Charles Drake

Charles 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.

Known For: Acting

Born: New York City, New York, USA, 1917-10-02

Died: 1994-09-10

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1939	Career	Rex Chaney	0
2	1939	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Young Priest (uncredited)	73
3	1941	Out of the Fog		64
4	1941	Nine Lives Are Not Enough	Snappy Saunders	50
5	1941	Sergeant York	Scorer (uncredited)	72
6	1941	The Maltese Falcon	Reporter (uncredited)	77
7	1941	One Foot in Heaven	Second Bridegroom (uncredited)	66
8	1941	The Man Who Came to Dinner	Sandy	69
9	1941	Dangerously They Live	Joe, Hospital Orderly with Dr. Murdock (uncredited)	59
10	1942	Bullet Scars	Reporter at Police HQ	62
11	1942	The Male Animal	Student (uncredited)	41
12	1942	Winning Your Wings	State College Student (uncredited)	58
13	1942	Across the Pacific	Officer (uncredited)	66
14	1942	Busses Roar	Eddie Sloan	66
15	1942	Now, Voyager	Leslie Trotter (uncredited)	74
16	1943	The Hard Way	Trailer Narrator (Uncredited)	66
17	1943	Air Force	Navigator	64
18	1943	Proceed and Report	Lt. Johnson	0
19	1945	Conflict	Norman Holsworth	66
20	1945	You Came Along	Lt. R. Janoschek	70
21	1946	Whistle Stop	Ernie	43
22	1946	A Night in Casablanca	Lt. Pierre Delmar	68
23	1946	Winter Wonderland	Steve Kirk	43
24	1947	The Pretender	Dr. Leonard Koster	55
25	1948	The Tender Years	Bob Wilson	70
26	1949	Tarzan's Magic Fountain	Dodd	55
27	1949	Johnny Stool Pigeon	Hotel Clerk (uncredited)	62
28	1950	Comanche Territory	Stacey Howard	48
29	1950	I Was a Shoplifter	Herb Klaxon	53
30	1950	Louisa	Radio Broadcaster (voice) (uncredited)	61
31	1950	Peggy	Tom Fielding	47
32	1950	Winchester '73	Steve Miller	73
33	1950	Harvey	Dr. Sanderson	77
34	1951	Air Cadet	Captain Sullivan	50
35	1951	You Never Can Tell	Perry Collins	64
36	1951	Little Egypt	Oliver Doane	0
37	1952	The Treasure of Lost Canyon	Jim Anderson	56
38	1952	The Red Ball Express	Partridge	58
39	1952	Bonzo Goes to College	Malcolm Drew	50
40	1953	Gunsmoke	Johnny Lake	64
41	1953	The Lone Hand	George Hadley	52
42	1953	It Came from Outer Space	Sheriff Matt Warren	63
43	1953	War Arrow	Sgt. Luke Schermerhorn	56
44	1954	The Glenn Miller Story	Don Haynes	69
45	1954	Tobor the Great	Dr. Ralph Harrison	52
46	1954	Four Guns to the Border	Sheriff Jim Flannery	46
47	1955	Summer Pavilion	Ned Welch	0
48	1955	Female on the Beach	Police Lieutenant Galley	57
49	1955	To Hell and Back	Brandon	66
50	1955	All That Heaven Allows	Mick Anderson	73
51	1956	The Price of Fear	Pete Carroll	58
52	1956	Walk the Proud Land	Tom Sweeny	61
53	1957	Jeanne Eagels	John Donahue	63
54	1957	Until They Sail	Capt. Richard Bates	64
55	1958	Step Down to Terror	Johnny Walters	56
56	1959	No Name on the Bullet	Luke Canfield	66
57	1961	Tammy Tell Me True	Buford Woodly	57
58	1961	Back Street	Curt Stanton	58
59	1963	Showdown	Bert Pickett	59
60	1964	The Lively Set	Paul Manning	0
61	1965	Dear Heart	Frank Taylor	66
62	1965	The Third Day	Lawrence Conway	58
63	1967	The Money Jungle	Harvey Sheppard	50
64	1967	Valley of the Dolls	Kevin Gillmore	60
65	1968	The Counterfeit Killer	Dolan	0
66	1968	The Swimmer	Howard Graham	73
67	1968	The Smugglers	Harry Miller	48
68	1969	Hail, Hero!	Senator Murchiston	60
69	1969	The Arrangement	Finnegan	67
70	1972	The Screaming Woman	Ken Bronson	67
71	1973	Partners in Crime	Lt. Fred Harnett	20
72	1973	Scream, Pretty Peggy	George Thornton	60
73	1974	Police Headquarters	David L. Chapin	0
74	1975	Cop on the Beat	Deputy Chief Berliner	41
75	1975	The Lives of Jenny Dolan	Alan Hardesty	0
76	1983	My Brother's Wedding	Pastor #2	67
77	1988	James Stewart: A Wonderful Life	Self (archive footage)	60
78		The Road to Edinburgh	Jeff Davis	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1947	Kraft Television Theatre		75
2	1948	Studio One	Ned Welch	50
3	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents	Johnny Bond	56
4	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents	Ivan	56
5	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents	Billy Gordon	56
6	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents	Lew	56
7	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents		56
8	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents	Paul Doniger	56
9	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents	Gavin Rhodes	56
10	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents	Carl Phillips	56
11	1953	General Electric Theater	Jeff Davis (uncredited)	63
12	1953	Letter to Loretta	Jeff Bertch	65
13	1953	Letter to Loretta	Tom	65
14	1954	Climax!	Mickey Wayne	33
15	1955	The 20th Century Fox Hour		54
16	1957	Wagon Train	Marshal Vern Rothman	63
17	1957	Wagon Train	Sam Livingston	63
18	1957	Wagon Train	Frank Casteel	63
19	1958	Rendezvous	John Burden	0
20	1960	Checkmate	Mack Weston	41
21	1960	The Barbara Stanwyck Show	Ben Stockton	62
22	1962	The Virginian	Randolf	65
23	1962	The Lucy Show	Walter Kendricks	70
24	1963	The Fugitive	Oliver Greer	72
25	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre		57
26	1964	The Man from U.N.C.L.E.	Taggart Coleman	72
27	1964	Daniel Boone	Simon Jarvis	69
28	1964	Daniel Boone	Andy Wharton	69
29	1965	F Troop		62
30	1966	Star Trek	Commodore Stocker	80
31	1966	Mission: Impossible	Mitchell Connally	76
32	1967	The Invaders	Robert Morrison	68
33	1967	Ironside	Mr. Thomas	68
34	1967	Judd for the Defense		75
35	1967	Mannix	Adam Pierson	67
36	1968	The Name of the Game	Tom Laraby	68
37	1968	The Name of the Game	Jonathan Galley	68
38	1968	Land of the Giants	Mr. Erdap	67
39	1971	Cannon		65
40	1972	The Rookies		68
41	1973	Police Story		69
42	1974	Harry O		46
43	1975	Switch	Charles Estabrook	67
44	1975	Matt Helm	Mr. Simmons	74

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