C. V. France

Charles Vernon France (30 June 1868, in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire – 13 April 1949, in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire), usually credited as C. V. France, was a British actor.

France appeared (along with Ralph Richardson) in William Somerset Maugham’s 1932 play For Services Rendered: A Play in Three Acts and Maurice Baring’s 1912 drama The Grey Stocking: A Play in Four Acts.

France’s stage acting was singled out for praise in Maugham’s 1938 literary memoir, The Summing Up: “…But there is one actor whom, since he has never reached the rank of a star, and so has hardly received the recognition that he deserves, I should like to mention. This is C. V. France. He has acted in several of my plays. He has never played a part in which he has not been admirable. He has represented to the smallest particular the character that I had in my mind’s eye. It would be difficult to find on the English stage a more competent, intelligent, and versatile actor.”

• The Blue Bird (1910)
• The Burgomaster of Stilemonde (1929)
• The Skin Game (1931)
• Black Coffee (1931)
• These Charming People (1931)
• A Night Like This (1932)
• Lord Edgware Dies (1934)
• Scrooge (1935)
• Tudor Rose (1936)
• Crime Over London (1936)
• Victoria the Great (1937)
• A Yank at Oxford (1938)
• If I Were King (1938)
• The Ware Case (1938)
• Strange Boarders (1938)
• Cheer Boys Cheer (1939)
• Night Train to Munich (1940)
• Went the Day Well? (1942)
• The Halfway House (1944)
• It Happened One Sunday (1944)