Charles Waldron on AllMovie

Gnarly looking character actor Charles Waldron began appearing in films in 1915. Throughout most of his screen career, Waldron was cast as saintly looking men of the cloth: vicars, bishops, padres, and the like. Toward the end of his life he began receiving meatier movie assignments, often playing elderly characters forced to face the consequences of a misspent life. Humphrey Bogart fans will remember Charles Waldron as the desiccated General Sternwood in the opening scenes of Bogart's The Big Sleep (1946).