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Charles Barton (May 25, 1902 – December 5, 1981) was a film and vaudeville actor and film director. He won an Oscar for best assistant director in 1933. His first film as a director was the Zane Grey feature Wagon Wheels.
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Charles Barton Biography / Wiki
| Name | Charles Barton |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Date of Birth | May 25, 1902 |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 79 |
| Deathday | 1981-12-05 |
Charles Barton Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Shaggy Dog Kids | Self (archive footage) | 2006-03-07 | Reminiscences by the kids from the original 1959 Disney film…. |
| The County Fair | Tim Vail | 1920-09-05 | “The County Fair” begins with a nasty rich guy threatening to turn an old lady onto the street–unless her niece (who lives with her) marries this man… |
| Beau Geste | Buddy McMonigal | 1939-07-24 | When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped under the command of a sadistic sergeant deep in t… |
Charles Barton Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein | Director | 1948-06-15 | Two hapless freight handlers find themselves encountering Dracula, the Frankenstein Monster and the Wolf Man…. |
| Africa Screams | Director | 1949-05-04 | When bookseller Buzz cons Diana into thinking that his friend Stanley knows all there is to know about Africa, they are abducted and ordered to lead D… |
| Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff | Director | 1949-08-22 | Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid… |
| Buck Privates Come Home | Director | 1947-04-04 | Two ex-soldiers return from overseas–one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up runnin… |
| Dance With Me, Henry | Director | 1956-12-17 | Bud and Lou are the owners of the amusement park Kiddieland. Bud, a compulsive gambler, gets in trouble with the mob, and Lou finds himself struggling… |
| The Noose Hangs High | Director | 1948-04-05 | Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two… |
| The Time of Their Lives | Director | 1946-08-13 | Two ghosts who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War return to 20th century New England to retieve a letter from George Was… |
| The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap | Director | 1947-10-08 | Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a not… |
| Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus | Director | 1960-01-21 | Angered at stern Uncle Daniel, Toby Tyler runs away from his foster home to join the circus, where he soon befriends Mr. Stubbs, the frisky chimpanzee… |
| The Shaggy Dog | Director | 1959-03-19 | Through an ancient spell, a boy changes into a sheepdog and back again. It seems to happen at inopportune times and the spell can only be broken by an… |
| The Fighting Westerner | Director | 1935-03-01 | A mining engineer teams up with a crusty deputy sheriff to solve the mystery killings at an old mine where the owner’s family waits for him to die, an… |
| Rose Bowl | Director | 1936-11-30 | Paddy O’Riley and Ossie Merrill, Bellport high school football heroes, enroll in distant colleges; Paddy at a small school in the East, where he is ba… |
| Born to the West | Director | 1937-12-10 | Dare Rudd takes a shine to his cattleman cousin Tom’s girlfriend who asks Tom to hire Dare to head the big cattle drive. Dare loses the money for the … |
| Double Crossbones | Director | 1951-04-26 | Falsely accused by the corrupt Governor Elden of Charleston of fencing stolen pirate booty, young Davey Crandall and friend Tom Botts buy passage on t… |
| The Last Outpost | Director | 1935-10-11 | During WW1, the destinies of British officers Michael Andrews and John Stevenson seem intertwined on the battle front as much as on a more personal le… |
| Two Latins from Manhattan | Director | 1941-10-02 | Joan Daley, a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry and Lois Morgan, when the Cuban sister-act, Marianela … |
| Reveille with Beverly | Director | 1943-02-04 | Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a n… |
| Sweetheart of the Fleet | Director | 1942-05-21 | … |
| Island of Doomed Men | Director | 1940-05-20 | Undercover agent Mark Sheldon gets paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine manned by slave labor run by sadistic Stephen Danel…. |
| The Spirit of Stanford | Director | 1942-10-08 | Columbia’s Spirit of Stanford is built around the talents of a real-life college football star, in this instance all-American quarterback Frankie Albe… |
