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name: "Les Charles"
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roles: ["Creator","Producer","Writer"]
born: "25 March 1948"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 86
updated: "2026-09-16T17:56:29.823692+00:00"
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# Les Charles

Creator and producer. Born 25 March 1948 in Henderson, Nevada, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Creator, Producer, Writer
- **Born:** 25 March 1948, Henderson, Nevada, USA
- **Active:** 1970–1982
- **Works often with:** Glen Charles, David Lloyd, David Pollock, Elias Davis, James Burrows, Joan Darling

## Biography

Les Charles is an American television writer and producer. Born on 25 March 1948 in Henderson, Nevada, he attended the University of Redlands and worked as a high school English teacher before entering television writing with his brother Glen Charles.

The brothers sold their first script to *M*A*S*H* in 1975 and joined the staff at MTM Productions. They wrote for *The Mary Tyler Moore Show* (one episode in 1977), *Phyllis*, *The Bob Newhart Show* and *The Betty White Show*. They later produced *Taxi* and created *Cheers* with James Burrows under the Charles-Burrows-Charles company. Charles also received writing credit on the film *Pushing Tin* (1999).

The brothers were jointly awarded the Writers Guild of America Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television in 2002.

*Sources: imdb.com, interviews.televisionacademy.com, tvencyclopedia.org, awards.wga.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *M*A*S*H* (1972), Fi1m 85, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/m-a-s-h-1972.md)
- *The Mary Tyler Moore Show* (1970), Fi1m 88, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-mary-tyler-moore-show.md)

## Also credited on (not yet reviewed)

- *Cheers* (1982), Creator, Writer
- *Taxi* (1978), Producer, Teleplay, Writer

## Also known for

- *Frasier* (1993), Characters — [page](https://film.one/tv/frasier.md)
- *Pushing Tin* (1999), Screenplay
- *Frasier* (2023), Characters
- *The Bob Newhart Show* (1972), Writer

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