Charles Oliver (actor)
Charles Arthur Richardson Oliver (actually registered as "Charles Arthur Sherlock Oliver") (21 June 1907, Buttevant, County Cork, Ireland – 29 March 1983, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England) was a British film actor. He married on 4 June 1938 the actress (Margaret) Noel Hood.[1] They had two children: Nina (1943) and William (1947). He appeared in the Will Hay film Ask a Policeman as the local squire who oversees a smuggling empire.
Television
| A reconstruction of the famous forgery investigation of 1888-89 | |
| Writer / Producer | Denis Johnston |
| Piggott | Eliot Makeham |
| Sir Charles Russel | Felix Aylmer |
| Parnell | Mark Dignam |
| Attorney General | Wilfrid Walter |
| Eye Witness | Brefni O'Rorke |
| Mrs O'Shea | Olga Edwardes |
| President of the Court | Graveley Edwards |
| Timothy Harrington | Blake Giffard |
| Doctor Maguire | Nigel Fitzgerald |
| Henniker Heaton | Lionel Dymoke |
| Frank Hugh O'Donnell | Harry Hutchinson |
| Court Registrar | Leo McCabe |
| Captain O'Shea | Charles Oliver |
| Friend | Micheline Patton |
| Servant at Eltham | Moya Devlin |
| Solicitor's Clerk | Russell Hogarth |
| Spanish Policeman | Rafael Terry |
| Reporter Houston's Voice | Kenneth Barton |
| [Actor] | Jack Clifford |
| The scene is the bar-parlour of a public-house at Shepherd's Bush. | |
| Author | Peter Franklin |
| Producer | Stephen Harrison |
| Mrs Johnson | Kathleen Boutall |
| Lily | Gertrude Musgrove |
| Beddall | Charles Oliver |
| Stevens | John Garside |
| Wilkins | Basil Cunard |
Selected filmography
- Beloved Imposter (1936) – Pierre
- The Avenging Hand (1936) – Toni Visetti
- Wings Over Africa (1936) – Collins
- Second Bureau (1936) – Paul Benoit
- Midnight at Madame Tussaud's (1936) – Harry Newton
- Fifty-Shilling Boxer (1937) – Jim Pollett
- The Green Cockatoo (1937) – Terrell – Gang Boss
- If I Were Boss (1938) – Owen Reeves
- The Drum (1938) – Rajab
- The Lady Vanishes (1938) – The Officer
- Hey! Hey! USA (1938) – Curly (uncredited)
- Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror (1938) – Max Fleming
- Mountains O'Mourne (1938) – Errol Finnegan
- Life of St. Paul (1938) – Elder
- Ask a Policeman (1939) – The Squire
- The Saint in London (1939) – Dr. Jim – Templar's Friend (uncredited)
- This Man in Paris (1939) – Gaston
- Band Waggon (1940) – Saboteur (uncredited)
- Night Train to Munich (1940) – SS Officer at Concentration Camp (uncredited)
- Under Your Hat (1940) – Carl
- Three Silent Men (1940) – Johnson
- Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It (1941) – Dr. Wilkinson
- Crook's Tour (1941) – Sheik (final film role)
References
- Charles Oliver at bfi.org.uk
- Radio Times (18 July 1939), The Parnell Commission, 64, BBC Television, p. 16
- Radio Times (21 August 1939), Three in a Bar, 64, BBC Television, p. 16
External links
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