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Christy Mack

Christy Mack (Christine Mackinday), American former adult film performer and tattoo model, 2014 XBIZ Best New Starlet winner, known for surviving a 2014 assault by ex-boyfriend War Machine and later advocacy.

Chroma key

Chroma key (green screen, blue screen) is a compositing technique that makes a chosen color range transparent so a new background appears behind the subject. Invented film mattes led to Petro Vlahos's blue-screen color difference process; digital Bayer sensors favored green.

Chronicle (film)

Chronicle (2012) is a found-footage superhero film directed by Josh Trank, written by Max Landis, starring Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell, and Michael B. Jordan as Seattle teens who gain telekinetic powers; made for about $12 million, it grossed $126-127 million.

Chronicle of a Disappearance (سجل اختفاء)

Chronicle of a Disappearance (سجل اختفاء, Segell Ikhtifa) is Elia Suleiman's 1996, 88-minute debut feature, a two-part diary film about a Palestinian filmmaker's return from New York; it won the Luigi De Laurentiis Award at Venice 1996.

Chronicle of a Summer

Chronicle of a Summer (Chronique d'un été), a 1961 French documentary by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin, pioneered cinéma vérité by asking Parisians "Are you happy?" and ending with participants debating the film's truthfulness.

Chronicle play

The chronicle play, also called a dramatic chronicle (Russian: драматическая хроника), is a form of historical drama telling national events through public scenes rather than a single ruler's tragedy.

Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe

Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe (九层妖塔, Jiu ceng yao ta) is Lu Chuan's 2015 Chinese fantasy film adapted from Ghost Blows Out the Light, starring Mark Chao and Yao Chen, grossing about $106 million and later found to infringe the novelist's rights.

Chuang Asia: Season 2

Chuang Asia: Season 2 (創造營亞洲第二季), also CHUANG ASIA Season 2, is a 2025 Tencent WeTV male idol survival show filmed in Bangkok; 60 trainees competed, and the seven winners debuted as NexT1DE, led by Thai trainee DORN.

Chuck (film)

Chuck (2016), originally titled The Bleeder, is Philippe Falardeau's biographical drama starring Liev Schreiber as boxer Chuck Wepner, whose 1975 fight with Muhammad Ali inspired Rocky.

Chuck (TV series)

Chuck (TV series): American NBC action-comedy spy drama created by Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak, airing 2007-2012 across 5 seasons and 91 episodes, starring Zachary Levi as a Buy More employee who downloads government secrets into his brain.

Chuck & Buck

Chuck & Buck is a 2000 American black comedy-drama directed by Miguel Arteta, written by and starring Mike White, premiered at Sundance 2000, released by Artisan, grossing about $1.16 million worldwide.

Chuck Barris

Chuck Barris (1929-2017), American game show creator and host of The Gong Show, creator of The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game, songwriter of "Palisades Park," and author of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.

Chuck Bass

Chuck Bass (Charles Bartholomew Bass) is a Gossip Girl character from Cecily von Ziegesar's 2002 novels and the 2007 CW series, played by Ed Westwick; a rich Upper East Side bad boy whose romance with Blair Waldorf and controversial redemption arc define him.

Chuck Connors

Chuck Connors (Kevin Joseph Aloysius Connors, 1921-1992), American actor and pro athlete: played MLB for the Brooklyn Dodgers and Cubs, NBA for the Boston Celtics, and starred as Lucas McCain in The Rifleman (1958-63).

Chuck Jones filmography

Chuck Jones filmography: the films of Charles Martin Jones (1912–2002), Warner Bros. Looney Tunes director (1938–1962), MGM Tom and Jerry director (1963–1967), and independent producer of TV specials including How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

Chuck Lorre

Chuck Lorre (born Charles Michael Levine, 1952) is an American sitcom creator behind Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, Mom, and The Kominsky Method, known for vanity cards and his 2026 memoir Sitcom.

Chuck McCann

Chuck McCann (Charles John Thomas McCann, 1934–2018), American actor, comedian, puppeteer, and voice artist. Hosted New York children's puppet shows including The Chuck McCann Show; voiced Sonny the Cuckoo Bird, Cool McCool, and Duckworth; co-founded The Sons of the Desert.

Chuck McGill

Chuck McGill, played by Michael McKean in Better Call Saul, is Jimmy McGill's older brother, a Georgetown-trained co-founder of Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill whose psychosomatic electromagnetic hypersensitivity and feud with Jimmy end in his season 3 suicide.

Chuck Norris

Chuck Norris (Carlos Ray Norris, 1940-2026), American karate champion and action star of Missing in Action and Delta Force; starred as Cordell Walker in CBS's Walker, Texas Ranger (1993-2001) and later inspired the Chuck Norris Facts meme.

Chuck Russell

Chuck Russell (Charles Raymond Russell, 1952–2026) was an American director of A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, The Blob, The Mask, Eraser, and The Scorpion King.

Chuck Traynor

Chuck Traynor (Charles Traynor) was Linda Lovelace's husband and manager, a former Marine and Miami bar owner who brought her into pornography and Deep Throat (1972); he denied her abuse allegations and died of a heart attack in 2002.

Chuck Woolery

Chuck Woolery (Charles Herbert Woolery, 1941–2024), American game show host, original host of NBC's Wheel of Fortune (1975–81) and host of over 2,000 episodes of Love Connection (1983–94), known for the '2 and 2' catchphrase; later a conservative podcaster.

Chuck Zito

Chuck Zito (Charles Zito Jr., born 1953, Bronx) is an American actor, stuntman, celebrity bodyguard, and former president of the New York Hells Angels; known for Oz's Chucky Pancamo and Sons of Anarchy's Frankie Diamonds.

Chuckle Brothers

Chuckle Brothers, British slapstick double act of Paul and Barry Elliott from Rotherham; won Opportunity Knocks 1967 and New Faces 1974; starred in BBC's ChuckleVision (1987–2009), famous for "To me, to you".

ChuckleVision

ChuckleVision, the BBC children's sitcom starring Paul and Barry Chuckle (the Chuckle Brothers), ran 292 episodes across 21 series from 1987 to 2009, famous for slapstick and the catchphrase "To me, to you!".

Chucky (character)

Chucky is the fictional killer doll of the Child's Play franchise, possessed by serial killer Charles Lee Ray, created by Don Mancini in 1988, voiced by Brad Dourif, spanning seven films, a 2019 reboot, and a cancelled Syfy TV series.

Chucky (TV series)

Chucky is the Don Mancini-created SYFY and USA horror series (2021-2024) continuing the Child's Play films; three seasons, Brad Dourif's voiced animatronic doll, Jake Wheeler, White House third season, later canceled.

Chud the Builder

Chud the Builder is the online alias of Dalton Levi Eatherly, a Clarksville, Tennessee contractor turned rage-bait livestreamer known for racist confrontation streams on X and Kick, later charged with attempted murder in 2026.

Chuggington

Chuggington is a British CGI-animated preschool TV series (CBeebies, January 2009) about trainee locomotives Wilson, Koko, and Brewster, produced by Ludorum and later Herschend, aired in over 165 countries.

Chuggs Wallis

Chuggs Wallis (Oliver George Lee Wallis, born 1998) is a British reality TV personality from Surrey, a brief Love Island 2021 and All Stars 2025 contestant, and founder of the Booby bucket hat clothing brand.