Charles Bickford
The Big Country (1958)
The Big Country is a 1958 American epic Western film directed by William Wyler, starring Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, and Burl Ives. The supporting cast features Charles Bickford and Chuck Connors. Filmed in Technicolor and Technirama, the picture was based on the serialized magazine novel Ambush at Blanco Canyon by D...
Starring: Kathryn Grant•Raymond Hatton•Lenore Ulric•Edmund Lowe•Adolphe Menjou•Ann Dvorak•Irene Rich
Mister Cory (1957)
Mister Cory is a 1957 American CinemaScope film noir directed by Blake Edwards and starring Tony Curtis, Martha Hyer, Charles Bickford and Kathryn Grant.
Starring: Kathryn Grant•James Mason•Victor McLaglen•Victor Varconi
You Can't Run Away from It (1956)
You Can't Run Away from It is a 1956 musical comedy directed and produced by Dick Powell and starring June Allyson and Jack Lemmon. The film is a remake of the 1934 Academy Award-winning film It Happened One Night. The supporting cast features Charles Bickford, Jim Backus, Stubby Kaye, Jack Albertson and Howard McNear. It Happened One Night had als...
Starring: Kathryn Grant•John Boles•Mary Brian
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell is a 1955 American CinemaScope biographical drama film directed by Otto Preminger, and starring Gary Cooper and co-starring Charles Bickford, Ralph Bellamy, Rod Steiger, and Elizabeth Montgomery in her film debut. The film is based on the notorious 1925 court-martial of General Billy Mitchell, who is considered a...
Starring: Clifton Webb•Kathryn Grant•Greta Garbo•Lois Moran
A Star Is Born (1954)
A Star Is Born is a 1954 American musical drama film directed by George Cukor, written by Moss Hart, and starring Judy Garland and James Mason. Hart's screenplay is an adaptation of the original 1937 film, based on the original screenplay by Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell, and from the same story by William A. Wellman and Carson, w...
Starring: Gary Cooper•Kathryn Grant•Nils Asther•Frank Albertson•Joel McCrea
Elopement (1951)
Elopement is a 1951 American comedy film directed by Henry Koster and starring Clifton Webb, Anne Francis, Charles Bickford and William Lundigan.
Starring: Raquel Torres•Kathryn Grant•Kay Francis•Joan Bennett
Jim Thorpe – All-American (1951)
Jim Thorpe – All-American is a 1951 American biographical film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Burt Lancaster as Jim Thorpe, the great Native American athlete who won medals at the 1912 Olympics and distinguished himself in various sports, both in college and on professional teams.
Starring: Kathryn Grant•Helen Twelvetrees•Helen Chandler
Branded (1950)
Branded is a 1950 American Technicolor Western film starring Alan Ladd, Mona Freeman, Charles Bickford, and Robert Keith. It was adapted from the novel Montana Rides by Max Brand under pen name Evan Evans. A gunfighter on the run from the law is talked into posing as the long-lost son of a wealthy rancher.
Starring: Kathryn Grant•Frances Dee•Irene Dunne
Guilty of Treason (1950)
Guilty of Treason is a 1950 American drama film directed by Felix E. Feist and starring Charles Bickford, Bonita Granville and Paul Kelly. Also known by the alternative title Treason, it is an anti-communist and anti-Soviet film about the story of József Mindszenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary. Mindszenty spoke out against the Nazi occup...
Starring: Kathryn Grant•Evalyn Knapp
Whirlpool (1950)
Whirlpool is a 1950 American film noir thriller directed by Otto Preminger and written by Ben Hecht and Andrew Solt, adapted from the 1946 novel Methinks the Lady... by Guy Endore. The film stars Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, José Ferrer and Charles Bickford, and features Constance Collier in her final film role. Its plot follows the insomniac wife ...
Starring: Kathryn Grant•Lupita Tovar•Constance Cummings•Helen Vinson
The Babe Ruth Story (1948)
The Babe Ruth Story is a 1948 biographical film of Babe Ruth, the famed New York Yankees slugger. It stars William Bendix as the ballplayer and Claire Trevor as his wife Claire Merritt Hodgson. Critics faulted the film's heavy-handedness and direction, and it is said by many to be one of the worst films ever made.
