Charle
Biography
Charle sometimes credited as Charlie (born Manohar Velmurugan Thangasamy; born 6 March 1960) is an Indian actor who has acted in more than 550 Tamil films as a comedian and supporting actor.
He completed his undergraduate degree in chemistry from G. V. N. College in Kovilpatti, Tamil Nadu. Even during those days when he was at college, he was known for his histrionics, and had the uncanny ability to imitate Tamil actors like Sivaji Ganeshan, Muthuraman, and Nagesh. He was an avid entertainer, and a popular stage artist, while at this college.
He started his career as a Staff Artist – Actor in Song & Drama Division of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and moved on to perform more than 1000 dramas in Six years. He was named as Charle and introduced in the film "Poikal Kuthirai" in the year 1982 by the eminent director Padma Sri Dr.K.Balachandar. He has proved as a versatile actor in comedy as well as character roles in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films; he has dubbed his own voice in his role in Malayalam film "Hijack". He has more than 550 films to his credit and has played a vital role in many films, including films produced by National Film Development Corporation of India. He is highly talented in miming, mono acting and anchoring in stage shows and he has performed in various countries.
He holds a Master of Arts degree from Madurai Kamaraj University and Master of Philosophy degree from Karaikudi Alagappa University. He submitted his dissertation for M.Phil in the title, "Contributions of Comedians in the growth of Tamil cinema – 1937 to 1967".
Acted Movies
Director: Lokesh Kanagaraj
Director: Hariharan Ram S
Director: I. Mueenuddin Ahmed
Director: Vivek Elangovan
Director: Mohan Raja
Director: Adam Dasan
Director: Lokesh Kanagaraj
Director: Jeeva Shankar
Director: Nelson Venkatesan
Director: Vikram Kumar
Director: Anucharan
Director: A. L. Vijay
Director: Jeethu Joseph
Director: Suseenthiran
Director: Alphonse Puthren
Director: Hari
Director: Hari
Director: Sai Rajkumar
Director: Shankar
Director: Hari
Director: Hari
Director: Saran
Director: Vikraman
Director: Singampuli
Director: Saran
Director: Mouli
Director: Vinayan
Director: Siddique
Director: K. S. Ravikumar
Director: Fazil
Director: K. Selvabharathy
Director: Saran
Director: Fazil
Director: S. A. Chandrasekhar
Director: Vikraman
Director: K. Balachander
Director: R. V. Udayakumar
Director: K. Balachander
Director: Vasanth
Director: S. P. Muthuraman
Director: K. Balachander
Written Movies
Director: Shane Black
Director: Jang Seong-ho
Director: Charles Gozali
Director: Brian Hanson
Director: Josh Forbes
Director: Doug Liman
Director: Jon Keeyes
Director: Mary Lambert
Director: Charles Solly
Director: Franck Gastambide
Director: SG Charles
Director: Jean-François Richet
Director: Charles Gozali
Director: Sagar Ballary
Director: Charles Murray
Director: Charles Dorfman
Director: Andrew Stevens
Director: Travis Stevens
Director: Charlène Favier
Director: Mark Amin
Director: SG Charles
Director: Jay Roach
Director: Gabriela Tagliavini
Director: Guillermo Iván
Director: Suzi Yoonessi
Director: Matthew Charles Santoro
Director: Johnny Martin
Director: Amir Motlagh
Director: Jason Paul Laxamana
Director: Frédéric Beigbeder
Director: Duncan Jones
Director: Charles Barker
Director: Charles Moore
Director: Adam McKay
Director: Charles Poekel
Director: Charles Hood
Director: Ron Howard
Director: Claire Carré
Director: Johnny Tabor
Director: Jean-Charles Hue
Director: Charles Martin Smith
Director: Victor Salva
Director: Mae Cruz-Alviar
Director: Jonathan A. Rosenbaum
Director: Charles Sturridge
Director: David 'Tosh' Gitonga
Director: Brett Sullivan
Director: Tarsem Singh
Director: Wyeth Clarkson
Director: Gary Yates
Director: Mark Waters
Director: Richard Eyre
Director: Charles Martin Smith
Director: Gary Fleder
Director: Charles Burmeister
Director: Charles Oliver
Director: Nicolas Charlet, Bruno Lavaine
Director: Lyne Charlebois
Director: Robert Benton
Director: Jan Kounen
Director: Charles Ferguson
Director: Edward Zwick
Director: Charles Sturridge
Director: Charley Stadler
Director: Charles Band
Director: Bent Hamer
Director: Sydney Pollack
Director: Charles Dance
Director: Charles Shyer
Director: Julien Seri
Director: John Ketcham
Director: Mark Rucker
Director: Charles Martin Smith
Director: Larry Charles
Director: Alan Parker
Director: Jeffrey Porter
Director: Liliana Cavani
Director: Anne Wheeler
Director: Peter Medak
Director: Richard Eyre
Director: Iain Softley
Director: Robert Lee King
Director: Charles Sturridge
Director: Charles Winkler
Director: Mike Newell
Director: Julian Jarrold
Director: Adam Bernstein
Director: Jake Scott
Director: Jean de Segonzac
Director: Nancy Meyers
Director: Peter Chelsom
Director: Stan Phillips
Director: Gérard Hameline
Director: John Nicolella
Director: Tom Clegg
Director: Tony Bill
Director: Charles Band
Director: Brian Yuzna
Director: Rob Cohen
Director: Michael Cimino
Director: Tom Clegg
Director: Rick Avery
Director: Ridley Scott
Director: Mike Newell
Director: Charles Burnett
Director: Jonathan Darby
