C. V. France

C. V. France
Born	Charles V. France (1868-06-30)30 June 1868 Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
Died	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.”

Partial filmography

• The Blue Bird (1910)
• The Burgomaster of Stilemonde (1929)
• The Skin Game (1931)
• Black Coffee (1931)
• These Charming People (1931)
• Lord Edgware Dies (1934)
• Scrooge (1935)
• Tudor Rose (1936)
• Crime Over London (1936)
• Victoria the Great (1937)
• A Yank at Oxford (1938)
• If I Were King (1938)
• The Ware Case (1938)
• Strange Boarders (1938)
• Cheer Boys Cheer (1939)
• Night Train to Munich (1940)
• Went the Day Well? (1942)
• The Halfway House (1944)
• It Happened One Sunday (1944)

External links

• C.V. France at the Internet Movie Database