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Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comedic actor and film director. Chaplin became one of the most famous actors as well as a notable filmmaker, composer and musician in the early to mid Classical Hollywood era of American cinema.
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A Countess from Hong Kong
A Countess from Hong Kong is a 1967 comedy film and the last film directed by Charlie Chaplin. It was one of two films Chaplin directed in which he did not play a major role (the other was 1923's A Woman of Paris), and his only color film. Chaplin's...
A Day's Pleasure
A Day's Pleasure (1919) is Charlie Chaplin's fourth film for First National Films. It was created at the Chaplin Studio. It was a quickly made two-reeler to help fill a gap while working on his first feature The Kid. It is about a day outing with...
A Dog's Life
A Dog's Life (1918) is a silent film written, produced and directed by Charlie Chaplin. This was Chaplin's first film for First National Films.
Chaplin plays opposite an animal as "co-star". "Scraps" (the dog) was the hero in this film, as she helps...
A King in New York
A King in New York is a 1957 film directed by and starring Charles Chaplin in his last leading role, which presents a satirical view of certain aspects of United States politics and society. The film was produced in Europe after Chaplin's exile from...
A Woman of Paris
A Woman of Paris is a feature-length silent film that debuted in 1923. The film, an atypical drama film for its creator, was written, directed, produced and later scored by Charlie Chaplin. It is also known as A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate....
Behind the Screen
Behind the Screen is a 1916 short silent film written by, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin, and also starring Eric Campbell and Edna Purviance. The film takes place in a movie studio; Chaplin plays a stagehand named David while Campbell, a...
By the Sea
By the Sea is a 1915 film Charlie Chaplin made while waiting for a studio to work in Los Angeles. He just left Niles Essanay Studio after doing five films at that location. By the Sea was filmed all on location at Crystal Pier in April 1915. The...
City Lights
City Lights is a 1931 American silent romantic comedy film starring, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. It also stars Virginia Cherrill and Harry Myers. Despite the fact that the production of silent films had dwindled with the rise of ...
Cruel, Cruel Love
Cruel, Cruel Love is a 1914 American comedy silent film made at the Keystone Studios and starring Charlie Chaplin.
This early Chaplin film has him playing a character quite different from the Tramp for which he would become famous. He is a rich,...
Dough and Dynamite
Dough and Dynamite is a 1914 American comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios starring Charlie Chaplin.
The story involves Chaplin and Chester Conklin working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to...
Easy Street
Easy Street is a 1917 short comedy film by Charlie Chaplin.
In the film, the police are failing to maintain law and order and so it is Chaplin, as the Little Tramp character, who steps forward (rather reluctantly) to rid the street of bullies, help...
His New Profession
His New Profession is a 1914 American comedy silent film made at the Keystone Studios and starring Charlie Chaplin. The film involves Chaplin taking care of a man in a wheelchair.
Kid Auto Races at Venice
Kid Auto Races At Venice is a 1914 American-made motion picture starring Charlie Chaplin in which his "Little Tramp" character makes a first appearance (although Mabel's Strange Predicament was technically the first film in which he portrayed the...
Limelight
Limelight is a 1952 comedy-drama film written, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, co-starring Claire Bloom, with an appearance by Buster Keaton. In dance scenes, Bloom is doubled by Melissa Hayden. The film score is composed by Chaplin and...
Modern Times
Modern Times is a 1936 comedy film by Charlie Chaplin that has his iconic Little Tramp character struggling to survive in the modern, industrialized world. The film is a comment on the desperate employment and fiscal conditions many people faced...
Monsieur Verdoux
Monsieur Verdoux is a 1947 black comedy film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin.
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux...
One A.M.
One A.M. was a unique Charlie Chaplin silent film created for Mutual Films in 1916. It was the first film he starred in alone, except for a brief scene of Albert Austin playing a cab driver.
Chaplin plays the role of a homeowner coming home late,...
Pay Day
Pay Day (1922) is an American short film made by First National Pictures. Charlie Chaplin wrote, directed, and starred in the film.
It is notable as Chaplin's final two-reel short film.
Funny Parts: Lunchtime: Two men on Ground Level, Charlie on...
The Adventurer
The Adventurer is a short comedy film made in 1917 written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. It is the last out of the twelve films made while he was under contract for the Mutual Film Corporation.
Chaplin plays an escaped convict on the run from...
