Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 12, 1934
Died
Nov 19, 2017
Place of Birth
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Credits
61 titles
Charles Manson
Biography
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 "Cease to Exist", renamed "Never Learn Not to Love" as a single B-side, but without a credit to Manson. Afterward, Manson attempted to secure a record contract through Melcher, but was unsuccessful. Manson would often talk about the Beatles, including their 1968 self-titled album. According to Los Angeles County District Attorney, Vincent Bugliosi, Manson felt guided by his interpretation of the Beatles' lyrics and adopted the term "Helter Skelter" to describe an impending apocalyptic race war. During his trial, Bugliosi argued that Manson had intended to start a race war, although Manson and others disputed this. Contemporary interviews and trial witness testimony insisted that the Tate–LaBianca murders were copycat crimes intended to exonerate Manson's friend Bobby Beausoleil. Manson himself denied having instructed anyone to murder anyone. Manson's notoriety as an emblem of insanity, violence, and the macabre influenced pop culture. Recordings of songs written and performed by Manson were released commercially, starting with Lie: The Love and Terror Cult (1970). Since his incarceration, various musicians have covered some of his songs. Although originally sentenced to death in 1971, his sentence was commuted to life with the possibility of parole after the California Supreme Court invalidated the state's death penalty statute in 1972. He served his life sentence at the California State Prison, Corcoran and died at age 83 in late 2017. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charles Manson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
My Grandfather Charles Manson
Self (archive footage)
Chaos: The Manson Murders
Self (archive footage)
"My World"
Music
Making Manson
Self (archive footage)
The Beach Boys
Self (archive footage)
Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue
Self (archive footage)
Hymns from the Abyss
Self (archive footage)
Zappa
Self (archive footage)
Helter Skelter: An American Myth
Self (archive footage)
Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind
Self (archive footage)
Euphoria
Self (archive footage)
Manson: The Women
Self (archive footage)
1969
Charles Manson: The Funeral
Self (archive footage)
Very Scary People
Self (archive footage)
Manson: The Lost Tapes
Self (archive footage)
Inside the Manson Cult: The Lost Tapes
Self (archive footage)
Inside the Criminal Mind
Self (archive footage)
Manson Speaks: Inside the Mind of a Madman
Self (Archive Footage)
Charles Manson: The Final Words
Self (archive footage)
Dateline: Secrets Uncovered
Self (archive footage)
LA 92
Self (archive footage)
Truth and Lies: The Family Manson
Self (archive Footage)
Face of Evil: The Charles Manson Murders
Himself
The Seventies
Self (archive footage)
Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans
Self (archive footage)
Life After Manson
Self
Serious Serial Killers
The Manson Family: Born to Kill?
Himself
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
Self (archive footage)
Charles Manson, The Church of Satan, The Universal Order & The Process Church of Final Judgment
Old Man
Himself (voice)
Iconoclast
Self (archive footage)
Dahmer vs. Gacy
Thanks
When You're Strange
Self (archive footage)
The Six Degrees of Helter Skelter
Himself
Manson's Missing Victims
Il falso bugiardo
Self (archive footage)
Cease to Exist
Self (archive footage)
Inside The Manson Gang
Self
Legends
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Dark Side of Porn: Does Snuff Exist?
Ghost Hunters
Murders of Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
The Last Days of Sharon Tate
Self (archive footage)
South Park
Charles Manson (archive footage)
Assassinations That Changed the World
Charles Manson: Journey Into Evil
Himself
Ten Monologues from the Lives of the Serial Killers
Writer
Safe Condition: Document in the Past Perfect
Charles Manson