Charles 'Bud' Tingwell (born January 3 1923 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian film and theatre actor. Tingwell is one of the veterans of Australian film. He acted in his first film in 1946, and has appeared in over one hundred films.

As an adolescent, Tingwell was encouraged by his father to be an accountant, but failed the entrance exam. Not long after, he volunteered as a pilot during World War II. He subsequently saw action flying photographic reconnaissance missions overseas. After returning to Australia, he married his childhood sweetheart, Audrey. He also began to seriously consider a career in film, which had been a passion of his before the war.

In 1946, Tingwell won his first film role, as a control tower officer in the film Smithy. He took on several roles over the next few years, increasing in stature, until he caught the attention of Hollywood in 1952, and won the part of Lt. Harry Carstairs in the film The Desert Rats, alongside Chips Rafferty, James Mason and Richard Burton.