Charles Beaumont's father was 56 when Charles was born; Letty, his mother, was 22 years her husband's junior.
14 Facts About Charles Beaumont
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School did not hold his attention, and his last name exposed him to ridicule, so Charles Beaumont Nutt found solace as a teenager in science fiction.
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Charles Beaumont dropped out of high school in tenth grade to join the Army in the final years of World War II.
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Charles Beaumont worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, disc jockey, usher, and dishwasher before selling his first story to Amazing Stories in 1950.
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Charles Beaumont soon adopted this name legally and used it both personally and professionally for the rest of his life.
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Charles Beaumont was energetic and spontaneous, and was known to take trips at a moment's notice.
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Charles Beaumont wrote several scripts for The Twilight Zone, including an adaptation of his own short story, "The Howling Man", about a prisoner who might be the Devil, and the hour-long "Valley of the Shadow", about a cloistered Utopia that refuses to share its startlingly advanced technology with the outside world.
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Charles Beaumont scripted the film Queen of Outer Space from an outline by Ben Hecht, deliberately writing the screenplay as a parody.
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Charles Beaumont penned one episode of the TV show Steve Canyon, titled "Operation B-52", in which Canyon and his crew attempt to set a speed record in a B-52 accompanied by a newsman who hates Air Force pilots.
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Charles Beaumont was much admired by his colleagues.
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Charles Beaumont wrote several scripts for Roger Corman including The Intruder.
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In 1963, when Charles Beaumont was 34 and overwhelmed by numerous writing commitments, he began to suffer the effects of "a mysterious brain disease" which seemed to age him rapidly.
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Charles Beaumont would go unshaven to meetings with producers, which would end in disaster.
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On February 21,1967, Charles Beaumont died in Woodland Hills, California at the age of 38.