Charles Boyer (Television producer, Screenwriter, Film producer, Actor)

Charles Boyer was a French-American actor who became a naturalized citizen of the United States on June 15, 1942 in Los Angeles. He was highly multi-lingual, speaking French, English, Italian, German and Spanish. Boyer met his wife British actress Pat Paterson at a dinner party in 1934, and after only two weeks of courtship, they became engaged and married three months later. They moved from Hollywood to Paradise Valley, Arizona, and stayed married for 44 years until Pat's death. Unfortunately, Boyer's only child Michael Charles Boyer tragically took his own life by playing Russian roulette at the age of 21. After Pat's death from cancer in 1978, two days later on August 26th, Boyer died by suicide with an overdose of Seconal at a friend's home in Scottsdale, Arizona. He was interred at the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California with his wife and son.

1. Best Actor Academy Award Nomination for Gaslight (1944)
2. Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for Fanny (1961)
3. Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960
4. Appointment to the Legion of Honor in France (1955)
5. Over 80 starring and supporting roles in motion pictures
6. Starred in three television series: The Rogues (1964-1965), He & She (1967-1969) and The Immortal (1969-1970)
7. Guest starred on many television programs
8. Served as President of both the Screen Actors Guild and the Motion Picture Relief Fund
9. Authored three books, All About All of Us in 1948, Boyer on Film in 1952 and My Feeling for the Cinema in 1968
10. Inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1972