- Charles Rogers (actor)
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Charles Rogers 
in the film Wings (1927)Born Charles Edward Rogers
August 13, 1904
Olathe, Kansas, U.S.Died April 21, 1999 (aged 94)
Rancho Mirage, California, U.S.Occupation Actor/Musician Years active 1926–99 Spouse Mary Pickford (m. 1937–1979) (her death)
Beverly Ricondo (m. 1981–1999) (his death)Charles Edward “Buddy” Rogers (August 13, 1904 – April 21, 1999) was an American actor and jazz musician.
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Life and career
Early years
Rogers with The Twin Stars radio program, 1937.
Rogers was born to Maude and Bert Henry Rogers in Olathe, Kansas. He studied at the University of Kansas where he became an active member of Phi Kappa Psi. In the mid-1920s he began acting professionally in Hollywood films. A talented trombonist skilled on several other musical instruments, Rogers performed with his own jazz band in motion pictures and on radio. During World War II, he served in the United States Navy as a flight training instructor.
Career
Nicknamed "Buddy", his most remembered performance in film was opposite Clara Bow in the 1927 Academy Award winning Wings, the first film ever honored as "Best Picture."
Respected by his peers for his work in film and for his humanitarianism, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored Rogers in 1986 with The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Charles "Buddy" Rogers has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6135 Hollywood Blvd.
A longtime resident and benefactor of California's Coachella Valley, Rogers was honored by having named after him a children's symphony orchestra that he and second wife, Beverley Ricondo, a real estate agent he married in 1981, helped found. A street in Cathedral City, California is named after him as well.
Personal life
At the 1988 Academy AwardsIn 1937, Rogers became the third husband of silent film legend Mary Pickford, a woman twelve years his senior. The couple adopted two children—Roxanne (born 1944, adopted in 1944) and Ronald Charles (born 1937, adopted in 1943)—and remained married for 42 years until Pickford's death in 1979.
Death
Rogers died in Rancho Mirage, California in 1999 at the age of 94 of natural causes, and was interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Cathedral City near Palm Springs, California.
Filmography
- Fascinating Youth (1926)
- More Pay - Less Work (1926)
- So's Your Old Man (1926)
- Wings (1927)
- My Best Girl (1927)
- Get Your Man (1927)
- Abie's Irish Rose (1928)
- Varsity (1928)
- Someone to Love (1928)
- Red Lips (1928)
- Close Harmony (1929)
- River of Romance (1929)
- Illusion (1929)
- Halfway to Heaven (1929)
- Young Eagles (1930)
- Paramount on Parade (1930)
- Safety in Numbers (1930)
- Follow Thru (1930)
- Heads Up (1930)
- Along Came Youth (1930)
- The Slippery Pearls (1931)
- The Lawyer's Secret (1931)
- The Road to Reno (1931)
- Working Girls (1931)
- This Reckless Age (1932)
- Best of Enemies (1933)
- Take a Chance (1933)
- Dance Band (1935)
- Old Man Rhythm (1935)
- This Way Please (1937)
- Let's Make a Night of It (1938)
- Golden Hoofs (1941)
- Mexican Spitfire's Baby (1941)
- Sing for Your Supper (1941)
- Mexican Spitfire at Sea (1942)
- Twelfth Street Rag (1942)
- Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost (1942)
- An Innocent Affair (1948)
- The Parson and the Outlaw (1957)
Discography
- February 27, 1930 & March 4, 1930
- (I'd Like To be) A Bee In Your Boudoir/My Future Just Passed (Columbia 2193-D)
- March 4, 1930
- Any Time's the Time To Fall In Love/(Up On Top Of A Rainbow) Sweepin' The Clouds Away (Columbia 2143-D)
as Buddy Rogers and his California Cavaliers
- April 18, 1932
- You Fascinate Me/Hello,Gorgeous (Victor 24001)
- May 11, 1932
- In My Hideaway/Happy-Go-Lucky You (And Broken-Hearted Me) (Victor 24015)
- May 18, 1932
- I Beg Your Pardon, Mademoiselle/With My Sweetie In The Moonlight (Victor 24031)
- Please Handle With Care/Ask Yourself Who Loves You (Victor 24049)
as Buddy Rogers and his Famous Swing Band (vocals by Buddy Rogers, except Bob Hannon, vocal or Joe Mooney, vocal, or Elizabeth Tilton)
- April 15, 1938
- Lovelight In The Starlight#/This Time It's Real# (Vocalion 4058)
- Moonshine Over Kentucky (v/BR)/Little Lady Make-Believe# (Vocalion 4071)
- June 29, 1938
- Figaro#/Meet The Beat Of My Heart# (Vocalion 4227)
- Happy As A Lark (v/BR)/The Sunny Side Of Things@ (Vocalion 4240)
- September 17, 1938
- You Can't Be Mine (And Someone Else's Too)$/While A Cigarette Was Burning$ (Vocalion 4408)
- This Is Madness (To Love Like This)#/Raindow 'Round The Moon (instrumental) (Vocalion 4422)
References
- "Charles Rogers Biography". filmreference. 2008. http://www.filmreference.com/film/84/Charles-Rogers.html. Retrieved 2009-01-08.
External links
- "Buddy Rogers Original name: Charles Rogers". Actor. Find a Grave. May 10, 1999. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5413. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
- Charles Rogers at the Internet Broadway Database
- Charles Rogers at the Internet Movie Database
- Photographs and bibliography
Academy Awards Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Y. Frank Freeman (1956) · Samuel Goldwyn (1957) · Bob Hope (1959) · Sol Lesser (1960) · George Seaton (1961) · Steve Broidy (1962) · Edmond L. DePatie (1965) · George Bagnall (1966) · Gregory Peck (1967) · Martha Raye (1968) · George Jessel (1969) · Frank Sinatra (1970) · Rosalind Russell (1972) · Lew Wasserman (1973) · Arthur B. Krim (1974) · Jules C. Stein (1975) · Charlton Heston (1977) · Leo Jaffe (1978) · Robert Benjamin (1979) · Danny Kaye (1981) · Walter Mirisch (1982) · M. J. Frankovich (1983) · David L. Wolper (1984) · Charles “Buddy” Rogers (1985) · Howard W. Koch (1989) · Audrey Hepburn / Elizabeth Taylor (1992) · Paul Newman (1993) · Quincy Jones (1994) · Arthur Hiller (2001) · Roger Mayer (2005) · Sherry Lansing (2007) · Jerry Lewis (2009)
Categories:- 1904 births
- 1999 deaths
- People from Olathe, Kansas
- Academy Honorary Award recipients
- American military personnel of World War II
- American actors
- American film actors
- American silent film actors
- American jazz trombonists
- Jazz trombonists
- University of Kansas alumni
- United States Navy officers
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