Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Charles Barton (May 25, 1902 – December 5, 1981) was a film and vaudeville actor and film director. He won an Oscar for best assistant director in 1933. His first film as a director was the Zane Grey feature Wagon Wheels. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charles Barton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Shaggy Dog Kids
2006
as Self (archive footage)
Reminiscences by the kids from the original 1959 Disney film.

Swingin' Along
1961
Director
An amateur tunesmith and a con man pool their resources in order to win first prize in a songwriting contest.

Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus
1960
Director
Angered at stern Uncle Daniel, Toby Tyler runs away from his foster home to join the circus, where he soon befriends Mr. Stubbs, the frisky chimpanzee...

Zorro, the Avenger
1959
Director
Masked crusader Zorro and his father, Don Alejandro, face off against mysterious despot The Eagle in a fight for control of old Spanish California.

Darby O'Gill and the Little People
1959
Second Assistant Director
A wily old codger matches wits with the King of the Leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his daughter and the strapping lad who has replaced him ...

The Shaggy Dog
1959
Director
Through an ancient spell, a boy changes into a sheepdog and back again. It seems to happen at inopportune times and the spell can only be broken by an...

The Peter Tchaikovsky Story
1959
Director
The story of young Tchaikovsky through the premiere of his "Sleeping Beauty" ballet.

Dance with Me, Henry
1956
Director
Bud and Lou are the owners of the amusement park Kiddieland. Bud, a compulsive gambler, gets in trouble with the mob, and Lou finds himself struggling...
Meet the O'Briens
1954
Director
An unsold pilot about a clumsy, unemployed dopey guy with a wife living with his in-laws.

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
1952
Director
Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter i...

Double Crossbones
1951
Director
Falsely accused by the corrupt Governor Elden of Charleston of fencing stolen pirate booty, young Davey Crandall and friend Tom Botts buy passage on t...

The Milkman
1950
Director
A dairy owner's son takes a job as milkman with a rival company.

Free For All
1949
Director
The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young inventor.

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
1949
Director
Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid...

Africa Screams
1949
Director
When bookseller Buzz cons Diana into thinking that his friend Stanley knows all there is to know about Africa, they are abducted and ordered to lead D...

Mexican Hayride
1948
Director
Two con men selling phony stock flee to Mexico ahead of the law, where they run into a woman friend from their earlier days, who is now a bullfighter.
10,000 Kids and a Cop
1948
Director
A documentary showing the constructive approach taken by the Lou Costello, Jr. Youth Foundation in Los Angeles toward prevention of juvenile delinquen...

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
1948
Director
Baggage handlers Bud and Lou accidentally stumble upon Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula and the Wolf Man.

The Noose Hangs High
1948
Director, Producer
Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two...

The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
1947
Director
Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a not...

Buck Privates Come Home
1947
Director
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up runnin...

White Tie and Tails
1946
Director
When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up getting involved with an heiress.

The Time of Their Lives
1946
Director
Two ghosts, who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War, return to 20th century New England to retrieve a letter from George ...

Smooth as Silk
1946
Director
An attorney enraged over the prosecution of two innocent people goes on a killing spree.

Spellbound
1945
Second Unit Director
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, dis...

Men in Her Diary
1945
Director
Singer/Dancer Peggy Ryan neither sings nor dances in this comedy in which she plays a secretary, whose life has no romance because she devotes all of ...

The Beautiful Cheat
1945
Director
The title character, played by Bonita Granville, is the secretary at a boys' reformatory. Sociology professor Noah Beery Jr. shows up to study the juv...

Louisiana Hayride
1944
Director
A naïve farm girl is duped by con men who promise her movie stardom in exchange for her savings.

Jam Session
1944
Director
A young woman from Kansas (Ann Miller) arrives in Hollywood with hopes of a movie career.

Hey, Rookie
1944
Director
Musical comedy star Jimmy Leighter wants to get away from show biz and his leading lady Winnie Clark, so he joins the Army. There he gets the order to...

Beautiful But Broke
1944
Director
Theatrical agent Waldo Main is inducted into the army, and turns his now clientless agency over to his secretary Dottie Duncan. Dottie decides to orga...

Is Everybody Happy?
1943
Director
This is the story of Ted Lewis, popular band leader and clarinettist.

What's Buzzin', Cousin?
1943
Director
Musicians help a woman and her friends make some money with a ghost-town hotel.

She Has What It Takes
1943
Director
Fay Weston (Jinx Falkenburg), a radio singer of no consequence, pretends to be the daughter of a recently deceased Broadway stage star in order to hoo...

Let's Have Fun
1943
Director
When a musical star discovers her leading man is married, she quits the show and takes its financial backer with her.

Reveille with Beverly
1943
Director
Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a n...

Laugh Your Blues Away
1942
Director
Hired actors posing as Russian royalty complicate a social-climbing mother's efforts to fix up her son with the daughter of a wealthy Texas rancher.

The Spirit of Stanford
1942
Director
Columbia's Spirit of Stanford is built around the talents of a real-life college football star, in this instance all-American quarterback Frankie Albe...

Lucky Legs
1942
Director
Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the ...

