1. In January 1932, McGraw graduated from high school in Akron and then attended one semester of college.
23 Facts About Charles McGraw
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Charles McGraw made his first film in 1942 with a small, uncredited role in The Undying Monster at Fox.
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Charles McGraw was in Tonight We Raid Calais and They Came to Blow Up America at the same studio, and Two Tickets to London, Destroyer, Corvette K-225, The Mad Ghoul, The Impostor, and The Seventh Cross.
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Charles McGraw developed into a leading man, especially in the film noir genre, during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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Charles McGraw was unbilled in The Farmer's Daughter and Brute Force and had small roles in The Big Fix and The Long Night.
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Charles McGraw had slightly bigger parts in On the Old Spanish Trail, a Roy Rogers Western, and some noirs, Roses Are Red and The Gangster.
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Charles McGraw's parts remained small in T-Men for Anthony Mann, The Hunted, Berlin Express, Hazard, and Blood on the Moon.
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Charles McGraw moved up to third billing in the noir The Threat.
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Charles McGraw played a cop in Side Street for Mann and a gangster in Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town.
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Charles McGraw played Perry Smith's father in "In Cold Blood".
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Charles McGraw was finally given a leading role in RKO's Armored Car Robbery directed by Richard Fleischer.
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Charles McGraw played a gangster in His Kind of Woman, then had the lead in Roadblock as "Honest Joe," the insurance investigator turned thief by love.
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Charles McGraw was a sergeant in One Minute to Zero and War Paint and was a villain in Thunder Over the Plains.
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Charles McGraw starred in the first television version of Casablanca, taking Humphrey Bogart's role as Rick Blaine.
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In 1963, Charles McGraw played Dr Simon Oliver in the pilot of Diagnosis: Danger, a medical drama.
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Charles McGraw later had various single-appearance roles in television episodes such as the gruff and menacing Sheriff Gains in "The Gamble," an installment of the NBC western series Bonanza.
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Charles McGraw is called "The Listener" because he cuts off and wears the ears of the Indians he has killed.
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Charles McGraw appeared in an episode of The Untouchables titled "The Jake Lingle Killing".
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Late in his career, Charles McGraw performed too as a voice actor, providing voice-over narrations for several productions.
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Charles McGraw portrayed a boat captain in "Harbor Division," a 1973 episode of Adam-12.
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Charles McGraw appeared in 1973 in Hawkins: Death and the Maiden, a TV movie that served as the pilot for the series Hawkins starring James Stewart.
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Charles McGraw married Freda Choy Kitt in 1938, and had one daughter.
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In recognition of his contributions to the entertainment industry as an actor, Charles McGraw was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, California on February 8,1960.