Charles “Charlie” Chaplin (April 16, 1889 – December 25, 1977) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best-known for his work during the silent film era. He used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency by the end of the 1920s. His most famous role was that of The Tramp, which he first played in Kid Auto Races (1914). From 1914 onwards he was writing and directing most of his films, by 1916 he was producing them, and by 1918 he was also composing the music for them. In 1919 he co-founded United Artists. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Chaplin the 10th greatest male screen legend of all time.

Filmography

• 2026Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas — The Lone Prospector (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2026Training Day — Original Concept
• 2024Smile! — Archive footage
• 2020Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty — Self (archive footage), Original Music Composer
• 2019Hollywood's Second World War — Adenoid Hynkel (archive footage)
• 2018A diktátor (színházi felvétel) — Writer
• 2018Optimism — Music
• 2017The Chaplin Mutuals, Vol. 2
• 2016Chaplin/Keaton: Duel of Legends — (archive footage)
• 2015The Little Tramp — Music
• 2014A Night at the Cinema in 1914 — (archive footage)
• 2014Chaplin's Mutual Comedies 1916-1917 — Director
• 2012Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen — (archive footage)
• Chaplin — Characters
• 2010Charlie Chaplin - Frühe Meisterwerke 2 — Director, Writer
• 2009Hollywood sul Tevere
• 2009The Parrott Chase — (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2008Warner at War — (archive footage)
• 2007Bravo Charlot! — Various characters (archive footage)
• 2007Hitler: The Comedy Years — Adenoid Hynkel (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2007Kings of Comedy: Masters of the Silent Screen — (archive footage)
• 2004The Essential Charlie Chaplin: Vol. 1
• 2004The Essential Charlie Chaplin: Vol. 9
• 2003Charlie Chaplin: His Life & Work — (archive footage)
• 1995The Casting Couch
• 1992Chaplin — Book
• 1990Stalin's Funeral — Music
• 1988Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies — (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1984Charlie Chaplin at Mutual Studios I — (archive footage), Director
• 1983En Büyük Şaban — Writer
• Hollywood — Self (archive footage, uncredited)
• 1979The Hollywood Clowns — (archive footage)
• 1967A Countess from Hong Kong — An Old Steward, Producer, Director, Screenplay, Original Music Composer
• 1964The Big Parade of Comedy — Actor in Theater Lobby (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 196330 Years of Fun — (archive footage)
• 1962Crazy Days — Various (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1960Lifetime of Comedy — (archive footage)
• 1960When Comedy Was King — (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1959The Chaplin Revue — Narrator / Various (archive footage), Producer, Writer, Director, Music Director, Director of Operations
• 1957A King in New York — King Shahdov, Director, Writer, Original Music Composer, Producer
• 1955All in Good Fun — Archive Footage
• The Oscars
• 1953Yesterday and Today — (archive footage)
• 1952Limelight — Calvero, Original Story, Producer, Original Music Composer, Director, Screenplay, Choreographer
• 1951A Burlesque on the Opera "Carmen" — Darn Hosiery, Co-Director
• 1950The Golden Twenties — (archive footage)
• 1947Monsieur Verdoux — Henri Verdoux, Writer, Director, Producer, Original Music Composer
• 1947The Way of the World — The Tramp (Archive Footage)
• 1944Charlie's Triple Trouble — Charlie - The Janitor (archive footage)
• 1941The Chaplin Cavalcade — Various Roles (archive footage), Producer, Writer, Director
• 1941The Charlie Chaplin Festival — Various Roles (archive footage), Writer, Director
• 1940The Great Dictator — Adenoid Hynkel, Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber, Producer, Original Music Composer, Director, Screenplay
• 1938Chaplin Carnival — Various Roles (archive footage), Director, Producer, Writer
• 1936Modern Times — The Tramp (A Factory Worker), Producer, Screenplay, Director, Editor, Original Music Composer
• 1933The Film Parade — (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1932The Movie Album — (archive footage)
• 1931City Lights — A Tramp, Producer, Screenplay, Editor, Original Music Composer, Director
• 1928Show People — Charlie Chaplin (uncredited)
• 1928The Circus — A Tramp, Director, Writer, Producer, Theme Song Performance, Editor, Music
• 1926A Woman of the Sea — Producer
• 1926Camille: The Fate of a Coquette — Mike
