Charles Bates was born on October 22, 1934 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Shadow of a Doubt (1943), San Diego I Love You (1944) and Shockproof (1949). He has been married to Carol Ann Goodrich since September 13, 1958. They have three children.
Since he appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943), it is worth noting that his name combines the first name and the last name of Hitchcock's two most famous serial killers: Charles Oakley from "Shadow of a Doubt" and Norman Bates from Psycho (1960).