Charles Oliver (actor)

Charles Arthur Richardson Oliver (actually registered as "Charles Arthur Sherlock Oliver"; 21 June 1907, in Buttevant, County Cork, Ireland – 29 March 1983, in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England) was a 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)^[3]

A reconstruction of the famous forgery investigation of 1888-89
Writer / Producer	Denis Johnston
Piggott	Eliot Makeham
Sir Charles Russel	Felix Aylmer
Parnell	Mark Dignam
Attorney General	Wilfrid Walter
Eye Witness	Brefni O'Rorke
Mrs O'Shea	Olga Edwardes
President of the Court	Graveley Edwards
Timothy Harrington	Blake Giffard
Doctor Maguire	Nigel Fitzgerald
Henniker Heaton	Lionel Dymoke
Frank Hugh O'Donnell	Harry Hutchinson
Court Registrar	Leo McCabe
Captain O'Shea	Charles Oliver
Friend	Micheline Patton
Servant at Eltham	Moya Devlin
Solicitor's Clerk	Russell Hogarth
Spanish Policeman	Rafael Terry
Reporter Houston's Voice	Kenneth Barton
[Actor]	Jack Clifford

 • Three in a Bar (21 Aug 1939)^[4]

The scene is the bar-parlour of a public-house at Shepherd's Bush.
Author	Peter Franklin
Producer	Stephen Harrison
Mrs Johnson	Kathleen Boutall
Lily	Gertrude Musgrove
Beddall	Charles Oliver
Stevens	John Garside
Wilkins	Basil Cunard

Selected filmography

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

References

2. "Ask a Policeman". Radio Times. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
3. Radio Times (18 July 1939), The Parnell Commission, vol. 64, BBC Television, p. 16
4. Radio Times (21 August 1939), Three in a Bar, vol. 64, BBC Television, p. 16

External links

• Charles Oliver at IMDb