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Charles Douville Coburn (June 19, 1877 – August 30, 1961) was an American actor and theatrical producer. [1] . He was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award ("Oscar") three times – for The Devil and Miss Jones (1941), The More the Merrier (1943), and The Green Years (1946) – winning for his performance in The More the Merrier.
Overview. Born. June 19, 1877 · Macon, Georgia, USA. Died. August 30, 1961 · New York City, New York, USA (heart attack) Birth name. Charles Douville Coburn. Nickname. The Monocle from Georgia. Height. 6′ (1.83 m) Mini Bio. A cigar-smoking, monocled, swag-bellied character actor known for his Old South manners and charm.
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- August 30, 1961
Charles Coburn. Actor: The More the Merrier. A cigar-smoking, monocled, swag-bellied character actor known for his Old South manners and charm. In 1918 he and his first wife formed the Coburn Players and appeared on Broadway in many plays.
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Barbara Stanwyck, Charles Coburn, and Melville Cooper in The Lady Eve (1941)- Henry Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck, and Charles Coburn in The Lady Eve (1941)
- Barbara Stanwyck and Charles Coburn in The Lady Eve (1941)
- Charles Coburn and Cedric Hardwicke in Lured (1947)
- Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn, Robert Coote, and Alan Napier in Lured (1947)
- Charles Coburn, Robert Coote, and Alan Napier in Lured (1947)
Mar 31, 2006 · Charles Coburn, a character actor and Georgia native, enjoyed a lengthy career on stage, screen, and radio that reached its height in the 1940s and 1950s, when he was in his sixties and seventies. Charles Coburn. Courtesy of Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries. Charles Douville Coburn was born in Macon on ...
Aug 24, 2013 · He made his first stage appearance in the 1890s and his Broadway debut in 1901. He founded an acting company in his name, married his co-star in 1906 and remained active with her across America until the time of her death in 1937. Only then did the sixty-year-old widower embark upon a full-time movie career.
Biography. Charles Douville Coburn (June 19, 1877 – August 30, 1961) was an American film and theatre actor. Best known for his work in comedies, Coburn received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for 1943's The More the Merrier. Coburn was born in Macon, Georgia, the son of Scotch-Irish Americans Emma Louise Sprigman (May 11, 1838 ...
In Sam Wood: Wood’s heyday. Charles Coburn starred as the wealthy owner of a department store who goes undercover in order to root out union activists but instead is befriended by a clerk (played by Jean Arthur) and develops sympathy for his mistreated employees. Kings Row (1942), a sanitized adaptation….
