Charles Morton Dresow
Charles Morton Dresow was born on January 26, 1939, in San Francisco. The only son of Tobia (née Rapoport) and Abraham, Charles led a true San Francisco life. Abraham, as a boy, escaped to San Francisco from the pogroms of Odessa, Ukraine, just in time to camp in the streets in the wake of the Great 1906 Earthquake. Tobia’s family emigrated from Vilnius, Lithuania, to Minnesota via Canada, before Tobia came west with acting ambitions. Though not observant, Charles took great pride in his Jewish