Charley Grapewin
American circus performer and actor (1869-1956)
Biography
Charles Ellsworth Grapewin (December 20, 1869 – February 2, 1956) was an American vaudeville and circus performer, writer, and stage and film actor.
As a 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).
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- How old was Charley Grapewin?
- Charley Grapewin died on February 2, 1956 at the age of 86.
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- Charley Grapewin was born on December 20, 1869.
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- Charley Grapewin was born in Xenia.
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- Charley Grapewin's zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
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- Charley Grapewin is a citizen of United States.
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