Job Actor
Years active 1915-1960
Top Roles Dr. Arthur Bell, Washington Dimsdale, Waco, Joseph Ridgeway, Julius Malette
Top GenresComedy, Romance, Drama, Musical, Western, Film Adaptation
Top TopicsBook-Based, Based on Play, Christmas
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Charles Winninger Overview:

Character actor, Charles Winninger, was born on May 26, 1884 in Athens, WI. Winninger died at the age of 84 on Jan 27, 1969 in Palm Springs, CA .

MINI BIO:

Chubby, lovable, and usually mustachioed, Charles Winninger, hailed from a family of vaudevillians with whose act he stayed for many years, on and off -- until films claimed him as a 'regular' after his role as Cap'n Andy in the 1936 film, Show Boat. He was a top featured attraction after that until the early fifties, almost equaling his earlier success, when he played the father of the family in the 1945 version of State Fair.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Illustrated Dictionary of Film Character Actors).

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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Radio.

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Charles Winninger Quotes:

Waco: Remember what you told me? "Women is like socks... you gotta change 'em regular."

Sam Gordon: [to George] The national pastime on Broadway isn't baseball, is kicking those guys who are down on their faces.

Abel Frake: [tasting the mincemeat] Doesn't taste like Grandma Stiches.

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Charles Winninger on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame

6333 Hollywood Blvd.


Ceremony Date: Feb 8, 1960
Category: Radio
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Charles Winninger Facts
On TV, one of his most beloved appearances was as a nostalgic guest star on a 1954 episode of "I Love Lucy" (1951) in which he played an old vaudevillian partner of Fred Mertz's (William Frawley). In the show the two, who once billed themselves as "Mertz & Kurtz," sing a couple of cute ditties: "Oh By Jingo" and "I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl Who Married Dear Old Dad." Later, Winninger joined the entire "Lucy" cast for a musical revue at Ricky's Tropicana Club, where numbers included "On the Boardwalk to Atlantic City," "By the Beautiful Sea" and "I Found a Peach on the Beach." Both Frawley and Winninger were vaudevillians in real life.
He created the role of Cap'n Andy in the original 1927 stage production of "Show Boat", a role which he repeated in the first (1932) Broadway revival and the 1936 film version (Show Boat (1936)) and which, from all accounts and the evidence provided in the 1936 film, became the greatest performance of his career.
He shared the same birth date - May 26 - with Joseph Urban, who designed the sets for the original Broadway stage production of "Show Boat", and Sammy Lee, who choreographed it.
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