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Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski (Henry Charles Bukowski Jr., 1920–1994), German-born American poet and novelist of Los Angeles lowlife, author of Post Office and Ham on Rye, creator of alter ego Henry Chinaski, published by Black Sparrow Press.
Charles Burchfield
Charles Burchfield (1893–1967) was an American painter best known for watercolor landscapes of nature scenes and small-town and industrial America, honored with the first one-person show at MoMA in 1930.
Charles Burnett (director)
Charles Burnett (born 1944, Vicksburg, Mississippi) is an American independent filmmaker of the L.A. Rebellion, maker of Killer of Sheep, To Sleep with Anger, and Nightjohn, MacArthur Fellow and 2017 honorary Oscar recipient.
Charles Causley
Charles Causley (1917–2003) was a Cornish poet and schoolteacher of Launceston, known for ballad-based verse, children's poetry, war poems from Royal Navy service, and honors including the 1967 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and a CBE.
Charles Chaplin Jr.
Charles Chaplin Jr. (Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr., 1925-1968) was an American actor, elder son of Charlie Chaplin and Lita Grey; appeared in Limelight, High School Confidential!, and 1959 films, wrote My Father, Charlie Chaplin (1960).
Charles Coburn
Charles Coburn (1877-1961), American character actor and stage producer, Oscar winner for The More the Merrier (1943); Georgia-born, Broadway from 1901, Hollywood films from Boss Tweed (1933).
Charles Cyphers
Charles Cyphers (1939-2024) was an American character actor, Sheriff Leigh Brackett in John Carpenter's Halloween (1978), Halloween II (1981), and Halloween Kills (2021), also in Assault on Precinct 13, The Fog, Escape from New York, and Major League.
Charles d'Orléans
Charles d'Orléans (1394–1465) was Duke of Orléans and one of France's major lyric poets; captured at Agincourt in 1415, he spent 25 years writing poetry in captivity in England.
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 de Rochefort
Charles de Rochefort (1605–1683) was a French Protestant pastor in Rotterdam whose 1658 book on the Antilles is one of the most important early European descriptions of the Caribbean.
Charles Demuth
Charles Demuth was an American painter from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, known for watercolors and for Precisionism, with works including My Egypt and I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold.
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 Dickens
Charles Dickens (Charles John Huffam Dickens, 1812–1870) was an English novelist and social critic, the best-selling author of his day; his works include Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol.
Charles Dickens bibliography
Charles Dickens bibliography: the works of Charles Dickens (1812–1870), fourteen completed novels plus the unfinished Edwin Drood, five Christmas books, and journalism, mostly first published in monthly or weekly serial parts before book editions.
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 Domery
Charles Domery (Charles Domerz), c. 1778–after 1800, Polish soldier in the Prussian and French armies, captured on the Hoche in 1799 and interned at Liverpool, famous for eating 16 lbs of food daily, cats, rats, and candles.
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 Eastman
Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) was a Santee Dakota physician, writer, and Indian reformer who served at Pine Ridge during the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre and published acclaimed autobiographies of Dakota life, beginning with Indian Boyhood in 1902.
Charles Edenshaw
Charles Edenshaw (Haida name Da.a xiigang, c. 1839–1920) was a Haida artist and chief from Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, known for carving in wood, argillite, silver, and gold.
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 Ferdinand Ramuz
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (1878–1947) was a Swiss French-language novelist from Lausanne, counted among the greatest French-speaking Swiss writers, known for L'Histoire du soldat and Derborence.
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 Frazier
Charles Frazier (born 1950) is an American novelist from western North Carolina, author of Cold Mountain (1997), the National Book Award-winning Civil War novel of Inman's walk home to Ada, later filmed by Anthony Minghella; his other novels are Thirteen Moons, Nightwoods, Varina, and The Trackers.
Charles Frederick Worth
Charles Frederick Worth (1825–1895), English-born Parisian couturier, founder of the House of Worth at 7 rue de la Paix (1858), dressmaker to Empress Eugénie, credited as father of haute couture.
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.