Charles Fernley Fawcett (2 December 1915 – 3 February 2008) was an American adventurer, soldier, film actor, and a co-founder of the

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. He was a recipient of the French Croix de Guerre and the American Eisenhower medal, and was declared

Righteous Among the Nations Righteous Among the Nations ( he, חֲסִידֵי אֻמּוֹת הָעוֹלָם, ; "righteous (plural) of the world's nations") is an honorific used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to sa ...

for his assistance in rescuing and safeguarding Jewish refugees during World War II.

Varian Fry Varian Mackey Fry (October 15, 1907 – September 13, 1967) was an American journalist. Fry ran a rescue network in Vichy France that helped approximately 2,000 to 4,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees to escape Nazi Germany and the Holocaust ...

, his longtime associate, described him as "a moral adventurer."

Early life

Charles Fernley Fawcett was born in

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, where his mother had been caught in a snow storm and died when he was six. His family was of old

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n stock, whose family tree included

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and

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. Having been orphaned at an early age, Fawcett and his younger brother and two sisters grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, in the care of their aunt. Here he attended Greenville High School for three years where he learned to wrestle and play American football. At age 15, Fawcett became involved in an affair with his best friend's mother. He remarked, "If that's child molestation, I would wish this curse on every young boy." The end of the affair made Fawcett contemplate suicide, and he left the United States in 1932 at age 16 to travel to the

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, working his passage on a number of steamships with the U.S. Merchant Marine. By 1937, he had returned to America and stayed for a time in

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before making his way to

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, where he was taken in by his cousin, who happened to be an assistant

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. Here he ended up wrestling to make a living. Then in 1937 he boarded a ship outside

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bound for

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, where he worked as an artist’s model, a jazz musician, and later a

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World War II

After the outbreak of

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in 1939, Fawcett joined the

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but had been in barracks for only a week before escaping from the advancing Nazis and hitchhiking back to Paris.No one could accuse Charles Fawcett of not living life to the full
''

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''. Retrieved August 8, 2022. He tried to join both U.S. Intelligence and the French Armed Forces but his services were declined, so he briefly joined the Section Volontaire des Américains of the French ambulance corps in 1940. He was on his way to North Africa to join the

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when he heard about

, who would go on to rescue over 2,000 Jews from

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with the help of a handful of people, Fawcett among them. Among the most famous people they rescued were

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, Marc Chagall,

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and Hannah Arendt. "I went to see him and he wasn’t very interested until I told him I’d been a professional wrestler. He said, ‘Maybe we could use you to sort of keep order. Anybody who’s not supposed to be there, you can get rid of them’," Fawcett recalled in an interview with Dr. Stephen D. Smith in 1998. "Fry was perhaps one of the most idealistic men I had ever known and certainly the most unassuming. We got rid in a hurry of his little bow-tie and striped suit. Out of place completely in Marseilles. Maybe one of the reasons he got away with a lot was because he looked so innocent." In Paris, Fawcett took part in the rescue of a group of British prisoners of war who had been placed under French guard in a hospital ward by the Germans. By impersonating a German ambulance crew, Fawcett and a comrade marched in at 4am and ordered the French nurses to usher the POWs out into the yard. "Gentlemen," he announced as he drove them away, "consider yourself liberated". "You're a Yank," said a British voice. "Never," came Fawcett's lilting southern burr, "confuse a Virginian with a Yankee". In 1942, he enlisted in the

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and trained as a fighter pilot, flying the

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but was invalided out that Christmas with

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, from which he had suffered as a youth. After convalescing in a Canadian

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, Fawcett made his way back to the United States in 1943. From New York, he traveled to a TB clinic in Arizona where he remained for about a year. In 1944, he returned to Italy and rejoined the American Ambulance Corps. Towards the end of the war, Fawcett posed as the husband of six Jewish women in three months. This enabled the women, who had formerly been imprisoned in

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, to leave France with an American

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. Eventually, he had to flee France at several hours' notice after a tip-off that the

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was coming to arrest him. Having left France, he joined up with the

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in 1945, fighting for six months in the

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, and took part in the liberation of Colmar. A further bout of tuberculosis landed him in the Legionnaires' Hospital in Paris. He was a recipient of the French Croix de Guerre and the American Eisenhower medal.Charles Fernley Fawcett 1915-2008
www.varianfry.org. Retrieved August 10, 2022. His unlikely, some would say unbelievable, life was informed by an impulse to stand up for the underdog mixed with a thirst for glamour and adventure. Fawcett charmed everyone he met with tales of swashbuckling intrigue and good deeds.

Post-war

By 1948, Fawcett was back in action serving in the

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against the Communists during the

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, fighting in a lounge suit in the guise of a journalist, since no foreigners were permitted to be involved. In 1949, Fawcett pursued a cinematic career, in which he performed in over 100 films, working with such stars as

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, Alan Ladd and Robert Taylor. He combined this with smuggling refugees to safety from civil conflict, organizing earthquake relief teams, fighting in several wars and co-founding the

. In 1956, Fawcett helped to rescue refugees from the Hungarian Uprising.Charles Fernley Fawcett 1915-2008, Daily Mirror
www.varianfry.org. Retrieved August 10, 2022. Then he spent three years in the Belgian Congo, during the civil war in the early 60s, where he flew out those who were unable to escape the fighting. But it was the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, in June 1979, that signaled his longest mission, and he was off to help the Afghan resistance fighters for the next 12 years. In 2006, Fawcett was nominated for recognition as

at the annual British Holocaust commemoration.

Acting career

Fawcett appeared in some 100 film, television and radio productions between 1949 and 1976. He initially worked in France, but after 1952 worked primarily in Italy, having moved to

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with his wife that year. During this time, he purportedly engaged in an affair with actress

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Personal life

Fawcett's first wife, with whom he had a daughter, died in 1956. In 1991, he married again, when after a 30-year engagement he married April Ducksbury, a British model agency executive, and settled in London.

Death

Fawcett died on 3 February 2008 in London at the age of 92.

Selected filmography

* ''Hans le marin'' (1949) * ''Le grand rendez-vous'' (1950) - L'ambassadeur * ''

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'' (1950) - Mr. Brown, le PDG de Prima * ''

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'' (1950) - L'Américain (segment "Une statuette d'Osiris") (uncredited) * ''L'inconnue de Montréal'' (1950) * '' Adventures of Captain Fabian'' (1951) - Defense Counsel * ''

Fugitive in Trieste ''Fugitive in Trieste'' ( it, Clandestino a Trieste) is a 1951 Italian war-drama film directed by Guido Salvini and starring Doris Duranti, Jacques Sernas and Massimo Girotti. Plot Giulio (Jacques Sernas), an Italian Air Force officer is arrest ...

'' (1951) * ''Ils étaient cinq'' (1951) * '' Ha da venì... don Calogero'' (1952) - Don Andrea * '' When in Rome'' (1952) - Mr. Cates * ''

La Putain respectueuse ''La Putain respectueuse'' (''The Respectful Prostitute'') is a French drama film from 1952, directed by Marcello Pagliero and Charles Brabant, written by Alexandre Astruc, starring Barbara Laage and Louis de Funès. It is an adaptation of Jean- ...

'' (1952) - (uncredited) * ''

Three Forbidden Stories ''Three Forbidden Stories'' ( it, Tre storie proibite) is a 1952 Italian drama film directed by Augusto Genina. Cast * Lia Amanda as Renata * Antonella Lualdi as Anna Maria * Eleonora Rossi Drago as Gianna Aragona * Isa Pola as Signora Paola, m ...

