Charles Laughton was born in Tampa, Florida on the 21st May 1953. Because his parents died in car cash when he was only two years old he was placed in children’s home in the city where he was brought up till his majority. When he reached eighteen he left the home and found a job as a waiter in a small local pub. He always loved cooking and therefore he took up some paid evening courses for cooks where he also met his first wife Elizabeth. After a year of dating they got married. When Charles was 21 years old he became a father. His wife Elizabeth gave birth to their only child Richard in 1974. Thanks to the certificate from the evening courses and his passion for cooking he was accepted and employed as a cook in a well-known restaurant Columbia in Tampa. He was doing well and therefore after five years he was promoted to a specialty chef at the restaurant. At his forties his wife Elizabeth got a cancer and after a year of fighting with it she died. Loosing his loved wife was tough for both Charles and his son Richard. Their good friend Helen helped them to get over this traumatic period. Charles married Helen two years after Elizabeth’s death. They lived together in a small house in the outskirt of Tampa for the next ten years until Charles died in 2006.
1953 — 2006
date of birth:
5.21.1953
date of death:
11.18.2006
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