Charles Drake
Birthday: 1917-10-02 | Place of Birth: New York, City, New York, USACharles Drake (October 2, 1917 – September 10, 1994) was an American actor.Drake was born as Charles Ruppert in New York City. He graduated from Nichols College and became a salesman. In 1939, he turned to acting and signed a contract with Warner Brothers. He wasn't immediately successful. World War II interrupted his career; soon after his military service was complete, Drake returned to Hollywood in 1945, his contract with Warner Brothers ended. In the 1940s, he did some freelance work, like A Night in Casablanca. In 1949 he moved to Universal Studios. In 1955, Drake turned to television as one of the stock-company players on Robert Montgomery Presents and three years later he became the host of the British TV espionage weekly Rendezvous. In 1959, he starred in the Western film, No Name on the Bullet, where he played a doctor dedicated to saving a small town from a dangerous assassin. In 1967 he played the part of Oliver Greer in The Fugitive episode The One That Got Away. He played in 83 films between 1939 and 1975, including Scream, Pretty Peggy. More than 50 were dramas, but he also acted in comedies, science fiction, horror and film noir. He died on September 10, 1994 in East Lyme, Connecticut, aged 76. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charles Drake, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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as George Thornton
as Ken Bronson
as Harry Miller
as Harvey Sheppard
as Kevin Gillmore
as Frank Taylor
as Lawrence Conway
as Buford Woodly
as Luke Canfield
as Johnny Walters
as Capt. Richard Bates
as Brandon
as Mick Anderson
as Police Lieutenant Galley
as Don Haynes
as Dr. Ralph Harrison
as Sheriff Jim Flannery
as Johnny Lake
as Sgt. Luke Schermerhorn
as Sheriff Matt Warren
as Jim Anderson
as Captain Sullivan
as Oliver Doane
as Perry Collins
as Herb Klaxon
as Stacey Howard
as Steve Miller
as Dodd
as Dr. Leonard Koster
as Steve Kirk
