Charles Winninger
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charles Winninger (May 26, 1884 – January 27, 1969) was an American stage and film actor, most often cast in comedies or musicals, but equally at home in dramas.
Born: May 25, 1884
Place of Birth: Athens, Wisconsin, USA
Known For
I Love Lucy
Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.
Father Is a Bachelor
Johnny Rutledge is a drifter who comes to and discovers a cabin in the forest where five kids: January, February, March, April, and May are living without parents. Their parents died a while ago, and they want to keep that secret from the townspeople, especially the young school teacher, Prudence Millett, to avoid being sent to a children's home and eventual separation. Johnny moves in with the kids and poses as their uncle to take care of them while romancing Prudence. But in order to keep the children, he has to get married.
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
Destry Rides Again
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.
Flesh and Fantasy
Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The second involves a psychic who predicts murder. The third is about a man who literally meets the girl of his dreams.
The Canadian
A couple undergo hardship homesteading in Alberta, where they are plagued by bad weather and financial woes.
Café Metropole
An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.
Give My Regards to Broadway
A family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play baseball. Musical.
Hers to Hold
Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin plays Penelope Craig, the starry-eyed daughter of wealthy Judson and Dorothy Craig (Charles Winninger, Nella Walker). Developing a crush on much-older playboy Bill Morley (Joseph Cotton), Penelope stops at nothing to land the elusive Morley as her husband. Highlights include Durbin's renditions of "Begin the Beguine" and the "Seguidilla" from Carmen, and a captivating sequence that includes highlights from Durbin's earlier films, presented as home movies!
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as R.J. Parsons
as Zoo Keeper
as Ernest Raff
as Terrence Costigan
as Oliver J. Peabody
as Pa Karlsen
as William Pittman Priest
as Captain Eph Allan
as Barney Kurtz
as Captain Henry Coffin
as Professor Mordecai Ford
as Self
as Albert Norwick
as Uncle Ed
as Uncle Chester Read
as D. Rutherford Morgan
as Pa Williams
as Doctor Lane
as Abel Frake
as Pop Candless
as Dudley 'Granfeathers' Osborne
as Sam Demming
as King Lamarr (segment 3)
as Waco
as Judson Craig
as Finnigan
as Karl Pfeiffer
as John Jones
as Mr. Bliss
as Doctor Josiah Glass
as 'Pop' Gallagher
as Charles 'C.J.' Haskell
as Michael Noonan
as Julius Malette
as Michael O'Brien
as Joe Johnson
as Samuel J. Cady
as Washington Dimsdale
as Joe Moran
as Judson Craig
as Benjamin B. Richards
as Pat Malloy
as Cherokee Charlie
as Van Reighle Van Pelter Van Doon
as Dr. Enoch Downer
as Sam Gordon
as Cappy Ricks
as B.J. Nolan
as Joseph Ridgeway
as Judson Craig
as Doc McFane
as Cap'n Andy Hawkes
as Jonesie
as Mr. Reid
as Dr. Brown
as Photographer
as Dr. Bell
as Dr. Joe Thompson
as Himself - Golfer
as John Churchill
as Tack Gillup
as Mr. Madison
as Marshall
as Otto Schmidt
as Preston Smith
as Pop Tyson
as Louie - The Barber