Charles Trowbridge

Charles Silas Richard Trowbridge (January 10, 1882 – October 30, 1967) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 230 films from 1915 to 1958 principally playing patrician authority figures.

Biography Trowbridge was born in Veracruz, Mexico, where his father served in the diplomatic corps of the United States and his grandfather was the American consul-general.

Trowbridge ran a coffee plantation in Hawaii and worked in architecture before venturing into acting.

In 1920, Trowbridge — with several Broadway credits — got his first credits as a Leading Man as part of Elitch Theatre's summer stock cast.

Trowbridge's Broadway credits include Dinner at Eight (1932), Ladies of Creation (1931), Congai (1928), The Behavior of Mrs. Crane (1927), We Never Learn (1927), Craig's Wife (1925), It All Depends (1925), The Backslapper (1924), The Locked Door (1924), Sweet Seventeen (1923), The Lullaby (1923), The Last Warning (1922), The Night Call (1921), Just Because (1921), The Broken Wing (1920), Why Worry? (1918), This Way Out (1917), Come Out of the Kitchen (1916) and Daddy Long Legs (1914).

Trowbridge made a career in Hollywood playing governors, generals, admirals, lawyers, bankers, commissioners, deans, ambassadors, senators, rectors, and other authority figures.

Death On October 30, 1967, Trowbridge died at age 85 in Los Angeles, California.

