Biografia

10 maggio 1914 · Des Moines, Iowa, Stati Uniti

30 luglio 1980 · Studio City, California, Stati Uniti (dopo cadere attraverso una porta in vetro della doccia)

Charles Butters

1,78 m

Gravelly voice

Often played law enforcement figures or military officers

His tragic death, from falling through a glass shower door and bleeding out, resulted in California's enacting a state law requiring all glass shower doors to be made with safety glass, so his accident could not be repeated.

Appeared with Jim Backus in four films: I milionari a New York (1950), Il suo tipo di donna (1951), Caccia al tenente (1962) and Questo pazzo, pazzo, pazzo, pazzo mondo (1963).

Karen Burroughs Hansberry published a short biography of McGraw in her book 'Bad Boys: The Actors of Film Noir'.

Appeared in four films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: I gangsters (1946), Spartacus (1960), Gli uccelli (1963), and A sangue freddo (1967).

In September 1955 he surfaced in the Humphrey Bogart role as Rick in the television version of Casablanca (1955) for ABC. It lasted only one season. However, for some reason, Rick's last name here was Jason. NBC revived the series again in (Casablanca (1983)), this time with David Soul of Starsky & Hutch (1975) fame and with the lead character's name reverting to that of the original film--Rick Blaine.

Sterminate la gang! (1955) - $750 per week