Description: Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, “The Tramp”, and is considered one of the most important figures in the history of the film industry.
Years active: 1899–1976
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Making a Living (Short 1914)
( 1914 )
An out-of-work swindler takes a job as a reporter. After witnessing a car go over cliff, he grabs a rival reporter's camera and races to the newspaper office to enter the photo as his own. His rival is delayed when he gets caught in a woman's bedroom by her jealous husband. The swindler follows the distribution of the paper containing his 'scoop' around town where he ...Read all
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Mabel's Strange Predicament (Short 1914)
( 1914 )
In a hotel lobby, an inebriated Charlie runs into an elegant lady, gets tied up in her dog's leash, and falls down. He later runs into her in the hotel corridor, locked out of her room. They run through various rooms. Mabel ends up in one, hiding under the bed of an elderly husband. Enter the jealous wife and Mabel's lover.
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Between Showers (Short 1914)
( 1914 )
Charlie and another man compete in trying to help a young lady cross a muddy street. The rival finds a wooden plank which Charlie takes from him. They fight over an umbrella belonging to the rival. A policeman settles the dispute, ultimately arresting the rival. An innocent tramp is pushed into the lake.
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A Film Johnnie (Short 1914)
( 1914 )
Charlie attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at the Keystone Studio, but does not win friends there.
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Tango Tangles (Short 1914)
( 1914 )
Out of costume, Charlie is a clean-shaven dandy who, somewhat drunk, visits a dance hall. There the wardrobe girl has three rival admirers: the band leader, one of the musicians, and now Charlie.
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Cruel, Cruel Love (Short 1914)
( 1914 )
A silly aristocrat who believes that he has been jilted attempts suicide but he is saved from death and reunited with his fiancée.
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Mabel at the Wheel (Short 1914)
( 1914 )
Charlie, competing with his rival's race car, offers Mabel a ride on his motorcycle but drops her in a puddle. He next joins some dubious characters in abduction of his rival just before the race for the Vanderbilt Cup. With her boyfriend locked up in a shed, Mabel takes his place. Charlie does what he can to sabotage the race, even causing Mabel's car to overturn.
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Twenty Minutes of Love (Short 1914)
( 1914 )
Charlie is hanging around in the park, finding problems with a jealous suitor, a man who thinks that Charlie has robbed him a watch, a policeman and even a little boy, all because our friend can't stop snooping.
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Caught in a Cabaret (Short 1914)
( 1914 )
Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret and must endure the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and pretends to be a fancy ambassador but must contend with the jealousy of her fiancé.
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Caught in the Rain (Short 1914)
( 1914 )
When a married couple become separated in the park, Charlie takes up with the lady and is beat up when her husband rejoins her. He takes a room in their hotel, and she sleepwalks into his room so that when her husband returns from his walk he must go out again to look for her. Charlie returns the lady to her room but must climb out onto the window ledge in a downpour.
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A Busy Day (Short 1914)
( 1914 )
A jealous wife is chasing her unfaithful husband during a parade, after he starts to flirt with a pretty woman.
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The Fatal Mallet (Short 1914)
( 1914 )
Three man will fight for the love of a charming girl. Charlie will play dirty, throwing bricks to his contender, and using a huge hammer to hurt one of them. But a precocious kid will be the fourth suitor in discord.
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Mabel's Busy Day (Short 1914)
( 1914 )
A hotdog girl gives one to a policeman who then allows her into a race track. While other customers swipe her hotdogs, Charlie runs off with the whole box, pretending to sell them while actually giving them away. She calls her policeman who battles Charlie.
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Mabel's Married Life (Short 1914)
( 1914 )
Accosted by a masher in the park and unable to motivate husband Charlie into taking action, Mabel gets him a boxing mannequin to sharpen his fighting skills.
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Laughing Gas (Short 1914)
( 1914 )
The Little Tramp pretends to be a dentist. A patient can't stop laughing from the anesthesia so Charlie knocks him out. At a drug store, he fights with a man who becomes another patient and pulls the skirt off the dentist's wife.
