William Demarest
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).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.7386 |
| Birthday | 1892-02-27 |
| Place of Birth | Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA |
| Also Known As |
1964
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6.175/151
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6.84/47
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1961
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1938
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6.854/24
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1951
Excuse My Dust
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1937
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1945
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Pepe
6.27/50
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What Price Glory
5.714/21
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5.25/18
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1953
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6.307/83
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Sorrowful Jones
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1956
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6.94/50
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1955
The Far Horizons
6.261/23
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1951
The Strip
5.906/16
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Twenty Plus Two
7/5
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5.667/6
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1936
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6.297/143
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The Cowboy Quarterback
6.667/3
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7/1
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The Rawhide Years
5.571/14
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1927
The Black Diamond Express
9/1
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1955
The Private War of Major Benson
6.667/15
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1945
Salty O'Rourke
5.95/10
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1950
Riding High
6.063/8
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1955
Jupiter's Darling
4.857/7
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1947
Variety Girl
6.455/11
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1953
Here Come the Girls
4.556/9
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1940
The Golden Fleecing
5.857/7
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1947
The Perils of Pauline
6.667/9
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1950
He's a Cockeyed Wonder
4.25/4
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1940
Wolf of New York
7.5/2
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1927
The Night Court
7/1
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1951
Behave Yourself!
6.235/17
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1955
Sincerely Yours
5.938/8
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1945
Pardon My Past
6.667/6
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1938
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
5.4/5
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1949
Red, Hot and Blue
6.2/5
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1954
The Yellow Mountain
5.385/13
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1941
Ride on Vaquero
5.2/5
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1936
Mind Your Own Business
10/1
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1937
The Hit Parade
6.333/3
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1948
The Sainted Sisters
7.333/3
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1939
Miracles for Sale
6.471/17
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1943
True to Life
8/4
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1942
Johnny Doughboy
5.625/8
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1953
The Lady Wants Mink
8/2
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1952
The Blazing Forest
6.5/2
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1938
Romance on the Run
7/2
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1951
The First Legion
7.4/5
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1939
The Great Man Votes
6.357/7
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1942
Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
6.8/5
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1937
Don't Tell the Wife
6/2
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Don't Tell the Wife
1936
Wedding Present
6.2/15
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Wedding Present
1936
Love on the Run
6.563/16
A runaway bride and an undercover reporter get caught up in political intrigue as they lead a merry chase across Europe and uncover a spy plot.
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Love on the Run
1927
The First Auto
5.6/5
The transition from horses to automobiles at the turn of the century causes problems between a father and son.
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1975
The Wild McCullochs
4.5/4
A story about the rich McCulloch Family, their overbearing father and the children's misguided blaming him for everything that doesn't go right.
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The Wild McCullochs
1938
Josette
7.2/5
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1937
Easy Living
7.147/68
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1978
The Millionaire
8/1
Three people's lives are drastically changed when they are suddenly given one million dollars each by an eccentric billionaire in this pilot to a pros...
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1953
Dangerous When Wet
6.04/25
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Dangerous When Wet
1948
Whispering Smith
6.688/24
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Whispering Smith
1938
One Wild Night
7.75/2
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1934
Fog Over Frisco
6.421/19
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Fog Over Frisco
1937
The Great Hospital Mystery
5.5/4
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The Great Hospital Mystery
1941
Glamour Boy
6.5/2
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1997
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
7.667/3
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1946
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
6.5/3
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1950
Never a Dull Moment
6.273/11
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1940
The Farmer's Daughter
5.333/6
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1950
When Willie Comes Marching Home
6.857/14
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1941
Country Fair
8/1
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1935
After Office Hours
6.5/14
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1927
The Jazz Singer
6.118/250
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1937
The Great Gambini
7.5/2
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1928
A Girl in Every Port
6/25
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Television: The First Fifty Years
0/0
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1937
Rosalie
6/7
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1937
Time Out for Romance
6/6
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Time Out for Romance
1943
Stage Door Canteen
6.289/19
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Stage Door Canteen
1941
Rookies on Parade
10/1
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1937
Oh, Doctor
7/1
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1942
Pardon My Sarong
6.482/28
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1942
Behind the Eight Ball
5.25/4
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1927
A Reno Divorce
9/1
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1928
Five and Ten Cent Annie
10/1
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1935
Hands Across the Table
7/19
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1934
Fugitive Lady
8/2
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1927
A Million Bid
7/1
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1940
Little Men
5.7/10
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1939
Laugh It Off
6/2
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1935
Bright Lights
5/6
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1963
Son of Flubber
6.066/68
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1935
Diamond Jim
6.5/2
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1955
Lucy Gallant
7/7
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1961
Gunfight at Black Horses Canyon
5.833/6
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1945
Hollywood Victory Caravan
5.6/10
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1945
Duffy's Tavern
6.375/8
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1965
That Darn Cat!
