- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- November 12, 1934
- Place of Birth
- Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Died
- November 19, 2017
Charles Manson
Charles Milles Manson (November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017) led the California-based Manson Family cult based in the late 1960s. Some cult members committed a series of nine murders at four locations in July and August 1969. In 1971, Manson was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder for the deaths of seven people, including film actress Sharon Tate. The prosecution contended that while Manson never directly ordered the murders, his ideology constituted an overt act of conspiracy. Before the murders, Manson had spent more than half of his life in correctional institutions. While gathering his cult following, Manson was a singer-songwriter on the fringe of the Los Angeles music industry, chiefly through a chance association with Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys, who introduced Manson to record producer Terry Melcher. In 1968, the Beach Boys recorded Manson's song…
Filmography
movieChaos: The Manson Murders
2025 · Self (archive footage)
movie"My World"
2024 · Music
tvMaking Manson
2024 · Self (archive footage)
movieThe Beach Boys
2024 · Self (archive footage)
movieJoni Mitchell, Lady Blue
2022 · Self (archive footage)
movieHymns from the Abyss
2021 · Self (archive footage)
movieZappa
2020 · Self (archive footage)
tvHelter Skelter: An American Myth
2020 · Self (archive footage)
movieManson: Music from an Unsound Mind
2019 · Self (archive footage)
tvEuphoria
2019 · Self (archive footage)
movieManson: The Women
2019 · Self (archive footage)
tv1969
2019
movieCharles Manson: The Funeral
2019 · Self (archive footage)
tvVery Scary People
2019 · Self (archive footage)
tvManson: The Lost Tapes
2018 · Self (archive footage)
movieInside the Manson Cult: The Lost Tapes
2018 · Self (archive footage)
tvInside the Criminal Mind
2018 · Self (archive footage)
tvManson Speaks: Inside the Mind of a Madman
2017 · Self (Archive Footage)
movieCharles Manson: The Final Words
2017 · Self (archive footage)
tvDateline: Secrets Uncovered
2017 · Self (archive footage)
movieLA 92
2017 · Self (archive footage)
movieTruth and Lies: The Family Manson
2017 · Self (archive Footage)
Face of Evil: The Charles Manson Murders
movieFace of Evil: The Charles Manson Murders
2015 · Himself
tvThe Seventies
2015 · Self (archive footage)
movieSteve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans
2015 · Self (archive footage)
movieLife After Manson
2014 · Self
movieSerious Serial Killers
2012
movieThe Manson Family: Born to Kill?
2012 · Himself
movieRoman Polanski: A Film Memoir
2012 · Self (archive footage)
movieCharles Manson, The Church of Satan, The Universal Order & The Process Church of Final Judgment
2012
movieOld Man
2012 · Himself (voice)
movieIconoclast
2010 · Self (archive footage)
movieDahmer vs. Gacy
2010 · Thanks
movieWhen You're Strange
2010 · Self (archive footage)
movieThe Six Degrees of Helter Skelter
2009 · Himself
movieManson's Missing Victims
2008
movieIl falso bugiardo
2008 · Self (archive footage)
movieCease to Exist
2007 · Self (archive footage)
movieInside The Manson Gang
2007 · Self
tvLegends
2006 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieThe Dark Side of Porn: Does Snuff Exist?
2006
tvGhost Hunters
2004
movieMurders of Hollywood
2003 · Self (archive footage)
movieThe Last Days of Sharon Tate
1999 · Self (archive footage)
tvSouth Park
1997 · Charles Manson (archive footage)
Assassinations That Changed the World
tvAssassinations That Changed the World
1996
movieCharles Manson: Journey Into Evil
1995 · Himself
movieTen Monologues from the Lives of the Serial Killers
1994 · Writer
movieSafe Condition: Document in the Past Perfect
1994 · Charles Manson
movieNo Sense Makes Sense
1993 · Himself
moviePardoned From Above: The Charles "Tex" Watson Story
1992 · Self (archive footage)
movieCharles Manson Then & Now
1992 · Himself (archive footage)
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 2: Assassination in the 20th Century
movieMurderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 2: Assassination in the 20th Century
1992
movieCharles Manson Superstar
1989 · Himself
movieDevil Worship: Exposing Satan's Underground
1988 · Self (archive footage)
Death Diploma
movieDeath Diploma
1987
movieThe Killing of America
1981 · Self (archive footage)
movieThis Is America Part 2
1980 · Self (archive footage)
movieManson
1973 · Himself
Horrifying Hollywood Murders
movieHorrifying Hollywood Murders
— · Self (archive footage)