Charles McGraw
Acting • Born 1914-05-10 – Died 1980-07-29
Biography
Charles McGraw (born Charles Butters) was an American stage, screen, and television actor. He developed into a leading man, especially in film noir classics during the late 1940s and early 1950s. His gravelly voice and rugged looks enhanced his appeal in the noir stylistic genre and provided him many roles as cops, military officers, and the such.
Filmography
125 credits
Spartacus
Movie • 1960
Marcellus
The Birds
Movie • 1963
Sebastian Sholes
A Boy and His Dog
Movie • 1975
Preacher
Hang 'em High
Movie • 1968
Sheriff Ray Calhoun
Armored Car Robbery
Movie • 1950
Lt. Jim Cordell
The Defiant Ones
Movie • 1958
Capt. Frank Gibbons
The Wonderful Country
Movie • 1959
Dr. Stovall
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Movie • 1963
Lt. Matthews
The Narrow Margin
Movie • 1952
Det. Sgt. Walter Brown
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Movie • 1982
(in "The Killers") (archive footage)
The Gangster
Movie • 1947
Dugas
Loophole
Movie • 1954
Gus Slavin
His Kind of Woman
Movie • 1951
Thompson / Narrator
T-Men
Movie • 1947
Moxie
Border Incident
Movie • 1949
Jeff Amboy
Reign of Terror
Movie • 1949
Sergeant
The Horror Show
Movie • 1979
(archive footage)
Roadblock
Movie • 1951
Joe Peters
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Movie • 1954
Cmdr. Wayne Lee
Berlin Express
Movie • 1948
Colonel Johns
The Busy Body
Movie • 1967
Fred Harwell
Blood on the Moon
Movie • 1948
Milo Sweet
The Killers
Movie • 1946
Al
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
Movie • 1969
Wilson
The Killer Inside Me
Movie • 1976
Howard Hendricks
The Night Stalker
Movie • 1972
Police Chief Ed Masterson
The Long Night
Movie • 1947
Policeman Stevens
Johnny Got His Gun
Movie • 1971
Mike Burkeman
The Cruel Tower
Movie • 1956
Harry 'Stretch' Clay
The Man in the Net
Movie • 1959
Sheriff Steve Ritter
The Hunted
Movie • 1948
Detective
Cimarron
Movie • 1960
Bob Yountis
Side Street
Movie • 1950
Det. Stan Simon
In Cold Blood
Movie • 1967
Tex Smith
Away All Boats
Movie • 1956
Lieut. Mike O'Bannion
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
Movie • 1950
Shotgun Mike Munger
The Story of Molly X
Movie • 1949
Police Capt. Breen
The Threat
Movie • 1949
Arnold 'Red' Kluger
Slaughter on 10th Avenue
Movie • 1957
Lt. Anthony Vosnick
The Impostor
Movie • 1944
Menessier
Double Crossbones
Movie • 1951
Capt. Ben Wickett
The Mad Ghoul
Movie • 1943
Detective Garrity
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Movie • 1977
Air Force Gen. Peter Crane
Two Tickets to London
Movie • 1943
Hendrik (uncredited)
Saddle the Wind
Movie • 1958
Larry Venables
Chandler
Movie • 1971
Bernie Oakman
The Horizontal Lieutenant
Movie • 1962
Col. Charles Korotny
War Paint
Movie • 1953
Sgt. Clarke
Roses Are Red
Movie • 1947
Duke Arno
Nightmare in Chicago
Movie • 1964
Harry Brockman
Toward the Unknown
Movie • 1956
Col. 'Mickey' McKee
One Minute to Zero
Movie • 1952
Sfc. Baker
Joe Dakota
Movie • 1957
Cal Moore
Once More, My Darling
Movie • 1949
Herman Schmelz
The Devil and Miss Sarah
Movie • 1971
Marshal Duncan
Money to Burn
Movie • 1973
Neil Davis
Joe Butterfly
Movie • 1957
Sgt. Jim McNulty
Thunder Over the Plains
Movie • 1953
Ben Westman
Pendulum
Movie • 1969
Deputy Chief John P. Hildebrand
They Came to Blow Up America
Movie • 1943
Zellerbach
O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra
Movie • 1971
Agent Joe Flagg
Destroyer
Movie • 1943
Assistant Chief Engineer (uncredited)
Hazard
Movie • 1948
Chick
The Moon Is Down
Movie • 1943
Ole (uncredited)
The Andersonville Trial
Movie • 1970
Board of Military Judges
The Farmer's Daughter
Movie • 1947
Fisher - Finley's Henchman (uncredited)
On the Old Spanish Trail
Movie • 1947
Harry Blaisdell
Corvette K-225
Movie • 1943
Chief Engineer
The Longest Night
Movie • 1972
Father Chase
Twilight for the Gods
Movie • 1958
Yancy
Perilous Voyage
Movie • 1976
Capt. Humphreys
The Big Fix
Movie • 1947
Armiston
The Undying Monster
Movie • 1942
Strud Strudwick (uncredited)
77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
TV • 1964
Cain's Hundred
TV • 1961
Earl Klegg
Kraft Suspense Theatre
TV • 1963
Harry Brockman
Route 66
TV • 1960
Hawkins
TV • 1973
Capt. Bates
The Mod Squad
TV • 1968
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Calvin
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Mission: Impossible
TV • 1966
Emergency!
TV • 1972
Johnny Staccato
TV • 1959
Ironside
TV • 1967
The Wild Wild West
TV • 1965
Run for Your Life
TV • 1965
Sam Bailey
Police Story
TV • 1973
The Outcasts
TV • 1968
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Big John Beldon
Thriller
TV • 1960
Sheriff Cliff Wrights
Banyon
TV • 1972
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
TV • 1955
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV • 1963
Judd for the Defense
TV • 1967
Hondo
TV • 1967
Grindl
TV • 1963
The New Breed
TV • 1961
Dr. Cameron Hill
The Whistler
TV • 1954
The Detectives
TV • 1959
Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
Wilkie Bowman
The Lieutenant
TV • 1963
Casablanca
TV • 1955
Adventures Of The Falcon
TV • 1954
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Fred Rainey
The Smith Family
TV • 1971
Captain Hughes
Mr. & Mrs. North
TV • 1952
Nichols
TV • 1971
Hansen
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Dr. Kenneth Hasker
Nichols
TV • 1971
Luke
Adam-12
TV • 1968
Lars Lowell
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Dolen
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Squawman
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Forel
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1964
Jules Cutter
Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
Adam-12
TV • 1968
Rod Decker
Kraft Suspense Theatre
TV • 1963
Nick Stacy
Monty Nash
TV • 1971
Jeffers
Judd for the Defense
TV • 1967
Jim Larkin
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV • 1962
Simon Oliver
87th Precinct
TV • 1961
Douglas King
Ben Casey
TV • 1961
Joe Creely
The Untouchables
TV • 1959
Johnny Torrio