6.601/188
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1948
On Our Merry Way
5.706/17
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1935
White Lies
7.5/2
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1942
True to the Army
8/1
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1944
Nine Girls
5.75/4
One of the members of a sorority is found murdered. Although the police are called in to investigate, some of the girls decide to do some sleuthing on...
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Nine Girls
1943
Dangerous Blondes
6.286/7
Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance wh...
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Dangerous Blondes
1928
The Crash
8/1
The Crash (1928)
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The Crash
1940
Comin' Round the Mountain
9/1
A Tennessee boy (Bob Burns) returns from the big city, runs for mayor and puts his musical kin on the radio.
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Comin' Round the Mountain
1939
King of the Turf
7/2
Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of one of his jockeys. One day he meets Goldie who has...
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King of the Turf
1927
What Happened To Father
8/1
William Bradberry, an absent-minded Egyptologist, turns from a henpecked husband to a dominating one who, unknown to his daughter Betty and wife, writ...
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What Happened To Father
1937
Blonde Trouble
7/1
Fred Stevens is an aspiring songwriter from Schenectady who journeys to New York City, hoping to make a name for himself. On the train he meets dental...
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Blonde Trouble
1927
Finger Prints
7/1
A gang of inept crooks and even more inept lawmen search for a cache of hidden money.
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Finger Prints
1927
A Sailor's Sweetheart
8/2
Cynthia Botts, the headmistress of a girls’ school, stands to inherit a fortune on the condition that no scandal ever be associated with her name. But...
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A Sailor's Sweetheart
1928
Pay as You Enter
8/1
Trolley car conductor Clyde Jones and bus conductor "Terrible Bill" Jones are arch rivals for the hand of coffee-shop owner Mary Smith.
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Pay as You Enter
1927
Simple Sis
9/1
Simple Sis is a 1927 American silent comedy-melodrama directed by Herman C. Raymaker and starring Louise Fazenda as a poor, plain laundress hoping for...
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Simple Sis
1941
The Devil and Miss Jones
7.664/64
The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets is Neeley's Department Store...
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The Devil and Miss Jones
1934
Many Happy Returns
5.333/4
Gracie Allen assumes the "management" of the shop owned by her papa Horatio Allen, turning it into a radio station and then an aviary---with the usual...
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Many Happy Returns
1937
Wake Up and Live
6.2/5
Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.
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Wake Up and Live
1976
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
4.313/16
A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1927
The Bush Leaguer
10/1
"Specs" White owns a garage in town and is the local baseball team's #1 pitcher--but he's more interested in working on his latest invention, a new an...
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The Bush Leaguer
1927
The Gay Old Bird
8/1
A maid is forced to take the place of the lady of the house when she is temporarily incapacitated.
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The Gay Old Bird
1927
Matinee Ladies
9/1
Law student Bob Ward, short on money, takes a job as a "dancing companion" at a roadhouse, where most of his clients are women looking for a little ex...
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Matinee Ladies
1935
The Casino Murder Case
6.818/11
After socialite Lynn Llewellyn receives an anonymous threat, he is poisoned at his uncle's casino, and although he recovers, his wife is murdered by t...
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The Casino Murder Case
1954
Jamboree
0/0
While riding on horseback with fellow actor Bill Demarest near the vast Irvine Ranch in Southern California, Jimmy Stewart pauses to explain that Irvi...
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