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The Property Man (Short 1914)
( 1914 )
Charlie has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets the star's dressing room. There are further difficulties with frequent scene changes, wrong entries and a fireman's hose. At one point he juggles an athlete's supposed weights. The humor is still rough: he kicks an older assistant in the face and allows him to be run over by a truck.
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The Face on the Barroom Floor (Short 1914)
( 1914 )
The plot is a satire derived from Hugh Antoine D'Arcy's poem of the same title. The painter courts Madeleine but loses to the wealthy client who sits for his portrait. The despairing artist draws the girl's portrait on the barroom floor and gets tossed out. Years later he sees her, her husband and their horde of children. Unrecognized by her, Charlie shakes off his tr...Read all
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Recreation (Short 1914)
( 1914 )
Charlie is walking in the park. A girl leaves a seaman on one bench and joins Charlie on another. The seaman wakes up. He and Charlie stage a brick fight. Policemen get hit and arrest both men. During an ensuing fight on the dock the policemen, the seaman, Charlie and the girl wind up in the water.
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The Masquerader (Short 1914)
( 1914 )
Charlie is an actor in a film studio. He messes up several scenes and is tossed out. Returning dressed as a lady, he charms the director. Even so, Charlie never makes it into film, winding up at the bottom of a well.
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His New Profession (Short 1914)
( 1914 )
A nephew takes his wheelchair-bound uncle and sweetheart to the park, where he meets the Little Tramp. The Tramp knows a money-making opportunity when he sees one.
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Police (Short 1916)
( 1916 )
Charles Chaplin, a convict, is given $5.00 and released from prison after having served his term. He meets a man of the church who makes him weep for his sins and while he is weeping takes the $5.00 away from him. Chaplin goes to a fruit stand and samples the fruit. When he goes to pay for it he finds his $5.00 is missing. This results in a battle with the fruit deale...Read all
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The Fireman (Short 1916)
( 1916 )
Charlie is a fireman who always does everything wrong. A man talks the Fire Chief into ignoring his burning home (he wants the insurance money) unaware that his daughter (the love of the Chief) is upstairs in the house. When the house next door catches fire its owner rouses Charlie who rouses the force.
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The Vagabond (Short 1916)
( 1916 )
Charlie, the emotional violinist, flees to a gipsy camp, only to find himself playing for an abducted girl. Soon, a unique birthmark will pave the way for an unexpected rescue and a marvellous new life. But, will she forget him so easily?
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One A.M. (Short 1916)
( 1916 )
A drunken homeowner has a difficult time getting about in his home after arriving home late at night.
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The Count (Short 1916)
( 1916 )
The fifth film in the Mutual series Charlie Chaplin impersonates a man of means in order to underscore the contrast between rich and poor.
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The Pawnshop (Short 1916)
( 1916 )
Charlie competes with his fellow shop assistant. He is fired by the pawnbroker and rehired. He nearly destroys everything in the shop and himself. He helps capture a burglar. He destroys a client's clock while examining it in detail.
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The Essanay-Chaplin Revue of 1916
( 1916 )
Compilation of several Chaplin shorts made for the Essanay Company during 1915, including The Tramp, His New Job, and A Night Out.
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Behind the Screen (Short 1916)
( 1916 )
Charlie is an overworked labourer at a film studio who helps a young woman find work even while his coworkers strike against his tyrannical boss.
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The Rink (Short 1916)
( 1916 )
After causing restaurant chaos at work, a bumbling waiter tears up the local roller rink with his skating.
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Easy Street (Short 1917)
( 1917 )
A reformed tramp becomes a police constable who must fight a huge thug who dominates an inner-city street.
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The Cure (Short 1917)
( 1917 )
An alcoholic checks into a health spa and his antics promptly throw the establishment into chaos.
