Birthday
1877/06/18
Day of death
1961/08/30 (84 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Macon, Georgia, USA
Also know as
Charles Douville Coburn
Charles Douville Coburn (June 19, 1877 – August 30, 1961) was an American film and theatre actor. Best known for his work in comedies, Coburn received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for 1943's The More the Merrier. Coburn was born in Macon, Georgia, the son of Scotch-Irish Americans Emma Louise Sprigman (May 11, 1838 Springfield, Ohio – November 12, 1896 Savannah, Georgia) and Moses Douville Coburn (April 27, 1834 Savannah, Georgia – December 27, 1902 Savannah, Georgia). Growing up...Read more
(1953) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
as Sir Francis Beekman
(1941) The Lady Eve
as 'Colonel' Harrington
(1947) Lured
as Harley Temple
(1952) Monkey Business
as Oliver Oxley
(1947) The Paradine Case
as Sir Simon Flaquer
(1944) Together Again
as Jonathan Crandall Sr
(1949) Impact
as Lieutenant Quincy
(1939) In Name Only
as Richard Walker
(1943) Princess O'Rourke
as Uncle Holman
(1938) Vivacious Lady
as Mr. Morgan
(1942) George Washington Slept Here
as Stanley Menninger
(1953) Trouble Along the Way
as le Père Matthew William Burke
(1940) Three Faces West
as Dr. Karl Braun
(1939) Bachelor Mother
as J. B. Merlin
(1957) The Story of Mankind
as Hippocrates
(1949) The Gal Who Took the West
as General Michael O'Hara
(1954) The Long Wait
as Gardiner
(1945) Rhapsody in Blue
as Max Dreyfus
(1942) In This Our Life
as William Fitzroy
(1941) The Devil and Miss Jones
as John P. Merrick/Thomas Higgins
(1940) Edison, the Man
as General Powell
(1939) Idiot's Delight
as Dr. Hugo Waldersee
(1939) Made for Each Other
as Judge Joseph M. Doolittle
(1939) The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
as Gardner Hubbard
(1943) Heaven Can Wait
as Hugo Van Cleve
(1948) Green Grass of Wyoming
as Beaver Greenway
(1943) The More the Merrier
as Benjamin Dingle
(1960) Pepe
as Charles Coburn
(1942) Kings Row
as Henry Gordon
(1952) Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
as Samuel Fulton / John Smith
(1959) John Paul Jones
as Benjamin Franklin
(1948) B.F.'s Daughter
as Burton F. 'B.F.' Fulton
(1944) Wilson
as Professor Henry Holmes
(1935) The People's Enemy
as Judge
(1943) The Constant Nymph
as Charles Creighton
(1945) A Royal Scandal
as Nicolai Iiyitch
(1941) Our Wife
as Professor Drake
(1941) H.M. Pulham, Esq.
as John Pulham
(1945) Over 21
as Robert Drexel Gow
(1949) The Doctor and the Girl
as Dr. John Corday
(1939) Stanley and Livingstone
as Lord Tyce
(1946) The Green Years
as Alexander Gow
(1957) Town on Trial
as Dr. John Fenner
(1938) Lord Jeff
as Captain Briggs
(1950) Mr. Music
as Alex Conway
(1938) Of Human Hearts
as Dr. Charles Shingle
(1945) Shady Lady
as Col. John Appleby
(1957) How to Murder a Rich Uncle
as Uncle George Clitterbern
(1955) How To Be Very, Very Popular
as Dr. Tweed
(1954) The Rocket Man
as Mayor Ed Johnson
(1938) Yellow Jack
as Dr. Finlay
(1944) The Impatient Years
as William Smith
(1951) The Highwayman
as Lord Walters
(1956) The Power and the Prize
as Guy Eliot
(1941) Unexpected Uncle
as Seton Mansley
(1986) Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
as Self (from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes [1953]) (archive footage)
(1940) Florian
as Dr. Johannes Hofer
(1959) A Stranger in My Arms
as Vance Beasley
(1944) Knickerbocker Holiday
as Peter Stuyvesant
(1949) Everybody Does It
as Major Blair
(1940) Road to Singapore
as Joshua Mallon IV
(1959) The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker
as Grampa Pennypacker
(1997) Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
as Self (archive footage)
(1949) Yes Sir, That's My Baby
as Professor Jason Hartley
(1943) My Kingdom for a Cook
as Rudyard Morley
(1956) Around the World in Eighty Days
as Steamship Company Clerk
(1950) Peggy
as Professor Brookfield
(1950) Louisa
as Mr. Burnside
(1940) The Captain Is a Lady
as Captain Abe Peabody
(1946) Colonel Effingham's Raid
as Colonel Will Seaborn Effingham
(1963) Marilyn
as Sir Francis 'Piggy' Beekman (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1985) George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1976) It's Showtime
as Self (archive footage)
(1942) Breakdowns of 1942
as Self
(1954) December Bride
as ---
(1950) The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
(1948) Studio One
as Louis Hurst
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Pa Harrington
(1952) This Is Your Life
as Self
(1954) Studio 57
as ---
(1954) The George Gobel Show
as Self
(1948) The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
(1956) The Rosemary Clooney Show
as Self
(1950) What's My Line?
as Self