Acting

Charles Bennett

Born April 13, 1891 · Dunedin, New Zealand

Died February 15, 1943 · aged 51

No biography available.

Known For

Citizen KaneCitizen Kane · 1941
Citizen Kane
★ 8.01941
MovieMysteryDrama
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
Mrs. MiniverMrs. Miniver · 1942
Mrs. Miniver
★ 7.11942
MovieDramaRomance
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
Gunga DinGunga Din · 1939
Gunga Din
★ 6.51939
MovieAdventureWar
British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him.
Treasure IslandTreasure Island · 1934
Treasure Island
★ 6.61934
MovieAdventureFamily
In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of buccaneer Captain Flint's buried treasure.
It Ain't HayIt Ain't Hay · 1943
It Ain't Hay
★ 6.51943
MovieComedy
Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.
Tillie's Punctured RomanceTillie's Punctured Romance · 1914
Tillie's Punctured Romance
★ 6.21914
MovieComedy
A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.
I Live My LifeI Live My Life · 1935
I Live My Life
★ 6.61935
MovieComedyDrama
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
The Face on the Barroom FloorThe Face on the Barroom Floor · 1914
The Face on the Barroom Floor
★ 5.41914
MovieComedy
A painter turned tramp (Chaplin), devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy man, finds himself drunk and getting drunker by the minute with some sailors at a bar until he's literally falling down. He keeps futilely trying to draw the woman's picture on the floor with a piece of chalk until he finally passes out cold (or perhaps dies, as in the poem) at the end of the film.

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