Charles Bennett (actor)

Charles Bennett
Born	(1889-03-11)March 11, 1889 Dunedin, New Zealand
Died	Hollywood, California, USA
Years active	1912-1943 (in films)

Charles Bennett (11 March 1889 – 15 February 1943) was a New Zealand-born American actor, who was mostly successful in silent films.

Bennett was born in Dunedin, New Zealand and died in Hollywood, California. He started his film career in Keystone comedies like Tillie's Punctured Romance and The Property Man. He also appeared in the Broadway musical Of Thee I Sing between 1931 and 1933. The sound film damaged his career and he got reduced to bit parts during his later film appareances. However, he was notable as the entertainer in the Inquirer party sequence in Citizen Kane (1941). He appeared in over hundred films between 1912 until his death in 1943. Bennett was married with actress Boots Mallory (1913–1958).

Selected filmography

• How States Are Made (1912)
• Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
• Mabel's Blunder (1914)
• The Property Man (1914)
• The Rainbow Girl (1917)
• The Adventures of Ruth (1919)
• The Top of New York (1922)
• America (1924)
• Treasure Island (1934)
• I Live My Life (1935)
• A Damsel in Distress (1937)
• The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
• Gunga Din (1939)
• Citizen Kane (1941)
• Random Harvest (1942)
• Mrs. Miniver (1942)
• It Ain't Hay (1943)

External links

• Charles Bennett at the Internet Movie Database