Acting

Charles Judels

Born August 16, 1882 · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Died February 14, 1969 · aged 86

Charles Judels (17 August 1882 – 14 February 1969) was a Dutch actor. He first starred on vaudeville in the early 1900s, and made his Broadway stage debut in The Ziegfeld Follies in 1912. Judels appeared in more than 130 American comedy and drama movies and was an expert with dialects. That talent served him well throughout his career. His first film was a comedy, Old Dutch, in 1915. Judels is pe…

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Pinocchio

Pinocchio · 1940

MovieAnimationFamily

When the gentle woodcarver Geppetto builds a marionette to be his substitute son, a benevolent fairy brings the toy to life. The puppet, named Pinocchio, is not yet a human boy. He must earn the right to be real by proving that he is brave, truthful, and unselfish.

Once Upon a Studio

Once Upon a Studio · 2023

Once Upon a Studio

MovieAnimationFamily

Created for Disney's 100th anniversary, the short features Mickey Mouse corralling a gallery of legendary Disney characters for a group photo.

Ninotchka

Ninotchka · 1939

MovieComedyRomance

A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

Samson and Delilah

Samson and Delilah · 1949

Samson and Delilah

MovieRomanceDrama

When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.

The Great Ziegfeld

The Great Ziegfeld · 1936

The Great Ziegfeld

MovieMusicDrama

At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his girlfriend. This pattern repeats throughout their lives, as Ziegfeld makes and loses many fortunes putting on ever-bigger, more spectacular shows

Police Bullets

Police Bullets · 1942

MovieComedyDrama

A gangster running a protection racket gets information that he's about to be prosecuted on income-tax-evasion charges. He hires a man with a photographic memory to memorize his books, then destroys them all so the police won't have any evidence to link him to the racket.

San Francisco

San Francisco · 1936

MovieDramaRomance

A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.

The Plainsman

The Plainsman · 1936

MovieWesternWar

Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.

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Pinocchio

Pinocchio · 1940

MovieAnimationFamily

When the gentle woodcarver Geppetto builds a marionette to be his substitute son, a benevolent fairy brings the toy to life. The puppet, named Pinocchio, is not yet a human boy. He must earn the right to be real by proving that he is brave, truthful, and unselfish.

Stromboli / The Coachman (voice) (uncredited)

Once Upon a Studio

Once Upon a Studio · 2023

Once Upon a Studio

MovieAnimationFamily

Created for Disney's 100th anniversary, the short features Mickey Mouse corralling a gallery of legendary Disney characters for a group photo.

Stromboli (voice) (archive sound)

Ninotchka

Ninotchka · 1939

MovieComedyRomance

A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

Cafe Owner Pere Mathieu (uncredited)

Samson and Delilah

Samson and Delilah · 1949

Samson and Delilah

MovieRomanceDrama

When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.

Danite Merchant (uncredited)

The Great Ziegfeld

The Great Ziegfeld · 1936

The Great Ziegfeld

MovieMusicDrama

At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his girlfriend. This pattern repeats throughout their lives, as Ziegfeld makes and loses many fortunes putting on ever-bigger, more spectacular shows

Pierre

Police Bullets

Police Bullets · 1942

MovieComedyDrama

A gangster running a protection racket gets information that he's about to be prosecuted on income-tax-evasion charges. He hires a man with a photographic memory to memorize his books, then destroys them all so the police won't have any evidence to link him to the racket.

Duke Talbot

San Francisco

San Francisco · 1936

MovieDramaRomance

A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.

Tony

The Plainsman

The Plainsman · 1936

MovieWesternWar

Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.

Tony - The Barber

Idiot's Delight

Idiot's Delight · 1939

Idiot's Delight

MovieComedyDrama

A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.

Daka

Du Barry Was a Lady

Du Barry Was a Lady · 1943

Du Barry Was a Lady

MovieComedyFantasy

Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.

Innkeeper (uncredited)

The Commuters

The Commuters · 1915

The Commuters is a 1915 silent film comedy directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Irene Fenwick in her film debut. It is based on a 1910 Broadway play, The Commuters, by James Forbes. A copy of the film is saved in the Library of Congress collection.

Prof. Anatole 'Sammy' Vermouth

One Hour with You

One Hour with You · 1932

One Hour with You

MovieComedyRomance

Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs. Mitzi's husband wants to divorce her, and has been having her tailed. Andre gets caught, and must confess to his wife. But Colette has had problems resisting the attentions of another man herself, and they forgive each other.

Policeman (uncredited)

College Lovers

College Lovers · 1930

Romance on a college campus.

Spectator

Strange Cargo

Strange Cargo · 1940

MovieDramaRomance

Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.

Renard (uncredited)

I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now

I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now · 1947

I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now

A biopic of the career of Joe Howard (12 Feb.,1878 - 19 May, 1961), famous songwriter of the early 20th Century. Howard wrote the title song, Goodbye, My Lady Love; and Hello, My Baby among many others. Mark Stevens was dubbed by Buddy Clark, well known singer of the 30's and 40's

Herman Bartholdy (uncredited)

Stranger on the Third Floor

Stranger on the Third Floor · 1940

Stranger on the Third Floor

MovieCrimeDrama

Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.

Nick Nanbajan, the Cafe Owner (uncredited)

Lady of the Tropics

Lady of the Tropics · 1939

Lady of the Tropics

MovieRomanceDrama

American playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier to their happiness.

Gaston Lubois

Tortilla Flat

Tortilla Flat · 1942

MovieComedyDrama

Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.

Joe Machado

Whistle Stop

Whistle Stop · 1946

MovieCrimeDrama

When beautiful Mary returns to her "whistle stop" hometown, long-standing feelings of animosity between two of her old boyfriends leads to robbery and murder.

Sam Veech

Balalaika

Balalaika · 1939

MovieRomanceMusic

A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.

Batoff (uncredited)

Old Dutch

Old Dutch · 1915

Ludwig "Old Dutch" Streusand and his daughter Violet live in New York, and after years of hard study and labor Old Dutch completes his invention: the "teloptophone," a device which, when attached to a telephone, enables the speaker to see the party at the other end of the wire.

Jules Joubert

In Old Sacramento

In Old Sacramento · 1946

In Old Sacramento

MovieWesternRomance

Dashing Johnny Barrett has a secret identity: Spanish Jack, the masked bandit. Always one step ahead of the law, Barrett effortlessly balances his double life--robbing by night, romancing by day and always with a smile. But when the woman he loves begins to suspect him and the young man he befriends is arrested for being him, it's time for Johnny to rethink his priorities.

Tony Marchetti

Northern Pursuit

Northern Pursuit · 1943

Northern Pursuit

MovieAdventureWar

Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their plans.

Nick - Barber (uncredited)

The Villain Still Pursued Her

The Villain Still Pursued Her · 1940

The Villain Still Pursued Her

MovieComedyRomance

Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved." Dastardly villain Silas Cribbs schemes to get his lusty clutches on the virtuous heroine by driving her naïve husband to alcoholic ruin. Luckily, a temperance lecturer is on hand to set things straight, as is Buster Keaton as William Dalton, the drunkard's friend.

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