Jeremiah Collins Biography: Relationship, Measurements, Ethnicity

Known for movies

Short Info

Fact	Daughter Doris Bickford (b. 1919).

Jeremiah Collins was born on October 1, 1824, in Salem, Massachusetts. His parents were both of Irish descent. Jeremiah was the oldest of seven children. His early education took place in Salem public schools. Jeremiah’s father died when he was just sixteen, and he was forced to leave school to help support his family.

Jeremiah began his career working as a clerk in a Salem shipping firm. He later went into business for himself, opening a successful shipping company. Jeremiah’s business acumen made him a wealthy man. He was also an active philanthropist, donating money to various causes.

In 1849, Jeremiah married Elizabeth Proctor, the daughter of a Salem merchant. The couple had four children together. Elizabeth died in 1855.

In 1856, Jeremiah married again, this time to Abigail Williams, the daughter of a wealthy Boston family. The couple had two children together.

Jeremiah’s first wife, Elizabeth, died in 1855. His second wife, Abigail, died in 1882. Jeremiah never remarried.

Jeremiah Collins died on January 3, 1904, at the age of 79.

Family

Parents

Naomi Collins

Social profile links

IMDB	http://imdb.com/name/nm0001948

Quotes

#	Quote
1	[About not seeing his own films] Perhaps it's because I'm too critical that I don't usually see my own stuff. Very often it's a weird experience, and sometimes it's a little nauseating.
2	It's appropriate that I should have come in on the wings of a blizzard. I've been blowing up a storm ever since.

Facts

#	Fact
1	He was billed as Charles A. Bickford early in his career. The "A" stood for Ambrose.
2	While rehearsing a scene for Universal's East of Java (1935), he was mauled by a 400-pound lion on his neck and shoulders, very close to his jugular vein. it required nearly a year for him to recover from the injuries.
3	Amomg his outside interests were painting and a gold mine in San Bernadino.
4	Served during WWI as a lieutenant in the Army Corps of Engineers.
5	Bickford never placed all his eggs in one basket when it came to his financial security. At one time he owned a gas station and garage, a half interest in a pearling schooner, a pair of whaling boats, a hog farm, a chicken ranch, a lingerie shop, and purchased an island off the coast of the Indonesian island of Java where coconuts were harvested.
6	Is one of 8 actors who have received an Oscar nomination for their performance as a priest. The others, in chronological order, are: Spencer Tracy for San Francisco (1936) and Boys Town (1938); Bing Crosby for Going My Way (1944) and The Bells of St. Mary's (1945); Barry Fitzgerald for Going My Way (1944); Gregory Peck for The Keys of the Kingdom (1944); Karl Malden for On the Waterfront (1954); Jason Miller for The Exorcist (1973); and Philip Seymour Hoffman for Doubt (2008). Tracy, Crosby and Fitzgerald all won Oscars for their performances.
7	Every time he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, one of his co-stars won the Oscar for Best Actress (Jennifer Jones for The Song of Bernadette (1943), Loretta Young for The Farmer's Daughter (1947) and Jane Wyman for Johnny Belinda (1948)).
8	Interred at Woodlawn Cemetary, Santa Monica, California.
9	Son Rex Bickford (b. 1924, d. 1960).
10	Daughter Doris Bickford (b. 1919).

