as Harry
as Bank Teller
as Conqueror
as Will