Charlie Schlatter is an actor and voice actor, who rose to fame after playing the character of Dr. Jesse played Travis in the series “Diagnosis: Murder”.
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Early life and childhood
Charles Thomas Schlatter was born on May 1, 1966 in Englewood, New Jersey USA, so under the influence of the Sun sign Taurus. The names of his parents are unknown, nor whether he has a brother or sister.
Education
Charlie attended Borough’s Memorial Junior High School, where he began to show all his acting skills. He auditioned for the lead role of Oliver Twist in the school play “Oliver!” and succeeded in earning the lead role.
Charlie graduated from high school and enrolled at Ithaca College, where he has a bachelor’s degree in fine arts majoring in musical theater. In college, he played in several plays, and also improved his musical skills on drums, guitar and piano, and also started writing songs.
Career
Television
In 1987 Charlie discovers by a casting director while performing, and asked to audition for “Bright Lights, Big City” starring Michael J. Fox. He was selected for the role and first appeared on screen as Fox’s brother. In 1988, he landed one of his biggest roles to date as David Watson/Jack Watson in the movie “18, Again!”. His work was appreciated and described as having ‘enormous range and extraordinary skill as an actor in his comedic lead’.
In the same year, he also appeared as Johnny Wolfe in “Heartbreak Hotel”. In 1989, he was cast as Brownie for “The Delinquents”, and in 1990 he appeared in the title role in the TV series “Ferris Bueller”. In 1991 he appeared in “All-American Murder” and in 1992 in “Stormy Weathers”, as well as appearing in “Fish Police” and “Sunset Heat”. In 1994, he played Cadet Connors in “Police Academy: Mission to Moscow” and Junior Ballantine in “Silk Stalkings”. He appeared in “New York Daze” (1995), “Ed” (1996) and “Jumanji” (1996).
From 1995 to 2001, he played the character Dr. Jesse Travis in the TV series “Diagnosis Murder”, a role he is most famous for.
He also appeared in “The Sopranos” in the same role in 2000, and reprized the role in TV movies “Diagnosis Murder: Town Without Pity” and “Diagnosis Murder” Without Warning”. He appeared as Kevin Greeley in “Touched by an Angel” and Jay Gelb in “White Rush”. He took a short break from TV screens returning in 2014 as Lorne Davis in the series “NCIS”. In 2020, he appeared as Capt. William Shagspur in “Gunfight at Silver Creek”.
voice actor
In 1991, he spoke the character Hoggish Greedly Jr. for “Captain Planet and the Planeteers”, in 1993 he lent his voice for the TV series “Sonic the Hedgehog”, and in 1997 he voiced the character Wally West in “Superman: The Animated Series”. † In 2001 he was the voice of B-bop-A-Luna in “Butt-Ugly Martians”, and in 2004 he lent his voice to the TV series “Jackie Chan Adventures” and “Evil Con Carne”.
In 2004 he also started doing voice work for video games, such as “EverQuest II”, “Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater”, “Ape Escape Academy”, “Bratz Rock Angelz” and “Neopets: The Darkest Faerie”. He voiced the character Cameron in “Bratz” (2006) and Hawk in “ATOM: Alpha Teens on Machines” (2007).
He can also be heard in many TV series – such as Kevin Levin and Devlin Levin in “Ben 10” (2007), and The Flash in “The Batman”, plus in “Random! Cartoons” (2007), “The Fairly OddParents” (2008), “A Turtle’s Tale: Sammy’s Adventures” (2010) and “Winx Club 3D: Magical Adventure” (2010). In all, Charlie has been credited with more than 30 titles on which his voice can be heard.
Private life:
Female
He met his future female Colleen Gunderson in 1992 – Colleen is a publicist by trade. They dated for two years before he proposed to her, and they tied the knot on May 7, 1994. He and Colleen live in California with their children.
Famous Couples has stated that Schlatter was in two relationships before meeting Colleen. It is rumored that he dated famed actress Jennifer Aniston while they were filming a pilot for the movie “Ferris Bueller” together, but Charlie has neither accepted nor denied the rumor.
Children
Charlie and Colleen have three children – Julia Marie born on September 15, 1997, Quinn followed on November 12, 1997 and their youngest was born on May 12, 2002 and they named her Beck Frederick Schlatter.
Disease
Charlie has been dealing with chronic myeloid leukemia – a blood cancer – for more than 10 years, which is not curable but treatable and manageable. He spoke to ABC7 and said, ‘So basically I’m a guy who gets chemotherapy every day. A little chemotherapy every day, and that keeps me in the game.’ He first went to his doctor to discuss what he thought was a spider bite, but was told his white blood cell count was too high.
Charity
Charlie participated in the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Husband and Wife of the Year fundraiser, where the money raised was used to raise awareness and help find a cure for cancer.
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Appearance
Charlie is of American nationality and of white ethnicity; he has dark brown hair and blue eyes. He’s on a height of 5 ft 7 ins (170 cm), but information about his weight and his vital statistics is not available to us at the time.
Hobby, favorite things and interesting facts
Charlie first auditioned for the part of Oliver Twist on the school play because he wanted to impress a girl he liked. He once talked about her and said, “Not only was the girl cute, she was the only girl in school who was shorter than me.” Since his wife Colleen’s family members are all golfers, Charlie has also picked up the game and found it very enjoyable.
His favorite actor is Dick Van Dyke. He once spoke of Dick Van Dyke, saying, “Working with Dick Van Dyke was one of the greatest experiences of my life. By far the most talented, inspiring, gracious people I’ve ever had the pleasure of sharing a scene with.”
He was almost cast for the character of Fry in “Futurama”, but Billy West replaced him.
Net value
Charlie Schlatter’s net value is valued at $1.5 million as of early 2020, collected from working in the TV industry and lending his voice to various TV series and video games over more than three decades.
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