Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

124

Gender

Male

Birthday

1914-05-10

Deathday

1980-07-29 (66 years old)

Place of Birth

Des Moines, Iowa, USA

Also Known As

Charles Butters
Charles Mc Graw
Чарльз Макгро
Charles Crisp Butters

Charles McGraw

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.

Known For

7.5%

The Birds

Mar 28, 1963

7.5%

Spartacus

Oct 13, 1960

6.8%

Hang 'em High

Apr 12, 1968

7.0%

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Nov 7, 1963

6.6%

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

May 21, 1982

7.4%

The Killers

Aug 30, 1946

7.5%

In Cold Blood

Dec 15, 1967

7.5%

Johnny Got His Gun

Aug 4, 1971

6.3%

A Boy and His Dog

Mar 23, 1975

7.6%

Mission: Impossible

Sep 17, 1966

7.1%

The Defiant Ones

Aug 14, 1958

7.3%

The Narrow Margin

May 3, 1952

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Acting

1982

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid as (in "The Killers") (archive footage)

1979

The Horror Show as (archive footage)

1977

Twilight's Last Gleaming as Air Force Gen. Peter Crane

1976		The Killer Inside Me as Howard Hendricks
1976		Perilous Voyage as Capt. Humphreys

1975

A Boy and His Dog as Preacher

1973		Money to Burn as Neil Davis
1973		Police Story
1973		Hawkins as Capt. Bates

1972		Banyon
1972		The Longest Night as Father Chase
1972		Emergency!
1972		The Night Stalker as Police Chief Ed Masterson

1971		The Devil and Miss Sarah as Marshal Duncan
1971		Chandler as Bernie Oakman
1971		Monty Nash as Jeffers
1971		Nichols as Hansen
1971		Nichols as Luke
1971		Johnny Got His Gun as Mike Burkeman
1971		O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra as Agent Joe Flagg
1971		The Smith Family as Captain Hughes

1970

The Andersonville Trial as Board of Military Judges

1969		Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here as Wilson
1969		Pendulum as Deputy Chief John P. Hildebrand

1968		The Mod Squad
1968		The Outcasts
1968		Adam-12 as Lars Lowell
1968		Adam-12 as Rod Decker
1968		Hang 'em High as Sheriff Ray Calhoun

1967		In Cold Blood as Tex Smith
1967		Hondo
1967		Judd for the Defense
1967		Judd for the Defense as Jim Larkin
1967		Ironside
1967		The Busy Body as Fred Harwell

1966

Mission: Impossible

1965		The Wild Wild West
1965		Run for Your Life as Sam Bailey

1964		The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Jules Cutter
1964		Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1964		Nightmare in Chicago as Harry Brockman

1963		It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World as Lt. Matthews
1963		Kraft Suspense Theatre as Harry Brockman
1963		Kraft Suspense Theatre as Nick Stacy
1963		Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963		Grindl
1963		The Lieutenant
1963		The Birds as Sebastian Sholes

1962		The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Simon Oliver
1962		The Virginian as Big John Beldon
1962		The Horizontal Lieutenant as Col. Charles Korotny

1961		The New Breed as Dr. Cameron Hill
1961		Ben Casey
1961		Dr. Kildare as Fred Rainey
1961		Dr. Kildare as Dr. Kenneth Hasker
1961		87th Precinct
1961		Cain's Hundred as Earl Klegg

1960		Cimarron as Bob Yountis
1960		Spartacus as Marcellus
1960		Route 66
1960		Thriller as Sheriff Cliff Wrights

1959		The Wonderful Country as Dr. Stovall
1959		The Detectives
1959		Johnny Staccato
1959		The Man in the Net as Sheriff Steve Ritter

1958		77 Sunset Strip
1958		The Defiant Ones as Capt. Frank Gibbons
1958		Twilight for the Gods as Yancy
1958		Saddle the Wind as Larry Venables

1957		Joe Dakota as Cal Moore
1957		Slaughter on 10th Avenue as Lt. Anthony Vosnick
1957		Joe Butterfly as Sgt. Jim McNulty

1956		The Cruel Tower as Harry 'Stretch' Clay
1956		Toward the Unknown as Col. 'Mickey' McKee
1956		Away All Boats as Lieut. Mike O'Bannion

1955		Casablanca
1955		Gunsmoke as Calvin
1955		Gunsmoke as Dolen
1955		Gunsmoke as Squawman
1955		The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

1954		The Bridges at Toko-Ri as Cmdr. Wayne Lee
1954		The Whistler
1954		Adventures Of The Falcon
1954		Loophole as Gus Slavin

1953		Thunder Over the Plains as Ben Westman
1953		War Paint as Sgt. Clarke
1953		General Electric Theater
1953		General Electric Theater as Forel

1952		Mr. & Mrs. North
1952		Cavalcade of America as Wilkie Bowman
1952		Cavalcade of America
1952		One Minute to Zero as Sfc. Baker
1952		The Narrow Margin as Det. Sgt. Walter Brown

1951		Roadblock as Joe Peters
1951		His Kind of Woman as Thompson / Narrator
1951		Double Crossbones as Capt. Ben Wickett

1950		Armored Car Robbery as Lt. Jim Cordell
1950		Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town as Shotgun Mike Munger
1950		Side Street as Det. Stan Simon

1949		The Threat as Arnold 'Red' Kluger
1949		The Story of Molly X as Police Capt. Breen
1949		Border Incident as Jeff Amboy
1949		Reign of Terror as Sergeant
1949		Once More, My Darling as Herman Schmelz

1948		Blood on the Moon as Milo Sweet
1948		Hazard as Chick
1948		Berlin Express as Colonel Johns
1948		The Hunted as Detective

1947		T-Men as Moxie
1947		The Gangster as Dugas
1947		Roses Are Red as Duke Arno
1947		On the Old Spanish Trail as Harry Blaisdell
1947		The Long Night as Policeman Stevens
1947		The Big Fix as Armiston
1947		The Farmer's Daughter as Fisher - Finley's Henchman (uncredited)

1946

The Killers as Al

1944

The Impostor as Menessier

1943		The Mad Ghoul as Detective Garrity
1943		Corvette K-225 as Chief Engineer
1943		Destroyer as Assistant Chief Engineer (uncredited)
1943		Two Tickets to London as Hendrik (uncredited)
1943		They Came to Blow Up America as Zellerbach
1943		The Moon Is Down as Ole (uncredited)

1942

The Undying Monster as Strud Strudwick (uncredited)