There is no official record of his birth, although Chaplin believed he was born at East Street, Walworth, in South London.

The state of labour in America was troubling to Chaplin ; he told an interviewer, " Something is wrong.

That Chaplin was unprepared to remain abroad, or that the revocation of his right to re-enter the United States was a surprise to him, may be apocryphal: An anecdote in some contradiction is recorded during a broad interview with Richard Avedon, celebrated New York portraitist.

Its protagonist is an exiled king, played by Chaplin, who arrives in New York with a plan to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

Robinson writes that it is possible the Chaplin experienced a series of minor strokes during his convalescence, which marked the beginning of a slow decline in his health.

His fourth wife, Oona Chaplin, is buried next to him.

This is one reason why Chaplin took so much longer to complete his films than most other filmmakers at the time.

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.

To some scholars, such as Donald McCaffrey, this is an indication that Chaplin never completely understood film as a medium, but Gerald Mast has argued that by deliberately adopting this approach, Chaplin made " all consciousness of the cinematic medium disappear so completely that we concentrate solely on the photographic subject rather than the process ".

According to film historian Jeffrey Vance, " although he relied upon associates to arrange varied and complex instrumentation, the musical imperative is his, and not a note in a Chaplin musical score was placed there without his assent.

* 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 ).

A minor planet, 3623 Chaplin, discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Karachkina in 1981, is named after him.

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.

The musical is to be adapted for Broadway in 2012, retitled Chaplin – A Musical.

Chaplin is portrayed by Robert McClure in both.

Chaplin is also one of the central characters in Glen David Gold's novel Sunnyside, which is set in the World War I period.

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Decades later, he told the American writer on Japanese film Donald Richie, " I'm still a cartoonist and I think that the greatest influence on my films ( besides Chaplin, particularly The Gold Rush ) is probably Disney.

Another, more obvious reference to Hollywood is the Charlie Chaplin impersonator who provides comic relief throughout the film.

A much more comprehensive list of inhabitants between 1815-1821 is provided by Chaplin, Arnold, A St Helena's Who's Who or a Directory of the Island During the Captivity of Napoleon, published by the author in 1914.

The play is similar to the film The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), which also featured an absurd parody of Hitler by Charlie Chaplin.

** Charlie Chaplin is knighted by Elizabeth II.

The breakaway group felt that his work was no longer relevant, while having appreciated it " in its own time ," and asserted their belief " that the most urgent expression of freedom is the destruction of idols, especially when they claim to represent freedom ," in this case, filmmaker Charlie Chaplin.

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.

* Kevin Dunn in the film Chaplin ( 1992 ).

Dan Aykroyd portrays Mack Sennett in the 1992 movie Chaplin.

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.

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

In 1992, he starred as Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin, a role for which he prepared extensively, learning how to play the violin and tennis left-handed.

* The Thames at Cliveden appears in both Chaplin ( 1992 ) and Carrington ( 1995 ).

Goddard was portrayed by Diane Lane in the 1992 film Chaplin, and by actress Natalie Wilder in the 2011 play Puma, written by Julie Gilbert, who had also written the joint biography, Opposite Attraction: The Lives of Erich Maria Remarque and Paulette Goddard.

He was one of a number of writers who worked on Chaplin ( 1992 ).

She subsequently appeared in a number of other theatrical movies, notably as Edna Purviance in Chaplin in 1992 and with Al Pacino in Carlito's Way in 1993.

Normand is played by actress Marisa Tomei in the 1992 film Chaplin, by Morganne Picard in the motion picture Return to Babylon ( 2008 ), and by Penelope Lagos in the first bio-pic about her life, a 35-minute dramatic short film entitled Madcap Mabel ( 2010 ).

She played her grandmother in the biopic, Chaplin ( 1992 ) for which she received her third Golden Globe nomination.

In 1992, she played the role of her grandmother Hannah Chaplin in the biographical film about her father, Chaplin, for which she was nominated for another Golden Globe award.

Part of the 1980 film The Long Good Friday and the 1992 biopic of Charlie Chaplin.

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He also appeared in the 1992 Oscar-nominated semi-biographical film Chaplin, and was the English-language voice of Obelix in the 1994 film of Asterix in America to Craig Charles ' Asterix.

* Chaplin ( 1992 ) – J. Edgar Hoover

In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Chaplin the 10th greatest male screen legend of all time.

The same year, a study by the Boston Society for Psychical Research concluded that Chaplin was " an American obsession.

In American film, the most prominent comic actors of the silent era were Charlie Chaplin ( although born in England, his success was principally in the U. S .), Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd.

* 1912 – Saul Chaplin, American composer ( d. 1997 )

Considered to be one of the most important actors in American cinema, Brando was one of only three professional actors, along with Charlie Chaplin and Marilyn Monroe, named by Time magazine as one of its 100 Persons of the Century in 1999.

Eisenstein and his entourage spent considerable time with Charlie Chaplin, who recommended that Eisenstein meet with a sympathetic benefactor in the person of American socialist author Upton Sinclair.

** Charles Chaplin Jr., American actor ( b. 1925 )

* May 5 – Charles Chaplin Jr., American actor ( d. 1968 )

Building on its later popularity in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century ethnic routines of the American vaudeville house, the style was explored extensively during the " golden era " of black and white, silent movies directed by figures Mack Sennett and Hal Roach and featuring such notables as Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, the Keystone Kops, Gumball ( TV series ) the Three Stooges and El Chavo.

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These included Justin Winsor, a historical scholar, Charles Eliot Norton, a Harvard professor, William H. Whitmore, author of Elements of Heraldry, John Denison Chaplin, Jr., an expert on engraving and associate editor of American Cyclopædia, the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and even the botanist Asa Gray to help with the olive branch.

City Lights is a 1931 American silent film and romantic comedy-drama written by, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin.

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.

The precursor to modern-day Perryville was Harbeson's Station, a fort alongside the Chaplin River, settled during the final stages of the American Revolution.

Ralph Hosea Chaplin ( 1887 — 1961 ) was an American writer, artist and labor activist.

* Ralph Chaplin, Wobbly: The Rough-and-Tumble Story of an American Radical ( The University of Chicago Press, 1948 ).

* Ralph Chaplin, " Why I Wrote Solidarity Forever ," American West, vol.

In a scene of British soldiers drinking in an estaminet, a chanteuse ( Pia Colombo ) leads them in a jolly chorus of " The Moon Shines Bright On Charlie Chaplin ", a reworking of an American song then shifts the mood back to darker tone by singing a soft and sombre version of " Adieu la vie ".

Grieve, Charlie Chaplin, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Herbert Read, Aldous Huxley, Storm Jameson, Eimar O ’ Duffy, Sybil Thorndyke, Bonamy Dobrée, Eric de Maré and the American publisher James Laughlin.

The coloured ( not black ) band Flames also gained a following, and soon contributed two members ( Blondie Chaplin and Ricky Fataar ) to American band The Beach Boys.

She has been credited as an extra in Chaplin's final two American movies, Monsieur Verdoux and Limelight ; Chaplin kept her on his payroll until her death.

Two men were nominated for the position — Edwards's son-in-law, Chichester Chaplin, seen as the representative for the newly arrived immigrants, and Samuel Norris, an American who had married the daughter of a long-time resident and was sympathetic to the more established residents.