Charlie Adler

Emmy Award winning dialogue director, two-time Annie Award nominee for acting, and casting director Charles Adler is one of the industry’s most formidable and sought after talents.

As a voice actor, he has appeared as series regular in over 100 animated series often playing opposite himself. He was twice nominated for an Annie Award for his multiple roles as Cow, Chicken and the Red Guy in the Emmy Nominated series “Cow and Chicken.” He also appeared as Baboon in “I.M. Weasle” (opposite Michael Dorn) and can be heard playing five roles (including Cobra Commander) in the new “G.I. Joe Resolute” Internet series, as well as reprising Cobra Commander in Hasbro’s “New G.I. Joe Origins” series on the HUB. He plays three roles in “Pet Aliens,” three roles in “Shuriken School,” three roles in “Space Goofs,” two roles in “Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks” for PBS and Dr. Doom and his mother Coco Von Doom in “Marvel Super Hero Squad,” which airs daily on Cartoon Network. He has directed the Marvel Super Hero Game and will directing the sequel this spring.

Some other notable characters of Adler’s are Buster Bunny in Steven Spielberg's “Tiny Toon Adventures,” Ickis in “AAAHH!!! Real Monsters” and Ed and Bev Bighead in “Rocko’s Modern Life.” He has also been a Smurf, an original G.I. Joe, one of the original Transformers in the animated series, a Glow Friend, and three different roles in the original “My Little Pony.“ Adler was thrilled to be in Ralph Bakshi’s cult classic “Cool World” playing opposite Kim Bassinger and Brad Pitt as Nails, the neurotic sidekick.

Named one of the “Top 13 All Time Voice-Over Artists” by Animation Magazine and “Voice of The Decade” by Animation World News, Adler is at the undisputed top of the animation world. He is also the director, co-writer and star of the award winning independent live action movie “No Prom for Cindy,” appearing in over 45 prestigious film festivals worldwide and winning numerous awards. The movie has been adopted by San Francisco State University’s Film Department as part of their curriculum.

As a stage actor, Adler starred on Broadway in “Torch Song Trilogy” as a successor to Harvey Feinstein. He also toured in the First National Company which earned him a “Helen Hayes Award Best Actor” nomination. Off-Broadway, Adler starred in “Family Business” at the Astor Place Theater for a year, as well as appearing in Alan Albert’s acclaimed Improv Company, The Proposition. Adler co-starred with comedy legends Imogene Coca and Rita Rudner in “Once Upon a Mattress,” with Professor Irwin Corey in Neil Simon’s “God’s Favorite” and toured as Edward Albee’s complex anti-hero in “Zoo Story.” In addition, he has played Israel Horowitz’s Hero in “Dr. Hero,” as well as the Emcee in “Cabaret.”

On television, Charlie was a regular on “The Redd Foxx Show,” assumed the roles of three generations of sons for PBS in “Then and Now,” and was an obsessive photographer in “First & Ten” and just guest starred on “Hot in Cleveland” opposite Susan Lucci and Wendie Malick in the two part “I Love Lucci.”

Able to comfortably direct and cast different genres easily, his versatility is renowned. He was the dialogue director on the remake of “The Nutty Professor” starring legend Jerry Lewis and on the 2010 Emmy nominated series from the Cartoon Network, “The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.” He also worked casting and voice directing the direct-to-video productions “Dante’s Inferno,” ”Dead Zone,” “The Blue Elephant” with Carl Reiner and Martin Short along with several more titles for the Weinstein Co. He has just completed the action adventure “Fire Breather” for Cartoon Network, which broke all records in its time slot, and Van Partiple’s pilot for Fox Television, “Johnny Bravo goes to Bollywood,” starring Jeff Bennett and Brenda Vacarro and “Bubble Guppies” for NIK Jr.

Adler directed all the Klasky Csupo franchised series and feature films, ”Rugrats” (Emmy Award,) ”The Wild Thornberry’s,” “Rocket Power,” “Pre School Daze” and “All Grown Up” as well as “Stripperella,” “The Replacements,” “The Emperor ’s New School”(directing legend Eartha Kitt’s Emmy Award winning performance,) and “The Buzz on Maggie,” all for Disney Television. Charlie also cast and voice directed “Eloise at the Plaza,” “Holly Hobbie” with Jane Lynch and “Spawn.”

As a writer, Adler has co-written “Steven Spielberg’s Tiny Toon Adventures” episodes and his critically acclaimed one man show, “There Used to Be Fireflies,” in which he plays eleven characters. The play won him a Dramalogue Award for Best Actor and a Dramalogue Award for Set Design as well.

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