Pictures

Movies

Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
Days of Wine and Roses	1962		Ellis Arnesen
Theatre '62	1962	TV Series	Butler
The Farmer's Daughter	1962	TV Movie	Clancy
Dr. Kildare	1961	TV Series	Dr. Charles Dubro
General Electric Theater	1961	TV Series	Chief Peter Farrel
The Americans	1961	TV Series	Peterson
The Islanders	1960	TV Series	Adam Smith
The Barbara Stanwyck Show	1960	TV Series	Isiah B. Richardson
Checkmate	1960	TV Series	Whitney P. Thorne
Buick-Electra Playhouse	1960	TV Series	Mr. Frazer
The Gambler, the Nun and the Radio	1960	TV Movie	Mr. Frazer
The Unforgiven	1960		Zeb Rawlins
Playhouse 90	1956-1960	TV Series	Pa Fentry / Old Man Grant / Marvin / ...
Winterset	1959	TV Movie	Judge Gaunt
Woman on the Run	1959	TV Movie
The Big Country	1958		Maj. Henry Terrill
Wagon Train	1958	TV Series	Daniel Barrister
Undercurrent	1957	TV Series	Stanley Hunter
Climax!	1957	TV Series	Martin Seaford
The 20th Century-Fox Hour	1957	TV Series	John Macready
Mister Cory	1957		Jeremiah Des Plains 'Biloxi' Caldwell
The Ford Television Theatre	1952-1956	TV Series	Stanley Hunter / Sam Callahan / Norman Forrester
You Can't Run Away from It	1956		A.A. Andrews
Schlitz Playhouse	1953-1956	TV Series	Enoch Prentiss / Dr. Gunther
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell	1955		Gen. Jimmy Guthrie
Screen Directors Playhouse	1955	TV Series	Dr. Stone
Celebrity Playhouse	1955	TV Series	Father O'Neil
Not as a Stranger	1955		Dr. Dave Runkleman
Prince of Players	1955		Dave Prescott
A Star Is Born	1954		Oliver Niles
The Revlon Mirror Theater	1953	TV Series
The Last Posse	1953		Sampson Drune
Elopement	1951		Tom Reagan
The Raging Tide	1951		Hamil Linder
Jim Thorpe -- All-American	1951		Glenn S. 'Pop' Warner
Branded	1950		Mr. Lavery
Riding High	1950		J.L. Higgins
Guilty of Treason	1950		Joszef Cardinal Mindszenty
Whirlpool	1950		Lt. James Colton
Roseanna McCoy	1949		Devil Anse Hatfield
Command Decision	1948		Elmer Brockhurst
Johnny Belinda	1948		Black MacDonald
Four Faces West	1948		Pat Garrett
The Babe Ruth Story	1948		Brother Matthias
Brute Force	1947		Gallagher
The Woman on the Beach	1947		Tod
The Farmer's Daughter	1947		Joseph Clancy
Duel in the Sun	1946		Sam Pierce
Fallen Angel	1945		Mark Judd
Captain Eddie	1945		William Rickenbacker
Wing and a Prayer	1944		Capt. Waddell
The Song of Bernadette	1943		Father Peyramale
Mr. Lucky	1943		Hard Swede
Tarzan's New York Adventure	1942		Buck Rand
Reap the Wild Wind	1942		Master of the 'Tyfib'
Burma Convoy	1941		Cliff Weldon
Riders of Death Valley	1941		Wolf Reade
Queen of the Yukon	1940		Ace Rincon
South to Karanga	1940		Jeff Worthing
Girl from God's Country	1940		Bill Bogler
Thou Shalt Not Kill	1939		Rev. Chris Saunders
Of Mice and Men	1939		Slim
One Hour to Live	1939		Insp. Sid Brady
Mutiny in the Big House	1939		Father Joe Collins
Our Leading Citizen	1939		Shep Muir
Street of Missing Men	1939		Cash Darwin
Romance of the Redwoods	1939		Steve Blake
Stand Up and Fight	1939		Arnold
The Storm	1938		Bob 'Sparks' Roberts
Valley of the Giants	1938		Howard Fallon
Gangs of New York	1938		'Rocky' Thorpe / John Franklyn
Daughter of Shanghai	1937		Otto Hartman
Night Club Scandal	1937		Det. Capt. McKinley
Thunder Trail	1937		Lee Tate
High, Wide, and Handsome	1937		Red Scanlon
The Plainsman	1936		John Lattimer
Pride of the Marines	1936		Steve Riley
Rose of the Rancho	1936		Joe Kincaid
East of Java	1935		Red McGovern aka Harvey Bowers
The Farmer Takes a Wife	1935		Jotham Klore
Under Pressure	1935		Nipper Moran
A Notorious Gentleman	1935		Kirk Arlen
A Wicked Woman	1934		Naylor
Little Miss Marker	1934		Big Steve Halloway
Red Wagon	1933		Joe Prince
White Woman	1933		Ballister
This Day and Age	1933		Louis Garrett
Song of the Eagle	1933		Joe (Nails) Anderson
No Other Woman	1933		Jim Stanley
Vanity Street	1932		Brian Murphy
The Last Man	1932		Bannister
Thunder Below	1932		Walt
Scandal for Sale	1932		Jerry Strong
Panama Flo	1932		Dan McTeague
Men in Her Life	1931		Flashy Madden
The Pagan Lady	1931		Dingo Mike
The Squaw Man	1931		Cash Hawkins
East of Borneo	1931		Dr. Allan Randolph
Passion Flower	1930		Dan Wallace
River's End	1930		John Keith / Conniston
The Sea Bat	1930		John Dennis aka Reverend Sims
Anna Christie	1930/I		Matt
Hell's Heroes	1929		Bob Sangster
Dynamite	1929		Hagon Derk
South Sea Rose	1929		Capt. Briggs
The Virginian	1962-1968	TV Series	John Grainger / Tucker McCallum
A Big Hand for the Little Lady	1966		Benson Tropp
Della	1964		Hugh Stafford
Suspense	1964	TV Series	Christopher Bell
The Eleventh Hour	1963	TV Series	Howard Ellendale
The Dick Powell Theatre	1961-1963	TV Series	Big Jake Hollander / Emmet Peabody
Alcoa Premiere	1963	TV Series	Dr. Barry Logan

Soundtrack

Title	Year	Status
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand	2001	writer: "German Girl"
A Wicked Woman	1934	performer: "In the Hash" copyright 1935 - uncredited
Panama Flo	1932	performer: "The Darktown Strutters' Ball" 1917 - uncredited

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Linkletter Show	1966	TV Series	Himself
Now Is Tomorrow	1958	TV Movie	Himself - Host
Playhouse 90	1957	TV Series	Himself - Announcing Next Week's Show
The Dark Wave	1956	Documentary short
The Man Behind the Badge	1955	TV Series	Himself - Host
Hollywood on Parade No. B-6	1934	Short	Himself
Screen Snapshots	1932/II	Documentary short	Himself
Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 20	1930	Short	Himself

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
A Star Is Born: Special Features	2010	Video
Garbo	2005	Documentary	Matt Burke (uncredited)
Complicated Women	2003	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Hustle	1975		Actor in Film Clip from 'Branded' (uncredited)
Hollywood My Home Town	1965	Documentary	Himself
The Devil's Children	1962		Tucker McCallum
MGM Parade	1955	TV Series	Matt Burke
The Ed Sullivan Show	1954	TV Series	Himself
Rose Hobart	1936	Short	Man (from East of Borneo (1931) (uncredited)

Awards

Won Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
1960	Star on the Walk of Fame	Walk of Fame	Motion Picture	On 8 February 1960. At 6780 Hollywood Blvd.
1960	Star on the Walk of Fame	Walk of Fame	Television	Awarded February 8, 1960 at 1620 Vine Street
1955	NBR Award	National Board of Review, USA	Best Supporting Actor	Not as a Stranger (1955)

Nominated Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
1949	Oscar	Academy Awards, USA	Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Johnny Belinda (1948)
1948	Oscar	Academy Awards, USA	Best Actor in a Supporting Role	The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
1944	Oscar	Academy Awards, USA	Best Actor in a Supporting Role	The Song of Bernadette (1943)