Charles Judels or Charles Judel was born in Amsterdam in 1882. Starred
on vaudeville in the early 1900s, and made his Broadway stage debut in 'The
Ziegfeld Follies of 1912'. Highly talented chubby man who appeared in
more than 130 American comedy and drama movies, his expertise with dialects
served him well throughout his career. His first film was the comedy
Old Dutch (1915) directed by
Frank Hall Crane and starring
Lew Fields for the
Shubert Film Co. He is perhaps best remembered as the cheese-store
proprietor in the Laurel & Hardy film
Swiss Miss (1938). He also did
extensive work as a voice actor in animated films, most notably as the
voice of Stromboli in Disney's
Pinocchio (1940). His last appearance on
screen was as a Danite Merchant in
Samson and Delilah (1949).