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2003
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For a variety of reasons, mostly political, Charlie Chaplin left the United States in the early fifties living the final...
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Featured Music
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2003
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American film historian and author Richard Schickel directs the documentary Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin....
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2003
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2003
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One of the most compelling strokes of fate in the past millenium is the fact that the 20th century's most hated dictator and...
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2002
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In the early years of cinema, nothing kept audiences in stitches quite like a good dose of physical comedy -- affectionately...
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1998
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1997
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Partly based on Charlie Chaplin's My Autobiography, this humorous and dramatic biopic features an all-star cast including...
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Book Author
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1992
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Emerging Chaplin profiles the talent of the best-known actor of silent comedy, Charles Chaplin. Follow the emergence of...
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1989
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Produced for Britain's Thames television in 1979, Hollywood is a 13-part overview of the silent film era, lovingly assembled...
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1988
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1985
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The second volume in a three-part series on the life and career of legendary director Charlie Chaplin. Unknown Chaplin, Vol....
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1983
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This three part documentary offers interesting insight into the artistry of comedian Charles Chaplin between the years...
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1983
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Narrated by the incomparable James Mason and co-directed by David Gill and Kevin Brownlow, this documentary features rare...
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1983
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In this comedy documentary begun during the construction of his new studios in 1917, and continued after its completion,...
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Director
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1982
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A profile of Charlie Chaplin, most noted for his lovable "Little Tramp," from his childhood in England through his early...
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1981
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A film chronicling the evolution of Chaplin's "Little Tramp," including scenes from his early films, "The Pawnshop," "The...
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1979
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Gentleman Tramp utilizes clearer-than-usual vintage filmclips to trace the life and career of comedy giant Charlie Chaplin....
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1975
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Featured Music
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1975
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This biographical documentary examines the early life and career of Charlie Chaplin. A repeated feature of American Public...
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1972
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This documentary on the work of the silent screen's greatest comedian features excerpts from a number of Charlie Chaplin's...
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1969
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A video compilation of cutting-room-floor footage from the works of Charles Chaplin. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. narrates. ~ Rovi...
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1967
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Charles Chaplin wrote, directed, and scored this old-fashioned romantic comedy, which proved to be his last film. Wealthy...
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Composer (Music Score), Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1967
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1965
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1963
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The fourth of Oscar-winning short-subject director Youngson's comedy compilations (the earlier ones were Golden Age of...
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1963
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This is one in a series of entertaining cinematic compilations by Robert Youngson that reviews aspects of the history of film...
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1961
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Director
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1959
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Robert Youngson's second feature-length compilation of silent comedy highlights (the first was The Golden Age of Comedy),...
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1959
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This documentary video offers a variety of clips from the silent screen's funniest men. ~ Rovi...
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1958
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King Shadov (Charles Chaplin), the newly deposed monarch of a small European country, arrives in New York to face a life in...
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Composer (Music Score), Director, Producer, Screenwriter, King Shadhov
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1957
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London, 1914. Calvero (Charles Chaplin), a once-great music hall comedian, weaves drunkenly home to his shabby flat. As he...
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Choreography, Composer (Music Score), Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Calvero
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1953
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This film is comprised of extracts from several Charlie Chaplin silent shorts made around 1915, including The Bank,...
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1951
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"Von Clausewitz said that war is the logical extension of diplomacy; Monsieur Verdoux feels that murder is the logical...
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Composer (Music Score), Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter, Henri Verdoux
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1947
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One of producer Joseph Levine's earliest projects, Gaslight Follies is a compilation of silent film footage narrated by...
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1945
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"This is the story of the period between two world wars--an interim during which insanity cut loose, liberty took a nose...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Adenoid Hynkel, Dictator of Tomania,Jewish Barber
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1940
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The Movies March On was Number 12, volume 9 of Louis de Rochemont's March of Time series. Narrated by the stentorian...
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1939
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This episodic satire of the Machine Age is considered Charles Chaplin's last "silent" film, although Chaplin uses sound,...
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Composer (Music Score), Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Worker
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1936
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Charles Chaplin was deep into production of his silent City Lights when Hollywood was overwhelmed by the talkie revolution....
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Composer (Music Score), Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter, The Tramp
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1931
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1928
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The Circus is generally considered to be a lesser Charlie Chaplin effort, coming as it does between two unquestioned...
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Cinematographer, Composer (Music Score), Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter, The Tramp
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1928
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He may be called "The Lone Prospector" in The Gold Rush, but the character played by Charlie Chaplin is the same wistful,...
