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name: "Charles Judels"
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born: "16 August 1882"
died: "14 February 1969"
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# Charles Judels

Actor. Born 16 August 1882 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. Died 14 February 1969.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 16 August 1882, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
- **Died:** 14 February 1969
- **Also known as:** Charles Judells, Charles Judel
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2959509, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0431882/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/96053

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Pinocchio*](https://film.one/film/pinocchio.md) (88)

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## Biography

Charles Judels was a Dutch-born American actor. Born in Amsterdam in 1882, he began his career in vaudeville in the early 1900s and made his Broadway debut in The Ziegfeld Follies of 1912. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1915 and 1949, often using his skill with dialects.

Judels is known for roles including the cheese shop owner in *Swiss Miss* (1938) and a cafe owner in *Ninotchka* (1939). He provided the voices of Stromboli and The Coachman in Disney's *Pinocchio* (1940). His final screen appearance was as a Danite merchant in *Samson and Delilah* (1949). He died in San Francisco in 1969.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, behindthevoiceactors.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Pinocchio* (1940), Fi1m 88, as Stromboli / The Coachman (voice) (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/pinocchio.md)

## Also known for

- *Once Upon a Studio* (2023), Stromboli (voice) (archive sound)
- *Ninotchka* (1939), Cafe Owner Pere Mathieu (uncredited)
- *Samson and Delilah* (1949), Danite Merchant (uncredited)
- *The Great Ziegfeld* (1936), Pierre
- *Stranger on the Third Floor* (1940), Nick Nanbajan, the Cafe Owner (uncredited)
- *San Francisco* (1936), Tony
- *One Hour with You* (1932), Policeman (uncredited)
- *Swiss Miss* (1938), Cheese Shop Owner

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