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Charles Gray (actor)

Charles Gray (Donald Marshall Gray, 1928–2000) was an English character actor, Blofeld in Diamonds Are Forever, narrator of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Mycroft Holmes; distinct from other people named Charles Gray.

Charles Grodin

Charles Grodin (Charles Grodinsky, 1935–2021), American deadpan comic actor of The Heartbreak Kid, Midnight Run, and Beethoven; also Emmy-winning writer, CNBC talk-show host, 60 Minutes II commentator, and author.

Charles Haid

Charles Haid (Charles Maurice Haid III, born 1943, San Francisco) is an American actor and director, Officer Andy Renko on Hill Street Blues, later a DGA Award-winning TV director for ER.

Charles Hallahan

Charles Hallahan (1943–1997), American character actor; played Capt. Charlie Devane on Hunter and Norris in The Thing (1982); Philadelphia-born, Rutgers and Temple MFA, three L.A. Drama Critics Circle Awards; died of a heart attack in Los Angeles in 1997.

Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914)

Charles Hawtrey (George Frederick Joffre Hartree, 1914–1988) was an English comedy actor and singer, a child star, Will Hay foil, and Carry On regular in 23–24 films (1958–1972) who died in Deal, Kent after refusing amputation.

Charles Keating (actor)

Charles Keating (1941-2014), British RSC and Broadway actor, played Rex Mottram in Brideshead Revisited and won a 1996 Daytime Emmy as villain Carl Hutchins on Another World; distinct from the financier Charles Keating Jr.

Charles Kimbrough

Charles Kimbrough (1936–2023), American character actor; Tony-nominated for Sondheim's Company, Emmy-nominated as anchor Jim Dial on Murphy Brown (1988–1998, 2018 reboot), voice of gargoyle Victor in Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Charles Laughton

Charles Laughton (1899–1962), English-born stage and film actor and director, Oscar winner for The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933); famed as Captain Bligh and Quasimodo; directed only The Night of the Hunter (1955).

Charles Levin (actor)

Charles Herbert Levin (1949-2019), American character actor; Elliot Novak on Alice, Eddie Gregg on Hill Street Blues, the mohel in Seinfeld's 'The Bris,' and Coco in The Golden Girls pilot; died accidentally in Oregon in 2019.

Charles Malik Whitfield

Charles Malik Whitfield (born 1972, the Bronx) is an American actor known for Otis Williams in The Temptations (1998), The Guardian, If Loving You Is Wrong, Chicago Med, and Netflix's Beauty in Black.

Charles Martin Smith

Charles Martin Smith (born 1953, Van Nuys, California) is an American actor, writer, and director, also billed as Charlie Martin Smith. Known for Terry "The Toad" in American Graffiti and Never Cry Wolf; directed Air Bud, The Snow Walker, and Dolphin Tale.

Charles Matthau

Charles "Charlie" Matthau is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer, son of actor Walter Matthau, best known for directing The Grass Harp (1995) and Freaky Deaky (2012).

Charles Melton

Charles Melton (born 1991, Juneau, Alaska) is an American actor known as Reggie Mantle on Riverdale and for his Gotham and New York Film Critics Circle-winning role in May December, plus Beef and Warfare.

Charles Michael Davis

Charles Michael Davis, born 1984 in Dayton, Ohio, is an American actor, director, and model known as Marcel Gerard on The Originals (2013–2018, 92 episodes) and for lead roles on Younger and NCIS: New Orleans.

Charles Napier (actor)

Charles Napier (1936–2011), American character actor with a square jaw known for tough-guy roles in Rambo: First Blood Part II, The Blues Brothers, and The Silence of the Lambs, and as a favorite of Russ Meyer and Jonathan Demme.

Charles Nelson Reilly

Charles Nelson Reilly (1931–2007), American actor, Tony-winning Broadway performer (How to Succeed in Business), The Ghost and Mrs. Muir's Claymore Gregg, and Match Game panelist; also stage director, acting teacher, and subject of The Life of Reilly.

Charles Rocket

Charles Rocket (Charles Adams Claverie, 1949-2005), American character actor and former Saturday Night Live Weekend Update anchor fired after an on-air obscenity on February 21, 1981; later roles in Moonlighting, Dances with Wolves, and Dumb & Dumber.

Charles S. Dutton

Charles S. Dutton (born 1951, Baltimore) is an American actor and director who went from prison to the Yale School of Drama, Tony-nominated roles in August Wilson plays, the Fox series Roc, and three Emmy Awards.

Charles Shaughnessy

Charles Shaughnessy (Charles George Patrick Shaughnessy, 5th Baron Shaughnessy), British actor born 1955 in London. Known as Shane Donovan on Days of Our Lives and Maxwell Sheffield on The Nanny; Daytime Emmy winner, hereditary peer.

Charles Tyner

Charles Tyner (1923 or 1925–2017), American character actor from Danville, Virginia; Broadway's Sweet Bird of Youth; Boss Higgins in Cool Hand Luke, Uncle Victor in Harold and Maude, Unger in The Longest Yard.

Charlie Adler

Charlie Adler (Charles Michael Adler) is an American voice actor, voice director, and casting director, born 1956 or 1957, known for Cow and Chicken, Tiny Toon Adventures, Rocko's Modern Life, and Starscream in Transformers, and an Emmy-winning voice director.

Charlie B. Foster

Charlie B. Foster (Charles Bernard Foster, born 1998) is an American actor and writer, elder son of Jodie Foster and Cydney Bernard; known for the podcast The Peek with Samuel Pepys and roles in Nyad, Sparks, and Scarpetta.

Charlie Brooker

Charlie Brooker (Charlton Brooker, born 1971, Reading) is an English satirist and screenwriter, creator of Black Mirror, writer of the Guardian's Screen Burn column, presenter of Screenwipe and Newswipe, and co-founder of Broke and Bones, bought by Netflix in 2022.

Charlie Bushnell

Charlie Bushnell (born 2004, Los Angeles) is an American actor of Costa Rican, Japanese, and Irish descent known for Luke Castellan in Percy Jackson and the Olympians and Bobby Cañero-Reed in Diary of a Future President.

Charlie Carver

Charlie Carver (Charles Carver Martensen, born 1988) is an American actor, writer, and producer, identical twin of Max Carver, known for Desperate Housewives, Teen Wolf, Ratched, and The Boys in the Band on Broadway and film.

Charlie Cooper (actor)

Charlie Cooper (born 1989, Cirencester) is an English actor and writer, brother of Daisy May Cooper, co-creator and star of BBC Three's This Country as Kurtan Mucklowe, later in See How They Run and presenter of Myth Country.

Charlie Cox

Charlie Cox (born 1982) is a British actor known for Matt Murdock/Daredevil on Netflix and Disney+, Owen Sleater on Boardwalk Empire, Stardust, and Gustave in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

Charlie Creed-Miles

Charlie Creed-Miles (born 1972, Nottingham) is an English actor known for Nil by Mouth, The Fifth Element, Wild Bill, and Peaky Blinders' Billy Kimber; father of actress Esmé Creed-Miles with Samantha Morton.

Charlie Day

Charlie Day (Charles Peckham Day, born 1976) is an American actor, writer, and producer, co-creator and star of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia as Charlie Kelly, and star of Horrible Bosses, Pacific Rim, and the Super Mario films.

Charlie Evans (actor)

Charlie Evans (born 2004) is an Australian actor and musician from Byron Bay, known as Archie Sandford in Leave the World Behind, Jeremy Bradford in Paradise, and Hunter Davenport in Off Campus.