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The Immigrant (Short 1917)
( 1917 )
Charlie is an immigrant who endures a challenging voyage and gets into trouble as soon as he arrives in America.
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The Adventurer (Short 1917)
( 1917 )
The Little Tramp escapes from prison; saves a girl and her mother from drowning; and creates havoc at a swank party.
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Chase Me Charlie
( 1918 )
Chase Me Charlie was an anthology consisting of excerpts from several of Chaplin's short films made for the Essanay Company, including The Tramp, Shanghaied, In the Park and The Bank.
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Triple Trouble (Short 1918)
( 1918 )
Foreign agents try to steal a wireless explosive from an inventor. Only the clueless Little Tramp and the Keystone Cops can stop them.
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Shoulder Arms (Short 1918)
( 1918 )
Charlie is a boot camp private who has a dream of being a hero who goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines.
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The Professor (Short 1919)
Professor Bosco, a poor flea trainer, rents a bed in a flophouse. Before going to bed, he rallies his troops and once he has made sure his beloved fleas are settled for the night, the professor prepares to sleep the sleep of the just man. Unfortunately he accidentally knocks the box off his bed and the fleas have the time of their lives pestering Bosco's neighbors. To...Read all
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Sunnyside (Short 1919)
( 1919 )
Charlie works on a farm from 4am to late at night. He gets his food on the run (milking a cow into his coffee, holding an chicken over the frying pan to get fried eggs). He loves the neighbor's daughter Edna but is disliked by her father. He rides a cow into a stream and is kicked off. Unconscious, he dreams of a nymph dance. Back in reality a city slicker is hurt in ...Read all
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The Kid
( 1921 )
The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put their relationship in jeopardy.
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The Idle Class (Short 1921)
( 1921 )
A tramp sneaks into a upper class golf resort. The tramp meets a rich woman who is having an argument with her drunken husband. Complications arise when she mistakes the tramp for her husband.
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Nice and Friendly (Short 1922)
There is no real plot in this little short, who was made only as a wedding present for Lord and Lady Mountbatten. The main plot line is that Lady Mountbatten has a valuable pearl necklace, which a very large number of crooks wants to steal. Charlie Chaplin, even though he is wearing his tramp costume, is called to hunt the crooks, which he does with a wooden hammer, w...Read all
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Seeing Stars (Short 1922)
A rare film from First National set a gala celebrity banquet and promoting the releases of several then upcoming films including The Pilgrim (1923), The Balloonatic (1923) and Day Dreams (1922).
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Pay Day (Short 1922)
( 1922 )
After a difficult day at work, a bricklayer tries to enjoy his pay day without his wife knowing.
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The Pilgrim
( 1923 )
Disguised as a priest, an escaped convict makes his way to Texas. He ends up in a small rural town where the townsfolk mistake him for their new church minister.
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The Gold Rush
( 1925 )
A prospector goes to the Klondike during the 1890s gold rush in hopes of making his fortune, and is smitten with a girl he sees in a dance hall.
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The Circus
( 1928 )
The Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus.
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City Lights
( 1931 )
With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.
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The Movie Album (Short 1932)
( 1932 )
This short features clips from silent films (mostly unidentified) of the 1910's, accompanied by humorous commentary. Highlighted are early appearances of stars still recognized today (e.g., Lionel Barrymore, Norma Shearer), as well as stars whose careers did not extend to the sound era (e.g., John Bunny, Edith Storey). There is even a short glimpse of Lev Trotskiy wor...Read all
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-1 (Short 1934)
( 1934 )
Short film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations to make deliveries. He visits the Los Angeles Pier and a Gala Hollywood Premiere.
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Modern Times
( 1936 )
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
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Charlie Chaplin Carnival
( 1938 )
Four Chaplin shorts from 1916: Behind the Screen, The Count, The Fireman, and The Vagabond, presented with music and sound effects.
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Der ewige Jude
( 1940 )
Under the guise of a brutally honest documentary, this malevolent propaganda film aims to be an "indispensable tool in the hands of the Aryan race," designed to depict the "true" Jew when the masks of Western civilization fall off.
