Profile
Charlie Chaplin
Actor and Director
Male
Born
Apr 16, 1889
Hometown
Walworth
Died
Dec 25, 1977
Death Place
Vevey
Religion
Anglican / Episco...
Genres
Visual gag + Slap...
Height
5' 5" (165 cm)
Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I. Chaplin used mime, slapstick… Read More
Romance
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June McCallDated 1951
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Joan BerryFling 1941
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May CollinsDated 1921
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Hetty KellyDated 1908
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Peggy PearceDated
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Sigrid HolmquistDated
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May ReevesFling
Family
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Charlie Chaplin
d.1977
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Charles Spencer Chaplin Sr.Father
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Jane ChaplinDaughter, Age 56
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Ben Stiller Wins Bafta/La's Britannia Award For Comedy ReutersGoogle News - Aug 23, 2011
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'The Accidental Waiter' Celebrates Chaplin's Tramp In Modern Times Kansas City StarGoogle News - Aug 22, 2011
Timeline
Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Charlie Chaplin.
CHILDHOOD
1889
Birth
Charles Spencer Chaplin was born on 16 April 1889 to Hannah Chaplin (née Hill, 1865–1928) and Charles Chaplin, Sr. (1863–1901).
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1891
2 Years Old
The Chaplins became estranged around 1891; a year later, Hannah gave birth to a third son—George Wheeler Dryden—fathered by music hall entertainer Leo Dryden.
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He was briefly reunited with his mother at nine years old, before Hannah was forced to readmit her family to the workhouse in July 1898.
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1899
10 Years Old
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He began his professional career in this way, as the group toured English music halls from 1899 to 1902.
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TEENAGE
1903
14 Years Old
From October 1903 to June 1904, Chaplin toured with Saintsbury in Charles Frohman's production of Sherlock Holmes.
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1905
16 Years Old
Chaplin starred in the West End production at the Duke of York's Theatre from 17 October to 2 December 1905.
He completed one final tour of Sherlock Holmes in early 1906, eventually leaving the play after more than two and a half years.
1908
19 Years Old
By 1908, Sydney Chaplin had become a star of Fred Karno's prestigious comedy company.
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TWENTIES
He met with the company, and a contract was drawn up in July 1913.
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Making a Living marked his film debut, released 2 February 1914.
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With The Tramp, issued April 1915, Chaplin began to inject greater emotion into his pictures.
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Mutual gave Chaplin his own Los Angeles studio to work in, which opened in March 1916.
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The pair also formed a romantic relationship that lasted into 1917.
It was completed in January 1918, and Chaplin was given freedom over the making of his pictures.
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THIRTIES
Frustrated with their lack of concern for quality, Chaplin joined forces with Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and D. W. Griffith to form a new distribution company—United Artists, established in January 1919.
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1921
32 Years Old
Chaplin spent five months on his next film, the two-reeler The Idle Class. Following its September 1921 release, Chaplin chose to return to England for the first time in almost a decade.
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He subsequently worked to fulfil his First National contract, and released Pay Day, his final two-reeler, in February 1922.
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1923
34 Years Old
In January 1923 the pair announced their engagement; by July they had separated, leading to speculation that the relationship was a publicity stunt.
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With Georgia Hale his new leading lady, Chaplin began filming the picture in February 1924.
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FORTIES
1930
41 Years Old
Chaplin finished editing the picture in December 1930, by which time silent films were an anachronism.
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In this state of uncertainty, Chaplin decided to attend the London première of City Lights in February 1931.
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Chaplin returned to Los Angeles in June 1932. "I was confused and without plan, restless and conscious of an extreme loneliness," he remembered.
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1936
47 Years Old
After recording the music, Chaplin released Modern Times in February 1936.
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FIFTIES
1939
50 Years Old
Chaplin spent two years developing the script, and began filming in September 1939.
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Goddard eventually divorced Chaplin in Mexico in 1942, citing incompatibility and separation for more than a year.
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1943
54 Years Old
During Chaplin's legal trouble over the Barry affair, he met Oona O'Neill, daughter of Eugene O'Neill, and married her on 16 June 1943.
LATE ADULTHOOD
In July 1962, he was invested with the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by the universities of Oxford and Durham.
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1965
76 Years Old
In 1965 he received a joint Erasmus Prize with film director Ingmar Bergman and in 1971 he was made a Commander of the national order of the Legion of Honor by the French Minister of Culture Jacques Duhamel at the Cannes Film Festival.
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In order to promote the re-releases, Chaplin travelled to the US in 1972 for the first time in twenty years to receive a lifetime achievement award from the Lincoln Center Film Society and an Academy Honorary Award for "the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century".
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1973
84 Years Old
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Chaplin also received his only competitive Oscar for his composition work, receiving the Academy Award for Best Original Score for Limelight (along with Raymond Rasch and Larry Russell) in 1973.
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In 1975, two years before his death, Queen Elizabeth II made him a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE).
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