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name: "Charlotte Brown"
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roles: ["Director"]
born: "20 October 1943"
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# Charlotte Brown

Director. Born 20 October 1943 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 20 October 1943, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

## Biography

Charlotte Brown is an American television writer, producer and director. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, she began her career as a writer on series including *The Mary Tyler Moore Show*, *The Partridge Family*, *Love, American Style* and *The Bob Newhart Show* (1972–1974).

She joined the staff of the *Mary Tyler Moore Show* spin-off *Rhoda* as a writer and rose to become its executive producer in 1977, making her the first woman showrunner of a primetime network series. Brown also directed episodes of *Rhoda* and one episode of *Cagney & Lacey* (1985).

Her other credits include producing and writing the 1977 television film *Bumpers*, and later work as a writer and executive producer on series such as *The Powers That Be* and *CBS Summer Playhouse*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, hollywoodreporter.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Cagney & Lacey* (1982), Fi1m 81, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/cagney-and-lacey.md)

## Also known for

- *The Bob Newhart Show* (1972), Writer

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