Charles McGraw

Personal Info

Birthday

May 10, 1914

Day of Death

1980-07-29

(66 years old)

Place of Birth

Des Moines, Iowa, USA

Also Known As

Charles Butters

Charles Mc Graw

Чарльз Макгро

Charles Crisp Butters

Charles McGraw

Biography

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.

Known For

Dr. Kildare

The Virginian

Adam-12

Thriller

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Gunsmoke

Run for Your Life

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Filmography

1982
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
as (in "The Killers") (archive footage)
1979
The Horror Show
as (archive footage)
1977
Twilight's Last Gleaming
as Air Force Gen. Peter Crane
1976
The Killer Inside Me
as Howard Hendricks
Perilous Voyage
as Capt. Humphreys
1975
A Boy and His Dog
as Preacher
1973
Money to Burn
as Neil Davis
1972
The Longest Night
as Father Chase
The Night Stalker
as Police Chief Ed Masterson
1971
The Devil and Miss Sarah
as Marshal Duncan
Chandler
as Bernie Oakman
Johnny Got His Gun
as Mike Burkeman
O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra
as Agent Joe Flagg
1970
The Andersonville Trial
as Board of Military Judges
1969
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
as Wilson
Pendulum
as Deputy Chief John P. Hildebrand
1968
Hang 'em High
as Sheriff Ray Calhoun
1967
In Cold Blood
as Tex Smith
The Busy Body
as Fred Harwell
1964
Nightmare in Chicago
as Harry Brockman
1963
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
as Lt. Matthews
The Birds
as Sebastian Sholes
1962
The Horizontal Lieutenant
as Col. Charles Korotny
1960
Cimarron
as Bob Yountis
Spartacus
as Marcellus
1959
The Wonderful Country
as Dr. Stovall
The Man in the Net
as Sheriff Steve Ritter
1958
The Defiant Ones
as Capt. Frank Gibbons
Twilight for the Gods
as Yancy
Saddle the Wind
as Larry Venables
1957
Joe Dakota
as Cal Moore
Slaughter on 10th Avenue
as Lt. Anthony Vosnick
Joe Butterfly
as Sgt. Jim McNulty
1956
The Cruel Tower
as Harry 'Stretch' Clay
Toward the Unknown
as Col. 'Mickey' McKee
Away All Boats
as Lieut. Mike O'Bannion
1954
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
as Cmdr. Wayne Lee
Loophole
as Gus Slavin
1953
Thunder Over the Plains
as Ben Westman
War Paint
as Sgt. Clarke
1952
One Minute to Zero
as Sfc. Baker
The Narrow Margin
as Det. Sgt. Walter Brown
1951
Roadblock
as Joe Peters
His Kind of Woman
as Thompson / Narrator
Double Crossbones
as Capt. Ben Wickett
1950
Armored Car Robbery
as Lt. Jim Cordell
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
as Shotgun Mike Munger
Side Street
as Det. Stan Simon
1949
The Threat
as Arnold 'Red' Kluger
The Story of Molly X
as Police Capt. Breen
Border Incident
as Jeff Amboy
Reign of Terror
as Sergeant
Once More, My Darling
as Herman Schmelz
1948
Blood on the Moon
as Milo Sweet
Hazard
as Chick
Berlin Express
as Colonel Johns
The Hunted
as Detective
1947
T-Men
as Moxie
The Gangster
as Dugas
Roses Are Red
as Duke Arno
On the Old Spanish Trail
as Harry Blaisdell
The Long Night
as Policeman Stevens
The Big Fix
as Armiston
The Farmer's Daughter
as Fisher - Finley's Henchman (uncredited)
1946
The Killers
as Al
1944
The Impostor
as Menessier
1943
The Mad Ghoul
as Detective Garrity
Corvette K-225
as Chief Engineer
Destroyer
as Assistant Chief Engineer (uncredited)
Two Tickets to London
as Hendrik (uncredited)
They Came to Blow Up America
as Zellerbach
The Moon Is Down
as Ole (uncredited)
1942
The Undying Monster
as Strud Strudwick (uncredited)