Uncle Charlie

"Women keep busy in towns like this. In the cities, it's different. The cities are full of women, middle-aged widows, husbands dead, husbands who've spent their lives making fortunes, working and working. And then they die and leave their money to their wives, their silly wives. And what do the wives do, these useless women? You see them in the hotels, the best hotels, every day by the thousands, drinking the money, eating the money, losing the money at bridge, playing all day and all night, smelling of money, proud of their jewelry but of nothing else, horrible, faded, fat, greedy women... Are they human or are they fat, wheezing animals, hmm? And what happens to animals when they get too fat and too old?"

- Uncle Charlie's famous "Widows Speech"

Charles Newton, best known as Uncle Charlie, is the main antagonist of Alfred Hitchcock's 1943 film Shadow of a Doubt. He is a charming serial killer of elderly, wealthy widows who provokes the suspicion of his niece and namesake, Charlene "Charlie" Newton.

He is portrayed by Joseph Cotton.