'' (1952) - Mottaroni (Second segment) * '' I sette dell'Orsa maggiore'' (1953) * ''

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'' (1953) - Harry Rodgers * '' The Blind Woman of Sorrento'' (1953) - Marchese di Rionero * ''

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'' (1953) - Il signore triste all'ufficio postale (uncredited) * ''Egypt by Three'' (1953) - American Doctor (second episode) * ''

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'' (1953) - (uncredited) * ''

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'' (1953) * ''Fermi tutti... arrivo io!'' (1953) - Mr. Brown * ''

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'' (1953) - re Arconte * ''Mizar'' (1954) - maggiore Crob * ''

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'' (1954) - L'ammiraglio * ''

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'' (1954) - Oliver * ''

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'' (1954) - Count D'Alberti * '' The Two Orphans'' (1954) * ''

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'' (1954) - Mr. Brooks * ''

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'' (1955) - Charles Burton * ''Il falco d'oro'' (1955) - Ubaldo della Torre * ''Andrea Chenier'' (1955) * ''Incatenata dal destino'' (1956) - John Carrington * ''Mai ti scorderò'' (1956) - Neri, il regista * ''

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'' (1956) - Russian artillery captain (uncredited) * ''

I Vampiri ''I Vampiri'' ( The Vampires) is a 1957 Italian horror film. The film was directed by Riccardo Freda and completed by the film's cinematographer, Mario Bava. It stars Gianna Maria Canale, Carlo D'Angelo and Dario Michaelis. The film is about a s ...

'' (1957) - Signor Robert * ''

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'' (1957) - Bill B. Baldwin (uncredited) * ''

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'' (1957) * ''

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'' (1958) - Van de Ritzen * ''The Last Rebel'' (1958) - Captain Harry Love * '' Lonelyhearts'' (1958) - Smitty * ''Civitas De'' (1958) * ''No Time to Kill'' (1959) - Marine * ''

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'' (1959) - Citizen in Barbershop * ''La duchessa di Santa Lucia'' (1959) - Il padre di Archibald * ''Les canailles'' (1960) * ''

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'' (1960) - Annone * ''Heaven on Earth'' (1960) - Henry Brent * ''

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'' (1961) - Warren (uncredited) * ''

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'' (1961) - Old Man Warning Rachel (uncredited) * ''The Witch's Curse'' (1962) - Doctor * '' It Happened in Athens'' (1962) - Ambassador Cyrus T. Gaylord * ''

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'' (1962) - Megistias * ''

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'' (1963) * ''

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'' (1963) * ''

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'' (1963) * ''Dark Purpose'' (1964) - Martin * '' The Secret of Dr. Mabuse (1964) - Cmdr. Adams * ''

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'' (1964) * ''

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'' (1964) - General Taylor * ''

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'' (1965) - Mr. Shelby * ''Wild Kurdistan'' (1965) - Scheik Mohammed Emin / Scheik Kadir Bei * ''Kingdom of the Silver Lion'' (1965) - Scheik Kadir Bei * '' Savage Pampas'' (1966) - Pvt. El Gato * '' Spy Today, Die Tomorrow'' (1967) - General Stikker * ''Feuer frei auf Frankie'' (1967) - Prof. Peers * ''Caccia ai violenti'' (1968) * ''The Girl of the Nile'' (1969) - Marco Alfieri * '' The Massacre of Glencoe'' (1971) - John Macdonald * ''Kalimán, el hombre increíble'' (1972) - Professor Morgan * ''

Down the Ancient Staircase ''Down the Ancient Staircase'' ( it, Per le antiche scale) is a 1975 Italian-French drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini. Cast * Marcello Mastroianni - Professor Bonaccorsi * Françoise Fabian - Anna Bersani * Marthe Keller - Bianca * Barba ...

'' (1975) - Doctor Sfameni * ''

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'' (1976) - Michael / Annie's lover (final film role)

References

External links

*
Profile at Varian Fry Institute

USC Shoah Foundation interview
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