Charles Dingle Overview:

Character actor, Charles Dingle, was born on Dec 28, 1887 in Wabash, IN. Dingle died at the age of 68 on Jan 19, 1956 in Worcester, MA .

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Stocky American actor with a mane of greying hair. A Broadway player who only came to films in his fifties, he often played twinkling-eyed, avuncular sorts who were not as benevolent as they looked. His powerful build also led him to playing some crooked figures of authority. From the late 1940s on, he mixed stage, television, and film appearances to equal measure. Probably remains best-remembered as one of Bette Davis's scheming relatives in The Little Foxes.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Character Actors: an Illustrated Directory).

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Charles Dingle Quotes:

Ben Hubbard: I always say to myself, I don't like nervous people. I can't trust 'em. Leo, you are one of the people who bore me. An' I'm getting' too old to wanna' be bored. I'm just getting' so I hate it. Now you take your nerves on outta' here and go upstairs and take a warm bath. That'll be good for you - a nice, warm bath.


Ben Hubbard: [to Regina] That's cynical. But, cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth.


Regina Giddens: How much more time can you give me?
Ben Hubbard: Horace has refused.
Regina Giddens: He'll change his mind. I'll find a way to make him. How much longer can you wait?
Ben Hubbard: Well, I could wait a few days, but I can't wait a few days. I could, but I can't. Could and can't.
[laughs]


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Charles Dingle Facts
Didn't start doing films until he was age 52.

Well remembered as Ben, the "confirmed bachelor" elder to Bette Davis, in The Little Foxes (1941), in a role he had earlier played on Broadway.

Critic Bosley Crowther, reviewing 'The Little Foxes' in New York Times of August 22 1941, commented on his performance "Charles Dingle as brother Ben Hubbard, the oldest and sharpest of the rattlesnake clan, is the perfect villain in respectable garb". Dingle was also good value as factory owner Andrew Holmes in 'The Talk of the Town' (1942).

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