Les Charles

Les Charles was born in Henderson, Nevada. He attended the University of Redlands, California and earned a B.A. in English. Charles began his professional career as a high school English teacher, but moved into television. He began his television career with his brother, Glen Charles. The two were writer-producers for "The Bob Newhart Show", created and produced "Taxi", formed the Charles-Burrows-Charles production company with James Burrows, and created and produced the television series "Cheers". The brothers also co-wrote the screenplay for the 1999 film, "Pushing Tin". An episode of "Scrubs", "My Life in Four Cameras", had a character named "Charles James" in honor of "Cheers" creators James Burrows and Glen and Les Charles.

*Les and Zora Charles live in an exclave of Santa Barbara, California.

External links

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* [http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/C/htmlC/charlesglen/charlesglen.htm Story on Glen and Les]

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