Charles Oliver (actor)
Charles Arthur Richardson Oliver (born Charles Arthur Sherlock Oliver; 21 June 1907, in Buttevant, County Cork, Ireland – 29 March 1983, in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England) was an Irish-born 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.[2]
Television
Selected filmography
- Beloved Imposter (1936) as Pierre
- The Avenging Hand (1936) as Toni Visetti
- Wings Over Africa (1936) as Collins
- Second Bureau (1936) as Paul Benoit
- Midnight at Madame Tussaud's (1936) as Harry Newton
- Fifty-Shilling Boxer (1937) as Jim Pollett
- The Green Cockatoo (1937) as Terrell, Gang Boss
- If I Were Boss (1938) as Owen Reeves
- The Drum (1938) as Rajab
- The Lady Vanishes (1938) as The Officer
- Hey! Hey! USA (1938) as Curly (uncredited)
- Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror (1938) as Max Fleming
- Mountains O'Mourne (1938) as Errol Finnegan
- Life of St. Paul (1938) as Elder
- Ask a Policeman (1939) as The Squire
- The Saint in London (1939) as Dr. Jim, Templar's Friend (uncredited)
- This Man in Paris (1939) as Gaston
- Band Waggon (1940) as Saboteur (uncredited)
- Night Train to Munich (1940) as SS Officer at Concentration Camp (uncredited)
- Under Your Hat (1940) as Carl
- Three Silent Men (1940) as Johnson
- Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It (1941) as Dr. Wilkinson
- Crook's Tour (1941) as Sheik (final film role)
References
- ^ Charles Oliver at bfi.org.uk
- ^ "Ask a Policeman". Radio Times. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ Radio Times (18 July 1939), The Parnell Commission, vol. 64, BBC Television, p. 16
- ^ Radio Times (21 August 1939), Three in a Bar, vol. 64, BBC Television, p. 16
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