Charles Ogle
actor, make_up_department
- Birth name:
- Charles Stanton Ogle
- Born:
- 1865-06-05, Steubenville, Ohio, USA
- Died:
- 1940-10-11, Long Beach, California, USA
- Professions:
- actor, make_up_department
Biography
A preacher’s boy from Steubenville, Ohio, Charles Stanton Ogle slipped the pulpit for the greasepaint and never looked back. Between 1908 and 1916 he haunted Broadway wings before migrating to Edison’s Bronx glass-roofed studio, where he racked up more than 300 one-reel lives—sea captains, tyrants, lovesick poets—often shot in a single dizzy afternoon. His gaunt frame and knife-edge cheekbones made him the go-to face of stern authority, yet history remembers him best under a quilt of patchwork skin: in 1910, inside a soot-black castle set, he became cinema’s first stitched-together nightmare, the original Monster lurching from Edison’s Frankenstein into flickering immortality.
