Background
Charles Laurence was born Carlos Felipes in Tangiers when it was an International zone, to a Swiss-Scottish mother and a Gibraltarian father of Spanish-Italian descent.
Charles Laurence was born Carlos Felipes in Tangiers when it was an International zone, to a Swiss-Scottish mother and a Gibraltarian father of Spanish-Italian descent.
Until the age of seven, he spoke only French and Spanish. He learned English as well when the family moved to England. As a young boy he went to Taunton School in Somerset and then to RADA. In the early 1950s, after a spell at Guildford Repertoire (1953), he appeared in numerous stage plays and comedies in repertoire at the Oxford Playhouse and the Bristol Old Victoria
In the West End he appeared in Ross at the Haymarket Theatre.
In the 1950s and 1960s he appeared in films and on television He worked as a playwright from 1969 to 1999.
He died on 13 July 2013 in Street Johns Wood, London. Manitoba in a Suitcase (1967–1968)
The Magnificent Two (1967)
Vendetta (1966)
199 Park Lane (1965)
A High Wind in Jamaica (1965)
The Third Manitoba (1964)
Sierra Nine (1963)
Dixon of Dock Green (1962)
Hotel Imperial (1960)
Independent Television Play of the Week: (The Last Hours (1959) and The School for Wives (1958))
A Hill in of Korea (1956)
Cross Channel (1955)
What’s a Mother Foreign? (January 1969) Armchair Theatre, Independent Television (starring June Whitfield and Joe Brown)
The Swan Won’t go in the Fridge (October 1969) Armchair Theatre, Independent Television (starring Rosemary Leach and Peter Cellier
Now, Take My Wife (1971), a television series of 6 episodes for the British Broadcasting Corporation (starring Sheila Hancock, Donald Houston, and Liz Edmiston)
Just Harry and Maine (1971) for Comedy Playhouse, British Broadcasting Corporation
My Fat Friend (1972), a stage comedy (with Kenneth Williams and Jennie Linden)
Snap! (1975), a stage comedy
Poor Little Rich Girls (1984), a television series of 8 episodes starring Maria Aitken, Jill Bennett and Joan Hickson
About Alice (1998), a stage comedy
The Ring Sisters (1999), a stage comedy.