Charlie Chaplin

Acting · Born 1889-04-16 in Walworth, London, England, UK

Biography

Charles “Charlie” Chaplin (April 16, 1889 – December 25, 1977) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best-known for his work during the silent film era. He used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency by the end of the 1920s. His most famous role was that of The Tramp, which he first played in Kid Auto Races (1914). From 1914 onwards he was writing and directing most of his films, by 1916 he was producing them, and by 1918 he was also composing the music for them. In 1919 he co-founded United Artists. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Chaplin the 10th greatest male screen legend of all time.

Filmography

• City Lights as A Tramp
• The Great Dictator as Adenoid Hynkel, Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber
• The Gold Rush as The Lone Prospector
• Modern Times as The Tramp (A Factory Worker)
• The Kid as A Tramp
• Monsieur Verdoux as Henri Verdoux
• Limelight as Calvero
• The Circus as A Tramp
• A Dog's Life as Tramp
• The Immigrant as Immigrant

TV

• The DuPont Show of the Week as Self (archive footage)
• The Oscars
• Unknown Chaplin as Self & in Out-Takes
• American Experience as Self
• The Century of Icons as Self (archive footage)
• Sacrée Soirée as Self (archive footage)
• Omnibus as Self