Charles Marquis Warren (December 16, 1912 – August 11, 1990) was an American motion picture and television writer, producer, and director who specialized in Westerns.

[1] Warren was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and was the son of a real estate broker and the godson of famous American writer and fellow Baltimorean F. Scott Fitzgerald.

With numerous famous alumni / faculty and curriculum as one of the nation's earliest Magnet schools, the City College focuses on the humanities / liberal arts, social studies and the Classics.

Warren graduated in 1930, two years after the construction / opening of its current "Castle on the Hill" but began his City College tenure at its longtime earlier site and buildings from 1875/1899 at North Howard and West Centre Streets (adjacent to the first downtown campus of The Johns Hopkins University).

During his college years, he developed an interest in writing, resulting in a play entitled No Sun, No Moon, which was staged at Princeton University.

His early assignments included working on the scripts for Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable, and Top Hat (1935) with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

Warren eventually left Hollywood for New York City where he found success as a fiction writer for various pulp magazines.

During World War II, Warren joined the United States Navy and served in the Photo Science Laboratory.

Susanna (1951), with Rod Cameron; The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951), with Glenn Ford and Rhonda Fleming; and Springfield Rifle (1952), with Gary Cooper.

Initially interested in only making motion pictures, Warren accepted the offer when CBS agreed to pay him $7000 per week.