Charlie Brill

Charlie Brill (born January 13, 1938, Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor.

His first motion picture was in The Beast of Budapest. He also appeared in Blackbeard's Ghost, The Amazing Dobermans and Off the Wall.

He played Arne Darvin in the 1967 Star Trek episode "The Trouble with Tribbles" and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Trials and Tribble-ations"in 1996. He also played Capt. Harry Lipschitz on the long running series Silk Stalkings.

He and his wife Mitzi McCall performed sketch comedy on The Ed Sullivan Show on the same episode as the Beatles first appearance, February 9, 1964 (see illustration). McCall played Mrs. Lipschitz on Silk Stalkings. Brill was a frequent panelist on the 1970s revival of Match Game and, along with wife Mitzi, the celebrity-couples gameshow Tattletales.

Brill and his wife are actress Melissa Gilbert's godparents.

The couple has a daughter, L.A.-based yoga teacher Jenny Brill. They were interviewed in 2005 for the "Big Break" episode of PRI radio program This American Life, regarding their Beatles-Sullivan experience, including a dressing room encounter with John Lennon.

Brill and McCall were spotted in 1963 while working in Honolulu by the Australian Television Producer John Collins, who produced The Tonight Show for the Nine Network in Sydney. Collins was seeking a replacement for the then unknown Irish Comedian Dave Allen who had compered the program for the previous two seasons and wanted to return to Ireland. Collins approached them and they agreed but could not start an Australian engagement until their Hawaiian engagement was complete. They recommended an American Comedian their friend Don Lane (Donald Mortimer Isaacsen) who was also working in Hawaii, to fill in in the meantime. Collins agreed to this.

Lane started his Australian engagement and was an immediate success. Ratings were sensational and the network was delighted. It was going to be difficult if not impossible to replace him once the Brills became available. When they did, the preference was obvious and their engagement was cancelled after six weeks. Lane resumed their spot and remained successful in Australian television for the ensuing thirty five years.

Voice Acting

Brill has also been working as a voice actor in animation. On television, he supplied the voice of the main character Grimmy in the animated series of Mother Goose and Grimm (which also starred Mitz McCall) as well as in film, he did several voices in the two Flintstones feature films Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby and I Yabba-Dabba Do!.

He also voiced King Poppin' Lockin' and a tired artist in an episode of the hit Cartoon Network series Grim & Evil.

He has also voiced several other characters in three other shows by Hanna-Barbera including The Tom & Jerry Kids Show, Droopy, Master Detective and Yo Yogi!.

External links

• Charlie Brill at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
• Charlie Brill at the Internet Movie Database
• Charlie Brill at AllRovi
• Charlie Brill and Mitzi McCall on This American Life

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Name	Brill, Charlie
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Date of birth	January 13, 1938
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