Charles 'Buddy' Rogers

AKA: America's Boyfriend , Buddy Rogers, Chas. "Buddy" Rogers

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1904-08-13

Olathe, Kansas, USA

Biography

Charles "Buddy" Rogers (1904—1999), nicknamed America's Boyfriend, was an American film actor and musician. He was the husband of Silent screen star Mary Pickford for more than forty years until her death.

Crew Roles

Sleep, My Love

Producer

Hot Rod Gang

Executive Producer

Little Iodine

Producer

70,000 Witnesses

Producer

Stork Bites Man

Producer

Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {63}

Jack Powell

1927-08-12 7.193

Wings

Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutu ...

Genre :Drama, Action, War, Romance

Abie Levy

1928-04-19 0

Abie's Irish Rose

When a Catholic and a Jew wed they find themselves disowned by both of their families. ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Brad Morgan

1937-10-15 5.5

This Way Please

A famous singer and matinée idol helps a pretty young theater usher in her dreams of becoming a singer, but when her career begins to take off and she becomes engaged to a wealthy young man, he realiz ...

Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Self

2000-09-12 0

Mary Pickford: A Life on Film

Arguably the quintessential film siren of the silent era, Mary Pickford was known as "America's Sweetheart." This documentary explores Pickford's life beyond the screen, as a writer, producer, directo ...

Genre :Documentary

Jerry Downes

1930-09-26 7.4

Follow Thru

Lora Moore, the club champion, loses a golf match to a woman from another golf club. Then Jerry Downs, a handsome golf pro, and his goofy friend, Jack Martin, show up. Lora takes him on as her golf te ...

Genre :Comedy, Music

Himself

1933-04-13 5.5

New Deal Rhythm

Plotless musical revue celebrating President Franklin D. Roosevelt's National Recovery Administration. ...

Genre :Documentary

Kenneth Murchison

1926-10-25 6.6

So's Your Old Man

Gregory La Cava directs this comedy of errors, starring W.C. Fields as a hen-pecked, inebriated inventor who triumphantly creates unbreakable windshield glass while struggling to gain the respect of h ...

Genre :Comedy

William Butler Reynolds

1930-05-30 5

Safety in Numbers

Before handing over a large inheritance, a guardian hires three chorus girls to educate his charge about the "underside" of big-city life. ...

Genre :Romance, Comedy, Music

Robert Albin

1927-12-06 6.4

Get Your Man

A young American girl in Paris falls in love with a handsome nobleman, but he is about to wed in an arranged marriage. She hatches a plan to overcome that obstacle and get her man. ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Jericho Jones

1957-09-23 4.1

The Parson and the Outlaw

Billy the Kid fakes his own death at the hands of Pat Garrett, but is forced to come out of hiding to stop a ruthless cattle baron from destroying a small frontier community. ...

Genre :Western

Dennis Lindsay

1942-03-13 3

Mexican Spitfire at Sea

An advertising executive and his temperamental wife sail to Hawaii in search of business. The fifth entry (of eight) in the "Mexican Spitfire" comedy series. ...

Genre :Comedy

Laurie Roberts

1931-06-06 5.8

The Lawyer's Secret

Sailor Joe Hart, who is spending his shore leave at a gambling joint, sells his gun to young Laurie Roberts after losing terribly. After Hart again loses his last dime, he leaves the joint and steals ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Dennis Lindsay

1941-11-28 4.125

The Mexican Spitfire's Baby

An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman. ...

Genre :Comedy

Claude Kimball

1948-10-15 3.8

An Innocent Affair

Vincent Doane is in the precarious position of trying to close an advertising account with his rich ex-fiancée. Unfortunately she is more interested in him than in business. Vincent's wife Paula gets ...

Genre :Comedy

Buddy Rogers

1932-01-27 0

Running Hollywood

Running Hollywood is a comedy short. ...

Genre :Comedy

Jimmy Duffy

1928-10-27 0

Varsity

The story deals with college life at Princeton with a different angle of situations and romance than is usually served from the screen (Tampa Times, Nov. 1928) ...

Genre :Comedy

Boyd Wheeler

1931-12-12 6.8

Working Girls

Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her more streetwise sister June, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in New York. With June's help, Mae obtains a job as a ...

Genre :Comedy

Dennis Lindsay

1942-06-26 4.4

Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost

Carmelita and Uncle Matt find themselves in a haunted house, but the "ghosts" are actually enemy agents who are trying to frighten away visitors in order to develop a nitroglycerin bomb. ...

