Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin

Known for

Acting

Born

April 16, 1889

Birthplace

Walworth, London, England, UK

Died

December 25, 1977 (aged 88)

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 scr...

Best known work

Modern Times
Modern Times
1936
The Great Dictator
The Great Dictator
1940
City Lights
City Lights
1931
The Kid
The Kid
1921
The Gold Rush
The Gold Rush
1925
Chaplin
Chaplin
1992
The Circus
The Circus
1928
Limelight
Limelight
1952
Monsieur Verdoux
Monsieur Verdoux
1947
A Dog's Life
A Dog's Life
1918

Filmography

  1. 2028

    Charmed Lives: A Family Romance

    as Self (archive footage)

  2. 2026

    Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas

    as The Lone Prospector (archive footage) (uncredited)

  3. 2026

    Training Day

    Original Concept

  4. 2025

    John Candy: I Like Me

    as Self - Actor (archive footage)

  5. 2025

  6. 2025

    One to One: John & Yoko

    as Self (archive footage)

  7. 2025

    Chaplin: Spirit of the Tramp

    as Self (Archive Footage)

  8. 2025

    Gene Kelly: An American in Hollywood

    as Self (archive footage)

  9. 2024

    Life and Deaths of Max Linder

    as Self (archive footage)

  10. 2024

    Smile!

    as Archive footage

  11. 2024

    Remembering Gene Wilder

    as Self (archive footage)

  12. 2024

    High & Low – John Galliano

    as Self (archive footage)

  13. 2023

  14. 2023

  15. 2022

    The Century of IconsTV

    as Self (archive footage) (2 episodes)

  16. 2021

    The Real Charlie Chaplin

    as Self (archive footage)

  17. 2021

    The Spanish Flu: The Invisible Enemy

    as Self (archive footage)

  18. 2021

    This Is Francis X. Bushman

    as Self (Archive Footage)

  19. 2020

    Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty

    as Self (archive footage), Original Music Composer

  20. 2020

    A Night at the Opera

    as Self (archive footage)

  21. 2019

    Sophia Loren, a special destiny

    as Self (archive footage)

  22. 2019

    Chaplin vs the FBI

    as Self (archive footage)

  23. 2019

    Hollywood's Second World War

    as Adenoid Hynkel (archive footage)

  24. 2019

    Churchill and the Movie Mogul

    as Self (archive footage)

  25. 2018

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