Charles Harris(1940-2017)
- Actor
- Producer
An all-district athlete at Columbus (Texas) High School, Charles Harris
attended college on a football scholarship. Encouraged to audition for
a play by his college speech teacher, Harris discovered that he enjoyed
acting. Over the next decade, he appeared in over forty college and
regional theater productions, performing with such classic Hollywood
stars as Pat O'Brien, Linda Darnell, John Kerr, and Carole Cook and
such stars-to-be as Larry Pine and David Selby. After completing a PhD
in English, Harris set aside acting and entered academia, where he
professed for over three decades, chaired his department for fifteen
years, and wrote the usual quota of scholarly books and articles. Upon
his retirement from university life, he was encouraged by his daughter,
the actor/playwright Kymberly Harris, to try his hand at film. Harris has
become a familiar figure in the Chicago independent film world, acting in
numerous films, Web series, and TV commercials.
