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Charles Drake

Charles Drake

Birthday: 1917-10-02 | Place of Birth: New York, City, New York, USA

Charles Drake (October 2, 1917 – September 10, 1994) was an American actor.Drake was born as Charles Ruppert in New York City. He graduated from Nichols College and became a salesman. In 1939, he turned to acting and signed a contract with Warner Brothers. He wasn't immediately successful. World War II interrupted his career; soon after his military service was complete, Drake returned to Hollywood in 1945, his contract with Warner Brothers ended. In the 1940s, he did some freelance work, like A Night in Casablanca. In 1949 he moved to Universal Studios. In 1955, Drake turned to television as one of the stock-company players on Robert Montgomery Presents and three years later he became the host of the British TV espionage weekly Rendezvous. In 1959, he starred in the Western film, No Name on the Bullet, where he played a doctor dedicated to saving a small town from a dangerous assassin. In 1967 he played the part of Oliver Greer in The Fugitive episode The One That Got Away. He played in 83 films between 1939 and 1975, including Scream, Pretty Peggy. More than 50 were dramas, but he also acted in comedies, science fiction, horror and film noir. He died on September 10, 1994 in East Lyme, Connecticut, aged 76. Description above from the Wikipedia article  Charles Drake, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1973
Scream, Pretty Peggy

as    George Thornton

1972
The Screaming Woman

as    Ken Bronson

1968
The Smugglers

as    Harry Miller

1968
The Money Jungle

as    Harvey Sheppard

1967
Valley of the Dolls

as    Kevin Gillmore

1965
Dear Heart

as    Frank Taylor

1965
The Third Day

as    Lawrence Conway

1961
Tammy Tell Me True

as    Buford Woodly

1959
No Name on the Bullet

as    Luke Canfield

1958
Step Down to Terror

as    Johnny Walters

1957
Until They Sail

as    Capt. Richard Bates

1955
To Hell and Back

as    Brandon

1955
All That Heaven Allows

as    Mick Anderson

1955
Female on the Beach

as    Police Lieutenant Galley

1954
The Glenn Miller Story

as    Don Haynes

1954
Tobor the Great

as    Dr. Ralph Harrison

1954
Four Guns to the Border

as    Sheriff Jim Flannery

1953
Gunsmoke

as    Johnny Lake

1953
War Arrow

as    Sgt. Luke Schermerhorn

1953
It Came from Outer Space

as    Sheriff Matt Warren

1952
The Treasure of Lost Canyon

as    Jim Anderson

1951
Air Cadet

as    Captain Sullivan

1951
Little Egypt

as    Oliver Doane

1951
You Never Can Tell

as    Perry Collins

1950
I Was a Shoplifter

as    Herb Klaxon

1950
Comanche Territory

as    Stacey Howard

1950
Winchester '73

as    Steve Miller

1949
Tarzan's Magic Fountain

as    Dodd

1947
The Pretender

as    Dr. Leonard Koster

1946
Winter Wonderland

as    Steve Kirk