Charles Oliver (actor)

Charles Arthur Richardson Oliver (born Charles Arthur Sherlock Oliver; 21 June 1907, in Buttevant, County Cork, Ireland – 29 March 1983, in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England) was an Irish-born British film actor. He married on 4 June 1938 the actress (Margaret) Noel Hood.^[1] They had two children: Nina (1943) and William (1947). He appeared in the Will Hay film Ask a Policeman as the local squire who oversees a smuggling empire.^[2]

Television

• The Parnell Commission (18 Jul 1939) – Captain O'Shea^[3]
• Three in a Bar (21 Aug 1939) – Beddall^[4]

Selected filmography

• Beloved Imposter (1936) as Pierre
• The Avenging Hand (1936) as Toni Visetti
• Wings Over Africa (1936) as Collins
• Second Bureau (1936) as Paul Benoit
• Midnight at Madame Tussaud's (1936) as Harry Newton
• Fifty-Shilling Boxer (1937) as Jim Pollett
• The Green Cockatoo (1937) as Terrell, Gang Boss
• If I Were Boss (1938) as Owen Reeves
• The Drum (1938) as Rajab
• The Lady Vanishes (1938) as The Officer
• Hey! Hey! USA (1938) as Curly (uncredited)
• Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror (1938) as Max Fleming
• Mountains O'Mourne (1938) as Errol Finnegan
• Life of St. Paul (1938) as Elder
• Ask a Policeman (1939) as The Squire
• The Saint in London (1939) as Dr. Jim, Templar's Friend (uncredited)
• This Man in Paris (1939) as Gaston
• Band Waggon (1940) as Saboteur (uncredited)
• Night Train to Munich (1940) as SS Officer at Concentration Camp (uncredited)
• Under Your Hat (1940) as Carl
• Three Silent Men (1940) as Johnson
• Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It (1941) as Dr. Wilkinson
• Crook's Tour (1941) as Sheik (final film role)