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Charles Band

Born Dec 27, 1951 · 74 years487 titles 485 movies · 2 TV
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Charles Robert Band (born December 27, 1951) is an American actor, screenwriter, director and film producer. Starting in the seventies, Band formed Charles Band Productions. Since then, Full Moon has been an independent company, producing and distributing solely for the home market. Notable side companies have included Moonbeam Entertainment, Filmonsters, Action Xtreme and Pulsepounders all of which produced films aimed at kids and tweens as well as Torchlight Entertainment and Surrender Cinema which produced soft core films for the adult market. In addition, Monster Island Entertainment produced man in a rubber suit monster movies, Alchemy Entertainment later Big City Pictures created urban horror, and Pulp Fantasy Productions specialized in non Full Moon type horror. For a short time in the early 2000s, Full Moon became Shadow Entertainment when Band felt the company's product had strayed too far from the brand that he had created. During this time, many of the films were produced by J. R. Bookwalter's Tempe Entertainment. Since 2004, Band has taken a more active hand in the company, producing and directing almost every film released. Also in 2004, the Wizard Video line was reintroduced. For a short time, fans could buy a line of toys based on characters from the films such as Shrieker, Radu from Subspecies and the Puppet Master puppets as well. Branded Full Moon Toys, this line lasted a couple of years. More recently, the Monster Bra line has been created, specializing in gag brassieres. CD soundtracks have also been released through the Full Moon Records line including many works by Band's brother Richard Band and comics based on Dollman, Puppet Master, Subspecies and Trancers were released through Eternity Comics.

Also known as

Charles Robert Band · James Amante · Robert Amante · Charlie Band · Carlo Bokino · Conrad R. Rains · Robert Talbot

Born

Dec 27, 1951

Los Angeles, California, USA

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Roles across career

Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).

35

Acting credits

99

Directing

64

Writing

453

Other crew

Most critically rated

Highest TMDB score (min 100 votes)

Most commercially successful

Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)

Career timeline

By release / first air year · movie & TV merged

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1962 1 title(s)

1973 1 title(s)

1976 2 title(s)

1977 2 title(s)

1978 3 title(s)

1979 1 title(s)

1980 1 title(s)

1982 3 title(s)

1983 3 title(s)

1984 4 title(s)

1985 5 title(s)

1986 10 title(s)

1987 13 title(s)

1988 13 title(s)

1989 8 title(s)

1990 6 title(s)

1991 9 title(s)

1992 8 title(s)

1993 11 title(s)

1994 14 title(s)

1995 9 title(s)

1996 13 title(s)

1997 15 title(s)

1998 15 title(s)

1999 29 title(s)

2000 22 title(s)

2001 17 title(s)

2002 12 title(s)

2003 5 title(s)

2004 3 title(s)

2005 11 title(s)

2006 5 title(s)

2007 3 title(s)

2008 2 title(s)

2009 2 title(s)

2010 4 title(s)

2011 3 title(s)

2012 6 title(s)

2013 13 title(s)

2014 2 title(s)

2015 3 title(s)

2016 4 title(s)

2017 8 title(s)

2018 28 title(s)

2019 15 title(s)

2020 13 title(s)

2021 14 title(s)

2022 21 title(s)

2023 27 title(s)

2024 13 title(s)

2025 8 title(s)

2026 3 title(s)

Undated 21 title(s)