Starring: Kathryn Grant•Phyllis Thaxter•Jean Parker
Four Faces West (1948)
Four Faces West is a 1948 American Western film starring Joel McCrea, his real-life wife Frances Dee, and Charles Bickford. It is based on the novel Pasó por aquí by Eugene Manlove Rhodes. Its plot concerns a down-on-his-luck cowboy who robs a bank. For its genre the film is unusual in that not a single shot is ever fired.
Starring: Florence Rice•Kathryn Grant•Barton MacLane
The Woman on the Beach (1947)
The Woman on the Beach is a 1947 film noir directed by Jean Renoir and starring Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan and Charles Bickford. It was released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film is a love triangle drama about Scott, a conflicted U.S. Coast Guard officer (Ryan), and his pursuit of Peggy, a married woman (Bennett). Peggy is married to Tod, a blind form...
Starring: Mady Christians•Kathryn Grant•Henry Fonda
Burma Convoy (1941)
Burma Convoy is a 1941 film about a truck convoy on the Burma Road directed by Noel M. Smith and starring Charles Bickford and Evelyn Ankers.
Starring: Kathryn Grant•Nan Grey•Gladys Swarthout
Girl from God's Country (1940)
Girl from God's Country is a 1940 American drama film directed by Sidney Salkow and written by Malcolm Stuart Boylan, Robert Lee Johnson and Elizabeth Meehan. The film stars Chester Morris, Jane Wyatt, Charles Bickford, Ray Mala, Kate Drain Lawson and John Bleifer. The film was released on July 30, 1940, by Republic Pictures.
Starring: Bonita Granville•Kathryn Grant•Wayne Morris
Queen of the Yukon (1940)
Queen Of The Yukon is a 1940 American Western film. The film is an adaptation of Jack London's story. Filming took place in Big Bear Lake, California.
Starring: Luli Deste•Kathryn Grant•William Lundigan
South to Karanga (1940)
South to Karanga is a 1940 American action adventure film directed by Harold D. Schuster starring James Craig, Luli Deste and Charles Bickford.
Starring: Kathryn Grant•Alan Ladd•James Craig
Romance of the Redwoods (1939)
Romance of the Redwoods is a 1939 American adventure film directed by Charles Vidor and starring Charles Bickford, Jean Parker and Gordon Oliver. It is based on the 1899 short story The White Silence by Jack London.
Starring: Kathryn Grant•Evelyn Ankers
Gangs of New York (1938)
Gangs of New York is a 1938 American film directed by James Cruze and written by Samuel Fuller.
Starring: Cecil Kellaway•Kathryn Grant
The Storm (1938)
The Storm is a 1938 American action film directed by Harold Young and written by Theodore Reeves, Daniel Moore and Hugh King. The film stars Charles Bickford, Barton MacLane, Preston Foster, Tom Brown, Nan Grey, Andy Devine, Frank Jenks and Samuel S. Hinds. The film was released on October 28, 1938, by Universal Pictures.
Starring: Kathryn Grant•Robert Ryan•Richard Conte
Valley of the Giants (1938)
Valley of the Giants is a 1938 American Technicolor adventure film directed by William Keighley, written by Seton I. Miller and Michael Fessier, and starring Wayne Morris, Claire Trevor, Frank McHugh, Alan Hale Sr., Donald Crisp, and Charles Bickford. It is based on the novel The Valley of the Giants by Peter B. Kyne. The film was released by Warne...
Starring: Kathryn Grant•Phyllis Thaxter•Mona Freeman
Thunder Trail (1937)
Thunder Trail is a 1937 American Western film directed by Charles Barton, written by Robert Yost and Stuart Anthony, and starring Gilbert Roland, Charles Bickford, Marsha Hunt, J. Carrol Naish, James Craig and Monte Blue. The film, based on the Zane Grey story Arizona Ames, was released on October 22, 1937, by Paramount Pictures.
Starring: Burt Lancaster•Kathryn Grant•Tony Curtis
Pride of the Marines (1936)
Pride of the Marines is a 1936 American comedy film directed by D. Ross Lederman.
