Charlie Chaplin

Apr 16, 1889 - Dec 25, 1977 (88 years old) in Walworth, London, England, UK

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.

Known For

American Experience

Self

The DuPont Show of the Week

Self (archive footage)

The Oscars

The Great Dictator

Adenoid Hynkel, Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber

And the Oscar Goes To...

Self (archive footage)

The Gold Rush

The Lone Prospector

City Lights

A Tramp

Modern Times

The Tramp (A Factory Worker)

Hollywood

Charles Chaplin

Limelight

Calvero

Credits

One to One: John & Yoko 2025

Self (archive footage)

★ 7
Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood 2025

Self (archive footage)

★ 6.4
Chaplin et "Les temps modernes": La voie du silence 2024

★ NR
Life and Deaths of Max Linder 2024

Self (archive footage)

★ NR
Smile! 2024

Archive footage

★ 3
Charlie Chaplin Classics 2024

★ NR
Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse 2023

Self

★ 7
Le Baron et l'Empereur : Japon, la voie de la guerre 2023

Self (archive footage)

★ 8
The Century of Icons 2022

Self (archive footage)

★ 7
The Real Charlie Chaplin 2021

Self (archive footage)

★ 7.5
The Spanish Flu: The Invisible Enemy 2021

Self (archive footage)

★ 7.3
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty 2020

Self (archive footage)

★ 7.8
Sophia Loren, a special destiny 2019

Self (archive footage)

★ 7
Chaplin vs the FBI 2019

Self (archive footage)

★ 9.5
Hollywood's Second World War 2019

Adenoid Hynkel (archive footage)

★ 8
Hollywood, The Dream Life of Lana Turner 2019

Self (archive footage)

★ 9.5
Propaganda: Engineering Consent 2018

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

★ 6.9
Chaplin in Bali 2017

Self (archive footage)

★ 6
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts 2017

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

★ 6.5
Charlie Chaplin: The Long Year at Essanay 2017

Self (archive footage)

★ NR
The Chaplin Mutuals, Vol. 2 2017

★ NR
Chaplin/Keaton: Duel of Legends 2016

(archive footage)

★ 9
Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died 2016

Self (archive footage)

★ NR
Chaplin's Limelight: Its Evolution and Intimacy 2015

Self (archive footage)

★ NR
Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star 2015

Self (archive footage)

★ NR
Looking for Mabel Normand 2015

Self (archive footage)

★ NR
Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century 2014

Self (archive footage)

★ 8
A Night at the Cinema in 1914 2014

(archive footage)

★ 7.5
And the Oscar Goes To... 2014

Self (archive footage)

★ 7
Birth of the Tramp 2013

Self (archive footage)

★ 7.1
Chaplin at Keystone 2012

Self (archive footage)

★ NR
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen 2012

(archive footage)

★ 7.5
The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet 2011

Self (archive footage)

★ 6
Dancing Chaplin 2011

Self (archive footage)

★ 10
Sigrid Holmquist 2010

Himself (archive footage)

★ 7
Smash His Camera 2010

Self (archive footage)

★ 7
Warner at War 2008

(archive footage)

★ 7
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies 2008

Self (archive footage)

★ 5.7
Kings of Comedy: Masters of the Silent Screen 2007

(archive footage)

★ NR
Bravo Charlot! 2007

Various characters (archive footage)

★ 8
The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk 2007

Self (archive footage)

★ 7
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema 2007

Self (archive footage)

★ 4.9
Hitler: The Comedy Years 2007

Adenoid Hynkel (archive footage) (uncredited)

★ 5
Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler 2005

Self (archive footage)

★ 6
Chaplin Today: 'The Great Dictator' 2003

Self (archive footage)

★ 6.4
Chaplin Today: 'Monsieur Verdoux' 2003

Self (archive footage)

★ 5.6
Trip to Bali 2003

Self (archive footage)

★ 5.5
Chaplin Today: 'A Woman of Paris' 2003

Self (archive footage)

★ 5.9
Chaplin Today: 'The Gold Rush' 2003

Self (archive footage)

★ 5.4
Chaplin Today: 'Limelight' 2003

Self (archive footage)

★ 4.8
Chaplin Today: 'Modern Times' 2003

Self (archive footage)

★ 6.4
Chaplin Today: 'The Circus' 2003

Self (archive footage)

★ 6.2
Chaplin Today: 'City Lights' 2003

Self (archive footage)

★ 6.7
Charlie Chaplin: His Life & Work 2003

(archive footage)

★ 5
Chaplin Today: 'The Kid' 2003

Self (archive footage)

★ 5.7
Chaplin Today: 'A King in New York' 2003

Self (archive footage)

★ 6
The Tramp and the Dictator 2002

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

★ 6.9
Buñuel in Hollywood 2000

Self (archive footage)

★ NR
Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life 1998

Self (archive footage)

★ NR
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists 1998

Self / Various roles (archive footage)

