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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

16

Gender

Male

Birthday

1935-11-12

Day of Death

1960-04-02 (25 years old)

Place of Birth

Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK

Also Known As

John Charlesworth

Biography

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!".

Known For

Acting

Yield to the Night

1956

Yield to the Night

as

Alan Price

Scrooge

1951

Scrooge

as

Peter Cratchit

Five on a Treasure Island

1957

Five on a Treasure Island

as

Fischerjunge Jan

The Blue Peter

1955

The Blue Peter

as

Andrew Griffin

The Man Upstairs

1958

The Man Upstairs

as

Army Lieutenant

The Magic Box

1952

The Magic Box

as

Graham Friese-Greene

John of the Fair

1954

John of the Fair

as

John Claydon

The Oracle

1953

The Oracle

as

Denis

The Angry Silence

1960

The Angry Silence

as

Intern

Dead Lucky

1960

Dead Lucky

as

Hon. Stanley Dewsbury

Date at Midnight

1960

Date at Midnight

as

Tommy

Production

Crew

Directing