Charles Coburn

Birthday: 19 June 1877, Savannah, Georgia, USA

Birth Name: Charles Douville Coburn

Height: 183 cm

A cigar-smoking, monocled, swag-bellied character actor known for his Old South manners and charm. In 1918 he and his first wife formed the Coburn Players and appeared on Broadway in many plays. With her death in 1937, he accepted a Hollywood contract and began making films at the age of sixty.

[a story he told fans each year at the Delaware County (OH) Fair Little Brown Jug Stakes for pacers,...Show more »

[a story he told fans each year at the Delaware County (OH) Fair Little Brown Jug Stakes for pacers, which as a devoted harness-racing fan he attended annually] I grew up in the city not far from a burlesque theater and my father cautioned me not to go there because I might see something I shouldn't see. So, of course, when I got old enough I went right in, and sure enough I saw something I shouldn't--my father! Show less «

If it would sell tickets, I'd stand on my head in the middle of Times Square at noon.

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