Charles Winninger

Actor

About

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Birth Place

Athens, Wisconsin, USA

Born

May 26, 1884

Died

January 19, 1969

Filmography

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The Miracle of Santa's White Reindeer (1963)

Las Vegas Shakedown (1955)

The Sun Shines Bright (1953)

Judge William "Billy" Pittman Priest

Champ for a Day (1953)

Torpedo Alley (1953)

Oliver J. Peabody

Photos & Videos

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Father Was A Bachelor (1950) -- (Movie Clip) I Kinda Steer Clear Of Houses

Beyond Tomorrow (1940) -- (Movie Clip) The Soul Of Man Is Immortal

Family & Companions

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Gertrude Walker

Wife

Actor. Second wife; survived him.

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Miracle of Santa's White Reindeer (1963)

Las Vegas Shakedown (1955)

The Sun Shines Bright (1953)

Judge William "Billy" Pittman Priest

Champ for a Day (1953)

Torpedo Alley (1953)

Oliver J. Peabody

A Perilous Journey (1953)

Captain Eph Allan

Father Is a Bachelor (1950)

Professor Mordecai Ford

Give My Regards to Broadway (1948)

The Inside Story (1948)

Living in a Big Way (1947)

D. Rutherford Morgan

Something in the Wind (1947)

Lover Come Back (1946)

She Wouldn't Say Yes (1945)

State Fair (1945)

Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944)

Dudley "Granfeathers" Osborne

Broadway Rhythm (1944)

Belle of the Yukon (1944)

Flesh and Fantasy (1943)

Hers to Hold (1943)

A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)

Coney Island (1943)

Friendly Enemies (1942)

Ziegfeld Girl (1941)

"Pop" Gallagher

The Get-Away (1941)

Dr. Josiah Glass

My Life with Caroline (1941)

Pot O' Gold (1941)

C. J. [Charles] Haskell

My Love Came Back (1940)

Little Nellie Kelly (1940)

If I Had My Way (1940)

Beyond Tomorrow (1940)

Michael O'Brien

Babes in Arms (1939)

Barricade (1939)

Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939)

Destry Rides Again (1939)

Washington Dimsdale

Goodbye Broadway (1938)

Hard to Get (1938)

Every Day's a Holiday (1938)

Von Reighle Van Pelter Van Doon

Café Metropole (1937)

Joseph Ridgeway

Nothing Sacred (1937)

Dr. Enoch Downer

The Go Getter (1937)

Woman Chases Man (1937)

You're a Sweetheart (1937)

Cherokee Charlie

You Can't Have Everything (1937)

Three Smart Girls (1936)

Show Boat (1936)

Cap'n Andy Hawks

White Fang (1936)

Social Register (1934)

"Jonesie," also known as Uncle Jefferson Breene

Fighting Caravans (1931)

The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)

Husband's Holiday (1931)

Night Nurse (1931)

Gun Smoke (1931)

Bad Sister (1931)

Flying High (1931)

Children of Dreams (1931)

Dr. Joe Thompson

God's Gift to Women (1931)

Soup to Nuts (1930)

Summer Bachelors (1926)

The Canadian (1926)

Pied Piper Malone (1924)

Louie, the barber

Cast (Special)

The Philadelphia Story (1954)

Cast (Short)

Mister Gardenia Jones (1942)

How I Play Golf by Bobby Jones No. 2 "Chip Shots" (1931)

Life Events

1912

First Broadway acting role

1915

First film role in comedy short

Photo Collections

Three Smart Girls Grow Up - Publicity Stills

Here are a photos taken to help publicize Universal Pictures' Mad About Music (1939), starring Deanna Durbin, Nan Grey, and Helen Parrish. Publicity stills were specially-posed photos, usually taken off the set, for purposes of publicity or reference for promotional artwork.

Three Smart Girls Grow Up - Scene Stills

Here are some scene stills from Universal Pictures' Mad About Music (1939), starring Deanna Durbin, Nan Grey, and Helen Parrish.

Videos

Father Was A Bachelor (1950) -- (Movie Clip) I Kinda Steer Clear Of Houses After an opening scene singing in blackface in a minstrel-medicine show, in which his colleague (Charles Winninger) wound up jailed, Johnny (William Holden) takes up fishing and meets the Chalotte kids (Mary Jane Saunders, Gary Gray and Billy Gray, Warren and Wayne Farlow) in Father Was A Bachelor, 1950.

