Charles and his mother, Signe Elvera Nelson, moved the two of them to Hartford, Connecticut, to live with his mother's Swedish relatives. Once worked as a night mail boy at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York.Īn only child, his father, Charles Joseph Reilly, suffered a severe nervous breakdown when Charles was young and eventually had to be institutionalized. He also ran an acting school in North Hollwyood and taught at the HB Studio headed by Herbert Berghof and wife Uta Hagen among his students were Bette Midler, Liza Minnelli, Lily Tomlin and Christine Lahti. ''Weird Al' Yankovic' created and performed a song about 'Charles Nelson Reilly' entitled "C.N.R." in 2009.Ī very close friend of Burt Reynolds, Reilly moved to Florida in 1979 to teach at the Burt Reynolds Institute. Īlong with Lance Henriksen, Brittany Tiplady and David Fredericks, he is one of only four actors to play the same character (Jose Chung) in both The X-Files (1993) and Millennium (1996). (Reilly and Reynolds had been friends for years). Not only was he performing his one-man show "Save it for the Stage: The Life of Reilly", Charles was an acting coach at Burt Reynolds Dinner Theater in Jupiter, Florida, and he had directed many Broadway and off-Broadway shows. The filmed version of his autobiographical one man play "The Life of Reilly" ( The Life of Reilly (2006)) premiered at the South By Southwest film festival in March of 2006 to rave reviews. While semi-retired and living in Beverly Hills, Charles occasionally directed opera, taught, and voiced cartoons (most recently "The Dirty Bubble" on SpongeBob SquarePants (1999)). He was known to be a very private person. Muir, Uncle Croc's Block, Millennium, Arnie, All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series, Space Cats, The Flintstone Comedy Show, The Pink Panther Show, The Flintstone Funnies, The Pink Panther, Sweethearts, The Barbara McNair Show, It Pays to Be Ignorant (1973) The Life of Reilly, All Dogs Go to Heaven, A Troll in Central Park, Rock-a-Doodle, Tom and Jerry: Shiver Me Whiskers, Cannonball Run II, Babes in Toyland, An All Dogs Christmas Carol, The Wind in the Willows, The First of May, Gaydar, Body Slam, Pest of the West, The Tiger Makes Out, Lidsville: The. Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performanc. Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical, Grammy Hall of Fame May 25, 2007, Beverly Hills, California, United StatesĬomedian, Actor, Film director, Voice Actor, Teacher, Theatre Director, Television DirectorĬharles Joseph Reilly, Signe Elvera Nelson January 13, 1931, South Bronx, New York, United States
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