A Man's World
1942
Director
Somewhere beyond the shores of the United States on a small island, where men ask no questions, women reveal no past and spies neither receive nor exp...

Parachute Nurse
1942
Director
Nurses parachuting.
Sweetheart of the Fleet
1942
Director

Hello, Annapolis
1942
Director
Rivals Bill Arden and Paul Herbert enter the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in order to impress a girl.

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
1942
Director
Jackie Gleason and Jack Durant are teamed for the first and only time as Hank and Jed, a pair of dimwitted barbers who are forced into bankruptcy beca...

Shut My Big Mouth
1942
Director
A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.

Honolulu Lu
1941
Director
While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen.

Sing for Your Supper
1941
Director
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-lea...

Two Latins from Manhattan
1941
Director
Joan Daley, a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry and Lois Morgan, when the Cuban sister-act, Marianela ...

Harmon of Michigan
1941
Director
A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play professional football. Instead, he marries his college sweet...

The Richest Man in Town
1941
Director
The conflicting views of two leading citizens in a small town are reconciled when they come across a promoter who is planning to defraud the town. He ...

The Big Boss
1941
Director
Why did the Governor want to resign?

The Phantom Submarine
1940
Director
On the night before he sails in search of the steamship Arcadia's sunken gold, Paul Sinclair (Bruce Bennett)meets Madeliene Nielson (Anita Louise) in ...

Nobody's Children
1940
Director
A radio host broadcasts a show about children living in an orphanage.

Five Little Peppers in Trouble
1940
Director
The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school.

Out West with the Peppers
1940
Director
When her doctor advises her to move West because of her health, Mrs. Pepper takes her five kids and relocates to Oregon to live with her sister. But a...

Babies for Sale
1940
Director
A determined newsman pursues his hunch that a charitable maternity hospital is running a ruthless adoption racket.

Island of Doomed Men
1940
Director
An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.

Five Little Peppers at Home
1940
Director
The second entry in the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the family struggling to keep their copper mine when their elderly business partner bec...

My Son Is Guilty
1939
Director
Honest cop Tim Kerry struggles to keep his son Ritzy from becoming involved in a crime ring.

Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
1939
Director
The first of four films in the "Five Little Peppers" series, based on Margaret Sinclair's popular book, about a widowed mother and her five children. ...

Behind Prison Gates
1939
Director
An agent for the state attorney general poses as a convict to learn about bank loot.

Beau Geste
1939
as Buddy McMonigal
When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped under the command of a sadistic sergeant deep in t...

Born to the West
1937
Director
Dare Rudd takes a shine to his cattleman cousin Tom's girlfriend who asks Tom to hire Dare to head the big cattle drive. Dare loses the money for the ...

Thunder Trail
1937
Director
A wagon train is robbed by a gang of bandits who kill everyone but a pair of young brothers. Years later, the brothers join force to bring the bandits...

Forlorn River
1937
Director
"Nevada" and "Weary" Pierce hijack the loot taken in a bank hold-up by Les Setter, and his gang. They escape from Sheriff Jim Henry Warner. U. S. gove...

The Crime Nobody Saw
1937
Director
Three playwrights develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment.

Rose Bowl
1936
Director
Paddy O'Riley and Ossie Merrill, Bellport high school football heroes, enroll in distant colleges; Paddy at a small school in the East, where he is ba...

Murder with Pictures
1936
Director
Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for t...

And Sudden Death
1936
Director
An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between the two, but it's soon complicated when he believes she ...

Timothy's Quest
1936
Director
Timothy (Dickie Moore), an orphan, is sent with his sister, Gay (Sally Martin), to a farm run by Vilda Cummins (Elizabeth Patterson, an old maid with ...

Nevada
1935
Director
A gambler wins a ranch in a round of poker, then joins his neighbors on a rustler-ridden cattle drive to Texas.

The Last Outpost
1935
Director
During WW1, the destinies of British officers Michael Andrews and John Stevenson seem intertwined on the battle front as much as on a more personal le...

Car 99
1935
Director
A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men. It follows the career of a newly-inducted rookie...

The Fighting Westerner
1935
Director
A mining engineer teams up with a crusty deputy sheriff to solve the mystery killings at an old mine where the owner's family waits for him to die, an...

Wagon Wheels
1934
Director
A wagon train heads west from Independence, Mo., along the Oregon Trail, led by proud cowboy Clint Belmet. On board are feisty young widow Nancy Welli...

The Trumpet Blows
1934
Assistant Director
In Mexico, a former bandit settles down and picks out a beautiful young dancer to be his wife. His younger brother also comes home after having spent ...

Merrily We Go to Hell
1932
Assistant Director
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to...

Dangerous Paradise
1930
Assistant Director
Heyst, a hermit on his own tropical island, plays unwilling host to red-headed stowaway Alma. Danger looms...

Wings
1927
as Soldier Flirting with Mary (uncredited)
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 du...

The County Fair
1920
as Tim Vail
"The County Fair" begins with a nasty rich guy threatening to turn an old lady onto the street--unless her niece (who lives with her) marries this man...