Charles Penrose (entertainer) a character actor in a number of films in the 1930s and 1940s. Charles Penrose died of heart disease on 17 November 1952 at the Princess Beatrice Hospital, Kensington, aged 79. Charles Penrose (entertainer) Charles Penrose (born Charles Penrose Dunbar Cawse; 11 November 1873 – 17 November 1952) was an English music hall and theatre performer, and later radio comedian, who is best known for his unusual comic song "The Laughing Policeman". He was born in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, the son of a master watchmaker and jeweller. He initially followed his father into the jewellery trade, but enjoyed such success with
Porter Hall probably best remembered for four roles: a senator in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", an atheist in "Going My Way," the nervous, ill-tempered Granville Sawyer, who administers a psychological test to Kris Kringle in "Miracle on 34th Street", and a train passenger who encounters a man (Fred MacMurray) who has just committed a murder in "Double Indemnity". On October 6, 1953, Hall died of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California at the age of 65. His interment was at Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery. Hall had two children, David and Sarah Jane. Director Russ Meyer named one of