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, in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire – 13 April 1949, in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire), usually credited as C. V. France, was a British actor.
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.”
Partial filmography
- The Blue Bird (1910)
- The Burgomaster of Stilemonde (1929)
- The Skin Game (1931)
- Black Coffee (1931)
- These Charming People (1931)
- A Night Like This (1932)
- Lord Edgware Dies (1934)
- Scrooge (1935)
- Tudor Rose (1936)
- Crime Over London (1936)
- Victoria the Great (1937)
- A Yank at Oxford (1938)
- If I Were King (1938)
- The Ware Case (1938)
- Strange Boarders (1938)
- Cheer Boys Cheer (1939)
- Night Train to Munich (1940)
- Went the Day Well? (1942)
- The Halfway House (1944)
- It Happened One Sunday (1944)