Add/Update Information: Charles Boyer - Actor

French actor born in Figeac, Lot, France on August 28, 1899. He received a Bachelor of Philosophy from the Sorbonne University before working in the theater. He made his debut in L'homme du Large (1920). He was married to Pat Paterson (1934-1978) and had one son who killed himself. He's known for Algiers (1938), Gaslight (1944), and Barefoot in the Park (1967). He won an Academy Honorary Award in 1943, and was nominated four times for an Oscar. At the beginning of his artistic life, he worked all over Europe in silent cinema, then he moved to Hollywood. He obtained the American citizenship in 1942, and mastered the English, French, Spanish, Italian and German language. He died on August 26, 1978 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, by taking a lethal dose of sedatives two days after his wife's death.