★ NR
Sports on the Silver Screen 1997

Self (archive footage)

★ 10
Chaplin's Goliath 1996

Self (archive footage)

★ 6.5
The Chaplin Puzzle 1992

Self / The Tramp (archive footage)

★ NR
American Experience 1988

Self

★ 7.4
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind 1988

Self - In Clip with Paulette Goddard (archive footage)

★ 8
Going Hollywood: The '30s 1984

Self (archive footage)

★ 10
Charlie Chaplin at Mutual Studios I 1984

(archive footage)

★ NR
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage 1983

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

★ 6.5
Unknown Chaplin 1983

Self & in Out-Takes

★ 8
Hollywood’s Children 1982

Self (archive footage)

★ NR
Charlie Chaplin: The Little Tramp 1980

Self (archive footage)

★ NR
The Hollywood Clowns 1979

(archive footage)

★ NR
Hitler: A Career 1977

Self (archive footage)

★ 7.4
ViennaFilm 1896-1976 1977

Self (archive footage)

★ NR
The Gentleman Tramp 1976

Self

★ 6.6
It's Showtime 1976

Self (archive footage)

★ 7
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? 1975

Self (archive footage)

★ 5.7
Visite de Charlie Chaplin à la Cinémathèque française 1973

Self

★ NR
The Funniest Man in the World 1967

Self (archive footage)

★ NR
A Countess from Hong Kong 1967

An Old Steward

★ 6.1
The Big Parade of Comedy 1964

Actor in Theater Lobby (archive footage) (uncredited)

★ 6.3
30 Years of Fun 1963

(archive footage)

★ 3
Crazy Days 1962

Various (archive footage) (uncredited)

★ 5.8
The DuPont Show of the Week 1961

Self (archive footage)

★ 6
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino 1961

Self (archive footage)

★ NR
Days of Thrills and Laughter 1961

Self (archive footage)

★ 5.5
When Comedy Was King 1960

edited from 'His Trysting Place, ' 'The Masqurader, ' and 'Kid Auto at Venice.' (archive footage)

★ 6.7
Lifetime of Comedy 1960

(archive footage)

★ NR
The Chaplin Revue 1959

Narrator / Various (archive footage)

★ 7.3
A King in New York 1957

King Shahdov

★ 6.8
All in Good Fun 1955

Archive Footage

★ 4
German Giants 1954

Self

★ 8.2
Yesterday and Today 1953

(archive footage)

★ NR
The Oscars 1953

★ 6.9
Limelight 1952

Calvero

★ 7.9
A Burlesque on the Opera Carmen 1951

Darn Hosiery

★ 10
Life Begins Tomorrow 1950

Self (archive footage)

★ 6.2
The Golden Twenties 1950

(archive footage)

★ NR
Monsieur Verdoux 1947

Henri Verdoux

★ 7.7
Charlie's Triple Trouble 1944

Charlie - The Janitor (archive footage)

★ NR
The Chaplin Cavalcade 1941

Various Roles (archive footage)

★ 8
The Charlie Chaplin Festival 1941

Various Roles (archive footage)

★ 6.5
The Eternal Jew 1940

Self (1931) (archive footage)

★ 4.5
The Great Dictator 1940

Adenoid Hynkel, Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber

★ 8.3
Chaplin Carnival 1938

Various Roles (archive footage)

★ NR
Modern Times 1936

The Tramp (A Factory Worker)

★ 8.3
Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 1933

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

★ NR
All at Sea 1933

Self

★ 4.4
The Film Parade 1933

(archive footage) (uncredited)

★ NR
Charlie Chaplin in Wien 1931

Self (archive footage)

★ 3
City Lights 1931

A Tramp

★ 8.3
Show People 1928

Self (uncredited)

★ 7.1
The Movie City of Hollywood 1928

Self

★ 6
The Circus: Premiere 1928

Self

★ 5.4
The Circus 1928

A Tramp

★ 7.9
Camille: The Fate of a Coquette 1926

Mike

★ 4
The Gold Rush 1925

The Lone Prospector

★ 8
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate 1923

Station Porter (uncredited)

★ 6.8
Hollywood 1923

Charles Chaplin

★ 7
Souls for Sale 1923

Self - Celebrity Director

★ 6.2
The Pilgrim 1923

The Pilgrim / Lefty Lombard

★ 6.8
Seeing Stars 1922

Self

★ 4.9
Pay Day 1922

Laborer

★ 7
Nice and Friendly 1922

Tramp

★ 4.9
The Idle Class 1921

Tramp / Husband

★ 6.6
The Kid 1921

A Tramp

★ 8.2
Charlie Butts In 1920

★ 5.7
A Day's Pleasure 1919

Father

★ 6.1
Sunnyside 1919

Farm Handyman

★ 6.4
The Professor 1919

Professor Bosco

★ 5.5
Shoulder Arms 1918

Doughboy

★ 6.8
The Bond 1918

Charlie

★ 5
Triple Trouble 1918

The Janitor

★ 4.8
A Dog's Life 1918

Tramp

★ 7.3
Chase Me Charlie 1918

Charlie

★ 6
How to Make Movies 1918

Self (uncredited)

