Arts and culture

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 Ives

Charles Edward Ives (1874–1954), American modernist composer from Danbury, Connecticut, also an insurance agent with the firm of Ives and Myrick; known for the Concord Sonata, The Unanswered Question, polytonality, and the 1947 Pulitzer for his Third Symphony.

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 Kelley

Charles Kelley (born 1981, Augusta, Georgia) is an American country singer-songwriter, founding member of Lady A, and solo artist behind The Driver (2016) and Songs for a New Moon (2025).

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 Kingsley

Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) was an Anglican clergyman, novelist, and Christian Socialist who served Eversley parish for life, wrote The Water-Babies and Alton Locke, and became Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge in 1860.

Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb (1775–1834), English essayist also known as "Elia"; author of Essays of Elia (1823), The Last Essays of Elia (1833), and Tales from Shakespeare (1807) with his sister Mary; longtime East India Company clerk.

Charles Langbridge Morgan

Charles Langbridge Morgan (1894–1958) was a British novelist, dramatist, and drama critic who wrote eleven novels and served as chief theater critic of The Times from 1926 to 1939.

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 Le Brun

Charles Le Brun (1619–1690) was a French painter and decorator who served as First Painter to Louis XIV, founded the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, and painted the Hall of Mirrors ceiling at Versailles.

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 Loloma

Charles Loloma (1921–1991) was a Hopi artist from Hotevilla, Arizona, considered the most influential Native American jeweler of the twentieth century, known for gold and varied stones.

Charles Louis Fleischmann

Charles Louis Fleischmann (1834 or 1835–1897), Hungarian-American yeast manufacturer, founded Fleischmann Yeast Company in Cincinnati in 1868 with brother Maximilian and James Gaff, introduced compressed yeast to America, promoted it at the 1876 Centennial Exposition, and built the world's largest yeast plant in Peekskill.

Charles M. Russell

Charles M. Russell (1864–1926) was an American painter and sculptor known as the "Cowboy Artist" for his paintings of cowboys, Native Americans, and wildlife of Montana.

Charles M. Schulz

Charles M. Schulz (Sparky, 1922–2000), American cartoonist who solely wrote and drew Peanuts (originally Li'l Folks) from October 2, 1950 to 2000: 17,897 strips, 2,600+ newspapers, Reuben award 1955, died Santa Rosa.

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 Maturin

Charles Robert Maturin (1780–1824) was a Church of Ireland clergyman and Gothic novelist of Huguenot descent, author of Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) and the tragedy Bertram (1816), championed by Scott and Byron.

Charles Mauron

Charles Mauron (1899–1966) was a French literary critic and translator who founded psychocritique, a method for finding a writer's unconscious personality in texts; blind from 1940, he taught at Aix-en-Provence.

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.

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Charles Meyer

Charles Meyer is an American tech-house producer and DJ based in Brooklyn, New York, who released early music as eelrack and began performing under his own name in 2017.

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 Mingus

Charles Mingus (1922–1979), American jazz bassist, pianist, bandleader, and composer; founder of the Jazz Workshop and Debut Records; wrote over 300 scores including Mingus Ah Um and Epitaph; died of ALS in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

Charles Montagu Doughty

Charles Montagu Doughty (1843–1926) was an English poet and traveler whose account of a solo journey through Arabia, Travels in Arabia Deserta (1888), became a classic.

Charles Mungoshi

Charles Mungoshi (1947–2019) was a Zimbabwean novelist, short-story writer, poet, and editor who wrote in both Shona and English, known for Waiting for the Rain and two Commonwealth Writers Prizes.

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 Nègre

Charles Nègre (1820–1880) was a French painter and photographer, an innovative early practitioner known for street scenes of Parisian tradespeople, surveys of Chartres Cathedral, and pioneering photogravure.