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Charles Buddy Rogers
Charles Buddy Rogers
Charles Buddy Rogers

Charles Buddy Rogers

1904 Olathe, Kansas – 1999 Rancho Mirage, California
BiographyCharles Edward Rodgers, known as Buddy Rodgers, was an American film actor and musician who was at the peak of his career during the silent film era. Rodgers began his acting career in the mid-1920s and one of his best-known rolls was opposite Clara Bow in the 1927 film Wings, the first film to win Best Picture from the Academy Awards. Also a skilled musician on the trombone as well as several other instruments, Rodgers also performed in bands for motion pictures and on radio. He was the third husband of actress Mary Pickford, to whom he was married for 42 years until her death in 1979.
Person TypeIndividual
Rena Rogers
1900 Illinois – 1966 Santa Monica, California
Arthur Hammerstein
1872 New York, New York – 1955 Palm Beach, Florida
1918 Wichita, Kansas – 1978 Tucson, Arizona
born 1959, California; lives California
Mary Pickford
1892 Toronto, Canada – 1979 Santa Monica, California
Victor Moscoso
born 1936 Oleiros, Galicia, Spain; lives San Francisco, California
John Gilbert
1897 Logan, Utah – 1936 Los Angeles, California
Frank Borzage
1894 Salt Lake City, Utah – 1962 Los Angeles, California
Douglas Fairbanks
1883 Denver, Colorado – 1939 Santa Monica, California
Jack Luden
1902 Reading, Pennsylvania – 1951 San Quentin, California