| Beautiful But Broke | Director | 1944-01-28 | Theatrical agent Waldo Main is inducted into the army, and turns his now clientless agency over to his secretary Dottie Duncan. Dottie decides to orga… |
| White Tie and Tails | Director | 1946-08-30 | When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up marrying an heiress…. |
| Wagon Wheels | Director | 1934-09-15 | A wagon train heads west from Independence, Mo., along the Oregon Trail, led by proud cowboy Clint Belmet. On board are feisty young widow Nancy Welli… |
| Nevada | Director | 1935-11-29 | A gambler (Larry “Buster” Crabbe) wins a ranch in a round of poker, then joins his neighbors on a rustler-ridden cattle drive to Texas…. |
| Smooth as Silk | Director | 1946-02-01 | An attorney enraged over the prosecution of two innocent people goes on a killing spree…. |
| The Milkman | Director | 1950-10-17 | A dairy owner’s son takes a job as milkman with a rival company…. |
| The Crime Nobody Saw | Director | 1937-03-12 | Three playwrights develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment…. |
| The Big Boss | Director | 1941-04-28 | Why did the Governor want to resign?… |
| Murder with Pictures | Director | 1936-09-24 | Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for t… |
| Jam Session | Director | 1944-04-13 | A young woman from Kansas (Ann Miller) arrives in Hollywood with hopes of a movie career…. |
| Behind Prison Gates | Director | 1939-07-28 | An agent for the state attorney general poses as a convict to learn about bank loot…. |
| Babies for Sale | Director | 1940-06-14 | A determined newsman pursues his hunch that a charitable maternity hospital is running a ruthless adoption racket…. |
| Nobody’s Children | Director | 1940-12-12 | A radio host broadcasts a show about children living in an orphanage…. |
| Five Little Peppers And How They Grew | Director | 1939-08-22 | The first of four films in the “Five Little Peppers” series, based on Margaret Sinclair’s popular book, about a widowed mother and her five children. … |
| Five Little Peppers at Home | Director | 1940-02-08 | The second entry in the four “Five Little Peppers” films finds the family struggling to keep their copper mine when their elderly business partner bec… |
| Five Little Peppers in Trouble | Director | 1940-09-01 | The last of the four “Five Little Peppers” films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school…. |
| Out West with the Peppers | Director | 1940-06-30 | When her doctor advises her to move West because of her health, Mrs. Pepper takes her five kids and relocates to Oregon to live with her sister. But a… |
| Forlorn River | Director | 1937-07-02 | “Nevada” (Buster Crabbe) and “Weary” Pierce (Syd Saylor)hijack the loot taken in a bank hold-up by Les Setter (Harvey Stephens), and his gang. They es… |
| Car 99 | Director | 1935-03-02 | A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men. It follows the career of a newly-inducted rookie… |
| Louisiana Hayride | Director | 1944-07-13 | A naïve farm girl is duped by con men who promise her movie stardom in exchange for her savings…. |
| Free For All | Director | 1949-11-01 | The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young inventor…. |
| And Sudden Death | Director | 1936-06-16 | An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between the two, but it’s soon complicated when he believes she … |
| Zorro, the Avenger | Director | 1959-09-10 | Masked crusader Zorro and his father, Don Alejandro, face off against mysterious despot The Eagle in a fight for control of old Spanish California…. |
| Harmon of Michigan | Director | 1941-09-11 | A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play professional football. Instead, he marries his college sweet… |
| Parachute Nurse | Director | 1942-08-06 | Nurses parachuting…. |
| Thunder Trail | Director | 1937-10-21 | A wagon train is robbed by a gang of bandits who kill everyone but a pair of young brothers. Years later, the brothers join force to bring the bandits… |
| Shut My Big Mouth | Director | 1942-02-19 | A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west…. |
| Merrily We Go to Hell | Assistant Director | 1932-06-10 | A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to… |
| The Peter Tchaikovsky Story | Director | 1959-06-29 | The story of young Tchaikovsky through the premiere of his “Sleeping Beauty” ballet…. |
| My Son is Guilty | Director | 1939-12-28 | Honest cop Tim Kerry struggles to keep his son Ritzy from becoming involved in a crime ring…. |
