Charlie Productions : Cast

If you know the name of the actor you are searching for you should be able to find them on the side menu running down the left hand side. Or, if you know the character but not the real person who portrayed them, you can find full cast lists for all of our work under the 'Films' tab at the top of the screen.

Alternatively, if you look in the Appendix you'll find our search engine. Here you can type in either the name of the person you're after or you can try putting in the only thing you remember about them, for instance "That guy who runs funny in Russell Square..."

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Genius is an over used word. Once upon a time you had to really push the boundaries of your field before the tag was applied and often, like secular beatification, it took years of struggle post-mortem on behalf of your friends, family and admirers before you were generally recognised as such.

These days however, rather like a university education, everyone's got one and being dubbed a 'Genius' can often be a misery that acquaints one with strange bedfellows . I recently heard someone refer to 'the genius of Alex Parks,' which is a bit like referring to the footballing prowess of Douglas Bader and it was at almost precisely that moment that I decided I did not wish to belong to any social elite that counted amongst it's members Jim Davidson, Delia Smith and the sappy looking one off Coldplay. Which is lucky since no one has called me a genius since 1995 . And it was me that said it then.

All of which is by way of an apology for the Charlie love-in that is to follow, in which, at the last count, between us, we managed to describe the various highly gifted actors who have worked with us over the years as in some way touched by 'genius' on no fewer than thirty-eight times; a fact which might suggest that either we are referring to our short film "Another Thing I Thought Of When I Was Dead" staring Albert Einstein and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart or that my brother and I are a hopeless pair of luvvies.

However when you write a script you hear the dialogue in your head and you make some assumptions about a character from what is written on the page. To then meet a complete stranger who shrugs for couple of minutes and then actually becomes the person you thought you had invented is to be faced with something so startling and often so unexpected that I imagine it is not actually so dissimilar from hearing for the first time that perhaps there is a reason why apples fall from trees and this reason could be the same reason that keeps the moon and the sea in their relative places.

Someone much cleverer than me, although thankfully in no way dull enough to be a genius, once said something along the lines that "A genius opens the door to a house that has yet to be built". This is precisely what the best actors do. When Nick Simons first read "Old Man Dies", sitting in a wicker chair with a roll-up on his lap and a cup of tea on his knee, he was a genius. When Keely Beresford offers coffee to an imaginary dinner guest in "Burnt Bernard, when Danny Dyer says "What?" at the end of "Free Speech", when Jo Harper tells Keith that it's already too late at the end of "Russell Square"...

Charlie Productions believe passionately in doing things and always trying to stop in time for tea.

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