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name: "Charles Kipps"
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roles: ["Writer"]
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updated: "2026-09-16T16:20:20.888119+00:00"
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# Charles Kipps

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer

## Biography

Charles Kipps is an American writer and producer for film and television. He wrote the teleplay for the Columbo 25th-anniversary special A Trace of Murder (1997) and contributed story and teleplay to the Law & Order television movie Exiled (1998). His other screen credits include the feature film Fat Albert (2004) and episodes of Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2007).

Kipps has received an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award, a Humanitas Prize and a Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award. He is the author of the Conor Bard mystery novels, beginning with Hell's Kitchen Homicide (2009), and the nonfiction book Cop Without a Badge (1996). Earlier in his career he wrote songs and was a partner in McCoy/Kipps Productions.

*Sources: imdb.com, charleskipps.com, whomyouknow.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Columbo* (1971), Fi1m 86, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/columbo.md)

## Also known for

- *Law & Order: Criminal Intent* (2001), Story, Teleplay
- *Fat Albert* (2004), Writer

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