Name:
Date of Birth:
Charles Trowbridge
10 January 1882
Charles Trowbridge played in 7 movies in the Comedy, Romance, Music, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, War, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Film-Noir, Thriller, Western genres.
Charles Trowbridge got succeed with average imdb rating 6.1.
This past master character and his younger brother, western actor 'Jack Rockwell (I)' (qv), were born to American parents south of the frontier in Vera Cruz, Mexico in 1882. Charles Trowbridge was cultivated in Napa, California and Hawaii, then studied benefit of his class at Stanford University. He forsook a thriving career as an architect in his twenties respecting stratum acting, receiving early training at the Alcazar Auditorium in San Francisco with 'Bert Lytell' (qv) and 'Bessie Barriscale... ' (qv). He then moved to New York where he earned a number of regional roles in the Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia areas before making his Broadway prostration with "The Marriage Game" in 1913. He proceeded to shape up his continue impressively with the plays "Daddy Hanker Legs" in 1914 and when it was revived in 1918, "The Cracked Wing (1920), "Craig's Wife (1925), "Ladies Leave" (1929) and "Dinner at Eight" (1933). He made a sampling of silents over the years as well, primarily in stagecraft, with _The Fight (1915)_ (qv), _Thais (1917/I)_ (qv) and _The Permanent Magdalene (1919)_ (qv) to name a occasional. After co-starring antithetical 'Corinne Griffith' (qv) in _Island Wives (1922)_ (qv), however, he was not seen again for nearly a decade. After a steady nourishment of Broadway plays, he was signed nigh Cardinal for oddball roles in conservative pictures and proceeded to stay the foremost stars. With his rangy build, arctic blue eyes, unripe gray hair and sober countenance, Trowbridge was particularly useful from the beginning to the end of the 1930s and 1940s in crime yarns, horrors and in rugged settings starting out with 'Gary Cooper (I)' (qv) and 'Carole Lombard (I)' (qv) in the emotional Thespian _I Lay hold of This Partner (1931)_ (qv). Trowbridge in the main adopted a friendly but quick, importunate demeanor as assorted doctors, judges, bankers, lawyers, military brass and even U.S. presidents. He appeared more readily indiscriminately in a bunch of "A" quality films including _Captains Courageous (1937)_ (qv), _Meet John Doe (1941)_ (qv), _Sergeant York (1941)_ (qv) and _Mildred Stir (1945)_ (qv), and in popular cliffhangers such as _Majesty of the Texas Rangers (1941)_ (qv), _Adventures of the Flying Cadets (1943)_ (qv) and _Captain America (1944)_ (qv). He often played well-meaning victims who died in the first reel, notably in horrors. His mould two films were unbilled bits, respect of 'John Ford (I)' (qv), in _The Wings of Eagles (1957)_ (qv) and _The Last Hurrah (1958)_ (qv). Retired thereafter, Trowbridge passed away a billion of years later at age 85.Read more Less
