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Chico Marx

Chico Marx (Leonard Marx, 1887–1961), eldest Marx Brother, played the fake-Italian con artist and piano soloist in films from The Cocoanuts (1929) to Love Happy (1949); nickname from Art Fisher's poker-game 'chicks' joke.

Chidiya Ghar (चिड़िया घर)

Chidiya Ghar (चिड़िया घर), Hindi for zoo, is a Sony SAB Indian sitcom (2011–2017, about 1,522 episodes) about the Narayan family, whose members bear animal names and traits, produced by Ashwini Dhir.

Chief creative officer

Chief creative officer (CCO): executive leading an organization's creative department and creative strategy in advertising, design, and media; manages creative directors and art directors, sets brand-aligned creative goals, typically after 10-plus years of creative experience.

Chief Dan George

Chief Dan George, born Geswanouth Slahoot (1899–1981), was a Tsleil-Waututh chief and actor from North Vancouver, Oscar-nominated as Old Lodge Skins in Little Big Man (1970).

Chief Detective 1958 (수사반장 1958)

Chief Detective 1958 (수사반장 1958) is MBC's 2024 ten-episode Friday-Saturday prequel to the classic series Chief Detective (1971–1989), starring Lee Je-hoon as young detective Park Young-han at Jongnam Police Station in 1958; it premiered at 10.1% nationwide, a record MBC Fri-Sat debut, and ended at 10.6%.

Chief of Station (film)

Chief of Station: 2024 action thriller directed by Jesse V. Johnson, starring Aaron Eckhart as ex-CIA station chief Ben Malloy, with Olga Kurylenko and Alex Pettyfer; released May 3, 2024 by Vertical, grossing $70,162.

Chief of War

Chief of War is a 2025 Apple TV+ nine-episode historical drama created by Jason Momoa and Thomas Pa'a Sibbett about the unification of Hawai'i, starring Momoa as Ka'iana, largely in the Hawaiian language, with a predominantly Polynesian cast; no second season has been announced.

Chihayafuru (ちはやふる)

Chihayafuru (ちはやふる) is Yuki Suetsugu's 50-volume josei manga, serialized in Be-Love since 2007, about Chihaya Ayase and competitive karuta; adapted into a three-season anime from 2011, live-action films, and Meguri.

Chihwaseon (취화선)

Chihwaseon (취화선, Painted Fire) is Im Kwon-taek's 2002 biographical drama about Joseon painter Jang Seung-up (Ohwon), starring Choi Min-sik; it won Best Director at Cannes 2002, the first Korean film to win a Cannes competition award.

Chiikawa the Movie: The Secret of the Mermaid Island (映画ちいかわ ニンジョの島の秘密)

Chiikawa the Movie: The Secret of the Mermaid Island (映画ちいかわ 人魚の島のひみつ) is the first Chiikawa theatrical anime film, released July 24, 2026 by Toho; directed by Kei Oikawa, scripted by Nagano, animated by CygamesPictures, adapting the manga's Siren arc, grossing over 18.1 billion yen in Japan.

Chiitan (ちぃたん)

Chiitan☆ (ちぃたん☆) is a Japanese small-clawed-otter fairy mascot and stunt-video creator, official character of the Akihabara Tourism Promotion Association, managed by Charando, with over 7 million followers and no formal tie to Susaki city.

Chika Anzai (安済 知佳)

Chika Anzai (安済 知佳, born 1990) is a Japanese voice actress from Fukui Prefecture with Avex Pictures, known for Chisato Nishikigi in Lycoris Recoil and Reina Kousaka in Sound! Euphonium, and winner of the 17th Seiyu Awards Lead Voice Actor Award.

Chikamatsu Monzaemon (近松門左衛門)

Chikamatsu Monzaemon (近松門左衛門, 1653–1724), born Sugimori Nobumori, was a Japanese playwright for puppet jōruri (bunraku) and kabuki; over 100 plays including Sonezaki Shinjū and Kokusen'ya kassen, creator of sewamono domestic drama.

