
John Charlesworth
Department: Acting
Biography
John Charlesworth was born on November 12, 1935, in Hull, England. He was an actor, known for A Christmas Carol (1951), Tom Brown's Schooldays (1951) and The Children of the New Forest (1955). He died on April 2, 1960, in Birmingham, England. British juvenile actor of the 1950s, who committed suicide by gassing himself. He left a note saying "In this life, you can only let so many people down, then you realize you have gone too far!".
Known For

Yield to the Night
1956

Scrooge
1951

Five on a Treasure Island
1957

Tom Brown's Schooldays
1951

The Blue Peter
1955

The Man Upstairs
1958

The Magic Box
1952

So Evil, So Young
1961

John of the Fair
1954

The Adventures of Hal 5
1957

Last Holiday
1950

The Oracle
1953

The Angry Silence
1960

Dead Lucky
1960

Date at Midnight
1960

The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
1956