With the advent of sound technology, Chaplin immediately adopted the use of a synchronised soundtrack — composed by himself — for City Lights ( 1931 ).

The black cat of the Industrial Workers of the World, also adopted as a symbol by anarcho-syndicalistsAlthough he continued to work for labor rights after his release from prison, Chaplin was very disillusioned by the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.

In fact, among the young comedians who worked for him were Charlie Chaplin and Arthur Jefferson, who later adopted the name of Stan Laurel.

The Kid is a 1921 American silent dramedy film written by, produced by, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, and features Jackie Coogan as his adopted son and sidekick.

Many studios quickly adopted the Moviola including Universal Studios, Warner Brothers, Charles Chaplin Studios, Buster Keaton Productions, Mary Pickford, Mack Sennett, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

* 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 ).

* Kamal Haasan moulded his character " Chaplin Chellappa " on Chaplin in the Tamil film Punnagai Mannan

Chaplin is also a supporting character in several other films, such as The Cat's Meow ( 2001 ), in which he was played by Eddie Izzard and The Scarlett O ' Hara War ( 1980 ), in which he was played by Clive Revill.

Red Skelton, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, and Charlie Chaplin would all fit the definition of a character clown.

Charlie Chaplin once again joined the U. S. war effort, creating The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), in which he played the Hitler-like character of ' Adenoid Hynkel.

* Charlie Chaplin débuts his trademark mustached, baggy-pants ' Little Tramp ' character in Kid Auto Races at Venice in 1914.

He played in a few pictures, including Chaplin's A Woman of Paris ( a rare drama for Chaplin, in which his character of The Tramp does not appear ) and made a huge impression in the operetta Dédé.

Chaplin chose to capitalize on this resemblance in order to give his Little Tramp character a " reprieve ".

Famed French film director François Truffaut noted that early in the production, Chaplin said he would not play The Tramp in a sound film, and he considers the barber an entirely different character.

Critics who view the barber as different include Stephen Weissman, whose book Chaplin: A Life speaks of Chaplin here " abandoning traditional pantomime technique and his little tramp character.

In more recent times, it was replicated by Robert Downey Jr. in his lead role as Charles Chaplin in the 1992 Chaplin, Johnny Depp's character in the 1993 film Benny and Joon, Grampa Simpson in the 1994 episode of The Simpsons entitled " Lady Bouvier's Lover " and by Amy Adams ' character in The Muppets.

The Immigrant ( also called Broke ) is a silent 1917 American comedy short film starring the Charlie Chaplin Tramp character as an immigrant coming to the United States who is accused of theft on the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, and befriends a young woman along the way.

This plot was abandoned almost immediately, before Chaplin's character was introduced, the documentary states, and Chaplin began again, with a story, still set in a cafe, about a man who has never been in a restaurant before displaying terrible table manners before meeting a lovely girl ( Purviance ) and shaping up.

According to Unknown Chaplin, Chaplin developed the idea of the tramp and Purviance's character being immigrants when he realized he needed more plot to justify the restaurant scenes.

Modern Times is a 1936 comedy film by Charlie Chaplin that has his iconic Little Tramp character struggling to survive in the modern, industrialized world.

Chaplin famously feared that the mystery and romanticism of the tramp character would be ruined if he spoke, and feared it would alienate his fans in non-English speaking territories.

He starred as the title character in the 1992 film Chaplin, earning him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.

The film is structured around lengthy flashbacks as the elderly Chaplin ( now living in Switzerland ) recollects moments from his life during a conversation with fictional character George Hayden ( Anthony Hopkins ), the editor of his autobiography.

Chaplin attempted to film many of the scenes on location near Truckee, California, in early 1924.

Clark had assumed her recording of " This Is My Song " with the original quaint Chaplin lyrics would only be used as an album track ; on learning of Pye Records plan to release the track as a single she attempted to block its release.

" As part of his television documentary The Chaplin Puzzle ( 1992 ), director Don McGlynn included a " reconstruction " of Police which attempted to re-incorporate the flophouse sequence from Triple Trouble into the earlier film.

A member of NYMPC had seen Chaplin perform ( accounts of whom and where vary ) and felt that he would make a good replacement for Fred Mace, outgoing star of their Keystone Studios.

Chaplin reassured him, " I can make up as old as you like.

Chaplin also wished to " do something more " than comedy, and — as Louvish says —" make his mark on a changed world.

Having satisfied his First National contract, Chaplin was free to make his first picture for United Artists.

City Lights had been a success, but Chaplin was unsure if he could make another picture without dialogue.

To add to that, some audiences had come to expect Chaplin to make silent films even during the sound era.

In his 1964 autobiography, Chaplin stated that he would not have been able to make such jokes about the Nazi regime had the extent of the Nazi horrors been known, particularly the death camps and the Holocaust.

After the success of The Circus, Chaplin had originally wanted to make a film about a circus clown who goes blind and has to conceal his handicap from his young daughter by pretending that his inability to see were pratfalls.

The Tramp was closely identified with the silent era, and was considered an international character ; when the sound era began in the late 1920s, Chaplin refused to make a talkie featuring the character.

( In his book My Autobiography, Chaplin stated that he was unaware of the Holocaust when he made the film ; if he had been, he writes, he wouldn't have been able to make a comedy satirizing Hitler ).

Following the success of Modern Times, Chaplin planned other projects with Goddard in mind as a co-star, but he worked slowly and Goddard worried that the public might forget about her if she did not continue to make regular film appearances.

This beneficial typecasting is particularly common in action movies ( e. g., Jackie Chan ) and comedies ( Charlie Chaplin, Adam Sandler ) but much less common in drama, although many B-list character actors make careers out of playing a particular dramatic type, and it is often suggested to would-be actors that they audition for roles that fit their type.

Charlie Chaplin got his start at Keystone when Sennett hired him fresh from his vaudeville career to make silent films.

Carl was the next to attempt a vocal, but he then suggested that Chaplin make an attempt.

" As it was, Chaplin did not make an actual feature until The Kid ( 1921 ), and he seemed to agree with that aspect of the inherent value of Triple Trouble through including the title in the filmography attached to his autobiography in 1964.

He would go on to make more than a dozen films with Chaplin while at Keystone and the two became lifelong friends.