Charles Dennis

Dennis began his career as a child actor on the radio series Peter and the Dwarf
in his native Toronto. He went on to gain notoriety as a teenager for his unauthorized
stage productions of The Catcher in the Rye and Catch 22. He was also the youngest
daily newspaper columnist in the history of the Toronto Telegram.

He made his legit debut at The Red Barn Theater in 1963 in Arsenic and Old Lace
and subsequently worked at the Stratford Festival. He graduated from the University
Toronto in 1968, winning the McAndrew Award for his contributions to campus drama.

Moving to England in 1969 Dennis pursued his various arts: acting in the motion picture
Patton, directing the West End musical Maybe That's Your Problem, creating the Thames
TV series Marked Personal. He also saw the publication of Stoned Cold Soldier, the first
of his eleven published novels. His novel The Next-to-Last Train Ride was filmed by
Richard Lester as Finders Keepers and marked Jim Carrey's American Film Debut.

His two most recent novels, Given the Crime, and Given the Evidence were published
in hardcover and paperback by Simon & Schuster and have just been translated in to
German.

Dennis returned to North America in 1974 and has trisected the continent ever since
between Los Angeles, Toronto and New York. For NBC he wrote the MOW Mirror,
Mirror. For CBS he wrote The Jayne Mansfield Story starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
and Loni Anderson. He adapted Ross Macdonald's novel The Three Roads into the
screenplay Double Negative starring Anthony Perkins. Between 1997 and 1998, he
he appeared in two off-Broadway productions of his plays SoHo Duo and Going On.
He had previously appeared in the latter at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it had
been nominated for the Daily Express Award.

In 1984 he wrote and directed the film Reno and the Doc which was nominated for four
Canadian Genie Awards. The previous year his play Altman's Last Stand was commissioned by the National Arts Centre in Ottowa and enjoyed a subsequent success in Toronto. An Off-Broadway version of the play is being produced for the spring of 2001.

In 1985 he directed his play Significant Others starring Sonja Smits at the Beverly Hills
Playhouse. It was later produced in London.

TV audiences recognize Dennis as the evil Sunad from Zalkon on Star Trek: The Next
Generation and the voice of the 24th Phantom on the animated series Phantom 2040.
Other TV appearances have included Jake and the Fatman, Princesses and Due South.

He will be the voice of Rico, the deadly bounty hunter in Disney's animated feature
Sweating Bullets for a 2003 release.

Dennis is married to film-maker Kim Eveleth ( who produced his last film Butterfield,
which he wrote and starrred in) and they are in the thrall of their first child, a daughter
Ethne Bliss.

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