Filmography Year Film Role Director Notes 1915 The Fight Joe Keeler Prohibition Richard 'Dick' Larkin Sunday Jacky George W. Lederer The Siren's Song John Wayne/John Gray 1917 Thais Nicias 1919 The Eternal Magdalene Paul Bradshaw 1920 The Fortune Hunter Harry Kellogg Tom Terriss 1922 Island Wives Jimmy Webster Campbell 1931 Damaged Love Ned Indicott Honor Among Lovers Cunningham, Craig's Attorney Dorothy Arzner uncredited I Take This Woman Mr. Dowling Marion Gering The Secret Call Phil Roberts Silence Mallory Max Marcin 1935 Calm Yourself Mr. Lansell George B. Seitz The Murder Man District Attorney Tim Whelan uncredited Mad Love Dr. Marbeau Karl Freund uncredited Woman Wanted Assistant District Attorney George B. Seitz uncredited I Live My Life Minister at Wedding W. S. Van Dyke uncredited It's in the Air Alfred Drake Charles Reisner Rendezvous Secretary of War Baker William K. HowardSam Wood (uncredited) Whipsaw Doctor Treating Ross Sam Wood uncredited Last of the Pagans Mine Superintendent Richard Thorpe uncredited 1936 The Garden Murder Case Inspector Colby Edwin L. Marin Exclusive Story James Witherspoon Sr. George B. Seitz Wife vs. Secretary Hal Harrington Clarence Brown uncredited The Robin Hood of El Dorado Ramon de la Cuesta William A. Wellman The Great Ziegfeld Julian Mitchell Robert Z. Leonard uncredited Moonlight Murder Stage Manager Edwin L. Marin Absolute Quiet Doctor George B. Seitz uncredited Speed Doctor Attending Gadget Edwin L. Marin uncredited We Went to College President Tomlin Joseph Santley The Gorgeous Hussy Martin Van Buren Clarence Brown The Devil Is a Sissy Doctor Rowland Brown uncredited Libeled Lady Graham Jack Conway Mad Holiday Ship's Doctor George B. Seitz uncredited Love on the Run Paris Bureau Chief W.S. Van Dyke uncredited Born to Dance Model Home Spokesman Roy Del Ruth uncredited Sinner Take All Coroner Errol Taggart uncredited After the Thin Man Ballistics Man W. S. Van Dyke uncredited 1937 Dangerous Number Hotel Manager Richard Thorpe Man of the People Man at Hearing Edwin L. Marin uncredited Mama Steps Out American Consul George B. Seitz uncredited Espionage Doyle Kurt Neumann They Gave Him a Gun Judge W. S. Van Dyke The Thirteenth Chair Dr. Mason George B. Seitz Captains Courageous Dr. Dick Walsh Victor Fleming uncredited A Day at the Races Dr. Wilmerding Sam Wood uncredited Reported Missing H. M. Hastings Milton Carruth uncredited Sea Racketeers Maxwell Gordon Hamilton MacFadden That Certain Woman Dr. James Edmund Goulding Fit for a King Mr. Marshall Edward Sedgwick Saturday's Heroes President Horace C. Mitchell Edward Killy Alcatraz Island Warden Jackson William C. McGann That's My Story B.L. Martin Sidney Salkow Exiled to Shanghai Walters Armand Schaefer 1938 The Buccaneer Daniel Carroll Cecil B. DeMille uncredited City Girl Pierson Alfred L. Werker uncredited The Patient in Room 18 Dr. Balman Crane Wilbur The Invisible Menace Dr. Brooks John Farrow Of Human Hearts Doctor Attending Capt. Griggs Clarence Brown uncredited No Time to Marry Winthrop Lawyer Harry Lachman College Swing Dr. Ashburn Raoul Walsh uncredited Crime School Judge Clinton Lewis Seiler Gangs of New York District Attorney Lucas James Cruze Crime Ring Marvin Leslie Goodwins Racket Busters Martin's Trial Lloyd Bacon uncredited Men with Wings Alcott William A. Wellman uncredited Little Tough Guy Judge Thomas Knott Harold Young uncredited Four's a Crowd Dr. Ives Michael Curtiz uncredited Smashing the Rackets Grand Juryman Lew Landers uncredited The Mad Miss Manton Leigh Jason uncredited The Last Express District Attorney Meredith Otis Garrett Submarine Patrol Rear Admiral Joseph Maitland John Ford Gang Bullets Dexter Wayne Lambert Hillyer Nancy Drew... Detective Hollister William Clemens Angels with Dirty Faces Norton J. White Michael Curtiz uncredited Thanks for Everything Draft Doctor Kentucky Doctor David Butler 1939 Homicide Bureau Committee Spokesman Charles C. Coleman uncredited Pacific Liner San Francisco Doctor Lew Landers scenes deleted King of the Underworld Dr. Ryan Lewis Seiler Risky Business Henry Jameson Arthur Lubin Pride of the Navy Capt. Tyler Charles Lamont Boy Trouble Mr. Tatum George Archainbaud Cafe Society Mr. Tiller, the Lawyer Edward H. Griffith uncredited King of Chinatown Dr. Jones Nick Grinde Sergeant Madden Commissioner in 1919 Josef von Sternberg Let Us Live Trial Judge John Brahm uncredited On Trial Henry Dean Terry O. Morse The Story of Alexander Graham Bell George Pollard Irving Cummings The Lady's from Kentucky Charles Butler Alexander Hall uncredited Confessions of a Nazi Spy Maj. Williams Anatole Litvak uncredited Undercover Doctor Lt. Watson Louis King Grand Jury Secrets Mr. Halliday James P. Hogan uncredited Waterfront Judge H. Franklin Scott Terry O. Morse uncredited Each Dawn I Die Judge William Keighley Mutiny on the Blackhawk Gen. Fremont Christy Cabanne Hotel for Women Foley Gregory Ratoff uncredited Lady of the Tropics Alfred Z. Harrison Jack Conway The Man They Could Not Hang Judge Bowman The Angels Wash Their Faces Reform School Superintendent Ray Enright uncredited Tropic Fury Dr. Taylor Christy Cabanne Full Confession First Doctor John Farrow uncredited Smashing the Money Ring Judge B.A. Royer Terry O. Morse uncredited Disputed Passage Dean Frank Borzage Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President Cabinet Member Robert B. Sinclair Swanee River Mr. Foster Sidney Lanfield 1940 The Man Who Wouldn't Talk Judge David Burton uncredited The Fatal Hour John T. Forbes William Nigh I Take This Woman Dr. Morris uncredited The House of the Seven Gables Judge Joe May Johnny Apollo Judge Henry Hathaway Virginia City Aide to Jefferson Davis Michael Curtiz uncredited The Man with Nine Lives Dr. Harvey Nick Grinde Edison, the Man Clark Clarence Brown uncredited Our Town Dr. Ferguson Sam Wood Sailor's Lady Aide Allan Dwan uncredited Andy Hardy Meets