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Composer (Music Score), Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter, The Lone Prospector
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1925
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Charles Chaplin's first, long-awaited, independent production for United Artists begins with an only partially true caveat...
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Composer (Music Score), Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1923
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In the final film of his First National contract (an early working title was The Tail End), Charlie Chaplin spoofs small-town...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, The Pilgrim
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1923
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This comedy-melodrama, based on the novel by Rupert Hughes (who also directed), blends fiction and reality to tell the story...
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1923
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Composer (Music Score), Director, Producer, Laborer
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1922
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Composer (Music Score), Director, Producer, Screenwriter, The Tramp
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1921
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Charlie Chaplin's eighth film under his million dollar contract with First National is a return to the two reel form, and to...
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Composer (Music Score), Director, Screenwriter, Tramp and Husband
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1921
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Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. was making the transition from modern romantic stories to adventures when The Nut was made -- The Mark...
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1921
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Charlie Chaplin's fourth film for First National is generally considered a lightweight entry and a throwback to earlier days....
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Composer (Music Score), Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1919
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Charlie Chaplin's third film in his First National contract is a simple story of country life, an idyll, which contains two...
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Composer (Music Score), Director, Screenwriter
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1919
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During the 1910s, comic actor and filmmaker Charles Chaplin was without peer. He was so popular that pirated versions of his...
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1918
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This short promotional film Charlie Chaplin made for the U.S. Liberty Loan bond campaign was shot in a few days during the...
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Director, Producer
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1918
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Director, Screenwriter, Charlie, the Janitor
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1918
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A Dog's Life was Charlie Chaplin's initial release for First National Studios, and also his first three-reeler. Chaplin plays...
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Composer (Music Score), Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1918
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Charles Chaplin's next-to-last Mutual Studios 2-reeler is as funny as his other 11 Mutual entries, though there's a stronger...
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Director, Producer, Immigrant
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1917
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Shoulder Arms was Charlie Chaplin's final contribution to the World War I effort, along with his personal appearances selling...
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Composer (Music Score), Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Recruit
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1917
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The Adventurer was Charlie Chaplin's last film in his contract for Lone Star/Mutual, and it is the fastest paced, with its...
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Director, Producer
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1917
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Compiled by the National Association of the Motion Picture Industry and distributed to theaters across the United States,...
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1917
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Director, Producer, Vagabond Police Recruit
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1917
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In Charlie Chaplin's 10th film in his series for Lone Star/Mutual, and one of the funniest, he plays a gentleman of means who...
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Director, Producer
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1917
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Charlie Chaplin's 2-reel laugh parade The Rink was based on "Skating," a sketch Chaplin had previously performed while a...
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Charlie Chaplin's fourth film for Mutual is a tour de force solo performance, with Chaplin playing his classic drunk,...
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Director, Producer
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1916
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The Count, filmed during Charlie Chaplin's 1916-17 Mutual period, is a rowdy throwback to his Keystone days. Chaplin plays...
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Director, Producer
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1916
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In Behind the Screen, the seventh of his 12 Mutual Studios two-reelers, Charlie Chaplin pokes some less than gentle fun at...
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Director, Producer, Scene Shifter
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1916
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Charlie Chaplin's third film in his Mutual period is his first minor masterpiece. It combines comedy and drama in the style...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Street Musician
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1916
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Charlie Chaplin's sixth film for the Mutual Film Corporation is a marvel of sight gags, comic transformations and brilliant...
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Charlie Chaplin launched his 670,000-dollar contract with the Mutual Film Corporation with the hilarious The Floorwalker. The...
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Director, Screenwriter
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1916
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Burlesque on Carmen was intended by Charlie Chaplin to be a two-reel film, but to his annoyance additional material, shot by...
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Director, Screenwriter, Darn Hosiery
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1916
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The second of Charles Chaplin's Mutual two-reelers, The Fireman is virtually wall-to-wall slapstick. Chaplin is an earnest...
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Shanghaied, Charlie Chaplin's 11th film for Essanay was shot largely on board the SS Vaquero, which Chaplin had rented for...
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Director, Screenwriter, Tramp
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1915
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Director, Screenwriter
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1915
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Charlie Chaplin's last one-reeler (with the exception of The Bond), is an impromptu film shot on the beach at Crystal Pier in...
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Director, Screenwriter, Stroller
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1915
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Director, Screenwriter, Charlie
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1915
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The title of Charlie Chaplin's fifth comedy for Essanay refers to the popular term for a Model T Ford, a jitney. Its theme of...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1915
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A Night at the Show is the most elaborate two-reeler directed by Charlie Chaplin during his 1915-1916 stay at Essanay...
