Biographies: Charles Bickford - Actor

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American actor born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA on January 1, 1891. He received the NBR Award in 1955 for the movie Not as a Stranger (1955). He received two stars on the Walk of Fame in 1960 for his work in film and television. In 1963, he won the Golden Laurel Award for Days of Wine and Roses (1962). He married Beatrice Ursula Allen (1916-1967) with whom he had a daughter and a son; he remained with her until his death. Among his most important works: The Song of Bernadette (1943), A Star Is Born (1954), and The Virginian (1962). He was tried and acquitted at the age of nine for attempting to kill a car driver who ran over his dog by shooting him. He worked on farms as a lumberjack and investment promoter, and for a short time his teenage years. He ran a pest-extermination business. He left for San Francisco and established a romantic relationship with a comedian who partnered with her in films as a performer. He then worked for years in touring theater groups until he settled in Broadway theaters, where Cecil B. DeMille watched him and assigned him a role in the movie Dynamite (1929). He signed a contract with MGM, but was blacklisted by film companies for being too argumentative, which made him work for several years as an independent actor in freelance films. He continued working in prestigious films until his death in 1967. He owned a poultry farm, a pig farm, a gas station, a car garage, two whaling boats, a partner in a pearling boat, a lingerie store, and a coconut farm on the Indonesian island of Java. He died on November 9, 1967 (age 76) in Los Angeles, California, USA.

• 13 March 2022
• Christina Aziz