1. Roger Henri Louise Lievin Constance Charlier was a Belgian resistance fighter, member of the prosecuting team at the Nuremberg trials, and oceanographer.
11 Facts About Roger Charlier
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Roger Charlier's marriage to American Captain Marie Helen Glennon and administrative difficulties regarding his residency in the US was dramatised in the film I Was a Male War Bride, with Cary Grant as Charlier.
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Roger Charlier started out as a teacher at a secondary school in the early 1940s.
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Roger Charlier became deputy-director to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, managing a refugee camp in Ansbach, near Nuremberg.
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Roger Charlier wrote a book about this episode of his life under the pen name Henri Rochard.
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However, the famous scene where Roger Charlier, played by Cary Grant, impersonates a female army nurse, was not historically correct.
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Later, Roger Charlier married Patricia Mary Simonet, with whom he had two children.
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Roger Charlier was early in drawing attention to global warming, promoting sustainable energy production and equitable use of marine resources.
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Roger Charlier has taught as a professor, visiting professor, and research scholar at many universities in the US, France, and Belgium, including at Finch College, Northeastern Illinois University, and the University of Bordeaux.
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Roger Charlier retired in 1989, but wrote several publications during his retirement.
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Roger Charlier died on 16 September 2018 in Etterbeek, Belgium.