Charlie Chaplin
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.
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Full filmography
- Michael (2026) as Self (archive footage)
- American Experience (1988) as Self
- Spécial cinéma (1974) as Self (archive footage)
- Sacrée soirée (1987) as Self (archive footage)
- Omnibus (1967) as Self
- The Oscars (1953)
- Modern Times (1936) as The Tramp (A Factory Worker)
- The Great Dictator (1940) as Adenoid Hynkel, Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber
- City Lights (1931) as A Tramp
- The Kid (1921) as A Tramp
- The Gold Rush (1925) as The Lone Prospector
- John Candy: I Like Me (2025) as Self - Actor (archive footage)
- Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012) as (archive footage)
- The Century of Icons (2022) as Self (archive footage)
- The Circus (1928) as A Tramp
- The Chaplin Revue (1959) as Narrator / Various (archive footage)
- Unknown Chaplin (1983) as Self & in Out-Takes
- The DuPont Show of the Week (1961) as Self (archive footage)
- A Countess from Hong Kong (1967) as An Old Steward
- Limelight (1952) as Calvero
- Monsieur Verdoux (1947) as Henri Verdoux
- The Eternal Jew (1940) as Self (1931) (archive footage)
- The Pilgrim (1923) as The Pilgrim / Lefty Lombard
- A Dog's Life (1918) as Tramp