Charles Gordon was a film and television producer that was born and the family went to Mississippi. He moved to Los Angeles when he started his entertainment career.

He worked as a talent agent, and then he was intern for brother Lawrence Gordon. He worked for screenwriting and television producing credits at Lawrence Gordon Productions, such as The Renegades (1983), Just Our Luck (1983) and Our Family Honor (1985), while two other series concepts at Largo Productions went unsold.

He then worked as an independent producer via Tri-Star Pictures for Night of the Creeps (1986), before starting up The Gordon Company with his brother Lawrence Gordon at 20th Century Fox. There, the duo produced Zor Ölüm (1988) and Zor Ölüm 2 (1990), and earned him a joint Oscar nomination with his brother for Düşler Tarlası (1989).

In 1989, the Gordons founded Largo Entertainment, in partnership with JVC. There he produced The Super (1991) and Kanunsuz Giriş (1992). When the Gordons left Largo Entertainment, he started Daybreak Productions at Universal Pictures. The first project Daybreak produced was Su Dünyası (1995), on behalf of Lawrence Gordon, which served as executive producer.

Daybreak Productions then subsequently produced Trojan War (1997) for Warner Bros. and the critically-acclaimed successful feature film Ekim Düşü (1999) for Universal Pictures. He then produced Komşu Kızı (2004) for Regency Enterprises and Hitman (2007) for 20th Century Fox, as well as reboot Hitman: Ajan 47 (2015).

He was subsequently died on October 31, 2020 in Los Angeles and he was 73 years old.