Debutante Davis, Fowler's Butler George B. Seitz uncredited My Love Came Back Dr. Downey Curtis Bernhardt Dr. Kildare Goes Home Atkinson Harold S. Bucquet Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum Judge Lynn Shores uncredited Before I Hang Judge Braden Nick Grinde (ad Nick Grindé) uncredited The Mummy's Hand Dr. Petrie Christy Cabanne Knute Rockne All American Professor Lloyd BaconWilliam K. Howard (uncredited) uncredited Cherokee Strip Sen. Cross Lesley Selander Life with Henry Executive Assistant Theodore Reed uncredited The Son of Monte Cristo Priest Rowland V. Lee Trail of the Vigilantes John Thornton Mysterious Doctor Satan Gov. Bronson Serial, Ch. 1 This Thing Called Love Bit Part Alexander Hall uncredited 1941 Four Mothers Festival Committee Member William Keighley uncredited Let's Make Music Doctor Leslie Goodwins uncredited Back Street Ship Capt. Anderson Robert Stevenson uncredited The Great Mr. Nobody Grover Dillon Benjamin Stoloff Tobacco Road Rector John Ford scenes deleted Meet John Doe Frank Capra The Great Lie Senator Ted Greenfield Edmund Goulding Strange Alibi Governor Phelps D. Ross Lederman Too Many Blondes John V. Burton Thornton Freeland uncredited The Nurse's Secret Arthur Glenn Noel M. Smith They Met in Bombay British Medical Major Clarence Brown uncredited Sergeant York Cordell Hull Howard Hawks Hurricane Smith Mark Harris Bernard Vorhaus Rags to Riches Prosecutor Joseph Kane Dressed to Kill David Earle Eugene J. Forde Belle Starr Colonel Bright Irving Cummings We Go Fast Defense Attorney William C. McGann King of the Texas Rangers Robert Crawford [Chs. 2as6,10,12] John English Serial Great Guns Col. Ridley Monty Banks Cadet Girl Col. Bradley Ray McCarey Design for Scandal Northcott's Aide Norman Taurog uncredited 1942 Blue, White and Perfect Capt. Brown Herbert I. Leeds Sex Hygiene Medical officer Otto Brower (medical footage)John Ford (dramatic sequences) Short Who Is Hope Schuyler? Judge Rossiter Sweetheart of the Fleet Cmdr. Hawes Meet the Stewarts Mr. Martin, Country Club Lunch Guest Alfred E. Green uncredited Ten Gentlemen from West Point George Clinton Henry Hathaway vice president The Magnificent Dope Examining Doctor Walter Lang uncredited Wake Island George Nielson John Farrow uncredited That Other Woman Linkletter Ray McCarey Over My Dead Body Honest Tom Mardley Malcolm St. Clair Tennessee Johnson Lansbury William Dieterle 1943 The Amazing Mrs. Holliday Immigration Officer Bruce Manning uncredited Mission to Moscow Secretary of State Cordell Hull Michael Curtiz uncredited Action in the North Atlantic Rear Adm. Hartridge Lloyd Bacon uncredited The Falcon in Danger Palmer's Doctor uncredited Salute to the Marines Mr. Selkirk S. Sylvan Simon uncredited Adventures of the Flying Cadets Maj. William Elliott Ray Taylor Serial, Ch. 1 Sweet Rosie O'Grady Husband Irving Cummings scenes deleted She's for Me Dr. Folsom Madame Curie Board Member Mervyn LeRoy uncredited 1944 The Fighting Seabees Randolph Edward Ludwig uncredited Captain America Dryden John English Serial Hey, Rookie General Willis Charles Barton The Story of Dr. Wassell Captain of the 'Surabaya' Cecil B. DeMille uncredited Summer Storm Doctor Douglas Sirk Wing and a Prayer Cmdr. L.M. Hale, Medical Officer Henry Hathaway uncredited Heavenly Days Alvin Clark Howard Estabrook uncredited Faces in the Fog Mr. White John English 1945 Youth for the Kingdom Mr. Webber Keep Your Powder Dry Within These Walls Gov. Edward Rice H. Bruce Humberstone uncredited Mildred Pierce Mrs. Forrester's lawyer Michael Curtiz uncredited They Were Expendable Admiral Blackwell John Ford The Red Dragon Prentiss Phil Rosen 1946 Shock Dr. H.J. Harvey Alfred L. Werker Colonel Effingham's Raid Bank President Irving Pichel uncredited Smooth as Silk Fletcher Holliday Charles Barton The Hoodlum Saint Uncle Joe Lorrison Norman Taurog Valley of the Zombies Dr. Rufus Maynard Philip Ford Don't Gamble with Strangers Warren Creighton William Beaudine The Secret of the Whistler Dr. Winthrop George Sherman uncredited Undercurrent Justice Putnam Vincente Minnelli Gallant Bess Mr, Riley, Glen Cove Stud Farm Andrew Marton uncredited 1947 The Beginning or the End Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Norman Taurog Mr. District Attorney Longfield Robert B. Sinclair uncredited The Michigan Kid Banker John Nash Ray Taylor The Sea of Grass George Cameron Elia Kazan Shoot to Kill John Forsythe William Berke Buck Privates Come Home Mr. Quince Charles Barton Tarzan and the Huntress King Farrod Kurt Neumann The Private Affairs of Bel Ami Lawyer Albert Lewin uncredited Honeymoon Judge Riberol William Keighley uncredited The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Dr. Renshaw Norman Z. McLeod uncredited Black Gold Judge Wilson Phil Karlson Key Witness John Ballin D. Ross Lederman Her Husband's Affairs Attorney Brewster S. Sylvan Simon uncredited Tycoon Señor Tobar Richard Wallace 1948 Song of My Heart Jurgensen Benjamin Glazer Stage Struck Police Capt. Webb William Nigh Hollow Triumph Deputy Steve Sekely For the Love of Mary Deputy Commissioner Frederick de Cordova uncredited The Paleface Gov. Johnson Norman Z. McLeod 1949 The Sun Comes Up Dr. Gage Richard Thorpe uncredited Bad Boy Dr. Fletcher Kurt Neumann uncredited The Fountainhead Director King Vidor uncredited Mr. Soft Touch Judge Fuller Henry Levin uncredited 1950 Unmasked Dr. Lowell George Blair When Willie Comes Marching Home Gen. Merrill John Ford uncredited A Woman of Distinction Jewelry Salesman Edward Buzzell uncredited Peggy Dean William Stockwell Frederick De Cordova 1951 The Texas Rangers Texas Governor Phil Karlson uncredited 1952 The Bushwackers Justin Stone Rod Amateau Hoodlum Empire Commissioner Garrison Joseph Kane uncredited 1957 The Wings of Eagles Adm. Crown John Ford uncredited 1958 The Last Hurrah Plymouth Club Member at Front Door John Ford uncredited