Christopher Kennedy Lawford (March 29, 1955 – September 4, 2018) was an American author, actor, and activist. He was a member of the prominent Kennedy family, and son of English actor Peter Lawford and Patricia "Pat" Kennedy Lawford, who was a sister of President John F. Kennedy. 
He played Charlie Brent was born Phillip Charles Tyler in Pine Valley, the first great-grandson of the town’s most venerable of families. In truth, this Tyler boy was a Brent. Tara Tyler had slept with her high school sweetheart, Phil Brent, before he left for Vietnam. Chuck Tyler decided to marry Tara and raise the child as his own, in all the laps of luxury that only a Tyler could bestow.