Freericks, Charles

Charles Freericks comes from Paramus, NJ, where he grew up in a typical GI-Bill ranch house. He graduated from Paramus High School and went on to get his bachelor's degree from George Washington University in Washington, DC. He earned a master's degree from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles . It was during his graduate school career that he got a "one-day" temp job at CBS Television City filing benefits documents. That job turned into a 20-year career in television movies and series that included executive stints at CBS, Wilshire Court Productions (a subsidiary of Paramount