Charles George Patrick Shaughnessy is a British television, theatre, and film actor. He is best known for his television roles as Shane Donovan in the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives and Maxwell Sheffield in the CBS sitcom The Nanny. He also voiced Ned Fussbuster in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated Sheriff of Nottingham in Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood And His Merry Mouse, and Pietro in the 2008 adaptation of The Tale of Despereaux.
For Disney, he voiced Dennis in the Playhouse Disney animated series Stanley and Douglas Bader in Gargoyles. He also portrayed Detective Charles Meany/Falco Grandville in the Disney Channel Original Movie Get a Clue, Tom Fairbanks in Dog With a Blog, Jordan Welsh in The New Adventures of Spin and Marty: Suspect Behavior, Dimitri Denatos in Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire, Mr. Gooch in Just Roll With It, and Nigel Wyndham in the ABC TV show Castle.
He is also the older brother of David Shaughnessy.