Charles West
actor
- Born:
- 1885-11-30, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Died:
- 1943-10-10, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Professions:
- actor
Biography
Charles West first drew breath on 30 November 1885 amid the soot and steel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Before the cameras rolled, he studied the craft of performance until it fit him like skin; then he stepped into the flickering world of early cinema. Audiences still recognize him from the desert sands of The Road to Yesterday (1925), the colonial tensions of The White Man’s Law (1918), and the maternal drama of The Child Thou Gavest Me (1914). His final curtain fell on 10 October 1943 in Los Angeles, California, beneath the same Hollywood sky that had once projected his image across the world.
