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- Birth nameCharles Friedman Haas
- Harvard-educated Charles Haas entered films in 1935 as an extra at Universal. He was soon promoted to assistant director, then branched out into directing documentaries and industrial films. During WW II he made training films for the Army Signal Corps. After the war he went back to work for Universal, and was assigned to write and produce Moonrise (1948). He soon returned to making industrial films, then turned to television directing. He made his feature directorial debut in 1956, and turned out a string of low-budget westerns, gangster and juvenile-delinquent pictures - several with third-string Marilyn Monroe wannabe Mamie Van Doren - before returning to television.
- IMDb mini biography by: frankfob2@yahoo.com
- SpouseEmilie Dreyfus(December 29, 1936 - February 2, 2005) (her death, 4 children)
- ParentsJacob Gustave HaasBertha Cicely Friedman
- While a student at Harvard he studied under writer/poet T.S. Eliot, who was a visiting professor there.
- In the early 1950s he, along with such Hollywood notables as actor Robert Ryan and director John Sturges, founded the Oakwood School, a private academy in Los Angeles geared toward "progressive" education.
- Son of Gus Haas and Cicely Friedman, father of David, Anthony, Sylvia and Michael.
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