Charles Arnt
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Charles Arnt (August 20, 1906 – August 6, 1990) was an American film actor from 1933 to 1962.
Arnt was born in Michigan City, Indiana, the son of a banker. He graduated from Phillips Academy and Princeton University. While at Princeton, he helped to found the University Playes and was president of the Princeton Triangle Club theatrical troupe. He became a banker after he graduated from college.
In the early 1930s, Arnt acted with the University Repertory Theater in Maryland. On Broadway, he appeared in Carry Nation (1932), Three Waltzes (1937), and Knickerbocker Holiday (1938).
Arnt appeared as a character actor in more than 200 films.
In 1962, Arnt retired from acting and began to import and breed Charolais cattle on a ranch in Washington state.
Arnt died in Orcas Island, Washington from pancreatic and liver cancer. He was survived by his wife, two sons, a daughter, and four grandchildren.
Acting
Movie
The Shop Around the Corner
as Policeman (uncredited)
1940
TV
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Mayor
1955
Movie
Ball of Fire
as McNeary
1941
Movie
After the Thin Man
as Drunk (uncredited)
1936
Movie
This Gun for Hire
as Male Dressmaker
1942
Movie
Christmas in Connecticut
as Homer Higgenbottom (uncredited)
1945
Movie
Sweet Bird of Youth
as Mayor Henricks
1962
Movie
Remember the Night
as Tom
1940
Movie
Somewhere in the Night
as Little Man with Glasses (uncredited)
1946
TV
Lassie
as Ralph Trumble
1954
Movie
The Boy with Green Hair
as Mr. Hammond
1948
Movie
My Favorite Brunette
as Crawford
1947
Movie
I Love You Again
as Mr. Billings
1940
Movie
Hollow Triumph
as Coblenz
1948
TV
The Rifleman
as Wes Tippert
1958
Movie
The Man Who Cheated Himself
as Ernest Quimby (as Charles E. Arnet)
1950
Movie
Hold Back the Dawn
as Mr. MacAdams
1941
Movie
Sitting Pretty
as Mr. Taylor (uncredited)
1948
Movie
In Old Oklahoma
as Joe, the Train Conductor
1943
Movie
The Seventh Cross
as Herr Binder (uncredited)
1944
TV
Maverick
as Charlie Mason
1957
TV
Maverick
as Sheriff Charley Peters
1957
Movie
Great Guns
as Doctor
1941
Movie
Blossoms in the Dust
as G. Harrington Hedger
1941