Charles Barton

1902-05-25 San Francisco, California, USA 80 Credits

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.​

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The Shaggy Dog Kids

The Shaggy Dog Kids

2006

as Self (archive footage)

Acting

Reminiscences by the kids from the original 1959 Disney film.

Swingin' Along

Swingin' Along

1961

Director

5.0
Directing

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

Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus

1960

Director

6.1
Directing

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

Zorro, the Avenger

1959

Director

9.0
Directing

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

Darby O'Gill and the Little People

1959

Second Assistant Director

6.7
Directing

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

The Shaggy Dog

1959

Director

6.1
Directing

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

The Peter Tchaikovsky Story

1959

Director

7.0
Directing

The story of young Tchaikovsky through the premiere of his "Sleeping Beauty" ballet.

Dance with Me, Henry

Dance with Me, Henry

1956

Director

5.1
Directing

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

Directing

An unsold pilot about a clumsy, unemployed dopey guy with a wife living with his in-laws.

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair

1952

Director

5.9
Directing

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

Double Crossbones

1951

Director

5.4
Directing

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

The Milkman

1950

Director

8.0
Directing

A dairy owner's son takes a job as milkman with a rival company.

Free For All

Free For All

1949

Director

6.0
Directing

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

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

1949

Director

6.5
Directing

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

Africa Screams

1949

Director

5.7
Directing

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

Mexican Hayride

1948

Director

5.6
Directing

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

6.0
Directing

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

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein

1948

Director

7.1
Directing

Baggage handlers Bud and Lou accidentally stumble upon Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula and the Wolf Man.

The Noose Hangs High

The Noose Hangs High

1948

Director, Producer

6.8
Directing Producing

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

The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap

1947

Director

6.2
Directing

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

Buck Privates Come Home

1947

Director

6.3
Directing

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

White Tie and Tails

1946

Director

7.0
Directing

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

The Time of Their Lives

1946

Director

7.0
Directing

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

Smooth as Silk

1946

Director

4.9
Directing

An attorney enraged over the prosecution of two innocent people goes on a killing spree.

Spellbound

Spellbound

1945

Second Unit Director

7.4
Directing

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

Men in Her Diary

1945

Director

Directing

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

The Beautiful Cheat

1945

Director

Directing

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

Louisiana Hayride

1944

Director

6.0
Directing

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

Jam Session

Jam Session

1944

Director

6.0
Directing

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

Hey, Rookie

Hey, Rookie

1944

Director

Directing

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

Beautiful But Broke

1944

Director

5.0
Directing

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?

Is Everybody Happy?

1943

Director

Directing

This is the story of Ted Lewis, popular band leader and clarinettist.

What's Buzzin', Cousin?

What's Buzzin', Cousin?

1943

Director

Directing

Musicians help a woman and her friends make some money with a ghost-town hotel.

She Has What It Takes

She Has What It Takes

1943

Director

Directing

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

Let's Have Fun

1943

Director

Directing

When a musical star discovers her leading man is married, she quits the show and takes its financial backer with her.

Reveille with Beverly

Reveille with Beverly

1943

Director

7.0
Directing

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

Laugh Your Blues Away

1942

Director

Directing

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

The Spirit of Stanford

1942

Director

Directing

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

Lucky Legs

1942

Director

Directing

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

A Man's World

1942

Director

6.0
Directing

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

Parachute Nurse

1942

Director

5.0
Directing

Nurses parachuting.

Sweetheart of the Fleet

1942

Director

Directing
Hello, Annapolis

Hello, Annapolis

1942

Director

10.0
Directing

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

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!

1942

Director

3.5
Directing

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

Shut My Big Mouth

1942

Director

8.5
Directing

A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.

Honolulu Lu

Honolulu Lu

1941

Director

4.2
Directing

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

Sing for Your Supper

1941

Director

6.0
Directing

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

Two Latins from Manhattan

1941

Director

5.0
Directing

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

Harmon of Michigan

1941

Director

5.0
Directing

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

The Richest Man in Town

1941

Director

Directing

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

The Big Boss

1941

Director

5.8
Directing

Why did the Governor want to resign?

The Phantom Submarine

The Phantom Submarine

1940

Director

6.0
Directing

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

Nobody's Children

1940

Director

Directing

A radio host broadcasts a show about children living in an orphanage.

Five Little Peppers in Trouble

Five Little Peppers in Trouble

1940

Director

6.7
Directing

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

Out West with the Peppers

1940

Director

5.7
Directing

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

Babies for Sale

1940

Director

5.5
Directing

A determined newsman pursues his hunch that a charitable maternity hospital is running a ruthless adoption racket.

Island of Doomed Men

Island of Doomed Men

1940

Director

5.3
Directing

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

Five Little Peppers at Home

1940

Director

6.3
Directing

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

My Son Is Guilty

1939

Director

7.5
Directing

Honest cop Tim Kerry struggles to keep his son Ritzy from becoming involved in a crime ring.

Five Little Peppers And How They Grew

Five Little Peppers And How They Grew

1939

Director

6.2
Directing

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

Behind Prison Gates

1939

Director

Directing

An agent for the state attorney general poses as a convict to learn about bank loot.

Beau Geste

Beau Geste

1939

as Buddy McMonigal

7.0
Acting

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

Born to the West

1937

Director

4.5
Directing

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

Thunder Trail

1937

Director

6.0
Directing

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

Forlorn River

1937

Director

5.0
Directing

"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

The Crime Nobody Saw

1937

Director

5.0
Directing

Three playwrights develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment.

Rose Bowl

Rose Bowl

1936

Director

6.0
Directing

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

Murder with Pictures

1936

Director

5.1
Directing

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

And Sudden Death

1936

Director

Directing

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

Timothy's Quest

1936

Director

3.0
Directing

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

Nevada

1935

Director

3.0
Directing

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

The Last Outpost

1935

Director

6.1
Directing

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

Car 99

1935

Director

5.0
Directing

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

The Fighting Westerner

1935

Director

4.7
Directing

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

Wagon Wheels

1934

Director

4.8
Directing

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

The Trumpet Blows

1934

Assistant Director

5.0
Directing

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

Merrily We Go to Hell

1932

Assistant Director

6.4
Directing

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

Dangerous Paradise

1930

Assistant Director

3.6
Directing

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

Wings

Wings

1927

as Soldier Flirting with Mary (uncredited)

7.2
Acting

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

The County Fair

1920

as Tim Vail

4.7
Acting

"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...