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Charlie Chaplin
English comic actor and filmskapare (1889–1977)
"Charles Chaplin" redirects here. For other uses, see Charles Chaplin (disambiguation).
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| Born | Charles Spencer Chaplin (1889-04-16)16 April 1889 London, England |
| Died | 25 December 1977(1977-12-25) (aged 88) Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland |
| Burial place | Cimetière de Corsier-sur-Vevey, Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland |
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| Years active | 1899–1975 |
| Works | Full list |
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| Children | 11, including Charles, Sydney, Geraldine, Michael, Josephine, Victoria, Eugene and Chris • The Great Dictator: The film that dared to laugh at HitlerNicholas Barber Features correspondent Getty Images Eighty years ago, Charlie Chaplin skewered the Nazis in his satire The Great Dictator. Nicholas Barber looks at how the film has wider relevance today. It's hardly surprising that Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator was banned in Germany, and in every country occupied by Germany, in 1940. A film that mocked Adolf Hitler was never going to be the Nazi High Command's first choice of Friday night entertainment. The more surprising thing, from today's perspective, is that Chaplin was warned that it might not be shown in Britain or the US, either. Britain's appeasement policy kept going until March 1939, and the US didn't enter World War Two until December 1941, a year after The Great Dictator was released, so when Chaplin was scripting and shooting the film – his first proper talkie – colleagues at the studio he co-owned were afraid • The Tramp was born in the wardrobe department of Keystone Studios, in Los Angeles. The year was 1914, and Charlie Chaplin was a twenty-four-year-old contract player. Keystone was known for its slapstick comedies, and pantomime was more Chaplin’s comic genre. At first, nobody seemed sure what to do with him. Then one day the head of the studio, Mack Sennett, sensed that a scene they were shooting needed some funny business. Chaplin happened to be standing nearby. Sennett ordered him to put on comedy makeup—“anything will do.” On his way to wardrobe, Chaplin decided that everything should be a contradiction: a coat and hat that were too small, pants and shoes that were too big. Since the character was not supposed to be young, he added the mustache—very small, so it wouldn’t hide his expression. He performed the scene; Sennett loved it; and the Tramp was launched on his brilliant career. In the earliest Tramp movies, “Mabel’s Strange Predicament” (seventeen minutes long) and “Kid Au |