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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 in Charge
Charles in Charge is an American sitcom (1984–1990) starring Scott Baio as Charles, a college student live-in housekeeper, with Willie Aames as Buddy Lembeck; canceled by CBS after one season, it was revived in first-run syndication with the Powell family replacing the Pembrokes.
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.
Charley Grapewin
Charley Grapewin (1869–1956), American character actor from Xenia, Ohio, former circus trapeze artist and vaudevillian; Uncle Henry in The Wizard of Oz, Grandpa Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, Jeeter Lester in Tobacco Road.
Charley Varrick
Charley Varrick (1973), also released as The Last of the Independents, is a Don Siegel crime thriller starring Walter Matthau as a crop-duster bank robber who accidentally steals Mafia money, adapted from John Reese's novel The Looters.
Charley's Aunt
Charley's Aunt is Brandon Thomas's 1892 English farce about an Oxford student impersonating a wealthy Brazilian aunt as chaperon. Adapted into silent films (1915, 1925 with Sydney Chaplin), a 1930 sound film, the 1941 Jack Benny film, and the musical Where's Charley?.
Charlie (2015 Malayalam film)
Charlie is a 2015 Malayalam romantic drama directed by Martin Prakkat, starring Dulquer Salmaan as a free-spirited drifter and Parvathy as a graphic artist searching for him.
Charlie & Louise (Charlie & Louise – Das doppelte Lottchen)
Charlie & Louise – Das doppelte Lottchen, a 1994 German family comedy by Joseph Vilsmaier, modernizes Erich Kästner's novel Das doppelte Lottchen: twins Fritzi and Floriane Eichhorn, separated by their parents' divorce, meet in Scotland and swap places to reunite them.
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 and the Chocolate Factory (film)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 2005 fantasy film directed by Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka and adapting Roald Dahl's 1964 novel.
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 Bartlett
Charlie Bartlett is a 2008 American teen comedy-drama directed by Jon Poll, written by Gustin Nash, starring Anton Yelchin, Robert Downey Jr., Hope Davis, and Kat Dennings; a rich expelled teen becomes his school's unofficial psychiatrist, earning 59% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 54 Metascore.
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 Brooks
Charlie Brooks (Charlene Emma Brooks, born 1981) is an English actress raised in Barmouth, Wales, best known as villain Janine Butcher in BBC's EastEnders (1999–2022, 1,120 episodes), a British Soap Award Best Villain, and winner of I'm a Celebrity 2012.
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.