Charles Drake
ActingAlso Known As
Charles Ruppert
Biography
Charles Drake (October 2, 1917 – September 10, 1994) was an American actor.Drake was born as Charles Ruppert in New York City. He graduated from Nichols College and became a salesman. In 1939, he turned to acting and signed a contract with Warner Brothers. He wasn't immediately successful. World War II interrupted his career; soon after his military service was complete, Drake returned to Hollywood in 1945, his contract with Warner Brothers ended. In the 1940s, he did some freelance work, like A Night in Casablanca. In 1949 he moved to Universal Studios. In 1955, Drake turned to television as one of the stock-company players on Robert Montgomery Presents and three years later he became the host of the British TV espionage weekly Rendezvous. In 1959, he starred in the Western film, No Name on the Bullet, where he played a doctor dedicated to saving a small town from a dangerous assassin. In 1967 he played the part of Oliver Greer in The Fugitive episode The One That Got Away. He played in 83 films between 1939 and 1975, including Scream, Pretty Peggy. More than 50 were dramas, but he also acted in comedies, science fiction, horror and film noir. He died on September 10, 1994 in East Lyme, Connecticut, aged 76. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charles Drake, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies
(79 total)
The Maltese Falcon
as Reporter (uncredited)
Harvey
as Dr. Sanderson
Winchester '73
as Steve Miller
All That Heaven Allows
as Mick Anderson
The Swimmer
as Howard Graham
It Came from Outer Space
as Sheriff Matt Warren
Sergeant York
as Scorer (uncredited)
Now, Voyager
as Leslie Trotter (uncredited)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Young Priest (uncredited)
The Glenn Miller Story
as Don Haynes
A Night in Casablanca
as Lt. Pierre Delmar
Valley of the Dolls
as Kevin Gillmore
No Name on the Bullet
as Luke Canfield
Across the Pacific
as Officer (uncredited)
Conflict
as Norman Holsworth
To Hell and Back
as Brandon
The Arrangement
as Finnegan
Air Force
as Navigator
TV Shows
(49 total)
Star Trek
as Commodore Stocker
Mission: Impossible
as Mitchell Connally
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Taggart Coleman
Ironside
as Mr. Thomas
The Invaders
as Robert Morrison
The Fugitive
as Oliver Greer
Mannix
as Adam Pierson
The Lucy Show
as Walter Kendricks
Land of the Giants
as Mr. Erdap
The Virginian
as Randolf
Daniel Boone
as Simon Jarvis
Daniel Boone
as Andy Wharton
Wagon Train
as Marshal Vern Rothman
Wagon Train
as Sam Livingston
Wagon Train
as Frank Casteel
Studio One
as Ned Welch
The Name of the Game
as Tom Laraby