Charles Russell

Charles Russell

Born: March 31, 1918
Died: January 18, 1985
in New York City, New York, USA

Movies for Charles Russell...

The Breaking Point
Title: The Breaking Point
Character: Cappel
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A young man's gambling losses cause him to become embroiled in a currency heist.
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Chinatown at Midnight
Title: Chinatown at Midnight
Character: Fred Morgan
Released: November 17, 1949
Type: Movie
A young man who steals valuable Oriental objects for a lady friend who operates an antique shop gets mixed up in a twisted murder plot.
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Tucson
Title: Tucson
Character: Gregg Johnson
Released: April 27, 1949
Type: Movie
The story of Andy Bryant, a University of Arizona student whose grades suffer because of his preoccupation with an upcoming intercollegiate rodeo. Andy's father is more interested in embarrassing a rival at the rodeo than he is with his son's academic progress. When his lack of focus nearly causes a tragic accident in the university chemistry lab, Andy decides to hunker down and study.
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Trouble Preferred
Title: Trouble Preferred
Character: Lt. Rod Brooks
Released: December 31, 1948
Type: Movie
A suicide attempt is investigated by a pair of female police rookies.
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Inner Sanctum
Title: Inner Sanctum
Character: Harold Dunlap
Released: October 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A killer hides out in a small-town boarding house.
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Night Wind
Title: Night Wind
Character: Ralph Benson
Released: September 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A boy tries to protect his dog, a German shepherd that served with U.S. Army forces after it begins attacking strangers several years after the war.
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Canon City
Title: Canon City
Character: Tolley
Released: June 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Prisoners battle each other -- and the police -- when they escape the Colorado State Penitentiary.
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Give My Regards to Broadway
Title: Give My Regards to Broadway
Character: Arthur Waldron Jr.
Released: June 8, 1948
Type: Movie
A family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play baseball. Musical.
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Beyond Our Own
Title: Beyond Our Own
Character: Peter Rogers
Released: November 16, 1947
Type: Movie
This latter-day parable focuses on two brothers. Peter Rogers is an ambitious, hard-driving attorney. Bob Rogers is a thoughtful, contemplative doctor who decides to forsake his practice to do missionary work in war-torn China. When Peter's young son is tragically killed in an accident, he visits his brother and learns first-hand the importance of compassion and charity. In a world rocked by strife and pain, love can overcome and triumph.
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The Late George Apley
Title: The Late George Apley
Character: Howard Boulder
Released: March 19, 1947
Type: Movie
George and Catherine Apley of Boston lead a proper life in the proper social circle, as did the Apleys before them. When grown daughter Eleanor falls in love with Howard (from New York!), and son John with Myrtle (from Worcester!), the ordered life of the Apley home on Beacon Street is threatened, as is the hoped-for union of John and Apley-cousin Agnes.
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Wake Up and Dream
Title: Wake Up and Dream
Character: Lt. Coles
Released: December 2, 1946
Type: Movie
Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother.
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Johnny Comes Flying Home
Title: Johnny Comes Flying Home
Character: Miles Carey
Released: April 5, 1946
Type: Movie
Three World War II fliers face financial obstacles threatening to ground their fledgling air-freight business.
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Behind Green Lights
Title: Behind Green Lights
Character: Arthur Templeton
Released: February 15, 1946
Type: Movie
An unscrupulous private investigator with a penchant for blackmail is found dead in a car and the leading suspect is Janet Bradley, the daughter of a mayoral candidate. With the election just weeks away, shady and ruthless individuals muscle the medical officer into switching the corpse with another body. Lieutenant Sam Carson, one of the few good apples in the bunch must find a way to get to the bottom of it all.
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Captain Eddie
Title: Captain Eddie
Character: Sgt. Jim Reynolds
Released: June 18, 1945
Type: Movie
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his plane crashed in the South Pacific in late 1942.
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The Purple Heart
Title: The Purple Heart
Character: Lt. Kenneth Bayforth
Released: February 25, 1944
Type: Movie
This is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war. Relates the hardships the men endure while in captivity, and their final humiliation: being tried and convicted as war criminals.
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Bombardier
Title: Bombardier
Character: Instructor
Released: May 14, 1943
Type: Movie
A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular, if somewhat jingoistic, battle sequence.