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Charles Deetz

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Charles Deetz was the husband of Delia Deetz and the father of Lydia Deetz.

Beetlejuice (movie)[]

History (BJ1)[]

Used to work in real estate in New York City before his nervous break down, which is why he and his family moved to "the sticks" in the first place. According to Lydia, Charles was married to Lydia's mother before he met Delia, though what happened to his first wife remains a mystery.

Personality (BJ1)[]

Although Charles claims he just wants to relax and clip coupons (which he obviously does), he wants to his real estate career and begins plans to sell the entire town of Winter River. Though Charles acts too busy for his own family, he truly cares about them. He loves his wife, Delia (despite hating the way she "trashes the place" with her redecorating obsession), and is attentive to Lydia (even asking her opinion of the new house, promising her a darkroom for her photography and calls her "pumpkin"). While initially upset at the idea when Adam and Barbara summoned the snake (Beetlejuice in disguise) to attack him, Charles shows great concern when the séance-turned-exorcism causes the couple to decompose in front of him and tries to make Otho stop. Beetlejuice then appears and restrains Charles along with his wife, who are forced to watch Lydia being forcibly married to Beetlejuice. However, this is stopped by Barbara and Adam, who use a sandworm to send Beetlejuice back to the afterlife. Charles looks gratefully at the Maitlands for saving his daughter.

In the end, Charles seems to accept the idea of living with ghosts, reading the book called The Living and the Dead and shares Adam's frustration that the book reads like stereo instructions. While Beetlejuice has been banished, Charles still has a lingering fear of him which is triggered when Delia shows him a sculpture of Beetlejuice in Snake form.

Trivia (BJ1)[]

  • Charles loves ornithology and baseball.
  • In some early scripts, it's revealed that Charles's had a first wife named Evelyn.

Gallery (BJ1)[]

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After summoning Lydia to her art exhibit, Delia breaks the news to her that Charles has passed on. He was on a vacation period to a bird watching trip. Lydia sent him some equipment as a gift which he was grateful for, and the trip itself went very well, but on his flight back, the Pacific Travel Airlines plane lost the left wing and fell from the sky, crashing into the ocean below and breaking in half in the process. Charles survived the crash, and attempted to float to safety alongside the other survivors who were standing on the remains of the back half of the plane, but as he swam toward them using the lost wing of the plane as a raft, an extremely large shark breached the surface of the ocean and ate the center of his torso out of his body, leaving his ghost to have no head or chest, but still have his legs, a stomach, shoulders and arms. He wandered the afterlife seemingly unaware of the fact that he didn't make it, at least initially. He visited an afterlife dry cleaner asking where he was and complaining of feeling severely lightheaded. Briefly, a picture of Charles can be seen at his funeral. Eventually, following the death of Delia, he would have a short moment with his remaining family before departing on the soul train to the great beyond with his beloved wife, wishing his family well. In the second film, the character's final appearance, the actors who respectively portrayed and voiced Charles, Mark Heenhan and Charlie Hopkinson, were miscredited as "Clive" in the film's credits.

Gallery (BJ2)[]

Beetlejuice (animated series)[]

Personality (BJ:AS)[]

Charles often acts very nervous and is easily frightened. In one episode, he says practically everything made him nervous. Charles is allergic to dogs.

Appearances[]

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