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Director, Screenwriter, Mr. Pest,Mr. Rowdy
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1915
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The Champion, Chaplin's third film for Essanay, is easily one of the funniest and is his most advanced film to date in...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1915
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Charlie Chaplin's ninth film for Essanay contains his third and last female impersonation. It begins, as so many of Chaplin's...
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Director, Screenwriter, Charlie
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1915
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The Tramp, Charlie Chaplin's sixth film for Essanay, is generally considered his first masterpiece. It is the first of his...
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Director, Screenwriter, A Tramp
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1915
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Director, Screenwriter
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1915
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Charlie Chaplin's 10th Essanay film marks a further development for him in story construction, gag development and the use of...
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Director, Screenwriter, The Janitor
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1915
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Charlie Chaplin began his new job at Essanay Studios, who lured him away from Keystone with an offer of $1250 a week plus a...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1915
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Work, Charlie Chaplin's eighth film for Essanay casts Charlie as a wallpaper-hanger's assistant who must pull the wagon...
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Director, Screenwriter, Charlie, the Papaerhanger's Assistant
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1915
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In his eighth film for Keystone Charlie Chaplin, in frock coat and bushy mustache, is cast in the role of a melodramatic...
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Lord Helpus,Mr. Dovey
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin's 12th film for the Keystone company was also his directorial debut, receiving co-directing credit with...
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1914
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The Villain
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin's 13th film for Keystone marked his first solo effort as writer and director. It follows the well-trodden...
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Director
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin's 30th Keystone comedy is again set at the auto races, as were his earlier films, Kid's Auto Race,...
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Director
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin's penultimate Keystone comedy takes us back to the scene of so many of his Keystones, Westlake Park. It is...
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Director
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1914
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A Masher
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1914
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Notable as Charlie Chaplin's first female impersonation film, the half-reel A Busy Day is another of the Keystone shorts in...
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Director
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin's 20th film for Keystone marks a turning point in his career. From this point on, with one exception, he was...
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Director
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin's musical career is as a piano mover for a music store in this, his 31st comedy for Keystone. The film was a...
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Director
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1914
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Chaplin's 16th film for Keystone is the only Chaplin film thought to be lost. What we know of its plot comes from the movie...
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Director, Bandit
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1914
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In his 32nd film for Keystone, Charlie Chaplin is a married man, an unusual state for his film character. His wife, played by...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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In Charles Chaplin's seventh film for the Keystone Company, the Little Fellow's favorite pastime is drinking and chasing...
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1914
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In his 19th film for Keystone, Charlie Chaplin plays a somewhat more sympathetic role as the husband of comedienne...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1914
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In Charlie Chaplin's fifth Keystone comedy we get a look inside the famous laugh factory. Charlie is a movie fan and we first...
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin's 29th comedy for Keystone was one of his most popular, grossing $130,000 in its initial year of release. It...
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Director
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin's 25th Keystone comedy is a park farce on the same order as many of his earlier shorts. It opens with a...
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Director, Charlie
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1914
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This Keystone comedy, Charlie Chaplin's 33rd, is the first feature-length comedy ever made and contributed to making Chaplin...
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Charlie, City Slicker
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1914
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Director, Referee
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1914
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Director, Masher
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin once said, "All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl." In this, his 11th film for...
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Director
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1914
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In Charlie Chaplin's 27th comedy for Keystone, and arguably his best, he plays not a homeless Tramp, but an inept janitor in...
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Director, Janitor
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin's 24th short for the Keystone company is a film about making films at Keystone. It is unusual in that we see...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1914
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1914
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This typical Keystone slapstick comedy was Charlie Chaplin's first appearance on film. An Englishman (Chaplin) cons a...
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1914
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Director, Screenwriter
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1914
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The Face on the Bar-Room Floor, Charlie Chaplin's 22nd Keystone comedy, was based on a well-known poem by Hugh Antoine...
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Director
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin's 15th comedy for Keystone is another violent park farce. It is the only teaming of this quartet of Keystone...
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1914
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The Star Boarder
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1914
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In Charlie Chaplin's 21st Keystone film, Chaplin is the prop man and general factotum at a vaudeville house. The artists...
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Director, Screenwriter, The Property Man
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1914
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For this half-reel quickie, Charlie Chaplin's 23rd Keystone comedy, Chaplin took cast and crew back to Westlake Park, scene...
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Director
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1914
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Tango Tangles is an impromptu Keystone comedy which exploited the current "tango craze." A tango contest and exhibition...
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Tipsy Dancer
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1914
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