★ 6
The Adventurer 1917

The Eel / Commodore Slick

★ 6.9
The Immigrant 1917

Immigrant

★ 7.3
The Cure 1917

The Inebriate

★ 6.8
Easy Street 1917

The Derelict

★ 7.1
Charlie Chaplin Meets Harry Lauder 1917

A Tramp

★ 5
Max Linder Visits Charlie Chaplin 1917

Self

★ 7
Zepped 1916

The Tramp

★ NR
The Rink 1916

A Waiter

★ 6.6
Behind the Screen 1916

David - Property Man's Assistant

★ 6.5
The Pawnshop 1916

Pawnbroker's Assistant

★ 6.6
The Count 1916

Tailor's Apprentice

★ 6.2
One A.M. 1916

Le bourgeois alcoolisé

★ 6.7
The Vagabond 1916

The Saloon Violinist

★ 6.7
The Fireman 1916

Fireman

★ 6.2
Police 1916

Charlie, Convict 999

★ 6.2
The Floorwalker 1916

Impecunious Customer

★ 6.4
A Burlesque on Carmen 1915

Darn Hosiery

★ 5.8
A Night in the Show 1915

Mr. Pest and Mr. Rowdy

★ 6.2
Shanghaied 1915

Tramp

★ 5.9
The Bank 1915

Janitor

★ 6.3
A Woman 1915

Gentleman / 'Nora Nettlerash'

★ 6
Work 1915

Izzy A. Wake's assistant

★ 5.9
His Regeneration 1915

A Customer

★ 4.2
By the Sea 1915

Stroller

★ 5.5
The Tramp 1915

The Tramp

★ 6.5
A Jitney Elopement 1915

Suitor, the Fake Count

★ 5.8
In the Park 1915

Charlie

★ 5.3
The Champion 1915

Challenger

★ 6.5
A Night Out 1915

Reveller

★ 5.7
His New Job 1915

Film Extra

★ 5.7
Tillie's Punctured Romance 1914

The City Guy

★ 6.1
His Prehistoric Past 1914

Weakchin

★ 5.6
Getting Acquainted 1914

Mr. Sniffels

★ 5.3
His Trysting Places 1914

Clarence, the Husband

★ 6.1
His Musical Career 1914

Charlie, Piano Mover

★ 5.9
Gentlemen of Nerve 1914

Mr. Wow-Woe, Track Fanatic

★ 5.7
Dough and Dynamite 1914

Pierre

★ 6.1
Those Love Pangs 1914

Masher

★ 5.5
The New Janitor 1914

The Janitor

★ 6.1
The Rounders 1914

Mr. Full

★ 6.1
His New Profession 1914

Charlie

★ 5.8
The Masquerader 1914

Film actor

★ 5.6
Recreation 1914

Tramp

★ 5.1
The Face on the Barroom Floor 1914

Artist

★ 5.2
The Property Man 1914

Property Man (uncredited)

★ 5.6
Laughing Gas 1914

Dentist's assistant

★ 5.5
Mabel's Married Life 1914

Mabel's Husband

★ 5.8
Mabel's Busy Day 1914

Tipsy Nuisance

★ 5.6
The Knockout 1914

Referee (uncredited)

★ 5.7
Her Friend the Bandit 1914

Bandit

★ 5.6
The Fatal Mallet 1914

Suitor aka The Tramp (uncredited)

★ 5.4
A Busy Day 1914

Wife

★ 4.7
Caught in the Rain 1914

Tipsy Hotel Guest aka The Tramp (uncredited)

★ 5.6
Caught in a Cabaret 1914

Waiter

★ 5.6
Twenty Minutes of Love 1914

Pickpocket

★ 5.5
Mabel at the Wheel 1914

Villain (uncredited)

★ 5.6
The Star Boarder 1914

The Star Boarder aka The Tramp (uncredited)

★ 5.1
Cruel, Cruel Love 1914

Mr. Dovey

★ 5.1
His Favorite Pastime 1914

Drunken Masher

★ 5.2
Tango Tangles 1914

Tipsy Dancer

★ 5
A Film Johnnie 1914

The Film Johnnie aka The Tramp (uncredited)

★ 5.4
Between Showers 1914

The Tramp, a Second Gallant

★ 5.3
A Thief Catcher 1914

Cop (uncredited)

★ 4.9
Mabel's Strange Predicament 1914

The Tramp (uncredited)

★ 5.3
Kid Auto Races at Venice 1914

The Tramp

★ 5.5
Making a Living 1914

The Swindler (uncredited)

★ 5.6

Charlie Chaplin

Known For

Credits

Images