Charles J. Correll
Birthday: Born in 1890-02-02 in Peoria, Illinois, USA
Deathday: 1972-09-26
Charles J. Correll was born on February 2, 1890 in Peoria, Illinois, USA as Charles James Correll. He was a writer and actor, known for The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951), Calvin and the Colonel (1961) and Check and Double Check (1930). He was married to Alyce Mercedes McLaughlin. He died of a heart attack on September 26, 1972 in Chicago, Illinois.
TV Credits
Calvin and the Colonel
Character:
Calvin and the Colonel is an animated cartoon television series in 1961 about Colonel Montgomery J. Klaxon, a shrewd fox and Calvin T. Burnside, a dumb bear. Their lawyer was Oliver Wendell Clutch, who was a weasel. The colonel lived with his wife Maggie Belle and her sister Sue, who did not trust the colonel at all. Colonel Klaxon was in the real estate business, but always tried get-rich-quick schemes with Calvin's unwitting help. The series was an animated remake of Amos 'n' Andy [or, more o...
Movie Credits
Check and Double Check
Character: Andrew Hogg Brown
Amos and Andy trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a fancy party....
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
Character: Self - Prepares for Amos 'n' Andy Broadcast (archive footage)
For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first “mass medium.” In Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio, Ken Burns examines the lives of three extraordinary men who shared the primary responsibility for this invention and its early success, and whose genius, friendship, rivalry and enmity interacted in tragic ways. This is the story of Lee de Forest, a clergyman’s flamboyant son, who invented the audion tube; Edwin Howard Armstrong, a brilliant, withdraw...