Charlie Chaplin

Born: 1889-04-16 in Walworth, London, England, UK

Died: 1977-12-25

Known For: Acting

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

2026

Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas as The Lone Prospector (archive footage) (uncredited)
Life and Deaths of Max Linder as Self (archive footage)
Training Day ... (Original Concept)

2025

John Candy: I Like Me as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Chaplin: Spirit of the Tramp as Self (Archive Footage)
One to One: John & Yoko as Self (archive footage)
Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
Chaplin et Les temps modernes, La voie du silence as Self (archive footage)

2024

Remembering Gene Wilder as Self (archive footage)
High & Low – John Galliano as Self (archive footage)
Smile! as Archive footage

2023

Le Baron et l'Empereur : Japon, la voie de la guerre as Self (archive footage)
Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse as Self

2022

The Century of Icons as Self (archive footage)

2021

The Real Charlie Chaplin as Self (archive footage)
This Is Francis X. Bushman as Self (Archive Footage)
The Spanish Flu: The Invisible Enemy as Self (archive footage)

2020

Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty as Self (archive footage)
A Night at the Opera

2019

Hollywood's Second World War as Adenoid Hynkel (archive footage)
Churchill and the Movie Mogul as Self (archive footage)
Sophia Loren, a special destiny as Self (archive footage)
Chaplin vs the FBI as Self (archive footage)

2013

Birth of the Tramp as Self (archive footage)

2012

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
Shrek's Thrilling Tales as Guy Dude Man, The Human Homo sapiens (voice)
Chaplin at Keystone as Self (archive footage)

2011

Chaplin ... (Characters)
The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet as Self (archive footage)
Dancing Chaplin as Self (archive footage)
Bali: Island of the Dogs as Self (archive footage)

2010

Sigrid Holmquist as Himself (archive footage)
Charlie Chaplin - Frühe Meisterwerke 2 ... (Writer)

2009

Hollywood sul Tevere
The Parrott Chase as (archive footage) (uncredited)

2008

Warner at War as (archive footage)
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies as Self (archive footage)

2007

Bravo Charlot! as Various characters (archive footage)
Hitler: The Comedy Years as Adenoid Hynkel (archive footage) (uncredited)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema as Self (archive footage)
The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk as Self (archive footage)
Kings of Comedy: Masters of the Silent Screen as (archive footage)

2006

Silent Clowns as Self(archive footage)

2005

Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler as Self (archive footage)

2004

2003

Chaplin Today: A Woman of Paris as Self (archive footage)
Chaplin Today: Monsieur Verdoux as Self (archive footage)
Murders of Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
Chaplin Today: The Circus as Self (archive footage)
Chaplin Today: A King in New York as Self (archive footage)
Chaplin Today: The Great Dictator as Self (archive footage)
Charlie Chaplin: His Life & Work as (archive footage)
Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush as Self (archive footage)
Chaplin Today: The Kid as Self (archive footage)
Chaplin Today: City Lights as Self (archive footage)
Chaplin Today: Modern Times as Self (archive footage)
Chaplin Today: Limelight as Self (archive footage)

2002

The Tramp and the Dictator as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2000

Buñuel in Hollywood as Self (archive footage)

1998

Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life as Self (archive footage)
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists as Self / Various roles (archive footage)

1997

Sports on the Silver Screen as Self (archive footage)

1996

Chaplin's Goliath as Self (archive footage)

1995

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies as Self (archive footage)
The Casting Couch
El último panfleto as Self

1994

100 Years at the Movies as Self (archive footage)
The Grave Case of Charlie Chaplin as Self (archive footage)

1992

Chaplin ... (Book)
The Chaplin Puzzle as Self / The Tramp (archive footage)

1990

Stalin's Funeral ... (Music)

1988

American Experience as Self
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind as Self - In Clip with Paulette Goddard (archive footage)
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies as (archive footage) (uncredited)

1987

Sacrée soirée as Self (archive footage)

1984

Going Hollywood: The '30s as Self (archive footage)
Charlie Chaplin at Mutual Studios I as (archive footage)

1983

Unknown Chaplin as Self & in Out-Takes
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
En Büyük Şaban ... (Writer)

1982

Hollywood’s Children as Self (archive footage)

1980

Charlie Chaplin: The Little Tramp as Self (archive footage)

1979

The Hollywood Clowns as (archive footage)

1977

Hitler: A Career as Self (archive footage)
ViennaFilm 1896-1976 as Self (archive footage)

1976

It's Showtime as Self (archive footage)
The Gentleman Tramp as Self

1975

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)

1974

Spécial cinéma as Self (archive footage)

1973

Charlie Chaplin's visit to the French Cinematheque as Self

1970

Brasileiros em Hollywood as Self (archive footage)

1967

Omnibus as Self
A Countess from Hong Kong as An Old Steward
The Funniest Man in the World as Self (archive footage)

1964

The Big Parade of Comedy as Actor in Theater Lobby (archive footage) (uncredited)

1963

30 Years of Fun as (archive footage)

1962

Crazy Days as Various (archive footage) (uncredited)

1961

The DuPont Show of the Week as Self (archive footage)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino as Self (archive footage)
Days of Thrills and Laughter as Self (archive footage)