Genre :Comedy

Johnny Roberts

1935-08-02 6.3

Old Man Rhythm

Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college. ...

Genre :Music, Comedy

Jack Mason

1930-10-10 0

Heads Up

Jack Mason of the Coast Guard Academy meets Mary at the graduation ball and falls in love with her, though the girl's mother finds wealthy Rex Cutting a more proper choice for her daughter. On a yacht ...

Genre :Music, Comedy

Lieutenant Robert Banks

1930-03-20 6

Young Eagles

Lieut. Robert Banks, an American aviator on leave in Paris, meets Mary Gordon, a young American who lives abroad, but their romance is cut short by his return to the front. In an air battle, Robert br ...

Genre :Drama

Al West

1929-04-12 6.5

Close Harmony

Marjorie, a song-and-dance girl in the stage show of a palatial movie theater, becomes interested in Al West, a warehouse clerk who has put together an unusual jazz band, and uses her influence to get ...

Genre :Romance, Music

Tom Rumford

1929-06-28 4

The River of Romance

Mississippi, 1830's. Tom Rumsford comes back to Magnolia Landing, his parents'estate. Having been brought up in the North by Quaker relatives, he just hates violence and accordingly refuses a duel. As ...

Genre :Romance, Drama

Carlee Thorpe

1929-09-21 0

Illusion

A vaudeville magician team is broken up when Carlee, an ex--circus performer, becomes infatuated with socialite Hilda Schmittlap. Meanwhile his vaudeville partner, Claire, has chosen a new partner, bu ...

Genre :Drama

Tom Wood

1931-09-25 3.2

The Road to Reno

Jackie is the perpetually adolescent mother of two grown children - daughter Lee and son Jeff - who are in their early 20's. In spite of the fact that fourth husband Robert is a good provider, good st ...

Genre :Drama

Bradley Ingals

1932-01-09 5

This Reckless Age

Donald Ingals and his wife Eunice are conventional and loving parents who are shocked when their son Bradley comes home from college with ideas that they consider to be outrageous. His parents would l ...

Genre :Comedy

Jimmie Hartman

1933-06-22 0

Best of Enemies

Buddy Rogers and Marian Nixon playing the grown children of feuding German-Americans Frank Morgan and Joseph Cawthorn. Romance blossoms between Rogers and Nixon, while Morgan and Cawthorn continue mut ...

Genre :Romance, Comedy, Music

Ned Lee

1929-12-14 5

Half Way to Heaven

A trapeze artist causes the death of another over their mutual love of a girl. When a new artist joins the troupe and falls in love with her, she must protect him from her ex-lover's jealous rage. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance, Thriller

Buddy Milton

1935-07-01 2

Dance Band

Life gets complicated for bandleader Buddy when he falls for his greatest rival – the leader of an all-girl dance band! ...

Genre :Romance, Music

Jack Kent

1937-06-28 4

Let's Make a Night of It

Unbeknown to each other, a husband and wife acquire separate nightclubs in the same London street; however, both clubs are on the brink of bankruptcy. ...

Genre :Comedy, Music

Willia Hinchfield

1926-07-04 0

More Pay - Less Work

Albert Gran and E.J. Ratcliffe are warring San Francisco shipping magnates; Mary Brian is Gran’s daughter and Charles (Buddy) Rogers is Ratcliffe’s athletic son. The result is a swift, exhilarating co ...

Genre :Comedy

'Buddy' Rogers

1931-04-04 5.6

The Stolen Jools

Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.) ...

Genre :Comedy

Buddy Rogers

1950-01-01 0

Riviera Dream

This black & white novelty film features Egyptian actor Alex d'Arcy -- playing the part of a discharged American soldier -- traveling the French Riviera in his 1950's Studebaker convertible. d'Arcy me ...

Genre :

Self (archive footage)

2008-08-29 5

Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies

This documentary traces the life and work of the legendary "America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford, silent film star, movie pioneer and keen businesswoman. Pickford's life also parallels an even larger s ...

Genre :Documentary

Self - Polo Player

1941-09-20 5

Polo with the Stars

A short in the WB Hollywood Novelty series (production number 7301) about the training of polo ponies. Buddy Rogers buys one of the ponies in training, and later uses him in a match where Jack Holt an ...

Genre :Documentary

Himself / Boy Singer (Love Time)

1930-04-22 6.1

Paramount on Parade

This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors ...

Genre :Music, Comedy

Kenneth Raleigh

1933-11-25 4

Take a Chance

Take a Chance was based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, though only one of the original songs, Eadie Was a Lady, has been retained. The thinnish plot involves the misadventures of a pair ...

