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A former vaudeville comic, Charles Dudley (born Heaslip) usually concealed his blond hair behind an assortment of outrageous wigs. A versatile supporting comic, on screen from the mid-1910s, Dudley would occasionally turn up in straight dramas (he appeared in at least four action serials and even a couple of Westerns) but was more often than not found on the other end of a pie in slapstick comedies. Today, Dudley is best remembered as the extremely hirsute hotel guest who, in the hands of barber Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, goes from a rather effeminate Rasputin to Ulysses S. Grant to Abraham Lincoln to Kaiser Wilhelm, each impersonation highly effective. He was "Honest Abe" again in his final, credited, film, Stan Laurel's Western-parody Wide Open Spaces (1924), which, sadly, appears to be among the lost.