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Charles Trowbridge (January 10, 1882 – October 30, 1967) was an American film actor. He appeared in 233 films between 1915 and 1958.
Trowbridge was born in Veracruz, Mexico, where his father served in the diplomatic corps of the United States. He ran a coffee plantation in Hawaii before venturing into acting.
Trowbridge's Broadway credits include Dinner at Eight (1932), Ladies of Creation (1931), Congai (1928), The Behavior of Mrs. Crane (1927), We Never Learn (1927), Craig's Wife (1925), It All Depends (1925), The Backslapper (1924), The Locked Door (1924), Sweet Seventeen (1923), The Lullaby (1923), The Last Warning (1922), The Night Call (1921), Just Because (1921), The Broken Wing (1920), Why Worry? (1918), This Way Out (1917), Come Out of the Kitchen (1916) and Daddy Long Legs (1914).
Trowbridge died in Los Angeles, California.
Partial filmography
- The Fortune Hunter (1920)
- Island Wives (1922)
- I Take This Woman (1931)
- Rendezvous (1935)
- Mad Love (1935)
- Libeled Lady (1936)
- The Robin Hood of El Dorado (1936)
- The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)
- Love on the Run (1936) as Paris bureau chief (uncredited)
- Exiled to Shanghai (1937)
- A Day at the Races (1937)
- The Invisible Menace (1938)
- Crime School (1938) as Judge Clinton
- Crime Ring (1938)
- Kentucky (1938)
- King of the Underworld (1939)
- On Trial (1939)
- The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
- Each Dawn I Die (1939)
- The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
- Lady of the Tropics (1939)
- Swanee River (1939)
- The House of the Seven Gables (1940)
- The Fatal Hour (1940)
- Johnny Apollo (1940)
- The Man with Nine Lives (1940)
- Our Town (1940)
- The Mummy's Hand (1940)
- The Son of Monte Cristo (1940)
- Mysterious Doctor Satan (1940)
- The Great Lie (1941)
- Too Many Blondes (1941)
- Sergeant York (1941) as Cordell Hull
- Dressed to Kill (1941)
- Belle Starr (1941)
- King of the Texas Rangers (1941)
- Strange Alibi (1941)
- Sex Hygiene (1942 short)
- Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)
- That Other Woman (1942)
- Tennessee Johnson (1942)
- The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943)
- Adventures of the Flying Cadets (1943)
- Captain America (1944)
- The Fighting Seabees (1944)
- Faces in the Fog (1944)
- They Were Expendable (1945)
- The Red Dragon (1946)
- The Hoodlum Saint (1946)
- Undercurrent (1946)
- The Beginning or the End (1947)
- The Sea of Grass (1947)
- Buck Privates Come Home (1947)
- Tarzan and the Huntress (1947)
- Tycoon (1947)
- Hollow Triumph (1948)
- The Paleface (1948)
- Mr. Soft Touch (1948)