Charles Boyer was a French-American actor who appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976.
63 Facts About Charles Boyer
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Charles Boyer appeared as himself on the CBS sitcom I Love Lucy.
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Charles Boyer was a shy small-town boy who discovered the movies and theatre at the age of eleven.
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Charles Boyer went to the capital city to finish his education, but spent most of his time pursuing a theatrical career.
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Charles Boyer had roles in Chantelouve, Le grillon du foyer, and Esclave.
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Charles Boyer focused on theatre work for a number of years.
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Charles Boyer returned to the screen with Infernal Circle, Captain Fracasse, and La barcarolle d'amour.
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Charles Boyer was first brought to Hollywood by MGM who wanted him to play the Chester Morris part in a French version of The Big House, Revolte dans la prison.
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Charles Boyer had an offer from Paramount to appear in a small role in The Magnificent Lie with Ruth Chatterton, directed by Berthold Viertel.
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Charles Boyer went back to MGM to make Le proces de Mary Dugan, the French version of The Trial of Mary Dugan.
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Charles Boyer had a choice small role in Jean Harlow's Red-Headed Woman at MGM.
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The last was filmed in an English-language version called The Battle, with Merle Oberon replacing Annabella and Charles Boyer reprising his role.
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Charles Boyer did The Only Girl with Lilian Harvey and performed on the Paris stage in Le Bonheur which was another success.
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Charles Boyer returned to Hollywood for Caravan with Loretta Young at Fox.
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Charles Boyer was in the French-language version Caravane, again with Annabella.
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Charles Boyer starred in some English language movies: Thunder in the East and The Only Girl.
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Charles Boyer co-starred with Claudette Colbert in the psychiatric drama Private Worlds for Walter Wanger at Paramount.
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Charles Boyer paired with Jean Arthur in History Is Made at Night for Wanger, and Greta Garbo in Conquest at MGM.
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Charles Boyer returned to France briefly to make Orage, opposite Michele Morgan for director Marc Allegret.
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Charles Boyer made three films with Irene Dunne: Love Affair at RKO, When Tomorrow Comes at Universal and Together Again at Columbia.
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Charles Boyer went back to France to make Le corsaire for Marc Allegret.
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Charles Boyer was making the movie in Nice when France declared war on Germany in September 1939.
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Charles Boyer played in three classic film love stories: All This, and Heaven Too with Bette Davis, directed by Litvak at Warners; as the ruthless cad in Back Street with Margaret Sullavan, at Universal; and Hold Back the Dawn with Olivia de Havilland and Paulette Goddard, at Paramount.
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In contrast to his glamorous image, Charles Boyer began losing his hair early, had a pronounced paunch, and was noticeably shorter than leading ladies like Ingrid Bergman.
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In January 1942 Charles Boyer signed a three-year contract with Universal to act and produce.
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Charles Boyer was reunited with Sullavan in Appointment for Love at Universal and was one of many stars in Tales of Manhattan, directed by Julien Duvivier and Immortal France.
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Charles Boyer was one of many stars in Flesh and Fantasy which he produced with Julien Duvivier at Universal.
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Charles Boyer was an uncredited producer on Duvivier's Destiny.
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Charles Boyer had one of his biggest hits with Gaslight with Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten.
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Charles Boyer followed it with Together Again re-uniting with Irene Dunne; Congo, a short; and Confidential Agent with Lauren Bacall, at Warners.
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Charles Boyer began his post war career with Cluny Brown with Jennifer Jones directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
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Charles Boyer was Warners highest paid actor at this stage earning $205,000 in 1945.
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Charles Boyer went to Broadway, where he made his first appearance in Red Gloves, based on Dirty Hands by Jean-Paul Sartre, which went for 113 performances.
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Charles Boyer did not abandon cinema: he had leading roles in The 13th Letter, The First Legion, and The Happy Time.
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Charles Boyer had a character role in Thunder in the East an Alan Ladd film.
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Charles Boyer moved into television as one of the pioneering producers and stars of the anthology show Four Star Playhouse.
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Charles Boyer returned to France to star in The Earrings of Madame de.
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Charles Boyer returned to Broadway for Norman Krasna's Kind Sir directed by Joshua Logan which ran for 166 performances.
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Back in Hollywood, Charles Boyer had a support role in MGM's The Cobweb.
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In 1956, Charles Boyer was a guest star on I Love Lucy and had a cameo in Around the World in 80 Days.
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On 17 March 1957, Boyer starred in an adaptation for TV of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, There Shall Be No Night, by Robert E Sherwood.
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Charles Boyer appeared several times in Goodyear Theatre and Alcoa Theatre on TV.
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In France, Charles Boyer was one of several stars in It Happened on the 36 Candles and he co-starred with Brigitte Bardot in La Parisienne and Michele Morgan in Maxime, the latter directed by Henri Verneuil.
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In Hollywood Charles Boyer had a strong supporting role as real life privateer Dominique You alongside Yul Brynner's Jean LaFitte in The Buccaneer.
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Charles Boyer co-starred again with Claudette Colbert in the Broadway comedy The Marriage-Go-Round, but said to the producer, "Keep that woman away from me".
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Charles Boyer did not reprise his performance in the film version.
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Charles Boyer was nominated for the Tony Award as Best Actor in the 1963 Broadway production of Lord Pengo, which ran for 175 performances.
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Later that same year Charles Boyer performed in Man and Boy on the London and New York stage.
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Charles Boyer was reunited with David Niven in The Rogues, a television series starring Gig Young.
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Charles Boyer had good support roles in A Very Special Favor with Rock Hudson; How to Steal a Million with Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole; Barefoot in the Park with Robert Redford and Jane Fonda.
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Charles Boyer's son had died in 1965 and Charles Boyer was finding it traumatic to continue living in Los Angeles so in March 1970 he decided to relocate to Europe.
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Charles Boyer was the star of Hollywood Playhouse on NBC in the 1930s, but he left in 1939 "for war service in France," returning on the 3 January 1940, broadcast.
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Charles Boyer would prefer a program in which he could develop a permanent characterization.
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Charles Boyer became a naturalized citizen of the United States on June 15,1942 in Los Angeles.
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Charles Boyer was the husband of British actress Pat Paterson, whom he met at a dinner party in 1934.
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Boyer's only child, Michael Charles Boyer, died by suicide at age 21.
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Charles Boyer was playing Russian roulette after separating from his girlfriend.
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On 26 August 1978, Charles Boyer died by suicide with an overdose of Seconal while at a friend's home in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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Charles Boyer was taken to the hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, where he died, two days after his wife's death from cancer, and two days before his own 79th birthday.
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Charles Boyer was interred in Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, alongside his wife and son.
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Charles Boyer never won an Oscar, though he was nominated for Best Actor four times in Conquest, Algiers, Gaslight and Fanny, the latter winning him a nomination for the Laurel Awards for Top Male Dramatic Performance.
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Charles Boyer was nominated for the Golden Globe as Best Actor for the 1952 film The Happy Time; and nominated for the Emmy for Best Continuing Performance by an Actor in a Dramatic Series for his work in Four Star Playhouse.
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In 1960, Charles Boyer was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a motion pictures star and a television star.