Charles K. Eastman

Charles Kemper Eastman (September 18, 1929 – July 3, 2009) was an American screenwriter and script doctor. He wrote the screenplay for the 1970 film Little Fauss and Big Halsy; he wrote and directed The All-American Boy. Charles Eastman died from complications of heart disease in Culver City, California on July 3, 2009.

Career and works Eastman began his career working in the Crosby office and appears as a prominent extra in many Bing Crosby films. He was working in the script department at CBS in the 1950s and had written several plays that found a place in Los Angeles theatre, including La Peregrina, Victorey, The Root of the Iceplant, and The Hamster of Happiness. The Hamster of Happiness became a screenplay produced at NBC as an Experiment in Television, with Susan Tyrrell and Mildred Dunnock, and later a motion picture at Lorimar under the title Second-Hand Hearts, directed by Hal Ashby.