One of acting's more reliable performers from the 1970s through the early 1990s, Charles Siebert alternated between the live theater and film/television as both an actor and director. Born the eldest of four children in 1938 in Wisconsin, he started his career following journalism school at Marquette University and a stint in the U.S. Army in the 60s. After marrying his college sweetheart, Catherine Kilzer, he trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. They eventually returned to the United States with their English-born son, Christopher, and resided in New York City where two more children, Charles Andrew and Gillian, were born. Following work in various regional theatre productions, Charles graduated to roles on the Broadway and off-Broadway stages. He made his Broadway debut in Galileo . During that period he began taking an avid interest in directing and ended up helming several episodes of the series. Over the years Charles has performed with some the finest regional theatres in the United States, including the inaugural year of San Francisco's ACT; the Goodman Theatre in Chicago; The Theatre Company of Boston; Baltimore's Center Stage; The McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey; Stratford Connecticut's American Shakespeare Festival, and some seven seasons at Williamstown, Massachusetts' Summer Theatre. In the 1990s he became predominantly known as a TV director of such shows as "Knots Landing", "Silk Stalkings", "The Pretender", "Hercules" and "Xena: Warrior Princess". Following the death of his first wife Catherine in 1981, Charles re-married in 1986 to Kristine Leroux, a former real-estate executive, who added three children of her own to the family mix. Of his own three children, both Christopher and Charlie, Jr. now have careers in jazz music as headliners in the well-known band Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers. Charles Sr. is now retired and living happily with his wife in the wine country of Northern California.
Charlies career is now exclusively dedicated to directing, a phase that began with episodes of the "Trapper John" series he was co-starring in at the time. He went on to helm a number of popular shows such as "Knots Landing," "Silk Stalkings," "Renegade," "The Pretender," "Hercules," and "Xena, Warrior Princess," the last which he also appeared as King Sisyphus.
His most recent acting work was at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival in the title roles of Macbeth and Antony in "Antony & Cleopatra" and at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis in Ibsens "The Wild Duck."
Had three children from late first wife, Catherine Kilzer: Christopher, Charlie Jr. (also known as Andy), and Gillian. He also has three step children with present wife Kristine Leroux: Kristine Jr., Max, and Jeremy.
In the early 1990s, Charles moved from L.A. and settled on a small farm in Northern Californias Sonoma County wine country.
Charles and his first wife Catherine Kilzer met at Marquette University, part of the acting department. They married in 1962 and "Newhart" actor Peter Bonerz stood up as best man.
(November 2015) Mr. Siebert occasionally appears on stage in Sonoma County, CA where he resides. He can currently be seen as Ebeneezer Scrooge in Santa Rosas 6th Street Playhouse production of "A Christmas Carol".
