Charles Laurence

Charles Laurence
Born	January 10, 1931(1931-01-10) Tangiers
Other names	Carlos Felipes
Occupation	Actor, Playwright

Charles Laurence is an actor and playwright who worked in films and television.

Early life

Charles Laurence was born Carlos Felipes in Tangiers on 10 January 1931 when it was an International Zone, to a Swiss-Scottish mother and a Gibraltarian father of Spanish-Italian decent. Until the age of seven he spoke only French and Spanish. He learned English as well when the family moved to England. As a young boy he went to Taunton School in Somerset and then to the Actors Academy RADA.

Career

In the early 1950s after a spell at Guildford Repertoire (1953) he appeared in numerous stage plays and comedies in repertoire at the Oxford Playhouse and the Bristol Old Vic. In the West End he appeared in Ross at the Haymarket Theatre. In the 1950s and 1960s he appeared in films and on TV. He worked as a playwright from 1969 to 1999.

Work as an actor

• Man in a Suitcase (1967–1968)
• The Magnificent Two (1967)
• Vendetta (1966)
• 199 Park Lane (1965)
• A High Wind in Jamaica (1965)
• The Third Man (1964)
• Sierra Nine (1963)
• Dixon of Dock Green (1962)
• Hotel Imperial (1960)
• ITV Play of the Week: (The Last Hours (1959) and The School for Wives (1958))
• A Hill in Korea (1956)
• Cross Channel (1955)

Work as a playwright

• What’s a Mother For? (Jan 1969) Armchair Theatre, ITV (starring June Whitfield and Joe Brown)
• The Swan Won’t go in the Fridge (Oct 1969) Armchair Theatre, ITV (starring Rosemary Leach and Peter Cellier]
• Now, Take My Wife (1971), a TV series of 6 episodes for the BBC (starring Sheila Hancock, Donald Houston, and Liz Edmiston)
• Just Harry and Me (1971) for Comedy Playhouse, BBC
• My Fat Friend (1972), a stage comedy (with Kenneth Williams and Jennie Linden)
• Snap! (1975), a stage comedy
• Poor Little Rich Girls (1984), a TV series of 8 episodes starring Maria Aitken, Jill Bennett and Joan Hickson
• About Alice (1998), a stage comedy
• The Ring Sisters (1999), a stage comedy

References

BBC, RADA, ITV, Guildford Rep, Samuel French, The Writers Guild of Gt. Britain

External links

• ftvdb.bfi.org.uk
• http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/search.php?category=Titles&needle=the%20ring%20sisters
• http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsL/laurence-charles.html#20119
• Charles Laurence at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Laurence, Charles
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Date of birth	10 January 1931
Place of birth	Tangiers
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