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Charles Dance
Charles Dance (born 1946) is an English actor, screenwriter, and director known for Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones, Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown, RSC Shakespeare roles, and directing Ladies in Lavender.
Charles Dera
Charles Dera (Charles Deraczunas, born 1978) is an American adult film performer, former Marine, Chippendales dancer, and model; AVN Hall of Fame 2022, over 1,100 videos, debut 2007.
Charles Dolan
Charles Francis Dolan (1926-2024), American cable television pioneer; founder of HBO (1972) and Cablevision (1973), creator of AMC and News 12; family controls Madison Square Garden, Knicks, Rangers, AMC Networks; sold Cablevision to Altice for $17.7 billion in 2016.
Charles Durning
Charles Durning (1923–2012), American character actor of over 200 films and shows; WWII D-Day and Malmedy survivor with Silver Star and three Purple Hearts; Tony winner, two Oscar and nine Emmy nominations.
Charles Esten
Charles Esten (Charles Esten Puskar III, b. 1965), American actor-singer-songwriter: Deacon Claybourne on ABC/CMT's Nashville, Ward Cameron on Outer Banks, Whose Line improv regular, 54-singles Guinness record, debut album Love Ain't Pretty (2024).
Charles Fleischer
Charles Fleischer (born 1950, Washington, D.C.) is an American comedian and voice actor, the voice of Roger Rabbit, Benny the Cab, Greasy, and Psycho in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), also known for Welcome Back, Kotter and Zodiac.
Charles Foster Kane
Charles Foster Kane is the fictional newspaper tycoon at the center of Orson Welles's 1941 film Citizen Kane, modeled largely on William Randolph Hearst and partly on Joseph Pulitzer. His dying word "Rosebud" names his childhood sled, revealed only to the audience.
Charles Frohman
Charles Frohman was an American producer who dominated theater through the Theatrical Syndicate. He was known for developing stars like Maude Adams and died on the Lusitania in 1915.
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 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 Ross (YouTuber)
Charles Ross (born 1994), known as RossCreations and Vlog Creations, is a Florida YouTube prankster of public stunts, repeatedly arrested over his videos, convicted of trespassing in 2024, and investigated for animal cruelty after a 2025 opossum catapult video.
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 Trippy
Charles Trippy, also known as Charles Paul Trippy III, is an American YouTube vlogger and bassist for the band We the Kings, holder of a Guinness World Record for daily vlogging.