Charney created the role of creepy Julian Dark in the early to mid-1960s on the CBS soap, The Secret Storm.
Charney portrayed newspaper editor Ted Bergman in the 1977 CBS series The Andros Targets.
Charney has also appeared in such films as The Hospital, Network, and Ghostbusters, and acted on the CBS Radio Mystery Theater.
[4] Charney, who is married to television director Nancy Cooperstein, has appeared Off-Broadway with Sabine Singh in The Gold Standard by Daniel Roberts.
[citation needed] In 1982 Charney became artistic director of Actors Alley theater in the San Fernando Valley in California.