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"Charles France" redirects here. For the rugby player, see Charles France (rugby union).

C. V. France
Born	Charles V. France (1868-06-30)30 June 1868 Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
Died	13 April 1949(1949-04-13) (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.

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)

External links

• C.V. France at IMDb