Birthday
1914/05/10
Day of death
1980/07/29 (66 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Also know as
Charles Butters, Charles Mc Graw, Чарльз Макгро, Charles Crisp Butters
Charles McGraw (born Charles Butters) was an American stage, screen, and television actor. He developed into a leading man, especially in film noir classics during the late 1940s and early 1950s. His gravelly voice and rugged looks enhanced his appeal in the noir stylistic genre and provided him many roles as cops, military officers, and the such.
(1960) Spartacus
as Marcellus
(1963) The Birds
as Sebastian Sholes
(1975) A Boy and His Dog
as Preacher
(1968) Hang 'em High
as Sheriff Ray Calhoun
(1950) Armored Car Robbery
as Lt. Jim Cordell
(1958) The Defiant Ones
as Capt. Frank Gibbons
(1959) The Wonderful Country
as Dr. Stovall
(1963) It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
as Lt. Matthews
(1952) The Narrow Margin
as Det. Sgt. Walter Brown
(1982) Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
as (in "The Killers") (archive footage)
(1947) The Gangster
as Dugas
(1954) Loophole
as Gus Slavin
(1951) His Kind of Woman
as Thompson / Narrator
(1947) T-Men
as Moxie
(1949) Border Incident
as Jeff Amboy
(1949) Reign of Terror
as Sergeant
(1979) The Horror Show
as (archive footage)
(1951) Roadblock
as Joe Peters
(1954) The Bridges at Toko-Ri
as Cmdr. Wayne Lee
(1948) Berlin Express
as Colonel Johns
(1967) The Busy Body
as Fred Harwell
(1948) Blood on the Moon
as Milo Sweet
(1946) The Killers
as Al
(1969) Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
as Wilson
(1976) The Killer Inside Me
as Howard Hendricks
(1972) The Night Stalker
as Police Chief Ed Masterson
(1947) The Long Night
as Policeman Stevens
(1971) Johnny Got His Gun
as Mike Burkeman
(1956) The Cruel Tower
as Harry 'Stretch' Clay
(1959) The Man in the Net
as Sheriff Steve Ritter
(1948) The Hunted
as Detective
(1960) Cimarron
as Bob Yountis
(1950) Side Street
as Det. Stan Simon
(1967) In Cold Blood
as Tex Smith
(1956) Away All Boats
as Lieut. Mike O'Bannion
(1950) Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
as Shotgun Mike Munger
(1949) The Story of Molly X
as Police Capt. Breen
(1949) The Threat
as Arnold 'Red' Kluger
(1957) Slaughter on 10th Avenue
as Lt. Anthony Vosnick
(1944) The Impostor
as Menessier
(1951) Double Crossbones
as Capt. Ben Wickett
(1943) The Mad Ghoul
as Detective Garrity
(1977) Twilight's Last Gleaming
as Air Force Gen. Peter Crane
(1943) Two Tickets to London
as Hendrik (uncredited)
(1958) Saddle the Wind
as Larry Venables
(1971) Chandler
as Bernie Oakman
(1962) The Horizontal Lieutenant
as Col. Charles Korotny
(1953) War Paint
as Sgt. Clarke
(1947) Roses Are Red
as Duke Arno
(1964) Nightmare in Chicago
as Harry Brockman
(1956) Toward the Unknown
as Col. 'Mickey' McKee
(1952) One Minute to Zero
as Sfc. Baker
(1957) Joe Dakota
as Cal Moore
(1949) Once More, My Darling
as Herman Schmelz
(1971) The Devil and Miss Sarah
as Marshal Duncan
(1973) Money to Burn
as Neil Davis
(1957) Joe Butterfly
as Sgt. Jim McNulty
(1953) Thunder Over the Plains
as Ben Westman
(1969) Pendulum
as Deputy Chief John P. Hildebrand
(1943) They Came to Blow Up America
as Zellerbach
(1971) O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra
as Agent Joe Flagg
(1943) Destroyer
as Assistant Chief Engineer (uncredited)
(1948) Hazard
as Chick
(1943) The Moon Is Down
as Ole (uncredited)
(1970) The Andersonville Trial
as Board of Military Judges
(1947) The Farmer's Daughter
as Fisher - Finley's Henchman (uncredited)
(1947) On the Old Spanish Trail
as Harry Blaisdell
(1943) Corvette K-225
as Chief Engineer
(1972) The Longest Night
as Father Chase
(1958) Twilight for the Gods
as Yancy
(1976) Perilous Voyage
as Capt. Humphreys
(1947) The Big Fix
as Armiston
(1942) The Undying Monster
as Strud Strudwick (uncredited)
(1958) 77 Sunset Strip
as ---
(1964) Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
as ---
(1961) Cain's Hundred
as Earl Klegg
(1963) Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Harry Brockman
(1960) Route 66
as ---
(1973) Hawkins
as Capt. Bates
(1968) The Mod Squad
as ---
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Calvin
(1953) General Electric Theater
as ---
(1966) Mission: Impossible
as ---
(1972) Emergency!
as ---
(1959) Johnny Staccato
as ---
(1967) Ironside
as ---
(1961) 87th Precinct
as ---
(1965) The Wild Wild West
as ---
(1965) Run for Your Life
as Sam Bailey
(1968) The Outcasts
as ---
(1973) Police Story
as ---
(1962) The Virginian
as Big John Beldon
(1960) Thriller
as Sheriff Cliff Wrights
(1955) The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
as ---
(1972) Banyon
as ---
(1963) Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as ---
(1967) Judd for the Defense
as ---
(1967) Hondo
as ---
(1963) Grindl
as ---
(1961) Ben Casey
as ---
(1961) The New Breed
as Dr. Cameron Hill
(1959) The Detectives
as ---
(1954) The Whistler
as ---
(1952) Cavalcade of America
as Wilkie Bowman
(1963) The Lieutenant
as ---
(1955) Casablanca
as ---
(1954) Adventures Of The Falcon
as ---
(1961) Dr. Kildare
as Fred Rainey
(1971) The Smith Family
as Captain Hughes
(1952) Mr. & Mrs. North
as ---
(1971) Nichols
as Hansen
(1961) Dr. Kildare
as Dr. Kenneth Hasker
(1971) Nichols
as Luke
(1968) Adam-12
as Lars Lowell
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Dolen
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Squawman
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Forel
(1964) The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Jules Cutter
(1952) Cavalcade of America
as ---
(1968) Adam-12
as Rod Decker
(1963) Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Nick Stacy
(1971) Monty Nash
as Jeffers
(1967) Judd for the Defense
as Jim Larkin
(1962) The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Simon Oliver