The theater community in San Francisco mourns the passing of Chuck L. Hilbert, an actor, writer, and director who was active in local theater for more than a decade. He was a graduate of California Institute of the Arts, and for the past five years had been Manager of Communications for Paymap, a First Data company.
Hilbert began his professional career working as a costumed character at Disneyland. He later followed the Disney magic to Orlando in 1971, performing in parades and shows during Disney Worlds inaugural year. After this he was active in repertory companies in Atlanta and Las Vegas before arriving in San Francisco where he became a mainstay in Bay Area theatrical pursuits. Local credits include productions with the San Jose Repertory Theater, Bayside Entertainment, the San Francisco Opera, Theatre Artaud, the Blake Street Hawkeyes, and the One Act Theatre Company.
He played a recurring role in the late-eighties detective drama Midnight Caller, and worked with Whoopi Goldberg in the film Kiss Shot. He gained infamy through his controversial work in the documentary Theatereality, about a stage company which purportedly killed actors onstage as high art.
Recently, Hilbert became involved in the world of publishing as an editor and talent scout for Viking Press, and he was working on an adaptation of Shakespeares The Merry Wives of Windsor. He was also well known for his philanthropic pursuits, including involvement in local shelters for abused children.
He is survived by a brother, Gary Hilbert, of Idaho.
Goodbye, Chuck. You were by far the most beautiful soul I've ever come across on the internet, and the world is less without you in it.
I would love to post it in the BDSM group...however my Sir asked me to hold onto most of it just for a little while
and it is good to be selfish every once in a while