Charlie Aiken
- Actor
Charlie Aiken hailed from Ridgewood, New Jersey and got his start in TV commercials. After taking the initiative to express interest in getting into this line of work, his mother dialed up Alfred Lutter's mom (another Ridgewood child actor), who hooked them up with an audition. Then for a time circa 1977-78, Charlie was in demand as an all-American 'everyboy' appearing in some 25 ads for everything from Cheerios to Burger King, Cookie Crisp, Bubble Yum, Wonder Bread, Milk Bone, Kenner, Matchbox, and Pringles, where he asks for Roy Clark's autograph and is fed potato chips instead. "Mmm, good!"
His break into acting came when he was cast in CBS TV pilot The Wilds of Ten Thousand Islands (1978), which went unsold. This led to an appearance on La croisière s'amuse (1977) in the 1978 Halloween episode "Ship of Ghouls" some five months prior to the debut of the limited-run ABC series Friends (1979). The Love Boat casting made the local paper back in South Carolina where grandma lived. He would commute from New Jersey to Los Angeles with his mother when he had acting jobs. In his spare time, he liked playing guitar, listening to albums, and skateboarding.
Following the TV movie Hardhat and Legs (1980), he seemed to have left acting, returning to private life and his education.
His break into acting came when he was cast in CBS TV pilot The Wilds of Ten Thousand Islands (1978), which went unsold. This led to an appearance on La croisière s'amuse (1977) in the 1978 Halloween episode "Ship of Ghouls" some five months prior to the debut of the limited-run ABC series Friends (1979). The Love Boat casting made the local paper back in South Carolina where grandma lived. He would commute from New Jersey to Los Angeles with his mother when he had acting jobs. In his spare time, he liked playing guitar, listening to albums, and skateboarding.
Following the TV movie Hardhat and Legs (1980), he seemed to have left acting, returning to private life and his education.
