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name: "Charlie Wachtel"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/charlie-wachtel"
fi1m_id: "charlie-wachtel"
tmdb_id: 1925068
roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-18T00:00:25.200308+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Charlie Wachtel

## Identity

Charlie Wachtel

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/charlie-wachtel
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** charlie-wachtel
- **TMDB ID:** 1925068
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1925068

Producer.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1925068

## Biography

Charlie Wachtel is an American screenwriter, director and producer. He is best known as co-writer, with David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott and Spike Lee, of the 2018 film *BlacKkKlansman*, which received six Academy Award nominations and won the award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Wachtel graduated from American University in 2009. He began his career with short films and television work, including directing and writing episodes of *The Tinsel Zone* (2012) and *Horror Haiku* (2013). He frequently collaborates with writing partner David Rabinowitz; their other projects include the unproduced script *Thacher Island* and the series concept *Madness*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, american.edu.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *BlacKkKlansman* (2018), Fi1m 78, Writer, Co-Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/blackkklansman.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Code The Road* (2024), Producer
- *BlacKkKlansman* (2018), Writer, Co-Producer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/blackkklansman.md)

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