Charles Danson, played by Peter Scoleri, is a character in the 1993 film Ticks.
Charles and Holly Lambert host an inner-city wilderness project. Before long giant mutated ticks begin to invade his camp and people wind up dead, even one of his campers Darrel “Panic” Lumley.
When two drug dealers, Sir and Jerry, come to the cabin after the outbreak, they attempt to steal the camp ban and shoot Charles in the leg. Fortunately he and the remaining campers manage to get out alive.