The producer, writer and director Larry charles He was born on December 1, 1956 in Brooklyn (New York), in the United States, into a Jewish family. After graduating from John Dewey High School, he worked on stand-up routines during the 70’s, until he was hired to write the scripts for the sitcom. “Fridays“in which he met Larry David, who would later take him to work as a scriptwriter for the popular”Seinfeld“and as director of”Curb Your Enthusiasm“.
Since then Charles began a writing career that continued in “The Arsenio Hall Show“Where he worked until 1990, when he was hired as co-writer of the team formed by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld for the sitcom”Seinfeld“While David and Seinfeld were the ones who set the plot guidelines, Charles He was responsible for most of the scripts during the first five seasons, highlighting his particular sense of black humor both in the scenes and in the books. During this period he also served as executive producer on 44 episodes of the famous series.
In 1995 he left the staff of “Seinfeld“to join the crew of another hit comedy from the mid-90’s:”Mad about you“, on which he worked as a screenwriter and executive producer between 1996 and 1997. His next jobs were on two very popular but short-lived shows, the animated series”Dilbert“and comedy”The Tick“.
It was in the year 2000 when Charles he did his first directing job on the next Larry David series, “Curb Your Enthusiasm“, of which he has directed 17 episodes to date, being executive producer of another 22 episodes. Among other notable collaborations, Larry he was also involved in the scripts and production of the series “Entourage“.
His career as a film director began with “Masked and Anonymous“(2003), feature film written by Charles himself and Bob Dylan. His second film that marked the beginning of his work with actor Sacha Baron Cohen was”Borat: The second best reporter from the glorious country Kazakhstan travels to America“(2006), semi-documentary in which Borat He is a male, racist and anti-Semitic Kazakh journalist; the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay.
In 2008 Charles premiered “Religulous“(2008), documentary that pretends to be a satire of religions and their associated problems. A year later it was the turn of”Brüno“Again with Sacha Baron Cohen leading the cast, playing a fashion-crazy Austrian gay reporter. His latest movie,”The dictator“(2012), is the story of an Arab dictator (Sacha Baron Cohen), who tries to prevent democracy from reaching his country.