Movies List
TV Show List
The Wild McCullochs

as Father Gurkin

1975
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

as Mr. Harris

1973
That Darn Cat!

as Mr. MacDougall

1965
Viva Las Vegas

as Mr. Martin

1964
Twenty Plus Two

as Desmond Slocum

1961
The Mountain

as Father Belacchi

1956
The Rawhide Years

as Brand Comfort

1956
Hell on Frisco Bay

as Dan Bianco

1955
The Far Horizons

as Sgt. Gass

1955
Jupiter's Darling

as Mago

1955
Lucy Gallant

as Charles Madden

1955
The Yellow Mountain

as Jackpot Wray

1954
Dangerous When Wet

as Pa Higgins

1953
Escape from Fort Bravo

as Campbell

1953
What Price Glory

as Corporal Kiper

1952
The Blazing Forest

as Syd Jessup

1952
The Strip

as Fluff

1951
Behave Yourself!

as O'Ryan

1951
He's a Cockeyed Wonder

as Bob Sears

1950
Never a Dull Moment

as Mears

1950
Jolson Sings Again

as Steve Martin

1949
Red Hot and Blue

as Charlie Baxter, Press Agent

1949
Night Has a Thousand Eyes

as Lt. Shawn

1948
Whispering Smith

as Bill Dansing

1948
On Our Merry Way

as Floyd

1948
The Jolson Story

as Steve Martin

1946
William Demarest William Demarest

Birthday

1892-02-27

Place of Birth

St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Carl William Demarest (February 27, 1892 – December 27, 1983) was an American character actor, known for playing Uncle Charley in My Three Sons. A veteran of World War I, Demarest became a prolific film and television actor, appearing in over 140 films, beginning in 1926 and ending in the 1970s. He frequently played crusty but good-hearted roles. Demarest started in show business working in vaudeville, appearing with his wife Estelle Collette (real name Esther Zychlin) as "Demarest and Colette", then moved on to Broadway. Demarest worked regularly with director Preston Sturges, becoming part of a "stock" troupe of actors that Sturges repeatedly cast in his films. He appeared in ten films written by Sturges, eight of which were under his direction, including The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek. Demarest was such a familiar figure at the Paramount studio that just his name was used in the movie Sunset Boulevard as a potential star for William Holden's unsold baseball screenplay. Demarest appeared with veteran western film star Roscoe Ates in the 1958 episode "And the Desert Shall Blossom" of CBS's Alfred Hitchcock Presents. In the story line, Ates and Demarest appear as old timers living in the Nevada desert. The local sheriff, played by Ben Johnson, appears with an eviction notice, but he agrees to let the pair stay on their property if they can make a dead rosebush bloom within the next month. In 1959 Demarest was named the lead actor of the 18-week sitcom Love and Marriage on NBC in the 1959–1960 season. Demarest played William Harris, the owner of a failing music company who refuses to handle popular rock and roll music, which presumably might save the firm from bankruptcy. Joining Demarest on the series were Jeanne Bal, Murray Hamilton and Stubby Kaye. Demarest appeared as Police Chief Aloysius of the Santa Rosita Police Department in the film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), as well as on a memorable episode ("What's in the Box") of Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone as a hen-pecked husband driven to the murder of his wife. His most famous television role was in the ABC and then CBS sitcom My Three Sons from 1965 to 1972, playing Uncle Charley O'Casey. He replaced William Frawley, whose failing health had made procuring insurance impossible. Demarest had worked with Fred MacMurray previously in the films Hands Across the Table (1935), Pardon My Past (1945), On Our Merry Way (1948), and The Far Horizons (1955) and was a personal friend of MacMurray. Also, he worked with Irene Dunne in Never a Dull Moment (1950).
AD

WATCH FREE FOR 30 DAYS

All Prime Video
Cancel anytime
Watch Now