Starring: Kathryn Grant•Charlton Heston
Rose of the Rancho (1936)
Rose of the Rancho is a 1936 American action film directed by Marion Gering and written by Frank Partos, Charles Brackett, Nat Perrin and Arthur Sheekman, adapted from the play of the same name by David Belasco and Richard Walton Tully. The film stars John Boles, Gladys Swarthout, Charles Bickford, Grace Bradley, Willie Howard and Herb Williams. It...
Starring: Jean Simmons•Kathryn Grant•Anne Francis
East of Java (1935)
East of Java is a 1935 American drama film directed by George Melford and starring Charles Bickford, Elizabeth Young and Frank Albertson.
Starring: Chuck Connors•Kathryn Grant•Rod Steiger
The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935)
The Farmer Takes a Wife is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Victor Fleming, written by Edwin J. Burke, and starring Janet Gaynor, Henry Fonda and Charles Bickford. It is based on the 1934 Broadway play The Farmer Takes a Wife by Marc Connelly and Frank B. Elser, with Fonda reprising his stage role as the farmer. The film was released on Augu...
Starring: Tommy Noonan•Kathryn Grant•Carroll Baker
A Notorious Gentleman (1935)
A Notorious Gentleman is a 1935 American drama film directed by Edward Laemmle and written by Leopold Atlas, Rufus King and Robert Tasker. The film stars Charles Bickford, Helen Vinson, Onslow Stevens, Dudley Digges, Sidney Blackmer and John Darrow. The film was released on January 21, 1935, by Universal Pictures. The film was remade in 1946 as Smo...
Starring: Kathryn Grant•Marie Dressler
Under Pressure (1935)
Under Pressure is a 1935 American drama film directed by Raoul Walsh, written by Borden Chase, Lester Cole and Noel Pierce, and starring Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Florence Rice, Marjorie Rambeau, Charles Bickford and Sig Ruman. It was released on February 1, 1935, by Fox Film Corporation.
Starring: Raymond Hatton•Lenore Ulric•Kathryn Grant
Little Miss Marker (1934)
Little Miss Marker is an American Pre-Code 1934 comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Hall. It was written by William R. Lipman, Sam Hellman, and Gladys Lehman after a 1932 short story of the same name by Damon Runyon. It stars Shirley Temple, Adolphe Menjou and Dorothy Dell in a story about a young girl held as collateral by gangsters. It was Te...
Starring: Edmund Lowe•Kathryn Grant•Adolphe Menjou
A Wicked Woman (1934)
A Wicked Woman is a 1934 drama film directed by Charles Brabin and starring Mady Christians as a woman who kills her abusive husband to protect her family and builds a new life to raise their four children. The film also stars Jean Parker and Charles Bickford. It was based on the novel Wicked Woman by Anne Austin.
Starring: Kathryn Grant•Evelyn Ankers•Tallulah Bankhead
No Other Woman (1933)
No Other Woman is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic melodrama film starring Irene Dunne, and featuring Charles Bickford, Gwili Andre and Eric Linden. It was directed by J. Walter Ruben from a screenplay by Wanda Tuchock and Bernard Schubert based on the play Just a Woman by Eugene Walter, which ran for 136 performances on Broadway in 1916, and was ...
Starring: Kathryn Grant•Victor McLaglen
Song of the Eagle (1933)
Song of the Eagle is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Ralph Murphy and starring Charles Bickford, Richard Arlen, Mary Brian and Jean Hersholt. It was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Its release coincided with the ongoing repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment that had outlawed alcohol.
Starring: Victor Varconi•Mary Brian•Kathryn Grant
This Day and Age (1933)
This Day and Age is a 1933 American pre-Code film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Charles Bickford and Richard Cromwell. It is one of his rarest films and has been released on home video through the Universal Pictures Vault Series DVD collection.
Starring: Kathryn Grant•Greta Garbo
The Last Man (1932)
The Last Man is a 1932 American mystery film directed by Howard Higgin and starring Charles Bickford, Constance Cummings and Alec B. Francis.
