Charles Bickford
19 titles
Filmography
19 results

Jim Thorpe – All-American
(1951)A legendary athlete rises from poverty on a Native American reservation to break Olympic records in 1912, only to later be stripped of his medals.

Guilty of Treason
(1950)A Roman Catholic Cardinal from Hungary is arrested and tortured for speaking out against the Nazi occupation of his country during World War II.

Queen of the Yukon
(1940)After a woman sends her daughter off to school, she realizes she’s running low on funds and sells her riverboat, entering a world of trouble.

Brute Force
(1947)Tough, disgruntled prisoners plan a daring, possibly bloody escape while on a drain pipe detail.

Branded
(1950)An outlaw gunman poses as the long-lost son of a wealthy rancher in order to steal his fortune but his conscience gets the better of him when he falls for his target's daughter and instead seeks redemption by finding the real missing heir.

The Last Posse
(1953)To settle an old score, a father and his sons rob a cattle-swindling rancher, go into hiding, and soon find a posse of townsfolk after them.

Dynamite
(1929)To bribe her lover's wife for a divorce, an heiress weds a condemned man to access her trust fund when her jailbird husband is unexpectedly freed.

The Farmer Takes a Wife
(1935)Janet Gaynor and Henry Fonda star in this romantic comedy about a farmer who takes work on a canal boat and falls for the daughter of the ship's cook, much to her father's dismay!

Days of Wine and Roses
(1958)An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" for alcohol.

Of Mice and Men
(1939)A drifter and his slow-witted pal try to make their way in the West.

A Star Is Born
(1954)Academy Award winner Judy Garland stars as a young nightclub singer who becomes a star but loses the man she loves--who will not allow himself to hinder her rise to fame once A Star is Born. The career of talented nightclub singer Esther Blodgett (Garland--The Wizard of Oz) is launched by movie star Norman Maine (James Mason), who also wins the young singer's heart.

Riders of Death Valley
(1941)A band of cowboys find themselves in dangerous competition with an evil businessman and his pack of outlaws for rumored treasure inside a lost mine.

The Unforgiven
(1960)After a rumor spreads that their daughter is from the Kiowa tribe, a family is haunted by a deranged ex-soldier wielding the "sword of God."

Tarzan's New York Adventure
(1942)The ape man, Jane and Cheeta go to Brooklyn to rescue Boy from kidnappers.
Under Pressure
(1935)The story of battling partners on a tunneling crew called the Sandhogs who are attempting to break through from Brooklyn to New York.

Stand Up and Fight
(1939)Wallace Beery and Robert Taylor star in this action drama set in the 19th century American West. Empire-building Blake Cantrell (Taylor) clashes with Captain Boss Starkey while constructing a railroad across the wide open spaces. As Cantrell progresses from drunken roisterer to pioneering visionary, Starkey goes from deadly foe to trusted friend. Charles Bickford and Florence Rice also star.

Roseanna McCoy
(1949)The saga of the Hatfield-and-McCoy feud is romanticized in Samuel Goldwyn's Roseanna McCoy. Newcomer Joan Evans stars as the title character, whose elopement with Johnse Hatfield serves to further fuel the flames of the deadly mountain feud.

The Big Country
(1958)When a ship captain heads west to join his fiancée on her father’s ranch, he is thrust into the middle of a bitter feud between two families.

Not as a Stranger
(1955)A heartless and critical medical student who marries a nurse for her money must face his own imperfections when a friend needs emergency surgery.