Obituaries

In Memory of
Charles Pierce
July 14, 1926 - May 31, 1999

Interment:
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, CA

Charles Pierce

BIRTH

14 Jul 1926

Watertown, Jefferson County, New York, USA



DEATH 31 May 1999 (aged 72)

Los Angeles County, California, USA



BURIAL

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles County, California, USA



PLOTL Cts of Remembrance sec, Columbarium of Providence, Map #ELC0 (back wall), Outdoor Gdn Niche 64953



Entertainer. His career included acting and radio announcing, but he was best known as a female impersonator and for his impressions of film stars such as: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Tallulah Bankhead, Carol Channing and Katharine Hepburn. He spent his youth in Watertown, New York. Beginning around 1944, he worked at local radio station WWNY, playing the Hammond organ and acting in radio dramas. He was once described as a "male actress" and "the Master and Mistress of Surprise or Disguise." His professional engagements took him to London, England, New York City, San Francisco, Miami Beach, Los Angeles and Chicago, Illinois. In the mid-1990s he retired and later died of the effects of cancer and a stroke. He gave all his scrapbooks photographs, programs, recordings and videotapes to the Performing Arts Library of Lincoln Center, New York.













































































































































































































































































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