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
- Life and Deaths of Max Linder as Self (archive footage)
2025
- 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
- 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 Spanish Flu: The Invisible Enemy as Self (archive footage)
- The Real Charlie Chaplin as Self (archive footage)
2020
- Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty as Self (archive footage)
2019
- Chaplin vs the FBI as Self (archive footage)
- Hollywood's Second World War as Adenoid Hynkel (archive footage)
- Sophia Loren, a special destiny as Self (archive footage)
2018
- A diktátor (színházi felvétel) ... (Writer)
- Optimism ... (Music)
- Propaganda: Engineering Consent as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2017
- Charlie Chaplin: The Long Year at Essanay as Self (archive footage)
- Chaplin in Bali as Self (archive footage)
- The Chaplin Mutuals, Vol. 2
- Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2016
- Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died as Self (archive footage)
- Chaplin/Keaton: Duel of Legends as (archive footage)
2015
- Chaplin's Limelight: Its Evolution and Intimacy as Self (archive footage)
- Looking for Mabel Normand as Self (archive footage)
- Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star as Self (archive footage)
- The Little Tramp ... (Music)
2014
- Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century as Self (archive footage)
- A Night at the Cinema in 1914 as (archive footage)
2013
- Birth of the Tramp as Self (archive footage)
2012
- Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
- Chaplin at Keystone as Self (archive footage)
2011
- The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet as Self (archive footage)
- Dancing Chaplin as Self (archive footage)
2010
- Sigrid Holmquist as Himself (archive footage)
- Charlie Chaplin - Frühe Meisterwerke 2 ... (Director)
2008
- Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies as Self (archive footage)
- Warner at War as (archive footage)
2007
- 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)
- Bravo Charlot! as Various characters (archive footage)
2005
- Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler as Self (archive footage)
2003
- Chaplin Today: 'A King in New York' as Self (archive footage)
- Chaplin Today: 'The Kid' as Self (archive footage)
- Chaplin Today: 'Monsieur Verdoux' as Self (archive footage)
- Chaplin Today: 'The Great Dictator' as Self (archive footage)
- Chaplin Today: 'Limelight' as Self (archive footage)
- Chaplin Today: 'The Gold Rush' as Self (archive footage)
- Chaplin Today: 'City Lights' as Self (archive footage)
- Charlie Chaplin: His Life & Work as (archive footage)
- Chaplin Today: 'Modern Times' as Self (archive footage)
- Chaplin Today: 'The Circus' as Self (archive footage)
- Chaplin Today: 'A Woman of Paris' as Self (archive footage)
- Murders of Hollywood 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)
1992
- Chaplin ... (Book)
- The Chaplin Puzzle as Self / The Tramp (archive footage)
1990
- Stalin's Funeral ... (Music)
1988
- American Experience as Self
- Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
- The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind as Self - In Clip with Paulette Goddard (archive footage)
1987
- Sacrée Soirée as Self (archive footage)
1986
- Poor ... (Writer)
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
- En Büyük Şaban ... (Writer)
- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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)
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
- Days of Thrills and Laughter as Self (archive footage)
- The Legend of Rudolph Valentino as Self (archive footage)
- The DuPont Show of the Week as Self (archive footage)
1960
- When Comedy Was King as edited from 'His Trysting Place, ' 'The Masqurader, ' and 'Kid Auto at Venice.' (archive footage)
- 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
- The Film Parade as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- All at Sea as Self
1931
- City Lights as A Tramp
- Charlie Chaplin in Wien as Self (archive footage)
1928
- The Circus as A Tramp
- Show People as Self (uncredited)
- The Circus: Premiere as Self
- The Movie City of Hollywood 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
- Hollywood as Charles Chaplin
- The Pilgrim as The Pilgrim / Lefty Lombard
- A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate as Station Porter (uncredited)
- Souls for Sale as Self - Celebrity Director
1922
- Pay Day as Laborer
- Seeing Stars as Self
- Nice and Friendly as Tramp
1921
- The Kid as A Tramp
- The Idle Class as Tramp / Husband
1920
1919
- The Professor as Professor Bosco
- Sunnyside as Farm Handyman
- A Day's Pleasure as Father
1918
- Shoulder Arms as Doughboy
- Triple Trouble as The Janitor
- A Dog's Life as Tramp
- How to Make Movies as Self (uncredited)
- The Bond as Charlie
- Chase Me Charlie as Charlie
1917
- The Adventurer as The Eel / Commodore Slick
- The Immigrant as Immigrant
- Easy Street as The Derelict
- The Cure as The Inebriate
- Max Linder Visits Charlie Chaplin as Self
- Charlie Chaplin Meets Harry Lauder as A Tramp
1916
- Police as Charlie, Convict 999
- The Pawnshop as Pawnbroker's Assistant
- The Floorwalker as Impecunious Customer
- The Vagabond as The Saloon Violinist
- The Rink as A Waiter
- The Count as Tailor's Apprentice
- Behind the Screen as David - Property Man's Assistant
- The Fireman as Fireman
- One A.M. as Le bourgeois alcoolisé
- Zepped as The Tramp
1915
- His Regeneration as A Customer
- The Champion as Challenger
- Work as Izzy A. Wake's assistant
- A Night in the Show as Mr. Pest and Mr. Rowdy
- A Burlesque on Carmen as Darn Hosiery
- The Tramp as The Tramp
- The Bank as Janitor
- A Woman as Gentleman / 'Nora Nettlerash'
- A Jitney Elopement as Suitor, the Fake Count
- A Night Out as Reveller
- Shanghaied as Tramp
- In the Park as Charlie
- By the Sea as Stroller
- His New Job as Film Extra
1914
- Tango Tangles as Tipsy Dancer
- The Rounders as Mr. Full
- Between Showers as The Tramp, a Second Gallant
- The Masquerader as Film actor
- The Knockout as Referee (uncredited)
- Kid Auto Races at Venice as The Tramp
- Mabel at the Wheel as Villain (uncredited)
- Getting Acquainted as Mr. Sniffels
- Making a Living as The Swindler (uncredited)
- The Star Boarder as The Star Boarder aka The Tramp (uncredited)
- The Property Man as Property Man (uncredited)
- Tillie's Punctured Romance as The City Guy
- Mabel's Busy Day as Tipsy Nuisance
- Dough and Dynamite as Pierre
- Gentlemen of Nerve as Mr. Wow-Woe, Track Fanatic
- The Face on the Barroom Floor as Artist
- Mabel's Strange Predicament as The Tramp (uncredited)
- His Trysting Places as Clarence, the Husband
- His Favorite Pastime as Drunken Masher
- Twenty Minutes of Love as Pickpocket
- Those Love Pangs as Masher
- Caught in a Cabaret as Waiter
- A Busy Day as Wife
- A Thief Catcher as Cop (uncredited)
- His Musical Career as Charlie, Piano Mover
- The New Janitor as The Janitor
- A Film Johnnie as The Film Johnnie aka The Tramp
- Cruel, Cruel Love as Mr. Dovey
- Mabel's Married Life as Mabel's Husband
- The Fatal Mallet as Suitor aka The Tramp (uncredited)
- His Prehistoric Past as Weakchin
- Laughing Gas as Dentist's assistant
- Caught in the Rain as Tipsy Hotel Guest aka The Tramp (uncredited)
- His New Profession as Charlie
- Her Friend the Bandit as Bandit
- Recreation as Tramp