Beyond Tomorrow (1940) -- (Movie Clip) The Soul Of Man Is Immortal Quote from Benjamin Franklin, a city montage and the introduction of Harry Carey as Melton, C. Aubrey Smith as Major Chadwick, then joined by their more festive housemate and partner in their prosperous engineering firm, Charles Winninger as O’Brien, in Beyond Tomorrow, 1940, produced by the acclaimed cinematographer Lee Garmes.

Beyond Tomorrow (1940) -- (Movie Clip) It Rarely Seemed Like Christmas We’ve learned that housekeeper Tanya (Maria Ouspenskaya) is a refugee Russian noble, long part of the unrelated family household comprised of prosperous engineering-firm partners and roommates Chadwick (C. Aubrey Smith), Melton (Harry Carey) and O’Brien (Charles Winninger), on Christmas Eve, in Beyond Tomorrow, 1940.

Beyond Tomorrow (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Somebody Here Lose A Wallet? Alone for Christmas Eve dinner, New York engineering-firm partners and bachelor roommates Melton, O’Brien and Chadwick (Harry Carey, Charles Winninger, C. Aubrey Smith) tried a bet to see who would return deliberately lost wallets containing ten dollars cash, producing first Richard Carlson, then Jean Parker, in Beyond Tomorrow, 1940.

Nothing Sacred (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Hello Hazel! Reporter Wally Cook (Fredric March) and Hazel Flagg (Carole Lombard) from Vermont, now famous for being near-death from radium poisoning, fly into New York City, in director William A. Wellman's Nothing Sacred, 1937.

Nothing Sacred (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Heroines Of History Hazel (Carol Lombard), who hasn't told anybody she's not really dying from radium poisoning, at her tribute dinner, influenced by other chemicals, with iffy support from reporter Wally (Fredric March), editor Oliver (Walter Connolly) and Dr. Downer (Charles Winninger) in Nothing Sacred, 1937.

Nothing Sacred (1937) -- (Movie Clip) I've Been Awfully Brave Tipsy Dr. Downer (Charles Winninger) casually informs Vermonter Hazel (Carole Lombard, her first scene) she isn't dying from radium poisoning after all, a fact she doesn't quite share with Wally (Fredric March), the New York reporter in town chasing her story, early in Nothing Sacred, 1937.

Night Nurse (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Good Name For A Nurse After a speedy ambulance ride, William A. Wellman keeps up the pace, pausing when heroine Barbara Stanwyck meets head nurse Dillon (Vera Lewis), who lacks the sense to hire her, before surgeon Bell (Charles Winninger) gets snared, in Night Nurse, 1931, featuring Joan Blondell and Clark Gable.

Ziegfeld Girl (1941) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Always Chasing Rainbows Susie (Judy Garland) working with "Pop" (Charles Winninger) on a song by Harry Carroll and Joe McCarthy, when roommate Sandra (Hedy Lamarr), colleague Sheila (Lana Turner) and little bro Jerry (Jackie Cooper) show up, getting ready to take the show on the road in MGM's Ziegfeld Girl, 1941.

Three Smart Girls (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Are They Like You, Dear? Penny, Kay and Joan (Deanna Durbin, Barbara Read, Nan Grey), who haven't seen their tycoon father (Charles Winninger) for ten years, have come from Europe to New York to stop him from marrying his gilrfriend (Binnie Barnes), in Universal's Three Smart Girls, 1936.

Three Smart Girls (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Someone To Care For Me Penny (Deanna Durbin), who, with older sisters (Nan Grey, Barbara Read) has come to New York to stop their long-separated tycoon father (Charles Winninger) from marrying his girlfriend, works in a song by Bronislau Kaper, Walter Jurmann and Gus Kahn, in Universal's Three Smart Girls, 1936.

Ziegfeld Girl (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Laugh? I Thought I'd Split My Sides Introduction of Judy Garland as anxious Susie, meeting just-recruited Sheila (Lana Turner) in the lobby of the great impresario, then knocking out a Roger Edens tune with her father (Charles Winninger), in MGM's all-star 1920's showbiz melodrama Ziegfeld Girl, 1941.

Companions

Gertrude Walker

Wife

Actor. Second wife; survived him.

Bibliography

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