Berton Churchill

See also:Other Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood. He died on November 18, 2002, from a heart attack. His body was returned to the west coast to be interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. For his appearance as the abusive father of protagonist Nick Nolte in Affliction he received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1998. Berton Churchill died in New York City. He then appeared in movies such as Young Guns II (1990), The Nutty Professor (1996), The Cherokee Kid (a 1996 TV movie), and Maverick (1994). In 1925, Berton Churchill helped found the Masquers club that led to him and five other actors creating the Screen Actors Guild in 1933. He claimed to have healed himself with pills containing sulfur, and returned to screen in the 1990s.

One of Churchill's better known roles was with John Wayne in John Ford's highly acclaimed 1939 film, "Stagecoach.". Due to severe rheumatoid arthritis, he did not appear in any films during the 1980s. Robinson, and Will Rogers. He was particularly fine in Peckinpah's Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973); and modified his "tough guy" image in satires and comedies, such as What Did You Do in the War Daddy? (1966), Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966), Waterhole # 3 (1967) and The President's Analyst (1967). As well, he performed with many of the most famous stars of the day such as Bette Davis, Jeanette MacDonald, Tyrone Power, Edward G. Born in Laurel, Nebraska, Coburn became famous as the "tough guy" in a variety of films, including the western The Magnificent Seven (1960), the World War Two POW drama The Great Escape (1963), the spy movie Our Man Flint (1966) and its sequel In Like Flint (1967), the Sergio Leone 'spaghetti western' Duck You Sucker aka A Fistful of Dynamite (1971), and Sam Peckinpah's war movie Cross of Iron (1977). Much in demand, in more than 125 films Churchill worked for some of the great directors such as Otto Preminger, John Ford, and Frank Capra. James Coburn (August 31, 1928 - November 18, 2002) was an American movie actor.

There, his powerful stage voice and commanding presence landed him numerous supporting roles, usually as the stern or pompous character with such roles as a banker, a State Governor, or a land baron. With the advent of filmmaking in New York Berton Churchill appeared in several motion pictures, and in the 1920s, following the use of sound in film, he moved to Hollywood, California. In 1919 he was in charge of the New York headquarters during the Equity strike in which fellow Canadian and friend, actress Marie Dressler assumed a major part with him that led to her being blacklisted by the producers. There, he was one of the earliest members of Actors Equity and sat on the Council.

As a young man interested in the theater, he headed to New York City where he began an acting career that soon put him on the Broadway stage. Born in Toronto, Ontario. Berton Churchill (December 9, 1876 - October 10, 1940) was a Canadian actor.