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Churchill is perhaps best known for his role as Gatewood, the absconding banker in John Ford's highly acclaimed 1939 film Stagecoach, starring John Wayne. In 1925, Churchill helped found the Masquers club that led to him and five other actors creating the Screen Actors Guild in 1933.
Berton Churchill was born on 9 December 1876 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for Stagecoach (1939), Sweethearts (1938) and Steamboat Round the Bend (1935). He was married to Harriet Elizabeth Gardner. He died on 10 October 1940 in New York City, New York, USA.
Here are 10 things you should know about Berton Churchill, born on December 9, 1876. Though he spent just a decade in Hollywood, he enjoyed a remarkably prol...
Berton Churchill was born on December 9, 1876 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for Stagecoach (1939), Sweethearts (1938) and Steamboat Round the Bend (1935). He was married to Harriet Elizabeth Gardner. He died on October 10, 1940 in New York City, New York, USA.
Berton Churchill, stage and screen actor, died at 7 A.M. yesterday at the Medical Arts Center Hospital, 57 West Fifty-seventh Street, of uremic poisoning. He was 63 years old.
Biography by AllMovie. The apotheosis of Canadian-born Berton Churchill's film career might well have been 1939's Stagecoach, in which he was cast to perfection as the outwardly "solid citizen" banker whose pompous bluster hides the fact that he's actually absconding with his depositors' funds.
Berton Churchill is known as an Actor. Some of his work includes Stagecoach, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, The Dark Hour, Heroes for Sale, In Old Chicago, The Spanish Cape Mystery, The Cabin in the Cotton, and Dames.
