Although the film would have comic moments, Chaplin described it as first and foremost a romantic film.

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.

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.

The film, an atypical drama film for its creator, was written, directed, produced and later scored by Charlie Chaplin.

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.

Marcus Chaplin, in ABC's military drama TV series Last Resort.

The first time Dolphy played a serious role was in a 4-in-1 drama movie, with Barbara Perez who played a blind girl in the segment inspired by Charlie Chaplin ’ s movie City Lights.

En la ciudad sin límites ( In the City Without Limits ) is a 2002 Spanish-Argentine thriller drama film directed by Antonio Hernández and starring Leonardo Sbaraglia, Fernando Fernán Gómez and Geraldine Chaplin.

The use of pathos was developed further with The Bank, released four films and four months later, as Chaplin chose to have a sad ending.

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 also diverged from conventional slapstick by slowing down his pace and exhausting each scene of its comic potential, and focusing more on developing the viewer's relationship to the characters.

Sidney Drew was the leader in developing " polite comedy ", while slapstick was refined by Fatty Arbuckle and Charles Chaplin, who both started with Mack Sennet's Keystone company.

It would play an important role in developing slapstick comedy as the home to the Keystone Cops, English actor Charlie Chaplin, and others.

* Charlie Chaplin ( 1889 – 1977 ), an English comic actor and director who used mime, slapstick and other visual, non-verbal comedic routines.

While indeed silent ( except for one word and numerous sound effects ), the film is a parody of the silent film genre, particularly the slapstick comedies of Charlie Chaplin, Mack Sennett, and Buster Keaton.

Charlie Chaplin started his film career as a physical comedian ; although he developed additional means of comic expression, Chaplin's mature works continued to contain elements of slapstick.

Every slapstick comedian from Charlie Chaplin onwards has relied on the physical joke being made at just the right time.

Much of the film is slapstick comedy involving Chaplin manhandling large props, but other plotlines include a strike by the stagehands, and Purviance, who is unable to become an actress, dressing as a man and becoming a stagehand.

Linder's influence on film comedy and particularly on slapstick films is that the genre shifted from the " knockabout " comedies made by such people as Mack Sennett and André Deed to a more subtle, refined and character driven medium that would later be dominated by Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and others.

Chaplin thought the Keystone comedies " a crude mélange of rough and rumble ", but liked the idea of working in films and justified, " Besides, it would mean a new life ".

The comedies of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, the swashbuckling adventures of Douglas Fairbanks and the romances of Clara Bow, to cite just a few examples, made these performers ’ faces well-known on every continent.

Pathescope produced a large number of home versions of significant films, including Mickey Mouse and Betty Boop cartoons, classic features such as Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail, and comedies by such well-known stars as Laurel and Hardy and Chaplin.

It is best known today for its series of Charlie Chaplin comedies of 1915.

Chaplin made 14 short comedies for Essanay in 1915, at both the Chicago and Niles studios, plus a cameo appearance in one of the Broncho Billy westerns.

Chaplin was the studio's biggest moneymaker, and Essanay resorted to creating " new " Chaplin comedies from file footage and out-takes.

His Keystone credentials were good enough to get him steady work as a comedy director with other companies ; he directed many of Chaplin imitator Billy West's comedies, which featured a young Oliver Hardy as villain.

Since then he has gone on to become one of the highest-paid stars on British TV, mostly in comedies, appearing in shows such as Only When I Laugh ( as Roy Figgis ), The Beiderbecke Affair ( as Trevor Chaplin ), The Beiderbecke Tapes, Andy Capp ( in the title role ), The Beiderbecke Connection, Second Thoughts ( as Bill MacGregor ), Midsomer Murders, Pay and Display, Dalziel and Pascoe, Close and True, Born and Bred ( as Dr. Arthur Gilder ), and New Tricks ( as Jack Halford ).

In 1932, Van Beuren purchased 12 Charlie Chaplin silent films ( his 1916 -' 18 " Lone Star " comedies for Mutual Film Corporation ) for $ 10, 000 apiece, added music ( by Rodemich or Sharples ) and sound effects, and reissued them through RKO.

Díaz Quesada adapted from the Spanish novelist Joaquín Dicenta in 1910, as a tendency widely used then, of using literary works adapted for movies, as well as imitating Chaplin, the French comedies and cowboys adventure films.

Silent comedy like Chaplin, Hal Beetle's Beetle Boy comedies, Buster Keaton, etc.

In the early years of " talkie " films ( beginning in 1927, see The Jazz Singer ) a few actors continued to act silently for comedic effect, most famously Charlie Chaplin, whose last great " silent " comedies City Lights ( 1931 ) and Modern Times ( 1936 ) were both made in the sound age.

Syd and Minnie Chaplin arrived in California, then, in October 1914 and he made a few comedies there, including the " Gussle " comedies and the feature-length A Submarine Pirate in 1915, which, second to Tillie's Punctured Romance, was the most financially successful comedy Keystone ever made.

Charlie Chaplin was one of the most famous practitioners of the toothbrush moustache, first adopting it sometime after 1914 for his Mack Sennett silent comedies.

Besides these comedies, the two appeared together in a variety of other films, twenty-six all told, and they also appeared separately and / or together in films starring Mabel Normand, Charles Chaplin, Roscoe Arbuckle and most of the rest of the roster of Keystone players.

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.

However, Annette Insdorf, in her book Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust, writes that " There was something curiously appropriate about the little tramp impersonating the dictator, for by 1939 Hitler and Chaplin were perhaps the two most famous men in the world.

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.

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.

The Baron was an impoverished English nobleman, a tramp inspired by Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin.

In the film, Kapoor's poor, innocent " little tramp " character references Charlie Chaplin and was further developed in other Kapoor films such as Shri 420.

Released in 1915, it is a departure from the tramp character, as Charlie Chaplin plays a janitor at a bank.