Actor
John Charlesworth
November 12, 1935 · Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK
John Charlesworth was born on November 12, 1935, in Hull, England. He was an actor, known for A Christmas Carol (1951), Tom Brown's Schooldays (1951) and The Children of the New Forest (1955). He died on April 2, 1960, in Birmingham, England.
British juvenile actor of the 1950s, who committed suicide by gassing himself. He left a note saying "In this life, you can only let so many people down, then you realize you have gone too far!".
Notable work
Often works with
Brian Worth
5 titles together
Scrooge, Last Holiday, Tom Brown's Schooldays
Mervyn Johns
3 titles together
Scrooge, The Oracle, The Blue Peter
Bernard Lee
3 titles together
Last Holiday, The Angry Silence, The Man Upstairs
Richard Attenborough
3 titles together
The Angry Silence, The Magic Box, The Man Upstairs
Alfred Burke
3 titles together
The Angry Silence, The Man Upstairs, Dead Lucky
Glyn Dearman
2 titles together
Scrooge, Tom Brown's Schooldays
Full filmography · 15
So Evil, So Young
as Tom
1961
Dead Lucky
as Hon. Stanley Dewsbury
1960
The Angry Silence
as Intern
19607.2Date at Midnight
as Tommy
1960
The Man Upstairs
as Army Lieutenant
1958
Five on a Treasure Island
as Fischerjunge Jan
1957
The Adventures of Hal 5
cast
1957
Yield to the Night
as Alan Price
19566.9
The Blue Peter
as Andrew Griffin
1955
The Oracle
as Denis
1953
The Magic Box
as Graham Friese-Greene
19526.5
Scrooge
as Peter Cratchit
19517.4