Charles Wilder — The Cat and the Canary Character Profile

About Charles Wilder

A greedy nephew secretly identified as the lunatic Cat in disguise. He conspires with the mansion guard to terrorize Annabelle, hoping to drive her insane so he can inherit the fortune through the mysterious second will. He is ultimately unmasked and arrested by the police.

Character Facts

Played by

Forrest Stanley

Appears in

The Cat and the Canary (1927)

Role

Supporting

More characters from The Cat and the Canary

• Annabelle West (Laura La Plante)
• Paul Jones (Creighton Hale)
• Roger Crosby (Tully Marshall)
• Policeman (uncredited) (Hal Craig)
• Cecily (Gertrude Astor)
• Milkman (uncredited) (Joe Murphy)
• Susan (Flora Finch)
• Taxi Driver (uncredited) (Billy Engle)
• Harry (Arthur Edmund Carewe)
• Mammy Pleasant (Martha Mattox)
• The Guard (George Siegmann)
• Ira Lazar (Lucien Littlefield)