Charles Siebert

Siebert returned to the stage playing the role of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" at the 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa, CA from March 30 through April 22, 2018.

November 2015: Siebert appears on stage in Sonoma County, CA as Ebeneezer Scrooge in Santa Rosa's 6th Street Playhouse production of "A Christmas Carol".

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".

" Among his more distinguished TV work was his portrayal of Helen Keller's father in the mini-movie The Miracle Worker (1979) which starred Melissa Gilbert as Helen and Patty Duke, formerly the Oscar-winning Helen on film, inheriting the role of teacher Annie Sullivan. For seven seasons Charles co-starred as Dr. Stanley Riverside, the chief of emergency services, on Trapper John, M. D.

(1979) with Pernell Roberts and Gregory Harrison. 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.

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.

"Moving to Los Angeles in the mid 1970s, Charles was seen in many commercials and also joined the guest roster of episodics, appearing on most of the popular series of the time including "All in the Family," "Rhoda," "Barnaby Jones," "One Day at a Time," "Maude," "Kojak," and "The Rockford Files.

He was also in the cast of the 1968 musical "Jimmy Shine" starring Dustin Hoffman. Simultaneously Charles was appearing in such New York-based daytime soaps as "Search for Tomorrow," "Another World" and "As the World Turns.

He made his Broadway debut in Galileo (1967) and appeared in such other New York plays as "The Gingerbread Lady" (1970) with Tony winner Maureen Stapleton, "Sticks and Bones" (1972), and the 1974 revival of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" starring Elizabeth Ashley in which he played the role of Gooper.

Siebert 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. The couple had three children: Christopher, Charlie Jr. (also known as Andy), and Gillian. Siebert has three step-children with present wife Kristine Leroux: Kristine Jr., Max, and Jeremy.

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.