Charles Eldridge

{{short description|American actor}}

{{for|the Massachusetts businessman and politician|Charles W. Eldridge}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Charles Eldridge

| image = Charles Eldridge moviecard-1911.jpg

| caption = 1911

| birth_date = {{birth date|1854|7|25}}

| birth_place = Saratoga Springs, New York, United States

| death_date = {{death date and age|1922|10|29|1854|7|25}}

| death_place = New York City, New York, United States

| birthname =

| occupation = Actor

| spouse = Addie Dunant

| yearsactive = 1870s–1922

}}

Charles Eldridge (September 25, 1854 – October 29, 1922) was an American stage and screen actor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

He appeared in over 100 films, although the majority of those were film shorts. He began on the stage during the 1870s, and appeared in at least one Broadway play, Charles Frohman's 1899 production of Because She Loved Him So.{{cite web | url=http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=404573 | publisher=Internet Broadway Database | title=Because She Loved Him So | accessdate=January 26, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131015113612/http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=404573 | archivedate=October 15, 2013}} His first appearance in film was in a 1910 short, The Legacy, in which he starred.{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=39387 | publisher=American Film Institute | title=The Legacy | accessdate=January 26, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140402041021/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=39387 | archivedate=April 2, 2014}} His first appearance in a feature film was in The Strange Story of Sylvia Gray.{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=13712 | publisher=American Film Institute | title=The Legacy | accessdate=January 26, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140402072446/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=13712 | archivedate=April 2, 2014}} In addition to the over 100 shorts he was in, Eldridge appeared in 27 feature films between 1914 and 1922.{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/SearchResult.aspx?s=&Type=PN&Tbl=&CatID=DATABIN_CAST&ID=29305&searchedFor=Charles_Eldridge_&SortType=ASC&SortCol=RELEASE_YEAR | publisher=American Film Institute | title=Charles Eldridge | accessdate=January 26, 2015}} In his roles in full-length films, he would usually appear in a supporting role, although occasionally be given a lead, as in 1917's Polly of the Circus,{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/AbbrView.aspx?s=&Movie=17653 | publisher=American Film Institute | title=Polly of the Circus | accessdate=January 26, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140329163549/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/AbbrView.aspx?s=&Movie=17653 | archivedate=March 29, 2014}} 1920's Broken Hearts,{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/AbbrView.aspx?s=&Movie=2050 | publisher=American Film Institute | title=Broken Hearts | accessdate=January 26, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140329110911/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/AbbrView.aspx?s=&Movie=2050 | archivedate=March 29, 2014}} and 1922's Ashamed of Parents.{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/AbbrView.aspx?s=&Movie=2641 | publisher=American Film Institute | title=Ashamed of Parents | accessdate=January 26, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140401213440/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/AbbrView.aspx?s=&Movie=2641 | archivedate=April 1, 2014}} Polly of the Circus was notable for being the first film released by Goldwyn Pictures, which was shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey, mostly at rented space at the studios owned by Universal Studios.{{cite web | url=http://www.fortleefilm.org/studios.html | publisher=Fort Lee Film Commission | title=Studios | accessdate=January 26, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006092753/http://www.fortleefilm.org/studios.html | archivedate=October 6, 2014}}

His final screen appearance was in a supporting role in the 1922 film, No Trespassing, which starred Irene Castle of the famous dancing team, Vernon and Irene Castle.{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=11002 | publisher=American Film Institute | title=No Trespassing | accessdate=January 26, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140402065458/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=11002 | archivedate=April 2, 2014}} No Trespassing was released on June 11, 1922, and Eldridge died soon after, on October 29, 1922, in New York City.{{Citation needed |date=December 2022}}

Eldridge was married to actress Addie Dunant for 32 years until her death in 1914.{{cite news |last1=Cinee |first1=Mae |title=Gossip of the Movie Plays and Players |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/59304637/chicago-tribune/ |accessdate=September 14, 2020 |work=Chicago Tribune |date=September 20, 1914 |page=54|via = Newspapers.com}}