The Champion
The Champion is a comedy film released in 1915 by Essanay Studios, starring Charlie Chaplin alongside Edna Purviance and Leo White. Essanay co-owner and star, Broncho Billy Anderson can be seen as an enthusiastic audience member in the boxing match...
The Circus
The Circus is a 1928 silent film which finds Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp character being chased by a police officer having been mistook for a pickpocket. Running into the circus main tent in an attempt to escape the law, the patrons there mistake...
The Count
The Count is Charlie Chaplin's fifth film for Mutual Films in 1916. Co-starring Eric Campbell and Edna Purviance, it is a story about Charlie and his boss finding an invitation to a party from a real Count. Each try to play the role as the Count...
The Cure
The Cure is a 1917 short comedy film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin.
Chaplin plays an inebriate who checks into a health spa to dry out, but brings along a suitcase full of alcohol. Along the way he aggravates a large man, escapes a bulky...
The Fireman
The Fireman is the second film Charlie Chaplin created for Mutual Films in 1916. Released on June 12, 1916, it starred Chaplin as the fireman and Edna Purviance as the daughter to Lloyd Bacon. Lloyd Bacon played a character trying to arrange with...
The Floorwalker
The Floorwalker was Charlie Chaplin's first Mutual Film Corporation film, made in 1916. It starred Chaplin as a customer in a department store who finds out the manager is stealing money from the store.
It was noted for the first 'running staircase'...
The Gold Rush
The Gold Rush is a 1925 silent film comedy written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin in his Little Tramp role. The film also stars Georgia Hale, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Henry Bergman, Malcolm Waite. Chaplin declared several times...
The Great Dictator
The Great Dictator is a comedy film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin. First released in October 1940, it was Chaplin's first true talking picture, and more importantly was the only major film of its period to bitterly satirize Nazism and...
The Immigrant
The Immigrant (also called Broke) is a 1917 short comedy film starring the Charlie Chaplin Tramp character as an immigrant coming to the United States who is accused of theft on the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, and befriends a young woman along...
The Kid
The Kid is a 1921 silent dramedy film by Charlie Chaplin that featured Jackie Coogan, as his adopted son and sidekick (see 1921 in film). It was a huge success, and was the second-highest grossing film in 1921, behind The Four Horsemen of the...
The Pawnshop
The Pawnshop was Charlie Chaplin's sixth film for Mutual Film Company. Chaplin played the role of assistant to the pawnshop owner. Henry Bergman played the owner and Edna Purviance the owner's daughter. Albert Austin played an alarm clock owner who...
The Rink
The Rink, a silent film from 1916, was Charlie Chaplin's eighth film for Mutual Films. It co-starred Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Henry Bergman and Albert Austin. It is best known for showcasing Chaplin's roller skating skills.
After amusements...
The Tramp
The Tramp was Charlie Chaplin's sixth film for Essanay Studios in 1915. Directed by Chaplin, it was the fifth and last film made at Essanay's Niles, California studio. The Tramp marked the beginning of The Tramp character most known today, even...
The Vagabond
The Vagabond is a silent film by Charlie Chaplin and his third film with Mutual Films. Released to theaters on July 10, 1916, it co-starred Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Leo White and Lloyd Bacon. This film echoed Chaplin's work on The Tramp, with...
Tillie's Punctured Romance
Tillie's Punctured Romance is the first feature-length comedy film from Keystone Film Company and the Christie Film Company, produced in 1914. A silent film directed by Mack Sennett, the film stars Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, Charlie Chaplin, and...
Caught in a Cabaret
Caught in a Cabaret is a short film from 1914 starring Charlie Chaplin and the film's writer/director Mabel Normand. Chaplin plays a waiter who fakes being a Greek Ambassador to impress a girl. He then is invited to a garden party where he gets in...
His New Job
His New Job is a short 1915 film written by, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. Gloria Swanson appears as an uncredited extra. The title is an inside reference to this being Chaplin's first film after leaving Keystone Studios for Essanay...
His Prehistoric Past
His Prehistoric Past is a short movie written by and directed by Charlie Chaplin in 1914. He also stars in this short. It was Chaplin's last film with Keystone Studios.
Set in the stone age, King Low-Brow rules the land and a harem of wives. When...
The Face on the Bar Room Floor
The Face on the Bar Room Floor is a short film written and directed by Charles Chaplin in 1914. Chaplin stars in this film, loosely based on the poem of the same name by Hugh Antoine d'Arcy.
