Charles Oliver (actor)

Charles Arthur Richardson Oliver (actually registered as "Charles Arthur Sherlock Oliver"; 21 June 1907, in Buttevant, County Cork, Ireland – 29 March 1983, in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England) was an Irish-born British film actor. He married on 4 June 1938 the actress (Margaret) Noel Hood. They had two children: Nina (1943) and William (1947). He appeared in the Will Hay film Ask a Policeman as the local squire who oversees a smuggling empire.

Selected filmography

 * Beloved Imposter (1936) – Pierre
 * The Avenging Hand (1936) – Toni Visetti
 * Wings Over Africa (1936) – Collins
 * Second Bureau (1936) – Paul Benoit
 * Midnight at Madame Tussaud's (1936) – Harry Newton
 * Fifty-Shilling Boxer (1937) – Jim Pollett
 * The Green Cockatoo (1937) – Terrell – Gang Boss
 * If I Were Boss (1938) – Owen Reeves
 * The Drum (1938) – Rajab
 * The Lady Vanishes (1938) – The Officer
 * Hey! Hey! USA (1938) – Curly (uncredited)
 * Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror (1938) – Max Fleming
 * Mountains O'Mourne (1938) – Errol Finnegan
 * Life of St. Paul (1938) – Elder
 * Ask a Policeman (1939) – The Squire
 * The Saint in London (1939) – Dr. Jim – Templar's Friend (uncredited)
 * This Man in Paris (1939) – Gaston
 * Band Waggon (1940) – Saboteur (uncredited)
 * Night Train to Munich (1940) – SS Officer at Concentration Camp (uncredited)
 * Under Your Hat (1940) – Carl
 * Three Silent Men (1940) – Johnson
 * Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It (1941) – Dr. Wilkinson
 * Crook's Tour (1941) – Sheik (final film role)