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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.

Charleston (dance)

The Charleston is a 1920s American jazz dance named for Charleston, South Carolina, popularized by the 1923 Broadway show Runnin' Wild with James P. Johnson's tune, rooted in Gullah Geechee steps, later absorbed into Lindy Hop and the quickstep.

Charleston White

Charleston White (born 1977, Fort Worth, Texas) is an American comedian, motivational speaker, and internet personality; juvenile murder conviction at 14, HYPE youth nonprofit founder, and figure of recurring arrests and viral controversies.

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?.

Charli D'Amelio

Charli D'Amelio (born 2004), American dancer and TikTok creator from Norwalk, Connecticut; first creator to 100 million TikTok followers, highest-earning TikToker in 2021, DWTS season 31 winner, later separated from D'Amelio Brands.

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 Bit My Finger

Charlie Bit My Finger ("Charlie bit my finger – again!") is a 56-second 2007 YouTube home video of baby Charlie Davies-Carr biting his brother Harry's finger. It was YouTube's most-viewed video from 2009 to 2011, sold as an NFT for $760,999 in 2021, and archived by the BFI.

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.

Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), English silent-film comedian, director, and composer, creator of the Little Tramp who debuted in Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914); Keystone, Essanay, Mutual, United Artists, City Lights, and a 1929 special Oscar.

Charlie Chaplin filmography

Charlie Chaplin filmography: the roughly 90 films of Charles Chaplin (1889-1977), from the 1914 Keystone shorts and the Tramp's debut to Essanay, Mutual, First National, United Artists features like The Gold Rush and City Lights, and A Countess from Hong Kong (1967).

Charlie Chopra & The Mystery of Solang Valley

Charlie Chopra & The Mystery of Solang Valley is a 2023 Sony LIV Hindi whodunit series by Vishal Bhardwaj, the first official Indian adaptation of Agatha Christie's The Sittaford Mystery, starring Wamiqa Gabbi as an amateur detective in Himachal Pradesh.

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 Countryman

Charlie Countryman (The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman) is a 2013 romantic thriller directed by Fredrik Bond, starring Shia LaBeouf, Evan Rachel Wood, and Mads Mikkelsen; it premiered at Sundance 2013, released November 15, 2013, Metascore 31.

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 Drake

Charlie Drake (Charles Edward Springall, 1925–2006), English slapstick comedian, TV star of The Charlie Drake Show and The Worker, hitmaker of My Boomerang Won't Come Back, Golden Rose of Montreux winner.

Charlie Ebersol

Charlie Ebersol (Charles Duncan Ebersol), American TV and film producer, son of Dick Ebersol and Susan Saint James; co-founder of The Company, director of This Was the XFL, and co-founder of the folded Alliance of American Football.

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.

Charlie Fleming (actress)

Charlie Fleming (Charlie Anne Fleming, born 2008) is a Filipino-British actress and model, a Sparkle GMA contract star discovered on TikTok, Third Big Placer of Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Collab Edition 2025, and Karla in The Master Cutter (2026).