1960

When Comedy Was King as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lifetime of Comedy as (archive footage)

1959

The Chaplin Revue as Narrator / Various (archive footage)

1957

A King in New York as King Shahdov

1955

All in Good Fun as Archive Footage

1954

German Giants as Self

1953

The Oscars
Yesterday and Today as (archive footage)

1952

Limelight as Calvero

1951

A Burlesque on the Opera "Carmen" as Darn Hosiery

1950

Life Begins Tomorrow as Self (archive footage)
The Golden Twenties as (archive footage)

1947

Monsieur Verdoux as Henri Verdoux
The Way of the World as The Tramp (Archive Footage)

1944

Charlie's Triple Trouble as Charlie - The Janitor (archive footage)

1941

The Charlie Chaplin Festival as Various Roles (archive footage)
The Chaplin Cavalcade as Various Roles (archive footage)

1940

The Great Dictator as Adenoid Hynkel, Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber
The Eternal Jew as Self (1931) (archive footage)

1938

Chaplin Carnival as Various Roles (archive footage)

1936

Modern Times as The Tramp (A Factory Worker)

1933

Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Film Parade as (archive footage) (uncredited)
All at Sea as Self

1932

The Movie Album as (archive footage)

1931

City Lights as A Tramp
Charlie Chaplin in Wien as Self (archive footage)

1928

Show People as Charlie Chaplin (uncredited)
The Circus as A Tramp
The Movie City of Hollywood as Self
The Circus: Premiere as Self

1926

Camille: The Fate of a Coquette as Mike
A Woman of the Sea ... (Producer)

1925

The Gold Rush as The Lone Prospector

1923

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate as Station Porter (uncredited)
The Pilgrim as The Pilgrim / Lefty Lombard
Souls for Sale as Self - Celebrity Director
Hollywood as Charles Chaplin

1922

Seeing Stars as Self
Pay Day as Laborer
Nice and Friendly as Tramp

1921

The Kid as A Tramp
The Idle Class as Tramp / Husband

1920

Charlie Butts In

1919

A Day's Pleasure as Father
The Professor as Professor Bosco
Sunnyside as Farm Handyman

1918

Shoulder Arms as Doughboy
A Dog's Life as Tramp
Triple Trouble as The Janitor
The Bond as Charlie
Chase Me Charlie as Charlie
How to Make Movies as Self (uncredited)
The Chaplin Essanay Project

1917

The Immigrant as Immigrant
The Adventurer as The Eel / Commodore Slick
The Cure as The Inebriate
Easy Street as The Derelict
Max Linder Visits Charlie Chaplin as Self
Charlie Chaplin Meets Harry Lauder as A Tramp

1916

The Count as Tailor's Apprentice
The Rink as A Waiter
The Vagabond as The Saloon Violinist
The Fireman as Fireman
Behind the Screen as David - Property Man's Assistant
Police as Charlie, Convict 999
One A.M. as Le bourgeois alcoolisé
The Floorwalker as Impecunious Customer
The Pawnshop as Pawnbroker's Assistant
Zepped as The Tramp

1915

The Tramp as The Tramp
His Regeneration as A Customer
The Champion as Challenger
The Bank as Janitor
Shanghaied as Tramp
A Woman as Gentleman / 'Nora Nettlerash'
A Night Out as Reveller
His New Job as Film Extra
By the Sea as Stroller
A Jitney Elopement as Suitor, the Fake Count
A Burlesque on Carmen as Darn Hosiery
In the Park as Charlie
Work as Izzy A. Wake's assistant
A Night in the Show as Mr. Pest / Mr. Rowdy

1914

The Masquerader as Film actor
Caught in a Cabaret as Waiter
Mabel's Strange Predicament as The Tramp (uncredited)
Twenty Minutes of Love as Pickpocket
Caught in the Rain as Tipsy Hotel Guest aka The Tramp (uncredited)
Making a Living as The Swindler (uncredited)
Between Showers as The Tramp, a Second Gallant
A Thief Catcher as Cop (uncredited)
Those Love Pangs as Masher
Mabel at the Wheel as Villain (uncredited)
A Film Johnnie as The Film Johnnie aka The Tramp
The New Janitor as The Janitor
A Busy Day as Wife
The Knockout as Referee (uncredited)
Dough and Dynamite as Pierre
The Fatal Mallet as Suitor aka The Tramp (uncredited)
Cruel, Cruel Love as Mr. Dovey
The Rounders as Mr. Full
Tillie's Punctured Romance as The City Guy
Her Friend the Bandit as Bandit
The Property Man as Property Man (uncredited)
Tango Tangles as Tipsy Dancer
Getting Acquainted as Mr. Sniffels
The Star Boarder as The Star Boarder aka The Tramp (uncredited)
Mabel's Busy Day as Tipsy Nuisance
Mabel's Married Life as Mabel's Husband
His Musical Career as Charlie, Piano Mover
His Prehistoric Past as Weakchin
The Face on the Barroom Floor as Artist
Kid Auto Races at Venice as The Tramp
Laughing Gas as Dentist's assistant
Gentlemen of Nerve as Mr. Wow-Woe, Track Fanatic
His Trysting Places as Clarence, the Husband
His New Profession as Charlie
Recreation as Tramp
His Favorite Pastime as Drunken Masher