A painter turned tramp (Charlie Chaplin), devastated by...
Mabel's Busy Day
Mabel's Busy Day is a 1914 short starring Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand; the film was also written and directed by Mabel Normand.
Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot...
His Trysting Place
His Trysting Place is a short 1914 film starring Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand.
Charlie and his friend Ambrose meet in a restaurant and accidentally leave with each other's coats. Charlie was going to pick up a baby bottle and Ambrose was going...
Making a Living
Making a Living is the first film featuring Charlie Chaplin. It premiered on February 2, 1914. Chaplin plays Edgar English, a lady-charming swindler who runs afoul of the Keystone Cops.
Chaplin wore a large moustache and a top hat in this film; his...
Mabel's Strange Predicament
Mabel's Strange Predicament is a 1914 American-made motion picture starring Mabel Normand and Charles Chaplin. The Tramp was first presented to the public in Chaplin's second film Kid Auto Races at Venice (released Feb 7th 1914) though Mabel's...
A Film Johnnie
A Film Johnnie is a 1914 American-made motion picture starring Charles Chaplin, Roscoe Arbuckle, and Mabel Normand.
Tango Tangles
Tango Tangles is a 1914 American-made motion picture starring Charlie Chaplin and Fatty Arbuckle. Chaplin appears with no moustache. The action takes place in a dance hall, with a drunken Chaplin, Ford Sterling, and the huge, menacing, and acrobatic...
His Favourite Pastime
His Favourite Pastime is a 1914 American-made motion picture starring Charlie Chaplin.
A very drunken man follows a pretty woman home, and proceeds to make a nuisance of himself.
The Star Boarder
The Star Boarder is a 1914 American-made motion picture starring Charlie Chaplin.
Charlie is the favorite of his landlady, and the other boarders are jealous.
Mabel at the Wheel
Mabel at the Wheel is a 1914 American-made motion picture starring Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand, and directed by Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett.
Charlie, competing with his rival's race car, offers Mabel a ride on his motorcycle but drops her...
Caught in the Rain
Caught in the Rain is a 1914 American comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios starring Charlie Chaplin. This film was the first of many movies that Charlie Chaplin both directed and starred.
The Fatal Mallet
The Fatal Mallet is a 1914 American-made motion picture starring Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand. The film was written and directed by Mack Sennett, who also portrays one of Chaplin's rivals for Normand's attention (Sennett and Normand were...
Her Friend the Bandit
Her Friend the Bandit is a 1914 American comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios starring Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand, both of whom co-directed the movie. This is Chaplin's only lost film as no copy is known to exist.
Mabel's Married Life
Mabel's Married Life is a 1914 American comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios starring and co-written by Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand, and directed by Chaplin. As was so often the case during his first year in film, Chaplin's character is...
Laughing Gas
Laughing Gas is a 1914 film starring Charlie Chaplin. It is also known as "Busy Little Dentist", "Down and Out", "Laffing Gas", "The Dentist", and "Tuning His Ivories".
Although only a dental assistant, Charlie pretends to be the dentist. After...
The Property Man
The Property Man is a 1914 American comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios starring Charlie Chaplin.
Charlie has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets the star's dressing room.
Those Love Pangs
Those Love Pangs is a 1914 American comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios starring Charlie Chaplin.
Charlie and a rival vie for the favors of their landlady.
Gentlemen of Nerve
Gentlemen of Nerve is a 1914 American comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios starring Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand.
Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's friend is attempting to enter...
His Musical Career
His Musical Career is a 1914 American comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios starring Charlie Chaplin.
Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospect St.
Getting Acquainted
Getting Acquainted is a 1914 American comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios starring Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand.
Charlie and his wife are walking in the park when they encounter Ambrose and his wife.
His Regeneration
His Regeneration is a 1915 American comedy silent film made by Essanay Studios. It featured Charlie Chaplin in an uncredited role as a customer.
A rough criminal gets into an argument over a girl in a dance hall.
Shanghaied
Shanghaied is a 1915 American comedy silent film made by Essanay Studios starring Charlie Chaplin.
A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner's daughter, is grabbed...
The Professor
The Professor is a 1919 American comedy silent film made at the Chaplin Studios for the First National film company starring Charlie Chaplin. However, the film was never released or even completed. Chaplin abandoned production after finishing only...