Starring: Kathryn Grant•Lois Moran
Panama Flo (1932)
Panama Flo is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Ralph Murphy and written by Garrett Fort. The film stars Helen Twelvetrees, Robert Armstrong, Charles Bickford, Marjorie Peterson and Maude Eburne. The film was released on January 19, 1932, by RKO Pictures.
Starring: Richard Arlen•Kathryn Grant
Scandal for Sale (1932)
Scandal for Sale is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Russell Mack and starring Charles Bickford, Rose Hobart and Pat O'Brien. The film's sets were designed by the art director Charles D. Hall.
Starring: Kathryn Grant•Kay Johnson
Thunder Below (1932)
Thunder Below is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Richard Wallace, written by Sidney Buchman and Josephine Lovett, and starring Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Bickford, Paul Lukas, Eugene Pallette, Ralph Forbes and Leslie Fenton. It was released on June 17, 1932, by Paramount Pictures.
Starring: Raquel Torres•Kathryn Grant
Vanity Street (1932)
Vanity Street is a 1932 American Pre-Code crime drama film directed by Nick Grinde and starring Charles Bickford, Helen Chandler and Mayo Methot.
Starring: Kay Francis•Kathryn Grant
East of Borneo (1931)
East of Borneo is a 1931 American Pre-Code adventure film directed by George Melford, co-written by Edwin H. Knopf and Dale Van Every, starring Rose Hobart, Charles Bickford, Georges Renavent, Lupita Tovar, and Noble Johnson, and released by Universal Studios.
Starring: Kathryn Grant•Kay Johnson•Helen Twelvetrees
Men in Her Life (1931)
Men in Her Life is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by William Beaudine and starring Lois Moran, Charles Bickford and Victor Varconi. It was based on a 1930 novel by Warner Fabian. It was made during a brief spell Beaudine had working at Columbia Pictures. Critics considered the film one of the studio's better B releases. Part of the fi...
Starring: Helen Chandler•Irene Dunne•Kathryn Grant
Anna Christie (1930)
Anna Christie is a 1930 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pre-Code tragedy film adaptation of the 1921 play of the same name by Eugene O'Neill. It was adapted by Frances Marion, produced and directed by Clarence Brown with Paul Bern and Irving Thalberg as co-producers. The cinematography was by William H. Daniels, the art direction by Cedric Gibbons and the cost...
Starring: Rose Hobart•Evalyn Knapp•Kathryn Grant
Hell's Heroes (1930)
Hell's Heroes is a 1929 American pre-Code Western sound film, one of many screen adaptations of Peter B. Kyne's 1913 novel The Three Godfathers.
Starring: Richard Cromwell•Kathryn Grant
Passion Flower (1930)
Passion Flower is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed and produced by William C. deMille and starring Kay Francis, Kay Johnson and Charles Bickford in a romantic triangle. This production includes actor Ray Milland's American screen debut, although his appearance as a party guest is uncredited.
Starring: Lupita Tovar•Constance Cummings•Kathryn Grant
River's End (1930)
River's End is a 1930 American Pre-Code Western film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Charles Bickford and Evalyn Knapp. Bickford plays two roles, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) sergeant and the man he is after. The film is the second of three adaptations of the bestselling novel The River's End by James Oliver Curwood, the others be...
Starring: Kathryn Grant•Helen Vinson
The Sea Bat (1930)
The Sea Bat is a 1930 American pre-Code melodrama thriller film directed by Lionel Barrymore and Wesley Ruggles, starring Raquel Torres, Charles Bickford and featuring Boris Karloff. Part of the film was filmed on location in Mazatlán, Mexico. The film was originally intended as a vehicle for Lon Chaney, but he was too ill from throat cancer to und...
Starring: Shirley Temple•Mady Christians•Kathryn Grant
South Sea Rose (1929)
South Sea Rose is a 1929 American comedy-drama film distributed by the Fox Film Corporation and produced and directed by Allan Dwan. This picture was Dwan's second collaboration with star Lenore Ulric, their first being Frozen Justice. Much of the cast and crew on Frozen Justice returned for this film.
Starring: Lenore Ulric•Kathryn Grant