* Borzoi can also been seen in cameo roles in the films Love at First Bite, Legends of the Fall (" Notchee Boy "), Excalibur, All Dogs Go to Heaven ( 1989 ), Bride of Frankenstein, Easter Parade, Wolfen, Ziegfeld Follies, Onegin ( 1999 ), Gangs of New York ( 2002 ), Chaplin, The Avengers ( TV series ), JAG, Maverick ( 1994 ), Sleepy Hollow, Last Action Hero, and A Knights Tale ( on the DVD deleted scenes ).

Chaplin quickly began work in another role, touring with his brother — who was also pursuing an acting career — in a comedy sketch called Repairs.

Karno selected his new star to join a fraction of the company that toured North America's vaudeville circuit ; he also signed Chaplin to a new contract, which doubled his pay.

With an insurance of $ 1, 500 promised in case of failure, Sennett also allowed Chaplin to direct his own film.

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

One advantage Chaplin found in sound technology was the ability to record a musical score for the film ; he also took the opportunity to mock the talkies, opening City Lights with a squeaky, unintelligible speech that " burlesqued the metallic tones of early talky voices ".

Federal prosecutors also brought Mann Act charges against Chaplin related to Barry in 1944, of which he was acquitted.

Chaplin decided not to release the film in the United States, which also meant that it was financially much less successful than his earlier films, despite moderate commercial success in Europe.

Chaplin also concentrated on his family, to which he and Oona added three more children, Jane Cecil ( b. 23 May 1957 ), Annette Emily ( b. 3 December 1959 ) and Christopher James ( b. 8 July 1962 ).

The impresario also taught his comedians to vary the pace of their comedy, that a hectic speed was not necessary, and used elements of absurdity that would become familiar in Chaplin gags.

However, he also often relied on help from his closest collaborators, such as his long-time cinematographer Roland Totheroh, brother Sydney Chaplin and various assistant directors, such as Harry Crocker and Charles Reisner.

He also often employed inanimate objects in his films, often transforming them into other objects in an almost surreal way, such as in The Pawnshop ( 1916 ) and One A. M. ( 1916 ), where Chaplin is the only actor aside Chester Conklin's brief appearance in the very first scene.

Alongside acting, directing, writing, producing, and editing, Chaplin also composed the musical scores for his films.

Chaplin also received his only competitive Oscar for his composition work, receiving the Academy Award for Best Original Score for Limelight ( along with Raymond Rasch and Larry Russell ) in 1973.

In 2011 two murals depicting Chaplin on two 14-storey buildings were also unveiled in Vevey.

In 1998, Chaplin also received a statue in Waterville, Ireland, where he spent several summers with his family in the 1960s.

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.

Retrospectives of his work were presented that year at The National Film Theatre in London, the Munich Stadtmuseum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which also dedicated a gallery exhibition, Chaplin: A Centennial Celebration, to him.

Chaplin has also been remembered in several other ways.

Richard Attenborough directed a film on Chaplin's life, Chaplin ( 1992 ), which starred Robert Downey, Jr. as Chaplin and also included Chaplin's oldest daughter Geraldine Chaplin playing his mother, Hannah Chaplin.

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.

He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I. Chaplin used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency from the end of the 1920s.

Chaplin was identified with left-wing politics during the McCarthy era and he was ultimately forced to resettle in Europe from 1952.

Charles Chaplin Sr. was by then a severe alcoholic, and life with the man was bad enough to provoke a visit from the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

" It was like tidings from heaven ", Chaplin recalled.

Chaplin starred in the West End production at the Duke of York's Theatre from 17 October to 2 December 1905.

As his Essanay contract came to an end, and fully aware of his popularity, Chaplin requested a $ 150, 000 signing bonus from his next studio.

David Robinson notes that the film provided " a welcome distraction " from the " wretchedness " of his home life ; Grey was pregnant for a second time, frustrating Chaplin and exacerbating difficulties between the pair.

Maland has identified it as triggering Chaplin's decline in popularity, and writes, " Henceforth, no movie fan would ever be able to separate the dimension of politics from the star image of Charles Spencer Chaplin.

In February 2012 an MI5 file on Chaplin was opened to the public which revealed that the FBI had contacted the British secret service to provide them with information which would enable them to ban Chaplin from the US.

Chaplin founded a new production company, Attica, for the film and rented a studio from Shepperton Studios for the shooting.

Shortly after the publication of his memoirs, Chaplin began work on what would be his final completed film, A Countess from Hong Kong ( 1967 ), based on a script he had written for Paulette Goddard in the 1930s.

In order to promote the re-releases, Chaplin travelled to the US in 1972 for the first time in twenty years to receive a lifetime achievement award from the Lincoln Center Film Society and an Academy Honorary Award for " the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century ".

Chaplin died in his sleep from the complications of a stroke in the early morning of 25 December 1977 at his home in Switzerland.

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.

After his death, film historians Kevin Brownlow and David Gill examined out-takes from the Mutual films and presented their findings in a three-part documentary Unknown Chaplin ( 1983 ).

Chaplin portrayed social outcasts and the poor in a sympathetic light in his films from early on.

Chaplin considered the musical accompaniment of a film to be important, and from A Woman of Paris onwards, he took an increasing interest in this area.

For the first time in many years, German audiences had free access to cinema from around the world and in this period the films of Charlie Chaplin remained popular, as were melodramas from the United States.

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

Keller met every U. S. President from Grover Cleveland to Lyndon B. Johnson and was friends with many famous figures, including Alexander Graham Bell, Charlie Chaplin and Mark Twain.