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Despite Charles’ absence in his son's lives — and the crimes he was accused of committing — The Hunger Games actor developed a relationship with his father as an adult. Woody would visit his...
Charles Harrelson, Woody Harrelson’s dad, was convicted of killing a federal judge. As The Guardian recapped in a 2012 profile of Woody, the actor’s father, Charles V. Harrelson, was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1973 for the murder of grain dealer Sam Delia Jr.
Charles Voyde Harrelson (July 23, 1938 – March 15, 2007) was an American contract killer and organized crime figure who was convicted of assassinating federal judge John H. Wood Jr., the first federal judge to be assassinated in the 20th century. Charles Harrelson was the father of actors Brett and Woody Harrelson.
Four years after Woody Harrelson was born in 1961 (also on July 24, the same as his father), Charles Harrelson was living in Houston and gambling full-time. According to prison memoirs he later wrote, he claimed to have been involved in dozens of murder-for-hire plots during this time before he left his family in 1968.
It was right then and there that Woody first heard his father was a contract killer. Until that point, the young Harrelson didn't really know much about his dad. His father had recently left the family, and even before that, he'd spent most of his time in prison.
During his run on Cheers, most people didn't know that Woody Harrelson's dad was a convicted contract killer. This is Charles Harrelson's crazy real-life story.
Published June 5, 2021. Image courtesy of Ross/Wikimedia Commons. Claim: Actor Woody Harrelson’s father, Charles Harrelson, was convicted of murder in the May 1979 killing of U.S. District...