Director: Paul Tassie
Director: Tom Clegg
Director: Joe Dante
Director: Charles Shyer
Director: Charles Burnett
Director: Joe Dante
Director: Francesco Rosi
Director: Adam Simon
Director: David Schmoeller
Director: Charles Lane
Director: Phillip Noyce
Director: Phillip Noyce
Director: Paul Mazursky
Director: João Botelho
Director: Charles Sturridge
Director: Eugene Marner
Director: Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Director: Joan Freeman
Director: Paul Sommer
Director: Charles Shyer
Director: Dominique Deruddere
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Director: Karen Arthur
Director: Penny Marshall
Director: David Cronenberg
Director: Anthony Perkins
Director: Jean-Charles Tacchella
Director: Robert Clouse
Director: Charles Burnett
Director: Terry Gilliam
Director: Michael Dinner
Director: Larry Stewart
Director: Neil Jordan
Director: Norman Jewison
Director: Richard Lester
Director: Dorian Walker
Director: Desmond Davis
Director: Robert Clouse
Director: Clive Donner
Director: Jim Goddard
Director: Howard Zieff
Director: Kevin Connor
Director: Richard Lester
Director: Eric Till
Director: Charles B. Pierce
Director: Charles Burnett
Director: Jack Nicholson
Director: Sidney Poitier
Director: Hal Needham
Director: Terry Gilliam
Director: Robert Fiore
Director: Charles Bail
Director: Bob Rafelson
Director: Charles B. Griffith
Director: René Cardona
Director: Jean-Charles Tacchella
Director: Charles B. Pierce
Director: Paul Bartel
Director: Peter Collinson
Director: Monte Hellman
Director: Stephanie Rothman
Director: Bill Melendez
Director: Ted Post
Director: Alan Cooke
Director: Stanley Donen
Director: Charles Marquis Warren
Director: Ralph Thomas
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Director: Peter Collinson
Director: Jerry Thorpe
Director: Richard Lester
Director: Ralph Thomas
Director: Roger Corman
Director: Richard Lester
Director: Claude Sautet
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Director: William Witney
Director: George Pal
Director: Édouard Molinaro
Director: Marcel Ophüls
Director: John Huston
Director: Lewis Milestone
Director: Roger Corman
Director: George Seaton
Director: Gordon Douglas
Director: Philippe de Broca
Director: Guy Green
Director: Daniel Mann
Director: Lewis Milestone
Director: Irwin Allen
Director: Walter Lang
Director: Robert Siodmak
Director: Roger Corman
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Director: Clyde Geronimi
Director: Robert Day
Director: Marcel Carné
Director: Budd Boetticher
Director: René Cardona
Director: Howard W. Koch
Director: Ralph Thomas
Director: Budd Boetticher
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Director: Virgil W. Vogel
Director: Douglas Sirk
Director: Roger Corman
Director: Charles Martin
Director: Julien Duvivier
Director: Jerry Hopper
Director: Charles Marquis Warren
Director: Ken Annakin
Director: Mark Robson
Director: Howard Hawks
Director: Jerry Hopper
Director: Jean Negulesco
Director: Fritz Lang
Director: Budd Boetticher
Director: John Farrow
Director: André de Toth
Director: André Cayatte
Director: William A. Wellman
Director: Gordon Douglas
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Director: John Farrow
Director: André Cayatte
Director: Anthony Mann
Director: Billy Wilder
Director: Mark Robson
Director: Robert Stevenson
Director: Nicholas Ray
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Director: Gregory Ratoff
Director: Roy Rowland
Director: Charles Martin
Director: Frank Borzage
Director: Howard Hawks
Director: Ray Enright
Director: Billy Wilder
Director: Charles Barton
Director: Byron Haskin
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Director: Robert Montgomery
Director: Henry Hathaway
Director: Sam Wood
Director: Julien Duvivier
Director: Michael Curtiz
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Director: Otto Brower
Director: Edwin L. Marin
Director: Allan Dwan
Director: William Beaudine
Director: Mark Robson
Director: Phil Rosen
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Director: Jack Conway
Director: Gregory Ratoff
Director: King Vidor
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Director: Alfred J. Goulding
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Director: Henry Hathaway
Director: William Wyler
Director: Julien Duvivier
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Director: George Stevens
Director: Edwin L. Marin
Director: John G. Blystone
Director: James Tinling
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Director: John Ford
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Director: Alfred Santell
Director: James W. Horne
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Director: Jean Renoir
Director: Julien Duvivier
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Director: Jack Conway
Director: Jacques Feyder
Director: Henry Edwards
Director: Howard Hawks
Director: Julien Duvivier
Director: Maurice Elvey
Director: George Cukor
Director: Frank R. Strayer
Director: Phil Rosen
Director: Lewis Milestone
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Director: Paul Leni
Director: John Ford
Director: Maurice Tourneur
