Charlotte Anna Nachtwey (8 February 1894 - 16 May 1977) was an American television, film, and stage actress and screenwriter, working as Charlott (or Charlotte) Knight. As a writer, Knight is best known for 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957). As an actress, she played small parts in Petticoat Junction (1963) and The Red Skelton Show (1962).
Knight met stop motion animator Ray Harryhausen while working as his acting coach. Harryhausen hired Knight to write the stories for his Mother Goose Stories series.[1] Harryhausen later brought Knight on to rewrite his treatment for a film called The Giant Ymir, which became 20 Million Miles to Earth.[2]
Knight died of heart failure at the Motion Picture Hospital in Los Angeles on May 16, 1977, at the age of 83. She is buried in the Saint Paul and Saint Jude North Catholic Cemetery in Bloomer, Wisconsin.[3]
References
↑Rovin, Jeff (1977). From The Land Beyond Beyond: The Films of Willis O'Brien and Ray Harryhausen. Berkley Publishing Corporation. p.118.
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