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Charles E. Grapewin (December 20, 1869 – February 2, 1956) was an American vaudeville performer, and a stage and film actor.

Born in Xenia, Ohio, he first worked as an aerialist and trapeze artist in a traveling circus before turning to acting. He performed on stage with various stock companies and wrote stage plays as a vehicle for him to star in.

He married actress Anna Chance and they remained a devoted couple until her passing some 47 years later. Grapewin began in silent films around the turn of the century and almost forty years later appeared as Uncle Henry in the movie The Wizard of Oz
. During his long career, Grapewin appeared in more than one hundred films.

Charles Grapewin passed away in 1956 in Corona, California and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

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