Charles Manson
Biography
Charles Milles Manson (November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017) led the California-based Manson Family cult based in the late 1960s. Some cult members committed a series of nine murders at four locations in July and August 1969. In 1971, Manson was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder for the deaths of seven people, including film actress Sharon Tate. The prosecution contended that while Manson never directly ordered the murders, his ideology constituted an overt act of conspiracy. Before the murders, Manson had spent more than half of his life in correctional institutions. While gathering his cult following, Manson was a singer-songwriter on the fringe of the Los Angeles music industry, chiefly through a chance association with Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys, who introduced Manson to record producer Terry Melcher. In 1968, the Beach Boys recorded Manson's song "Cease to Exist", renamed "Never Learn Not to Love" as a single B-side, but without a credit to M...
Known For
Top 40 Movies
Manson
1973
The Killing of America
1981
Zappa
2020
Chaos: The Manson Murders
2025
The Beach Boys
2024
When You're Strange
2010
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
2012
LA 92
2017
The Dark Side of Porn: Does Snuff Exist?
2006
Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans
2015
Cease to Exist
2007
Il falso bugiardo
2008
Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind
2019
The Last Days of Sharon Tate
1999
Inside the Manson Cult: The Lost Tapes
2018
Charles Manson: The Final Words
2017
Life After Manson
2014
Murders of Hollywood
2003
Truth and Lies: The Family Manson
2017
This Is America Part 2
1980
Iconoclast
2010
Devil Worship: Exposing Satan's Underground
1988
No Sense Makes Sense
1993
Charles Manson, The Church of Satan, The Universal Order & The Process Church of Final Judgment
2012
Hymns from the Abyss
2021
Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue
2022
Inside The Manson Gang
2007
Manson's Missing Victims
2008
The Six Degrees of Helter Skelter
2009
The Manson Family: Born to Kill?
2012
Charles Manson Then & Now
1992
Charles Manson Superstar
1989
Manson: The Women
2019
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 2: Assassination in the 20th Century
1992
Old Man
2012
Serious Serial Killers
2012
Safe Condition: Document in the Past Perfect
1994