[1] Charles Seel was born in The Bronx, New York, on April 29, 1897.

As a young man he worked for the Biograph Studios as a handyman in the wake of the crew.

Later, he began acting on stage in vaudeville, then on Broadway, and then in radio before moving to Hollywood in 1937.

His last appearance on the small screen came in the episode The Christmas Party of the television series Apple's Way which aired on December 22, 1974, in which he plays the role of MacPherson, while for the big screen the last film interpretation was in Airport 1975, in which he plays a passenger who is celebrating his anniversary.

[2] Seel died in Los Angeles, California, on April 19, 1980, ten days before his 83rd birthday, and was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills.