C. V. France

























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 in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire – 13 April 1949 in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire), usually credited as C. V. France, was a British actor.





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)




External links



  • C.V. France on IMDb










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