"Flash Gordon" Charles Middleton circa 1938
				
				
						 Caption: "Flash Gordon" Charles Middleton circa 1938
																																				
						Actor
						Born: October 3, 1874
						Star sign: Libra
						Height: 6' (1.83 m)
						Known for: Duck Soup (1933), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), The Flying Deuces (1939), Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940)
						Source: IMDB
						Charles Middleton was born on October 3, 1874 in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. He was the son of a millionaire and did not have to work, but apparently went into acting because he needed to find a way to express himself. He worked in a traveling circus, in vaudeville, and acted in live theatre before he turned to motion pictures in 1920. His career as ...