Genre :Music, Comedy

Joe Grant

1927-10-31 7

My Best Girl

Joe Merrill, son of the millionaire owner of a chain of 5 and 10 cent stores, poses as Joe Grant, and takes a job in the stockroom of one of his father's stores, to prove that he can be a success with ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy, Romance

Teddy Ward

1926-03-17 0

Fascinating Youth

Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases if he will make the Mountain Inn a profitable oper ...

Genre :Comedy

Dean MacArdle

1941-02-14 7

Golden Hoofs

A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sold. ...

Genre :Comedy

Buddy Rogers

1935-11-20 5.6

Pirate Party on Catalina Isle

Various Hollywood performers put on a pirate-themed variety show on Catalina Island, with a number of amiable stars in the audience. ...

Genre :Family

1941-12-05 6

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2

Hedda Hopper plays hostess at a party for her (grown) son William (DeWolfe Jr.). Hopper, attends the dedication of the Motion Picture Relief Fund's country home and goes to the Mocambo. There is also ...

Genre :Documentary

Himself

1933-03-31 1

Rambling 'Round Radio Row #6

Host Harry Rose mixes a "cocktail" of musical acts. ...

Genre :Music

Larry Hays

1941-12-04 6

Sing for Your Supper

Evelyn Palmer, a débutante society girl who also is a property landlord, becomes interested in the plight of one of her tenants, a struggling band-leader, to the extent she becomes a hostess in a danc ...

Genre :Comedy

Larry Brooks

1930-12-20 6

Along Came Youth

Broke and stranded in England, American sportsman Larry Brooks and his pal Ambrose take on increasingly odd jobs to remain in proximity to the aristocratic lady that Larry would woo. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Self - Clara's Co-Star in 'Wings' (voice)

1999-06-14 7.7

Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl

Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews with family members and acquaintances. ...

Genre :Documentary, TV Movie

Pierre

1936-08-03 5

Once in a Million

Fantasy of a bank clerk who accepts a deposit of a million too late to put it in the bank and has to guard it over the weekend. ...

Genre :Comedy

Himself (as Buddy Rogers)

1986-04-21 0

The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults

The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults is a two-hour live American television special that was broadcast in syndication on April 21, 1986, and hosted by Geraldo Rivera. It centered on the live opening of a ...

Genre :Documentary, History, Crime, Mystery

1942-04-01 0

Twelfth Street Rag

Charles 'Buddy' Rogers Soundie with Twelfth Street Rag. ...

Genre :Music

William Shelby

1928-12-01 0

Someone to Love

A poor but honest sheet-music salesman is parted from his wealthy fiancée when she comes to believe he’s nothing but a golddigger. But circumstance places him on the board of an exclusive girls’ schoo ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Self (archive footage, as Jack Powell)

2025-04-30 0

Hodgepodge

Andrew Richter shares odd celebrity encounters from his years of working in hotels. ...

Genre :Documentary

Self (archive footage)

2012-05-15 7.2

Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe is one of the most famous and adored icons of the 20th century. Like no other Hollywood star, she won the hearts of millions around the world. It's been said that: "Monroe played the be ...

Genre :Documentary

2012-12-30 0

Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess

A documentary looking at the life, films, and troubled times of America's first sex symbol, screen actress Clara Bow, featuring interviews and archive footage. It takes a look at why she is considered ...

Genre :Documentary

Self

1986-11-30 6

All Star Party for Clint Eastwood

Genre :Documentary, TV Movie

Hugh Carver / Buddy

1928-12-02 0

Red Lips

Red Lips is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Melville W. Brown. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Self

1963-09-24 5.7

Petticoat Junction

The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel. ...

Genre :Comedy, Family

Self

1948-06-20 6.8

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was ...

Genre :Comedy, Talk

1950-01-17 0

Cavalcade of Bands

Cavalcade of Bands was an early-1950s American television series which aired on the now defunct DuMont Television Network. ...

Genre :

Self

1952-10-01 6.4

This Is Your Life

This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961. In the show, the host surprises a guest, and procee ...

Genre :Documentary

Self

1980-01-08 8.3

Hollywood

A 1980 documentary series exploring the establishment and development of the Hollywood studios and its impact on 1920s culture. ...

Genre :Documentary

Self

1962-10-01 7.5

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carso ...

Genre :Talk

Self

1988-10-04 6.6

American Experience

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today. ...

Genre :Documentary

Buddy

1962-10-01 7.096

The Lucy Show

The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965–66 season divides the program ...