| The Phantom Submarine | Director | 1940-12-20 | On the night before he sails in search of the steamship Arcadia’s sunken gold, Paul Sinclair (Bruce Bennett)meets Madeliene Nielson (Anita Louise) in … |
| Honolulu Lu | Director | 1941-12-11 | While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen…. |
| Tramp, Tramp, Tramp! | Director | 1942-04-02 | Jackie Gleason and Jack Durant are teamed for the first and only time as Hank and Jed, a pair of dimwitted barbers who are forced into bankruptcy beca… |
| The Beautiful Cheat | Director | 1945-07-20 | The title character, played by Bonita Granville, is the secretary at a boys’ reformatory. Sociology professor Noah Beery Jr. shows up to study the juv… |
| Is Everybody Happy? | Director | 1943-10-28 | This is the story of Ted Lewis, popular band leader and clarinettist…. |
| The Richest Man in Town | Director | 1941-08-02 | The conflicting views of two leading citizens in a small town are reconciled when they come across a promoter who is planning to defraud the town. He … |
| 10,000 Kids and a Cop | Director | 1948-10-01 | A documentary showing the constructive approach taken by the Lou Costello, Jr. Youth Foundation in Los Angeles toward prevention of juvenile delinquen… |
| Mexican Hayride | Director | 1948-12-27 | Two con men selling phony stock flee to Mexico ahead of the law, where they run into a woman friend from their earlier days, who is now a bullfighter…. |
| Lucky Legs | Director | 1942-10-01 | Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the … |
| Hello, Annapolis | Director | 1942-04-23 | Rivals Bill Arden and Paul Herbert enter the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in order to impress a girl…. |
| Dangerous Paradise | Assistant Director | 1930-02-13 | Heyst, a hermit on his own tropical island, plays unwilling host to red-headed stowaway Alma. Danger looms…… |
| The Trumpet Blows | Assistant Director | 1934-04-14 | In Mexico, a former bandit settles down and picks out a beautiful young dancer to be his wife. His younger brother also comes home after having spent … |
| What’s Buzzin’, Cousin? | Director | 1943-07-08 | Musicians help a woman (Ann Miller) and her friends make some money with a ghost-town hotel…. |
| Hey, Rookie | Director | 1944-04-06 | Musical comedy star Jimmy Leighter wants to get away from show biz and his leading lady Winnie Clark, so he joins the Army. There he gets the order to… |
| Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair | Director | 1952-01-01 | Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter i… |
| Men in Her Diary | Director | 1945-09-14 | Singer/Dancer Peggy Ryan neither sings nor dances in this comedy in which she plays a secretary, whose life has no romance because she devotes all of … |
| She Has What It Takes | Director | 1943-04-15 | Fay Weston (Jinx Falkenburg), a radio singer of no consequence, pretends to be the daughter of a recently deceased Broadway stage star in order to hoo… |
| Sing for Your Supper | Director | 1941-12-04 | Evelyn Palmer, a débutante society girl who also is a property landlord, becomes interested in the plight of one of her tenants, a struggling band-le… |
| Laugh Your Blues Away | Director | 1942-11-12 | Hired actors posing as Russian royalty complicate a social-climbing mother’s efforts to fix up her son with the daughter of a wealthy Texas rancher…. |
| Let’s Have Fun | Director | 1943-03-04 | Musical comedy…. |
| Swingin’ Along | Director | 1961-04-16 | An amateur tunesmith and a con man pool their resources in order to win first prize in a songwriting contest…. |
| A Man’s World | Director | 1942-09-17 | Somewhere beyond the shores of the United States on a small island, where men ask no questions, women reveal no past and spies neither receive nor exp… |
| Timothy’s Quest | Director | 1936-01-31 | Timothy (Dickie Moore), an orphan, is sent with his sister, Gay (Sally Martin), to a farm run by Vilda Cummins (Elizabeth Patterson, an old maid with … |
| Spellbound | Second Unit Director | 1945-11-08 | When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, dis… |
| Director | A sitcom set in Manhattan’s historic black community of Harlem…. | ||
| Director | Family Affair is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 12, 1966 to September 9, 1971. The series explored the trials of well-to-do civil… | ||
Charles Barton Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Noose Hangs High | Producer | 1948-04-05 | Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two… |
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