Charlie Schlatter is perhaps best known for starring in Dick Van Dyke’s long running CBS hit series, Diagnosis Murder. He also starred alongside Jennifer Aniston as the title role in NBC’S Ferris Bueller. More recently, he was praised for his performance as Dr. Dick on Showtime’s Shameless, and is currently starring as Paul Michaels in AppleTV’s award winning series For All Mankind.
Schlatter was discovered by a casting director during a theater performance in Ithaca N.Y. and was asked to audition for the role of Michael J. Fox’s brother in Bright Lights, Big City, which he landed. Afterwards, we went on to star in his most highly acclaimed role in the soul switching comedy 18 Again! with the legendary George Burns. Following that, came the lead role in Touchstone Pictures’ Heartbreak Hotel, written and directed by Chris Columbus and starring Tuesday Weld. Shifting gears, he starred in the award-winning Australian romance film, The Delinquents opposite Aussie royalty Kylie Minogue. Other films he starred in include Police Academy: Mission To Moscow, Sunset Heat with Dennis Hopper, All American Murder with Christopher Walken, Resurrection Mary and LGBTQ+ cult classic, Out At The Wedding.
Schlatter has amassed over 100 characters in animation and amongst them is being the most recorded Flash in many incarnations including Superman: The Animated Series, The Batman, Batman Unlimited: Animal Instincts, Scooby Doo Mysteries and the original Lego Batman movies where he also voiced Lego Robin. He starred as Kick on Disney’s Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil, Ace Bunny in Loonatics Unleashed, the original Kevin 11 in Ben 10, Hawk on A.T.O.M, Timmy and others on Winx Club, Cameron on Bratz, Dr. Mindbender on GI Joe, and various other characters on shows such as The Boondocks, Phinneas and Ferb, Kim Possible and The Loud House. In video games he can be heard in the Wonderful 101’s, The Walking Dead, Mafia, Spektor in Ape Escape and as Major Raikov in Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater.