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Charley Grapewin

1869 - 1956

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Charles Ellsworth Grapewin (December 20, 1869 – February 2, 1956) was an American vaudeville and circus performer, writer, and stage and film actor. As an character actor, he worked in over one-hundred motion pictures during the silent and sound eras, mostly as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player during the 1930s and is best known to modern audiences for portraying Uncle Henry in MGM's film adaptation of The Wizard of Oz (1939), "Grandpa" William James Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Jeeter Lester in Tobacco Road (1941), Uncle Salters in Captains Courageous (1937), Gramp Maple in The Petrified Forest (1936), Wang's Father in The Good Earth (1937), and California Joe in They Died With Their Boots On (1941). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Charley Grapewin is the 6,142nd most popular actor (up from 7,051st in 2024), the 9,484th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,413th in 2019) and the 2,823rd most popular American Actor.

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Among actors, Charley Grapewin ranks 6,143 out of 13,578. Before him are Anouk Grinberg, Jennifer Winget, Ines Pellegrini, Alexis Arquette, Lolita Davidovich, Ivan Bortnik, and Nestor Serrano. After him are Larry Linville, Maxim Galkin, Spike Milligan, Vera Maretskaya, and Carmen Zapata.

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Among people born in 1869, Charley Grapewin ranks 148. Before him are Albert Engström, Stephen Leacock, Bill Haywood, Booth Tarkington, Vilém Goppold von Lobsdorf, and Harry Stafford. After him are Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, Bertha Townsend, Robert S. Woodworth, Bernard Pyne Grenfell, George Caridia, and Tom Kiely. Among people deceased in 1956, Charley Grapewin ranks 201. Before him are Oskar Olsen, Walter de la Mare, Edward Arnold, Jim Elliot, Jan Lechoń, and Vlastimil Lada-Sázavský. After him are Benno von Arent, Francis Tyler, Max Emmerich, Robert Newton, René Fernández, and Hatı Çırpan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charley Grapewin ranks 9,485 out of 20,380. Before him are Iva Toguri D'Aquino (1916), Robert Stangland (1881), David Koepp (1963), Robert E. Sherwood (1896), and Nestor Serrano (1955). After him are Michael Shermer (1954), Larry Linville (1939), Edward Goodrich Acheson (1856), Kent Beck (1961), Marsden Hartley (1877), Martha Rosler (1943), and Elizabeth Cotten (1893).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Charley Grapewin ranks 2,824. Before him are Mary Carlisle (1914), Richard Dysart (1929), Will Yun Lee (1971), Harvey Korman (1927), Alexis Arquette (1969), and Nestor Serrano (1955). After him are Larry Linville (1939), Carmen Zapata (1927), Garrett Hedlund (1984), JJ Feild (1978), Julie Gibson (1913), and Jack Angel (1930).

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