Charles Oliver (actor) explained

Charles Arthur Richardson Oliver (born Charles Arthur Sherlock Oliver; 21 June 1907, in Buttevant, County Cork, Ireland – 29 March 1983, in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England) was an Irish-born 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) – Captain O'Shea
• Three in a Bar (21 Aug 1939) – Beddall

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

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20090114115646/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/170414 Charles Oliver at bfi.org.uk
2. Web site: Ask a Policeman . Radio Times . 2 August 2021 .