
Zachary Charles
Actor · b. 1986 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Zach Charles is an American writer, filmmaker, and lifelong student of science, educated at the University of Southern California. He explores the complexities of the human condition through the cinematic arts, while his scientific literacy grounds him in critical thinking-together giving him a unique perspective. Zach is known for undertaking dangerous pursuits safely as a licensed pilot, skydiver, and rescue scuba diver. He is the author of Sufferless: The Science & Philosophy of Reducing Suffering (2026) and the founder of The Sufferless Foundation, dedicated to transforming the book's ideas into measurable reductions of suffering worldwide. Zach began his filmmaking career as a child actor in film and television. His appearance in ER (Season 2, Episode 7: "Hell and High Water")-starring opposite George Clooney-earned an Emmy nomination. At thirteen, he stepped away from acting to focus on his education, later graduating from USC in 2012.
Movies5
Movie6.0AnimationComedyAlbino bat Bartok – former sidekick to the wicked Grigori Rasputin – ventures to prove his true worth on a new quest to defeat the legendary Russian witch Baba Yaga.
Bartok the Magnificent
1999 · 232 votes
Movie7.3DramaA young foreign girl comes to LA to learn English but learns instead that life in the States is not what she saw on TV and film. She finds herself being dragged into a world not only foreign in language but completely outside her cultural values. Her only savior is the one person who does not rely on language for communication, a deaf artist.
Movie5.7ActionScience FictionWith the discovery of an incoming asteroid, the government of America formulate a plan to destroy it. When the plan fails, all the world can do is wait. The main impact zone is revealed to be Dallas, Texas. Generally, the plot follows the lives and reactions of several characters: an astronomer, her father, her son, two firefighters from Kansas, two young doctors in Dallas and the heads of the government agency in charge of the situation.
Asteroid
1997 · 51 votes
Movie7.5DramaTV MovieA recently widowed doctor moves with her daughter to start at a new hospital. While there a loving mother brings her son in for treatment. The doctor suspects that there is something wrong, and theorizes that the mother is deliberately making her son sick so that she could bring him to the hospital for the attention that it gives her. When the doctor decides to restrict the mother's access to her son and is reporting her to child services, the mother in turn decides to sue the doctor and the hospital. And some of the hospital board don't agree with her diagnosis or think that she's over-reacting. And even while the mother's not allowed access to her son, he is still sick, so is the doctor right or wrong?
A Child's Cry for Help
1994 · 7 votes
Movie5.3DramaA Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.
The Flying Missile
1950 · 9 votes
Series3
TV7.8DramaER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
ER
1994 · 967 votes
TV6.9ComedyDramaBrothers Brian and Joe Hackett attempt to run an airline on the New England island of Nantucket while surrounded by their various wacky friends and employees.
Wings
1990 · 148 votes
- TV3.5Action & AdventureDrama
The United States government tries to prevent an asteroid from colliding with the Earth.
Asteroid
1997 · 6 votes