Charles coburn biography
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Charles Coburn
American film, theater actor (–)
Not to be confused with Charles Coborn.
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| Born | ()June 19, Macon, Georgia, U.S. |
| Died | August 30, () (aged&#;84) New York City, U.S. |
| Resting place | Bonaventure Cemetery, (near Savannah, Georgia) |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years&#;active | – |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouses | Ivah Wills Coburn &#; &#; (m.&#;; died&#;)&#;Winifred Natzka &#; &#; (m.&#;)&#; |
| Children | 7 |
Charles Douville Coburn (June 19, – August 30, ) 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 (), The More the Merrier () and The Green Years () &#; winning for his performance in The More the Merrier. He was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California) in for his contri
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Charles Coburn
Charles Coburn, a character actor and Georgia native, enjoyed a lengthy career on stage, screen, and radio that reached its height in the s and s, when he was in his sixties and seventies.
Charles Douville Coburn was born in Macon on June 19, , to Emma Louise Sprigman and Moses Douville Coburn. Coburn grew up in Savannah and as a young boy handed out programs in a local theater, where he received his first role, a bit part in the stage performance of William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan&#;s opera The Mikado. Failing to win other parts for which he auditioned, Coburn worked briefly as a house manager until, at the age of nineteen, he left Georgia for New York City and the lure of Broadway.
His prospects in New York were grim, and he supported himself with a variety of odd jobs, including theater usher and package deliveryman. Shortly before he was to return to Savannah, he was hired as an advance man in a theater. This job yielded his first professional stage rol
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Of Monocles and Mystery: Charles Douville Coburn
As Stanwyck&#;s shipboard cardsharp &#;father&#; in All About Eve ()
He’s one of the preeminent character actors of the Golden Age of Hollywood, and, like Sydney Greenstreet and Marie Dressler, among the small club of performers who started hugely successful movie careers around age 60, which at the time was not “the new 50,” it was less Golden Age than Golden Years—time to sit on your laurels and yell “Hey, kids, get off my lawn!” Instead, having only months before lost Ivah, his beloved wife and professional partner of 31 years, Coburn got on a utbildning to Hollywood for a one-picture deal at Metro and immediately became as indispensable to the movies as he had been to the American scen for nearly four decades.
I’m as fascinated by the latecomers as I am by the Rooneys, Garlands, and Dickie Moores who started their screen careers when they were barely out of diapers. inom love to watch people grow up and find their voices, see how th