C. V. France
{{Short description|British actor (1868–1949)}}
{{redirect|Charles France|the rugby player|Charles France (rugby union)}}
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{{Infobox person
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| birth_name = Charles V. France
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1868|6|30|df=y}}
| birth_place = Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1949|4|13|1868|6|30|df=y}}
| death_place = Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
| occupation = Actor
| years_active = 1910–44}}
Charles Vernon France (30 June 1868 – 13 April 1949) was a British actor, usually credited as C. V. France.
Stage career
France appeared (along with Ralph Richardson) in William Somerset Maugham's 1932 play For Services Rendered: A Play in Three Acts and Maurice Baring's 1912 drama The Grey Stocking: A Play in Four Acts.
France's stage acting was singled out for praise in Maugham's 1938 literary memoir, The Summing Up: "…But there is one actor whom, since he has never reached the rank of a star, and so has hardly received the recognition that he deserves, I should like to mention. This is C. V. France. He has acted in several of my plays. He has never played a part in which he has not been admirable. He has represented to the smallest particular the character that I had in my mind’s eye. It would be difficult to find on the English stage a more competent, intelligent, and versatile actor".
Complete filmography
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- The Blue Bird (1910, short) – Time
- Eugene Aram (1924) – Squire Lester
- The Burgomaster of Stilemonde (1929)
- The Loves of Robert Burns (1930) – Lord Farquhar
- The Skin Game (1931) – Mr. Hillcrist – The Hillcrists
- These Charming People (1931) – Minx
- Black Coffee (1931) – Sir Claude Amory
- A Night Like This (1932) – Micky the Mailer
- Lord Edgware Dies (1934) – Lord Edgware
- Royal Cavalcade (1935) – Father
- Scrooge (1935) – Spirit of Christmas Future
- Tudor Rose (1936) – Clergy at Execution (uncredited)
- Broken Blossoms (1936) – High Priest
- Crime Over London (1936) – (uncredited)
- Victoria the Great (1937) – Archbishop of Canterbury
- A Yank at Oxford (1938) – Dean Snodgrass
- Strange Boarders (1938) – Col. Lionel Anstruther
- If I Were King (1938) – Father Villon
- The Ware Case (1938) – Judge
- Cheer Boys Cheer (1939) – Tom Greenleaf
- Ten Days in Paris (1940) – General de Guermantes
- Night Train to Munich (1940) – Admiral Hassinger
- Breach of Promise (1942) – Morgan
- Went the Day Well? (1942) – Mr Ashton, the vicar
- The Halfway House (1944) – Mr. Truscott, Solicitor
- It Happened One Sunday (1944) – Magistrate (final film role)
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0289795|C.V. France}}
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Category:English male film actors
Category:Male actors from Bradford
Category:Actors from Gerrards Cross
Category:20th-century English male actors
Category:Male actors from Buckinghamshire
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