Who is this actor?

Charles Boyer born in 1899, was a French-American actor who appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976. In his youth, he performed comic sketches for soldiers while working as a hospital orderly during World War I.

In 1920, his quick memory won him a chance to replace the leading man in a stage production, 'Aux jardins de Murcie' (The Gardens of Murcia). He not only played a suave and sophisticated ladies' man on the stage but also appeared in several silent films.

Boyer had one of his biggest hits with 'Gaslight' (1944) with Ingrid Bergman. A film about a controlling, narcissistic husband who abuses his successful wife with a psychological manipulation tactic called gaslighting.

Boyer became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1942. In addition to French and English, Boyer spoke Italian, German, and Spanish.

Boyer was the husband of actress Pat Paterson, whom he met in 1934. The two became engaged after two weeks of courtship and were married three months later. Later, they would move from Hollywood to Paradise Valley, Arizona. The marriage lasted 44 years until her death.

On 26 August 1978, two days after his wife's death from cancer, and two days before his own 79th birthday, Boyer committed suicide with a drug overdose in Arizona. He was interred in Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, alongside his wife and son.