One of Nikita Khrushchev's most enthusiastic eulogizers, the U.S.S.R.'s daily Izvestia, enterprisingly interviewed Red-prone Comedian Charlie Chaplin at his Swiss villa, where he has been in self-exile since 1952.

`` Behind that Charlie Chaplin moustache and that truant lock of hair that always covered his forehead, behind the tirades and the sulky silences, the passionate orations and the occasional dull evasive stare, behind the prejudices, the cynicism, the total amorality of behavior, behind even the tendency to great strategic mistakes, there lay a statesman of no mean qualities: Shrewd, calculating, in many ways realistic, endowed -- like Stalin -- with considerable powers of dissimulation, capable of playing his cards very close to his chest when he so desired, yet bold and resolute in his decisions, and possessing one gift Stalin did not possess: The ability to rouse men to fever pitch of personal devotion and enthusiasm by the power of the spoken word ''.

* 1889 – Charlie Chaplin, English actor, director, and composer ( d. 1977 )

* 1972 – Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.

* 1918 – World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City's financial district.

" John Updike, comparing Abner to a “ hillbilly Candide ,” added that the strip ’ s “ richness of social and philosophical commentary approached the Voltairean .” Charlie Chaplin, William F. Buckley, Al Hirschfeld, Harpo Marx, Russ Meyer, John Kenneth Galbraith, Ralph Bakshi, Shel Silverstein, Hugh Downs, Gene Shalit, Frank Cho, Daniel Clowes and ( reportedly ) even Queen Elizabeth have confessed to being fans of Li ' l Abner.

# REDIRECT Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer " Charlie " Chaplin, KBE ( 16 April 188925 December 1977 ) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era.

The name of Charlie Chaplin was said to be " a part of the common language of almost every country ", and according to Harper's Weekly his " little, baggy-trousered figure " was " universally familiar ".

The star's primary concern in finding a new distributor was independence ; Sydney Chaplin, then his business manager, told the press: " Charlie be allowed all the time he needs and all the money for producing the way he wants ...

One journalist wrote: " Nobody in the world but Charlie Chaplin could have done it.

The photographer considered the impromptu self-introduction a prank and angrily answered his caller with the riposte, " If you're Charlie Chaplin, I'm Franklin Roosevelt!

A 1922 image of Charlie Chaplin Studios, where all of Chaplin's films between 1918 and 1952 were produced

* The third of composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann's 1929 – 30 composition Wachsfigurenkabinett: Fünf kleine Opern ( Waxworks: Five Little Operas ) is entitled ' Chaplin-Ford-Trot ', and features the character of Charlie Chaplin ( in a speaking rather than operatic role ).

In London, a statue of him as the Tramp was unveiled in Leicester Square in 1981 and a permanent exhibition on his life and career, Charlie Chaplin – The Great Londoner, opened at the London Film Museum in 2010.

Chaplin's photographic archives are held by the Musée de l ' Élysée in Lausanne, and some of the images in the collection were presented in an exhibition, Charlie Chaplin – Images d ' Un Mythe, in 2011 – 2012.

Since 2011 the town has also been host to the annual Charlie Chaplin Comedy Film Festival, which was founded to celebrate Chaplin's legacy and to showcase new comic talent.

Chaplin has also been the subject of a musical, Limelight – The Story of Charlie Chaplin by Christopher Curtis and Thomas Meehan, which was performed at the La Jolla Playhouse in 2010.

* The Charlie Chaplin Archive Online catalogue of Chaplin's professional and personal archives at the Cineteca di Bologna, Italy

* Charlie Chaplin Comedy Film Festival in Waterville, Ireland

* Charlie Chaplin Museum Website for a future museum at the Manoir de Ban, Switzerland

* Early films by, about or starring Charlie Chaplin at the Internet Archive

* Charlie Chaplin at the British Film Institute.

* The TIME 100: Charlie Chaplin Archived, May 2011.

A 1945 radio series of at least 13 original half-hour episodes ( none of which apparently adapt any Christie stories ) transferred Poirot from London to New York and starred character actor Harold Huber, perhaps better known for his appearances as a police officer in various Charlie Chan films.

* 1990 – Charlie McDermott, American actor

* 1980 – Charlie David, Canadian actor

* 1899 – Charlie Hall, English actor ( d. 1959 )

* 1975 – Charlie O ' Connell, American actor

* 1982 – Charlie Cox, English actor

In the silent era, with English actor Charlie Chaplin its biggest star, audiences were receptive to films from all nations.

* 1976 – Charlie Day, American actor

* 1958 – Charlie Higson, English author and actor

* 1959 – Charlie Murphy, American actor and writer

After another actor dropped out of the project, Scorsese cast Harvey Keitel in the pivotal role of Charlie.

* 1996 – Charlie Barnett, American actor ( b. 1954 )

* 1954 – Charlie Barnett, American actor ( d. 1996 )

* 1965 – Charlie Sheen, American actor

After viewing a portion of Flower of Flesh and Blood, the actor Charlie Sheen thought that the murder depicted was genuine and contacted the MPAA, which contacted the FBI.

* September 9 – Charlie Stewart, American actor

* March 16 – Charlie Barnett, American actor ( b. 1954 )

** Charlie Naughton, Scottish actor ( b. 1886 )

* April 16 – Charlie Chaplin, English actor and film director ( d. 1977 )

** Charlie Korsmo, American former child actor

* Charles Murray ( actor ) ( 1872 – 1941 ), American actor from the silent era, also called Charlie Murray

The book was first made into a feature film as a musical titled Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, directed by Mel Stuart, produced by David L. Wolper and starring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka, character actor Jack Albertson as Grandpa Joe, and Peter Ostrum as Charlie Bucket.