A Father for Charlie

A Father for Charlie (1995)

Set in the heart of America in the 1930s. Walter Osgood (Louis Gosset Jr) is the only black man left in the town of High Lonesome that has been cleared by the overwhelming white supremacist beliefs. Having lost his entire family to them and not knowing where his young Son is or whether he is alive is what sets this movie apart from others

Date of release
1995-01-01
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (8)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Drama, TV Movie
Director
Jeff Bleckner

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: California

A Father for Charlie, is a television film that premiered on CBS on January 1, 1995. The film was directed by Jeff Bleckner and written by H. Haden Yelin. It stars Louis Gossett Jr. as Walter Osgood, the only black farmer in the highly-prejudiced town of High Lonesome in the Ozarks, at the height of the Great Depression in 1932. Despite the racist abuse he endures from the townspeople and the Ku Klux Klan, Walter forms an unlikely friendship with Charlie, the 10-year-old son of his white tenant farmer.

Production

A Father for Charlie was filmed in Southern California.

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