C. V. France

C. V. France
C. V. France
Born	Charles V. France; 30 June 1868; Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
Died	13 April 1949 (aged 80); Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1910–44

Charles Vernon France (30 June 1868 – 13 April 1949) was a British actor, usually credited as C. V. France.

Henry Wilcoxon, Colin Tapley and C.V. France in If I Were King (1938)

Stage career

France appeared (along with Ralph Richardson) in William Somerset Maugham’s 1932 play For Services Rendered: A Play in Three Acts and Maurice Baring’s 1912 drama The Grey Stocking: A Play in Four Acts.

France’s stage acting was singled out for praise in Maugham’s 1938 literary memoir, The Summing Up: “…But there is one actor whom, since he has never reached the rank of a star, and so has hardly received the recognition that he deserves, I should like to mention. This is C. V. France. He has acted in several of my plays. He has never played a part in which he has not been admirable. He has represented to the smallest particular the character that I had in my mind’s eye. It would be difficult to find on the English stage a more competent, intelligent, and versatile actor.”

Complete filmography

The Blue Bird (1910, short) – Time
Eugene Aram (1924) – Squire Lester
The Burgomaster of Stilemonde (1929)
The Loves of Robert Burns (1930) – Lord Farquhar
The Skin Game (1931) – Mr. Hillcrist – The Hillcrists
These Charming People (1931) – Minx
Black Coffee (1931) – Sir Claude Amory
A Night Like This (1932) – Micky the Mailer
Lord Edgware Dies (1934) – Lord Edgware
Royal Cavalcade (1935) – Father
Scrooge (1935) – Spirit of Christmas Future
Tudor Rose (1936) – Clergy at Execution (uncredited)
Broken Blossoms (1936) – High Priest
Crime Over London (1936) – (uncredited)
Victoria the Great (1937) – Archbishop of Canterbury
A Yank at Oxford (1938) – Dean Snodgrass
Strange Boarders (1938) – Col. Lionel Anstruther
If I Were King (1938) – Father Villon
The Ware Case (1938) – Judge
Cheer Boys Cheer (1939) – Tom Greenleaf
Ten Days in Paris (1940) – General de Guermantes
Night Train to Munich (1940) – Admiral Hassinger
Breach of Promise (1942) – Morgan
Went the Day Well? (1942) – Mr Ashton, the vicar
The Halfway House (1944) – Mr. Truscott, Solicitor
It Happened One Sunday (1944) – Magistrate (final film role)

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External links

C.V. France on IMDb

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