With his trademark Little Tramp screen persona, Charles Chaplin transformed film comedy while the medium was still in its infancy. A London native born on April 16, 1889, he came to the United States with a touring pantomime troupe. Producer Mack Sennett spotted Chaplin and signed him to a contract in 1913.Chaplin made his screen debut in Making a Living (1914), and in that same year -- clad in baggy trousers, big shoes and a bowler -- he originated the Little Tramp character in Kid Auto Races at Venice. In 1925, Chaplin made The Gold Rush, one of his greatest cinematic achievements along with 1931's City Lights.
Talkies took over the industry in the late 1920s, but Chaplin shunned them until 1940 when he released The Great Dictator. Under fire for his socialist political leanings in 1952, he left America and took up residence in Switzerland, where he died in his sleep Dec. 25, 1977.
AddCity LightsIn his final silent film -- widely considered one of his best -- Charlie Chaplin assumes the persona of the Little Tramp and makes the acquaintance of a blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill), who, because she can't see him, believes the shabby tramp is a millionaire. The tramp attempts to raise... Read More
AddModern TimesThe Little Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) battles it out with technology, unemployment, jail, demanding customers and more in this classic film, in which he wins some, loses more and, in the end, walks undaunted into the sunrise. Known as Chaplin's last silent film, Modern Times is anything but -- from the... Read More
AddThe Gold RushCharlie Chaplin's comic masterpiece centers on the hardships of life on the Alaskan frontier. The Little Tramp plays a pathetic, lonely prospector who journeys to the Klondike hoping to discover gold and make his fortune. Instead, he gets mixed up with some burly characters and falls in love with... Read More
AddThe KidConsidered one of Charlie Chaplin's best films, The Kid also made a star of little Jackie Coogan, who plays a boy cared for by The Tramp when he's abandoned by his mother, Edna (Edna Purviance). Later, Edna has a change of heart and circumstances and aches to be reunited with her son. When she finds... Read More
AddThe CircusCharlie Chaplin stirs up a riotous time as his beguiling alter ego, The Tramp, in 1928's The Circus, one his lesser-known (but just as magical) films. On the lam once again, The Tramp joins a traveling circus and falls for one of its superstars, leaving nothing but joy and love in his wake. Read More
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