Charles Samuel Swartz (April 22, 1939 – February 10, 2007) was an American filmmaker, researcher, and academic.
At USC he met and married another film student, Stephanie Rothman.
He and Rothman worked together on a number of films for Roger Corman and were involved in the establishment of Dimension Pictures.
[1] Swartz later became an important figure in the development of digital cinema, writing the textbook Understanding Digital Cinema: A Professional Handbook (2004) and working at the research centre of the University of Southern California Entertainment Technology Centre from 2003–2007.
He died of pneumonia following a battle with brain cancer.