Description: AUTOGRAPHED PHOTO SIGNEDwith COA Charles Winninger (1884 – 1969) was a stage and film actor, most often cast in comedies or musicals. He was born in Athens, Wisconsin, the son of Rosalia (Grassler) and Franz Winninger. His folks were Austrian immigrants. He began as a vaudeville actor. His most famous stage role was as Cap'n Andy Hawks in the original production of Show Boat, the Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II musical classic, in 1927. He played the role in the 1932 stage revival and the 1936 film version of the show. He became so identified with the role and with his persona as a riverboat captain that he played several variations of the role, notably on the radio program Maxwell House Show Boat, which was clearly inspired by the Broadway musical. Winninger's pre-Code film career includes Night Nurse, a 1931 drama about two girls being systematically starved to death by the family chauffeur. Winninger portrays a kindly physician who attempts to save the suffering children. After the film of Show Boat in 1936, Winninger appeared in 1936's Three Smart Girls (as the father of Deanna Durbin's character), 1937's Nothing Sacred (as the drunken doctor who misdiagnoses Carole Lombard's character), 1939's Destry Rides Again (as Wash, the sheriff), 1941's Ziegfeld Girl (as the father of Judy Garland's character), and 1945's State Fair (as Abel Frake). He returned to Broadway only once for the 1951 revival of Kern and Hammerstein's Music in the Air. Winninger had the lead role in only one film, 1953's The Sun Shines Bright, John Ford's remake of Judge Priest. Winninger played the role that Will Rogers portrayed in 1934. Winninger made a notable television appearance in 1954 in I Love Lucy as Barney Kurtz, the former vaudevillian partner of Fred Mertz (played by William Frawley) in an episode titled "Mertz and Kurtz". He made his last film in 1960. CREDITSMister Flirt in Wrong (1915, Short) - Mr. RawsberryLizzie's Shattered Dreams (1915, Short) - 2nd Stranger from the CityThe Doomed Groom (1915, Short) - The GroomA September Mourning (1916, Short) - The ArtistPied Piper Malone (1924) - Louie - the BarberThe Canadian (1926) - Pop TysonSummer Bachelors (1926) - Preston SmithTHREE STOOGES Soup to Nuts (1930) - Otto SchmidtFighting Caravans (1931) - MarshallBad Sister (1931) - Mr. MadisonGun Smoke (1931) - Tack GillupGod's Gift to Women (1931) - John ChurchillNight Nurse (1931) - Dr. BellChildren of Dreams (1931) - Dr. Joe ThompsonThe Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) - PhotographerFlying High (1931) - Doctor BrownHusband's Holiday (1931) - Mr. ReidSocial Register (1934) - JonesieShow Boat (1936) - Cap'n Andy HawksWhite Fang (1936) - Doc McFaneThree Smart Girls (1936) - Judson CraigWoman Chases Man (1937) - B.J. NolanCafe Metropole (1937) - Joseph RidgewayThe Go Getter (1937) - Cappy RicksYou Can't Have Everything (1937) - Sam GordonCAROLE LOMBARD Nothing Sacred (1937) - Dr. Enoch DownerMAE WEST Every Day's a Holiday (1937) - Van DoonYou're a Sweetheart (1937) - Cherokee CharlieGoodbye Broadway (1938) - Pat MalloyHard to Get (1938) - Ben RichardsThree Smart Girls Grow Up (1939) - Judson CraigBabes in Arms (1939) - Joe MoranDestry Rides Again (1939) - Washington DimsdaleBarricade (1939) - Samuel J. CadyIf I Had My Way (1940) - Joe JohnsonBeyond Tomorrow (1940) - Michael O'BrienMy Love Came Back (1940) - Julius MaletteLittle Nellie Kelly (1940) - Michael NoonanPot o' Gold (1941) - C.J. HaskellZiegfeld Girl (1941) - 'Pop' GallagherThe Getaway (1941) - Dr. Josiah GlassMy Life with Caroline (1941) - BlissMister Gardenia Jones (1942, Documentary short) - John JonesFriendly Enemies (1942) - Karl PfeifferConey Island (1943) - FinniganHers to Hold (1943) - Judson CraigA Lady Takes a Chance (1943) - WacoFlesh and Fantasy (1943) - King Lamarr (Episode 3)Broadway Rhythm (1944) - Sam DemmingSunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944) - Dudley 'Granfeathers' OsborneBelle of the Yukon (1944) - Pop CandlessState Fair (1945) - Abel FrakeShe Wouldn't Say Yes (1945) - Doctor LaneLover Come Back (1946) - William 'Pa' Williams, Sr.Living in a Big Way (1947) - D. Rutherford MorganSomething in the Wind (1947) - Uncle Chester ReadThe Inside Story (1948) - Uncle EdGive My Regards to Broadway (1948) - Albert NorwickFather Is a Bachelor (1950) - Professor Mordecai FordTorpedo Alley (1952) - Oliver J. PeabodyThe Sun Shines Bright (1953) - Judge William Pittman PriestA Perilous Journey (1953) - Captain Eph AllanChamp for a Day (1953) - Pa KarlsenThose Were the Days (1953, TV Movie)Las Vegas Shakedown (1955) - Ernest RaffRaymie (1960) - R.J. ParsonsThe Miracle of the White Reindeer (1960) - Zoo Keeper Insured Media Mail Shipping In A Box Within Two Business Days Of Payment
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