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

Although most of Chaplin's films are characterised as comedies, most of them also employ strong elements of drama and even tragedy.

For example The Kid is thought to reflect Chaplin's own childhood trauma of being sent into an orphanage and the main characters in Limelight ( 1952 ) are thought to contain elements from the lives of his parents.

* March 1 – Charlie Chaplin's remains are stolen from Cosier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland.

( Reliable box office figures for certain early films such as Birth of a Nation and Charlie Chaplin's comedies are unavailable.

Among Loren's best-known films of this period are Samuel Bronston's epic production of El Cid ( 1961 ) with Charlton Heston, The Millionairess ( 1960 ) with Peter Sellers, It Started in Naples ( 1960 ) with Clark Gable, Vittorio De Sica's triptych Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow ( 1963 ) with Marcello Mastroianni, Peter Ustinov's Lady L ( 1965 ) with Paul Newman, the 1966 classic Arabesque with Gregory Peck, and Charlie Chaplin's final film, A Countess from Hong Kong ( 1967 ) with Marlon Brando.

The officials of a city are dedicating a new statue, but when it is unveiled, Chaplin's Tramp is discovered sleeping on it.

It has been a staple of science fiction ever since, exemplified by movies like Fritz Lang's Metropolis, which offer examples of how technophobia can occur, and Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times, in which people are reduced to nothing but cogs in the machinery, a product of new industrial techniques like the assembly line.

* Charlie Chaplin's films, features and shorts are controlled by his estate, with most rights handled by French distributor MK2 and Janus Films.

Chaplin's Essanays are more disciplined than the chaotic roughhouse of Chaplin's Keystones, with better story values and character development.

“ What makes Modern Times decidedly different from Chaplin's previous three films are the political references and social realism that keep intruding into Charlie's world .” “ No comedian before or after him has spent more energy depicting people in their working lives .” “ Though there had been films depicting the lives of immigrants and urban workers, no filmmaker before Chaplin had created their experience so humanly and lovingly .”

" He continued " The comedy here is gentle, formed of linguistic misunderstandings and cultural clashes and Chaplin's constant efforts to be polite are rather charming.

Among the films which use Murphy beds as comic props are Charlie Chaplin's 1916 One AM, several Three Stooges shorts, the James Bond film You Only Live Twice, and Mel Brooks's Silent Movie.

The portrayal of poverty and the cruelty of welfare workers are also directly reminiscent of Chaplin's own childhood in London.

* In Charlie Chaplin's 1940 film The Great Dictator, the signs, posters, and so forth in the ghetto are in Esperanto.

Chaplin's cement footprints are one of the few reminders of the past.

The funeral, held two days later on 27 December, was a small and private Anglican ceremony, according to Chaplin's wish.

The child was taken by Dryden at six months old, and did not re-enter Chaplin's life for 30 years.

Chaplin's most successful role with the Karno company was a drunk called the Inebriate Swell, a character recognised by Robinson as " very Chaplinesque ".

The film was re-cut and expanded by the studio without Chaplin's consent, leading the star to seek an injunction in May 1916.

Chaplin's unhappiness with the union was matched by his dissatisfaction with First National.

Dealing with issues of poverty and parent – child separation, The Kid is thought to be influenced by Chaplin's own childhood and was the first film to combine comedy and drama.

Eager to end the case without further scandal, Chaplin's lawyers agreed to a cash settlement of $ 600, 000 — the largest awarded by American courts at that time.

Today, the film is seen by the British Film Institute as one of Chaplin's " great features ", while David Robinson says it shows the star at " his unrivalled peak as a creator of visual comedy.

Chaplin's public image in America was gravely damaged by these sensational trials.

Two months later, on 1 March 1978, Chaplin's coffin was dug up and stolen from its grave by two unemployed mechanics, Polish Roman Wardas and Bulgarian Gantcho Ganev, in an attempt to extort money from Chaplin's widow, Oona Chaplin.

Instead of a tightly unified storyline, Gerald Mast has seen Chaplin's films as consisting of sketches tied together by the same theme and setting.

This was already noted by Chaplin's contemporaries, such as Sigmund Freud, who thought that Chaplin " always plays only himself as he was in his dismal youth ", and by some of his collaborators, such as actress Claire Bloom, who starred in Limelight.

The song " Hold the Fort " " Storm the Fort ", a Knights of Labor pro-labor revision of the hymn by the same name, became the most popular labor song prior to Ralph Chaplin's IWW anthem " Solidarity Forever ".

Chaplin's film followed only a few months after Hollywood's first parody of Hitler, the short subject You Nazty Spy by the Three Stooges, although Chaplin had been planning it for years before.

