Quiz

While rehearsing a scene for Universal's All'est di Giava (1935), he was mauled by a 400-pound lion on his neck and shoulders, very close to his jugular vein. it required nearly a year for him to recover from the injuries.

Never placed all his eggs in one basket when it came to his financial security. At one time he owned a gas station and garage, a half interest in a pearling schooner, a pair of whaling boats, a hog farm, a chicken ranch, a lingerie shop, and purchased an island off the coast of the Indonesian island of Java where coconuts were harvested.

Every time he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, one of his co-stars won the Oscar for Best Actress (Jennifer Jones for Bernadette (1943), Loretta Young for La moglie celebre (1947) and Jane Wyman for Johnny Belinda (1948)).

Served during WWI as a lieutenant in the Army Corps of Engineers.

Was in three Oscar Best Picture nominees: Uomini e topi (1939), Bernadette (1943) and Johnny Belinda (1948).

He was billed as Charles A. Bickford early in his career. The "A" stood for Ambrose.

Amomg his outside interests were painting and a gold mine in San Bernadino, CA.

Studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Wrote his autobiography, "Bulls, balls, bicycles & actors", in 1965.

Interred at Woodlawn Cemetary, Santa Monica, CA.

Is one of eight actors who have received an Oscar nomination for their performance as a priest. The others, in chronological order, are: Spencer Tracy for San Francisco (1936) and La città dei ragazzi (1938); Bing Crosby for La mia via (1944) and Le campane di Santa Maria (1945); Barry Fitzgerald for La mia via (1944); Gregory Peck for Le chiavi del paradiso (1944); Karl Malden for Fronte del porto (1954); Jason Miller for L'esorcista (1973); and Philip Seymour Hoffman for Il dubbio (2008). Tracy, Crosby and Fitzgerald all won Oscars for their performances.

Son Rex Bickford (b. 1924, d. 1960), coffee importer.

He was a lifelong Democrat.

Daughter Doris Bickford (b. 1919).