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Born | Charles Denier Warren July 29, 1889 |
Died | August 27, 1971 82) | (aged
Occupation | Stage, film, television actor |
Charles Denier Warren (29 July 1889 – 27 August 1971) was an Anglo-American actor who appeared extensively on stage and screen from the early 1930s to late 1960s, mostly in Great Britain. [1]
He was born in Chicago the son of Charles Warren and his wife Marguerite Fish. The family moved to England when he was eight. [2]
He is also credited as the writer of Take Off That Hat (1938 screenplay), She Shall Have Music (1935) and the BBC radio show Kentucky Minstrels (1934). [3]
In July 1932 Harry S. Pepper, Stanley Holloway, Joe Morley, Doris Arnold, Jane Carr and Warren revived the White Coons Concert Party show of the Edwardian era for BBC Radio. [4]
He died in Torquay in south west England on 27 August 1971. [5]
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