It is suspected Chaplin's decision to go ahead with making The Great Dictator was finalized by his viewing of Riefenstahl's film.

As Hitler and his Nazi Party rose to prominence, Chaplin's popularity throughout the world became greater than ever ; he was mobbed by fans on a 1931 trip to Berlin, which annoyed the Nazis, who published a book in 1934 titled The Jews Are Looking at You, in which the comedian was described as " a disgusting Jewish acrobat " ( despite the fact that Chaplin was not Jewish ).

Charlie Chaplin's son Charles Chaplin, Jr. describes how his father was haunted by the similar backgrounds of Hitler and himself.

The 2002 TV documentary on the making of the film, The Tramp and the Dictator, presented newly discovered footage of the film production ( shot by Chaplin's elder half-brother Sydney ) which showed Chaplin's initial attempts at the film's ending, filmed before the fall of France.

Discussing the making of the film in the documentary series Unknown Chaplin, Hale revealed that she had idolized Chaplin since childhood and that the final scene of the original version, in which the two kiss, reflected the state of their relationship by that time ( Chaplin's marriage to Lita Grey having collapsed during production of the film ).

The film is a comment on the desperate employment and fiscal conditions many people faced during the Great Depression, conditions created, in Chaplin's view, by the efficiencies of modern industrialization.

With mutual admiration, Cantinflas was influenced by Chaplin's earlier films and ideology.

In 2010 the New York Guitar Festival commissioned new scores on some of Chaplin's silent films from a number of contemporary artists, including Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, Marc Ribot, David Bromberg, and Alex de Grassi.

It contains some of Chaplin's most famous gags, such as the Tramp eating his shoe and the " Dance of the Rolls ", and he later said it was the film he would most like to be remembered for.

City Lights ( 1931 ), regarded as some of Chaplin's finest work

It earned less at the box office than his previous features and received mixed reviews ; some viewers were displeased with Chaplin's politicising.

Although some of Chaplin's critics have claimed that credit for his film music should be given to the composers who worked with him, for example Raksin, who worked with Chaplin on Modern Times, has stressed Chaplin's creative position and active participation in the composing process.

* May 17 – Charles Chaplin's coffin is found some 15 km from the cemetery from which it was stolen, near Lake Geneva.

This was Chaplin's first overtly political-themed film, and its unflattering portrayal of industrial society generated controversy in some quarters upon its initial release.

Although the film was criticized for taking dramatic licence with some aspects of Chaplin's life, Downey's performance as Chaplin won almost universal acclaim.

Chapulín was a hero of undetermined geographic and temporal location: his adventures could unfold in the American Old West, in ancient China, in London, in the Swiss Alps, during the Spanish Inquisition, in pirate ships, in Nazi Germany ( an episode in which Chespirito played a double role as Chapulín and as Adolf Hitler himself, in the style of Charles Chaplin's The Great Dictator ) or outer space, and his enemies range from the Yeti to Egyptian mummies, including his interaction, in some occasions, with literary characters such as Romeo and Juliet (" Juleo y Rumieta ", or literally " Juleo and Rumiet ").

Chaplin's son Sydney, who also appeared in the film, said that even if some of Keaton's best scenes were cut ( which he did not believe ), the storyline would not logically allow a supporting actor to suddenly appear and upstage the climactic comeback of Chaplin's character.

The film later created controversy with the release of Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times, which bore some similarities to this film, such as the conveyor belt gags.

When Chaplin made Modern Times in 1936, it was noted that some parts of it bore a marked similarity to scenes in À nous la liberté, and the French producers launched a lawsuit for plagiarism against United Artists, the producers of Chaplin's film.

The British music hall nurtured him, and for some time, he acted as Chaplin's understudy.

His character and mannerisms bear some resemblance to Charlie Chaplin's, although the persona Fields later developed in his sound comedies is foreshadowed during the picnic scene, when Field's character dumps a small child out of a chair so that he can steal it to get closer to the woman he is chasing.

* Mutual Film, early American motion picture conglomerate, the producers of some of Charlie Chaplin's greatest comedies

Like Chaplin's various incarnations, all of whom bear some resemblance to the Little Tramp, these characters, though singular and independent creations, must undoubtedly have struck their audiences as Pierrot-like.

In fact Clark did not wish to record the song in English as she disliked the deliberately old fashioned lyrics which Chaplin refused to modify ; however after the translated versions of the song had been recorded there happened to be some time remaining on the session which Burke coaxed Clark to use to record Chaplin's lyrics.

Sennett's style of " pie in the face " comedy is different from Chaplin's slower, more deliberate style, and when Charlie tries to assert his ideas, Sennett gives him some strong advice (" Less It Ends With a Chase ").