Charles Willeford

Charles Willeford was born on Jan 02, 1919 in USA. Charles Willeford's big-screen debut came with Thunder and Lightning directed by Corey Allen in 1977, strarring Bartender. Charles Willeford is known for The Woman Chaser directed by Robinson Devor, Patrick Warburton stars as Richard Hudson and Eugene Roche as Used Car Dealer. The upcoming new movie Charles Willeford plays is The Burnt Orange Heresy which will be released on Mar 06, 2020.

Charles Willeford was a remarkably fine, talented, and prolific writer who wrote everything from poetry to crime fiction to literary criticism throughout the course of his impressively long and diverse career. His crime novels are distinguished by a mean'n'lean sense of narrative economy and an admirable dearth of sentimentality. He was born as Charles Ray Willeford III on January 2, 1919 in Little Rock, Arkansas. Willeford's parents both died of tuberculosis when he was a little boy and he subsequently lived either with his grandmother or at boarding schools. Charles became a hobo in his early teens. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps at age sixteen and was stationed in the Philippines. Willeford served as a tank commander with the 10th Armored Division in Europe during World War II. He won several medals for his military service: The Silver Star, the Bronze Star, two Purple Hearts, and the Luxembourg Croix de Guerre. Charles retired from the army as a Master Sergeant.