Biography

Charles Abbe born in Connecticut, USA in 1860, became a highly regarded stage performer on the Broadway comedy and drama theatre's from 1895, often appeared as socialite fathers, first starred in a couple of well-known drama films at the Famous Players Film Company and the World Film Company in 1915, later became a well-known supporting player at the Paramount Film Company through the 1920s until his last film 'The Bishop's Candlesticks in 1929.
- IMDb mini biography by: Paul Rothwell-Smith

Screen and stage actor. Active on Broadway from 1895-1931.

Was also a cartoonist, his drawings had appeared in Life and Puck magazines.

Played the original "Cappy Ricks".

His death was the result of an abscessed tooth.