- Chuck was a general foreman at the #2 Q-BOP shop at Gary Works for U.S.Steel. He was considered as an actor in the film after meeting a couple of the actors and sharing beer(s) with them at the local bar, Tobys, on Virginia Street.
- Portrayed a steel worker in the film The Deer Hunter (1978) and was a real-life steel worker from Gary, Indiana.
- Charles was accepted into the engineering program at Purdue University in August of 1958.
- He had been living in a nursing home for seven months prior to his death.
- Chuck was initially hired as a Technical Advisor for the Deer Hunter. After multiple interviews, the casting department liked him so much they offered him for the role of Axel.
- According to his sister Karen, Chuck would call Robert De Niro "Bobby Baby" during filming.
- Received his Bachelors degrees in Industrial Management and Millennium Engineering.
- Chuck eventually passed away from pneumonia brought on from kidney failure.
- His named is spelled Chuch Aspegren in his High School Yearbook.
- Worked for Kaiser Steel in California after filming the Deer Hunter.
- Graduated from Hobart High School ( Hobart, Indiana) in 1958.
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