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The Great Dictator
( 1941 )
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
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The Charlie Chaplin Festival
( 1941 )
Four Chaplin shorts from 1917: The Adventurer, The Cure, Easy Street and The Immigrant, presented with music and sound effects.
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The Chaplin Cavalcade
( 1941 )
Four Chaplin shorts from 1916: One A.M., The Rink, The Pawnshop, and The Floorwalker, presented with music and sound effects.
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Monsieur Verdoux
( 1947 )
A suave but cynical man supports his family by marrying and murdering rich women for their money, but the job has some occupational hazards.
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Limelight
( 1952 )
A fading comedian and a suicidally despondent ballet dancer must look to each other to find purpose and hope in their lives.
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Screen Snapshots: Spike Jones in Hollywood (Short 1953)
( 1953 )
In this Columbia entry of the Screen Snapshots series (production number 5855), Ken Murray takes band-leader Spike Jones and his family (wife and kids)on a Hollywood tour to see the stars (via Murray's vintage home movie footage) at play. Among the celebrities at play they see Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, and Boris Karloff at a chari...Read all
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All in Good Fun
( 1955 )
Bob Monkhouse introduces comedy clips from the early days of cinema.
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A King in New York
( 1957 )
A recently-deposed European monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity and is later wrongly accused of being a Communist.
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The Chaplin Revue
( 1959 )
Three Charlie Chaplin short films edited together with new connective tissue.
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When Comedy Was King
( 1960 )
A feature-length documentary devoted to the great clowns of silent comedy.
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Days of Thrills and Laughter
( 1961 )
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s. It starts with a 1905 look at French comedy, goes through the 1910s with Sennett, Chaplin, and Fairbanks, and into the 1920s with Max Roach, Snub Pollard, Harry Langdon, Al St. John, Charlie Chase, and the teaming of Laurel and Hardy. Thrillers feature H...Read all
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Nickelodeon Days
( 1962 )
Compilation feature of silent-era shorts and newsreels, including Harry Langdon's "Saturday Afternoon," Charlie Chaplin's "Easy Street" and Buster Keaton's "Cops."
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30 Years of Fun
( 1963 )
Released during the sixties wave for nostalgia, this film celebrates the antics of the seven greatest silent film comedians.
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Chaplin's Art of Comedy
( 1966 )
A survey of Charles Chaplin's early career using re-edited footage from his classic silent shorts.
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The Funniest Man in the World
( 1968 )
This documentary examines the early career of Charlie Chaplin, from childhood through his introduction to the movies at the Keystone, Essanay and Mutual studios.
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Chaplinesque, My Life and Hard Times
( 1972 )
The biography of silent film legend Charlie Chaplin is brought to the screen with the narration of fellow silent star, Gloria Swanson.
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The Moving Picture Boys in the Great War
( 1975 )
"The Moving Picture Boys in the Great War" (1975) is a compilation documentary narrated by Lowell Thomas, illustrating changing attitudes toward the war and its participants, as well as toward the movies themselves. Winner, Gold Medal, 1975 Chicago Film Festival.
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The Gentleman Tramp
( 1976 )
A film about the life and work of the master comedy filmmaker, Charles Chaplin.
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His New Job (Short 1915)
( 1915 )
Charlie is trying to get a job in a movie. After causing difficulty on the set, he is told to help the carpenter. When one of the actors doesn't show, Charlie is given a chance to act but instead enters a dice game. When he does finally act, he ruins the scene, wrecks the set, and tears the skirt from the star.
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A Woman (Short 1915)
( 1915 )
A man disguises himself as a lady in order to be near his newfound sweetheart, after her father has forbidden her to see him.
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The Knockout (Short 1914)
( 1914 )
To show his girl how brave he is Fatty challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.
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Piglet : Just saw a highlight of this new drama. Looks like it could be worth watching.