Chikhai Bardo

"Chikhai Bardo" is the seventh episode of Severance season 2, written by Dan Erickson and Mark Friedman and directed by cinematographer Jessica Lee Gagné in her debut.

Chikn Nuggit

Chikn Nuggit is a BuzzFeed Animation Lab short-form animated web series created by Kyra Kupetsky, premiering October 15, 2020 on TikTok, Twitter, and Instagram, about a long-eared dog and fast-food-named friends, with over 300 episodes, LGBTQ representation, a 2023 Frederator TV deal, and a 2026 AI dispute.

Chiko

Chiko is a 2008 German gangster drama, the feature debut of Hamburg director Özgür Yildirim, produced by Fatih Akin. Denis Moschitto plays a Turkish German drug dealer; it won two 2009 German Film Awards.

Child 44 (film)

Child 44 is a 2015 thriller directed by Daniel Espinosa, based on Tom Rob Smith's novel, starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, and Gary Oldman as Soviet investigators hunting a child killer in 1953; it was banned in Russia and flopped critically and commercially.

Child actor

Child actor: a minor performing in film, TV, or theater. US child performers are exempt from FLSA labor protections, relying on state laws like California's Coogan Act (15% trust), while the UK uses council performance licences and chaperones.

Child Catcher

The Child Catcher is a villain created for the 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (not in Fleming's book, credited to Roald Dahl), played by ballet dancer Robert Helpmann and retained in the stage musical.

Child of Rage

Child of Rage is a 1992 American fact-based television drama directed by Larry Peerce, starring Ashley Peldon and Mel Harris, about a couple who adopt a disturbed girl.

Child Star (film)

Child Star (2024) is a Hulu documentary, Demi Lovato's directorial debut co-directed with Nicola Marsh, interviewing former child stars like Drew Barrymore, Christina Ricci, and JoJo Siwa about childhood fame's harms and child-performer protections.

Child-interview comedy format

Child-interview comedy format: adults ask children open-ended questions on adult topics for humor, from Art Linkletter's House Party and CTV's Just Kidding to Recess Therapy and viral clips like the Apparently Kid.

Child's Play (1988 film)

Child's Play is a 1988 American horror film directed by Tom Holland, in which dying serial killer Charles Lee Ray transfers his soul into a doll named Chucky.

Child's Play (2019 film)

Child's Play (2019), Japanese チャイルド・プレイ, is a Lars Klevberg horror reboot of the 1988 killer-doll film, with Mark Hamill voicing an AI Buddi doll; non-canon to Don Mancini's Chucky continuity, it opened June 21, 2019 with $14.1 million.

Child's Play (franchise)

Child's Play is an American horror franchise about Chucky, a doll possessed by serial killer Charles Lee Ray, begun by the 1988 film; it spans six sequels by Don Mancini, a non-canon 2019 AI-doll remake, and the Chucky TV series.

Child's Play 2

Child's Play 2 (1990) is a Universal horror sequel directed by John Lafia, written by Don Mancini, in which the rebuilt Chucky doll hunts Andy Barclay in a foster home; $12 million budget, $26.9 million US gross.

Child's Play 3

Child's Play 3 is a 1991 American supernatural horror film, the third in the Child's Play franchise, directed by Jack Bender and released by Universal Pictures.

Children (The Bear)

"Children" is season 3, episode 5 of The Bear, written and directed by Christopher Storer, aired June 26, 2024 on FX/Hulu. The team prepares for a Tribune photographer; Ever closes; John Cena cameos as a Fak; IMDb 7.5/10.

Children of a Lesser God (film)

Children of a Lesser God (1986), Randa Haines's Paramount drama adapted from Mark Medoff's Broadway play, stars William Hurt and Marlee Matlin as a hearing teacher and a deaf woman; Matlin's Oscar made her the first Deaf Academy Award winner.

Children of Blood and Bone (film)

Children of Blood and Bone is an upcoming American fantasy film directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, adapting Tomi Adeyemi's 2018 novel for a January 2027 Paramount release.