Acting

Charles Bennett

Born 1891-04-13 · Dunedin, New Zealand

Acting credits

Citizen Kane poster
8.0

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

Citizen Kane

1941

Mrs. Miniver poster
7.1

Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.

Mrs. Miniver

1942

Man Hunt poster
6.9

Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young woman.

Man Hunt

1941

Treasure Island poster
6.5

In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of buccaneer Captain Flint's buried treasure.

Treasure Island

1934

Gunga Din poster
6.5

British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him.

Gunga Din

1939

It Ain't Hay poster
6.5

Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.

It Ain't Hay

1943

Tillie's Punctured Romance poster
6.2

A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.

Tillie's Punctured Romance

1914

Born to Dance poster
6.1

On leave, a sailor falls in love with a young lady aspiring to become a Broadway dancer, but their relationship is jeopardized by an established Broadway star, who is also enamored by him.

Born to Dance

1936

The Craven poster
5.7

A short western about a cowardly sheriff who leaves it up to his wife to catch a murderer, and then takes the credit himself.

The Craven

1912

The Light That Failed poster
5.8

A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.

The Light That Failed

1939

I Live My Life poster
6.6

A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.

I Live My Life

1935

Whose Baby? poster
NR

Bobby Vernon is fooled into a mock bigamist gag and chaos assures.

Whose Baby?

1917

Recreation poster
5.2

Charlie begins to woo a woman on a bench, only to have her seaman boyfriend object. After a brick fight between the two men that eventually involves two police officers, all five people end up in the local pond to cool off.

Recreation

1914

The Adventures of Ruth poster
NR

Daniel Robin has become mixed up with a band of criminals known as "the 13," and is shot when he refuses to do their bidding. His daughter Ruth, brought home from boarding school, reaches his bedside before he expires. He tells her that she will be given thirteen keys. Instructions will be provided with each key and, if she follows the instructions, she will eventually fully learn of her birthright. Many adventures then follow as Ruth attempts to solve the puzzle of each key and establish her true birthright.

The Adventures of Ruth

1919

Mabel's Blunder poster
5.2

Mabel is pursued by her boss, despite being engaged to his son, in this gender-bending comedy of errors and mistaken identities.

Mabel's Blunder

1914

Step Lively, Jeeves! poster
6.0

A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.

Step Lively, Jeeves!

1937

Cursed by His Beauty poster
NR

Married ice man Charles Murray is "Cursed by His Beauty" (1914) when he becomes a model for a female artist.

Cursed by His Beauty

1914

Teddy at the Throttle poster
6.2

Gloria Dawn lives down the hall from her sweetheart, Bobbie Knight. The dishonest Henry Black is Gloria's guardian, and he is also in charge of Bobbie's inheritance. The scheming guardian and his sister have been spending Bobbie's money, and they hope to have the sister marry Bobbie so that they can keep control over his money.

Teddy at the Throttle

1917

A Bit of Blue Ribbon poster
7.0

A short Western in which a cowboy is rescued from a lynching in the nick of time.

A Bit of Blue Ribbon

1913

No artwork available
NR

Mabel meets a masher in the park while en route to get a position as maid. Later she finds the man was the husband of her new mistress. There is an exciting chase scene, and the picture winds up with everyone in the lake.

Mabel’s Latest Prank

1914

Mabel's Busy Day poster
5.7

Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment. Charlie finds them and gives them away to the hungry spectators at the track as Mabel frantically tries to find her lost box of hot dogs. Mabel finds out that Charlie has stolen them and sends the police after him. Chaos ensues.

Mabel's Busy Day

1914

The Property Man poster
5.8

Charlie is in charge of stage props and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets the star's dressing room. Once all that is resolved the next issue is getting everyone on stage with the correct backdrop.

The Property Man

1914

The Face on the Barroom Floor poster
5.4

A painter turned tramp (Chaplin), devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy man, finds himself drunk and getting drunker by the minute with some sailors at a bar until he's literally falling down. He keeps futilely trying to draw the woman's picture on the floor with a piece of chalk until he finally passes out cold (or perhaps dies, as in the poem) at the end of the film.

The Face on the Barroom Floor

1914

America poster
5.9

The story of a family caught up in the American Revolutionary War.

America

1924