CHARLES MCGRAW BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:

Charles McGraw was born on May 10th, 1914 in Des Moines, Iowa with the birth name Charles Butters.  He first became involved in acting in 1942 making his film debut in a small uncredited role.  Soon his career took off playing dozens of characters on a number of television series and films.
 
His first real starring role was in 1955 in the television version of, "Casablanca" (1955) which aired on ABC.  He also added a number of film roles to his resume such as, "The Narrow Margin" (1952), "Armored Car Robbery" (1950), "Spartacus" (1960), "The Bridges at Toko-Ri" (1954) and "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World' (1963). 
 
His latest appearances were in, "A Boy and His Dog' (1975) and "Twilights Last Gleaming" (1977).  McGraw was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
 
McGraw married only once to Freda Choy Kitt in 1938 and they had one child together before the marriage ended in a divorce in 1967.  He did not marry again and on July 30th, 1980, McGraw passed away at the age of sixty six in Studio City, California after he fell through a shower glass door.

 
Filmography

1977 Twilight's Last Gleaming 
1976 The Killer Inside Me
1976 Perilous Voyage
1975 A Boy and His Dog 
1974 Police Story 
1973 Money to Burn 
1971-1973 Adam-12 
1973 Mission: Impossible 
1973 Hawkins
1973 Emergency! 
1973 Banyon
1972 Ironside 
1972 The Longest Night
1971-1972 Nichols 
1972 The Night Stalker 
1972 O'Hara, U.S. Treasury
1971-1972 The Smith Family
1971 Monty Nash
1971 The Devil and Miss Sarah
1971 Chandler
1964-1971 Gunsmoke 
1971 The Man and the City 
1971 Johnny Got His Gun 
1971 O'Hara, U.S. Treasury 
1970 Matt Lincoln 
1970 Mod Squad 
1970 The Name of the Game 
1970 The Andersonville Trial 
1969 Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here 
1962-1969 Bonanza
1969 Pendulum
1967-1968 Judd for the Defense 
1968 The Wild Wild West
1968 The Outcasts 
1968 Hang 'Em High 
1967 In Cold Blood 
1967 The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1967 Hondo 
1967 The Busy Body 
1966 Run for Your Life
1965 A Man Called Shenandoah 
1965 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1964-1965 Kraft Suspense Theatre
1965 Ben Casey 
1964 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea 
1964 Destry
1964 Nightmare in Chicago
1964 Grindl 
1964 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters 
1964 77 Sunset Strip 
1963 The Lieutenant
1963 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 
1961-1963 Dr. Kildare 
1959-1963 The Untouchables
1963 The Birds
1963 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1963 The Virginian 
1962 The Horizontal Lieutenant 
1962 Wagon Train
1962 87th Precinct 
1962 Cain's Hundred
1961 The New Breed
1961 Follow the Sun
1953-1961 G.E. True Theater
1961 The Dick Powell Theatre
1961 Dante
1961 Laramie
1961 Shirley Temple Theatre
1960 Cimarron
1960 Thriller
1960 Route 66
1960 Spartacus
1960 The Deputy 
1960 The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor
1960 The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1960 The Man from Blackhawk
1959 Hotel de Paree
1959 Troubleshooters 
1959 The Wonderful Country 
1959 Johnny Staccato 
1959 The Man in the Net 
1958 Twilight for the Gods
1958 The Defiant Ones
1958 Saddle the Wind 
1957 Joe Dakota 
1957 Slaughter on Tenth Avenue 
1957 Joe Butterfly
1957 Crossroads 
1957 Conflict 
1956 The Cruel Tower
1956 Toward the Unknown 
1956 Away All Boats 
1954-1956 The Adventures of Falcon 
1955 Warner Brothers Presents
1955-1956 Casablanca 
1955 The Whistler 
1954 The Bridges at Toko-Ri
1953-1954 Cavalcade of America
1954 Loophole
1953 Thunder Over the Plains
1953 War Paint
1953 Lux Video Theatre 
1953 Mr. & Mrs. North
1952 One Minute to Zero
1952 The Narrow Margin 
1951 Roadblock 
1951 His Kind of Woman 
1951 Double Crossbones 
1950 Armored Car Robbery
1950 I Was a Shoplifter 
1950 Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town 
1950 Side Street
1949 The Threat 
1949 The Story of Molly X 
1949 Border Incident 
1949 Reign of Terror 
1949 Once More, My Darling 
1948 Blood on the Moon
1948 Hazard 
1948 Berlin Express 
1948 The Hunted 
1947 T-Men
1947 The Gangster 
1947 Roses Are Red  
1947 Brute Force 
1947 The Long Night 
1947 The Big Fix 
1947 The Farmer's Daughter 
1946 The Killers 
1944 The Seventh Cross
1944 Strange Confession
1943 The Mad Ghoul
1943 Corvette K-225 
1943 Destroyer
1943 Mechanized Patrolling
1943 Two Tickets to London
1943 They Came to Blow Up America
1943 Tonight We Raid Calais
1943 The Moon Is Down
1942 The Undying Monster