Born Charles Butters in Ohio May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (131st in leap years). There are 235 days remaining. Events 1200-1899 1291 - Scottish nobles recognize the authority of King Edward I of England. 1497 - Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the... May 10, 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. (see link for calendar) Events January 4 - 77 seal hunters freeze to death on ice near Labrador. January 5 - Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a days labor. February 13 - Copyright: In... 1914, square-jawed Charles McGraw grew up to become an actor and eventually made his first movie in 1942 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). Events January January 1 - World War II: The word United Nations is first officially used to describe the Allied pact. January 2 - World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces. The Japanese Admiral stays in... 1942. At first it seemed as though McGraw would spend his movie career playing bit parts as movie tough guys and Gangsters are members of a professional crime organization, i.e. a gang. Famous examples of such organizations include the Mafia, Crips, Yakuza and Triad. Gangsters typically run their operations as a pseudo-business in that they do offer some product or service, albeit an illegal one, for paying customers, rather... gangsters, but the actor later developed into an unconventional but appealing Leading man or leading gentleman is an informal term for the actor who plays a secondary lead or supporting role, usually a love interest, to the leading actress in a film or play. It is not usually applied to the leading actor in the performance if that actor is the... leading man.

McGraw's most popular role in The Narrow Margin with Marie Windsor

Gravel-voiced McGraw's notable films include: playing the grumpy cop hired to protect Marie Windsor in the The term B-movie originally referred to a film designed to be distributed as the lower half of a double feature, often a genre film featuring cowboys, gangsters or vampires. The term now generally refers to a low-budget movie with lesser-known (and generally considered lesser-talented) actors (B... b-movie Film noir is a stylistic approach to genre films forged in depression era detective and gangster movies and hard-boiled detective stories which were a staple of pulp fiction. Based in large part on the that grew out of naturalism, a movement in literature based on realism. Film noir is... film noir classic The Narrow Margin ( Summary of notable events in 1952. Events January events January 8 - West Germany has 8 million refugees inside its borders. January 24 - Sudden heavy snowfall in Algeria. January 24 - Vincent Massey sworn in as first Canada-born Governor-General of Canada. February events February 2 - A Cuba moving northeast. The... 1952); Spartacus is a 1960 film directed by Stanley Kubrick. The screenplay is based on the historical novel of the same name by Howard Fast. Kirk Douglas (Spartacus) and Laurence Olivier (Marcus Licinius Crassus) star. John Gavin (Julius Caesar), Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, Herbert Lom, Woody Strode and Tony... Spartacus as Kirk Douglas (birth name Issur Danielovitch Demsky) (born December 9, 1916) is an American actor. He was born in Amsterdam, New York to Belarusian-Jewish parents (who come from Homel). His son, Michael Douglas, is also an actor. Popular at home and around the world, Kirk Douglas received the Presidential... Kirk Douglas' This article is about the Roman professional fighters. For the Russell Crowe movie, see Gladiator (2000 movie). For the insect, see Gladiator (insect). Pollice Verso, an 1872 painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme, is a well known history painters researched conception of a gladiatorial combat. Gladiators (Latin... gladiator trainer; Lt. Jim Cordell in Armored Car Robbery ( Events January January 5 - US Senator Estes Kefauver introduces a resolution calling for examination of organized crime in the USA January 6 - The United Kingdom recognizes the Peoples Republic of China. The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with Britain in response. January 9 - The Israeli government recognizes the... 1950); Alfred Hitchcock Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was a British film director closely associated with the suspense genre. Influenced by expressionism in Germany, he began directing in England, and worked in the United States from 1939. With more than fifty feature films to... Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963) is a horror film by Alfred Hitchcock, based on a short story by Daphne Du Maurier, who also wrote the novel Hitchcocks film Rebecca was based on. The screenplay was written by Evan Hunter, better known as crime fiction novelist Ed McBain. This film is notable... The Birds ( Events January-February January 11 - The Whisky A Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened. January 14 - George Wallace becomes governor of Alabama. January 22 - Elysée treaty between France and Germany January 28 - Black student Harvey Gantt enters Clemson College in... 1963); and the A cult classic is a work of fiction, usually a film or television show, that is extremely popular with a select audience, but may or may not be successful at the time of its original release. A cult classic may or may not enjoy mainstream success. Some examples of cult... cult classic A Boy and His Dog is a science fiction film based on the Harlan Ellison short story of the same title, which appeared around 1976. In the film, the earths surface was devastated by nuclear war, and the few survivors which stayed above ground must scrounge and forage for... A Boy and His Dog playing The Preacher. McGraw also starred in the TV version of Casablanca is a 1942 movie set during World War II in the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca. The film was directed by Michael Curtiz, and stars Humphrey Bogart as Rick and Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa. It focuses on Ricks conflict between, in the words of one character, love... Casablanca ( 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday. Events January-April January 2 - Panama president Jose Antonio Remon is assassinated. January 19 - The Scrabble board game debuts. February 8 - Nikolai Bulganin ousts Georgi Malenkov February 13 - Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls. February 23 - First meeting of... 1955) taking over Humphrey Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957) was an iconic American actor who retains legendary status decades after his death. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Bogart the Greatest Male Star of All Time. Bogart typically played smart, playful, courageous, tough, occasionally reckless characters, living in a... Humprey Bogart's role as Rick (although his last name was changed to "Jason"). McGraw died accidentally in 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. Events January-February January 1- April 1 - National steel strike in the United Kingdom January 1 - Changes to the Swedish Act of Succession creates Victoria of Sweden, Crown Princess over her younger brother January 4 - American president Jimmy Carter proclaims, with support... 1980 after slipping and falling through a glass shower door.