• 1925The Gold Rush — The Lone Prospector, Director, Writer
• 1923A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate — Station Porter (uncredited), Original Music Composer, Writer, Director, Producer
• 1923Hollywood — Charles Chaplin
• 1923The Pilgrim — The Pilgrim / Lefty Lombard, Director, Writer, Editor, Songs, Producer
• 1922Nice and Friendly — Tramp, Director, Writer
• 1922Pay Day — Laborer, Writer, Director, Music, Producer, Editor
• 1922Seeing Stars — Self, Producer
• 1921The Idle Class — Tramp / Husband, Writer, Director, Music, Producer, Editor
• 1921The Kid — A Tramp, Director, Producer, Writer, Original Music Composer, Editor
• 1920Charlie Butts In — Director, Writer
• 1919A Day's Pleasure — Father, Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Music
• 1919Sunnyside — Farm Handyman, Writer, Director, Editor, Producer
• 1919The Professor — Professor Bosco, Director
• 1918A Dog's Life — Tramp, Director, Writer, Editor, Producer, Original Music Composer
• 1918Chase Me Charlie — Charlie, Director, Writer
• 1918How to Make Movies — Self (uncredited), Writer, Producer, Director
• 1918Shoulder Arms — Doughboy, Director, Editor, Producer, Original Music Composer, Screenplay
• 1918The Bond — Charlie, Director, Writer
• 1918The Chaplin Essanay Project — Director
• 1918Triple Trouble — The Janitor, Screenplay, Director, Story
• 1917Charlie Chaplin Meets Harry Lauder — A Tramp, Producer, Writer, Director
• 1917Easy Street — The Derelict, Screenplay, Director, Producer, Editor
• 1917The Adventurer — The Eel / Commodore Slick, Director, Editor, Producer, Screenplay
• 1917The Cure — The Inebriate, Story, Director, Screenplay, Editor, Producer
• 1917The Immigrant — Immigrant, Director, Producer, Editor, Screenplay
• 1916Behind the Screen — David - Property Man's Assistant, Director, Editor, Producer, Screenplay
• 1916One A.M. — Le bourgeois alcoolisé, Producer, Writer, Editor, Director
• 1916Police — Charlie, Convict 999, Writer, Director
• 1916The Count — Tailor's Apprentice, Producer, Director, Editor, Screenplay
• 1916The Fireman — Fireman, Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
• 1916The Floorwalker — Impecunious Customer, Director, Screenplay, Producer, Editor
• 1916The Pawnshop — Pawnbroker's Assistant, Screenplay, Director, Producer, Editor
• 1916The Rink — A Waiter, Director, Producer, Editor, Screenplay
• 1916The Vagabond — The Saloon Violinist, Producer, Director, Writer, Supervising Film Editor
• 1916Zepped — The Tramp (archive footage)
• 1915A Burlesque on Carmen — Darn Hosiery, Director, Writer
• 1915A Jitney Elopement — Suitor, the Fake Count, Writer, Director, Editor
• 1915A Night Out — Reveller, Writer, Director, Editor
• 1915A Night in the Show — Mr. Pest / Mr. Rowdy, Writer, Director, Editor
• 1915A Woman — Gentleman / 'Nora Nettlerash', Director, Writer, Editor
• 1915By the Sea — Stroller, Director, Writer, Editor
• 1915His New Job — Film Extra, Director, Writer, Editor
• 1915His Regeneration — A Customer
• 1915In the Park — Charlie, Director, Screenplay, Editor
• 1915Shanghaied — Tramp, Writer, Director, Editor
• 1915The Bank — Janitor, Director, Writer, Editor
• 1915The Champion — Challenger, Director, Writer, Editor
• 1915The Tramp — The Tramp, Director, Writer, Editor
• 1915Work — Izzy A. Wake's assistant, Writer, Director, Editor
• 1914A Busy Day — Wife, Screenplay, Editor
• 1914A Film Johnnie — The Film Johnnie aka The Tramp, Writer
• 1914A Thief Catcher — Cop (uncredited)
• 1914Between Showers — The Tramp, a Second Gallant, Screenplay
• 1914Caught in a Cabaret — Waiter, Writer
• 1914Caught in the Rain — Tipsy Hotel Guest aka The Tramp (uncredited), Director, Editor
• 1914Cruel, Cruel Love — Mr. Dovey
• 1914Dough and Dynamite — Pierre, Director, Writer, Editor
• 1914Gentlemen of Nerve — Mr. Wow-Woe, Track Fanatic, Director, Editor, Writer
• 1914Getting Acquainted — Mr. Sniffels, Director, Writer, Editor
• 1914Her Friend the Bandit — Bandit, Writer
• 1914His Favorite Pastime — Drunken Masher, Writer
• 1914His Musical Career — Charlie, Piano Mover, Director, Editor, Writer
• 1914His New Profession — Charlie, Director, Editor, Writer
• 1914His Prehistoric Past — Weakchin, Writer, Director, Editor
• 1914His Trysting Places — Clarence, the Husband, Director, Writer, Editor
• 1914Kid Auto Races at Venice — The Tramp, Screenplay
• 1914Laughing Gas — Dentist's assistant, Director, Editor
• 1914Mabel at the Wheel — Villain (uncredited), Writer
• 1914Mabel's Busy Day — Tipsy Nuisance, Writer
• 1914Mabel's Married Life — Mabel's Husband, Writer, Editor
• 1914Mabel's Strange Predicament — The Tramp (uncredited), Screenplay
• 1914Making a Living — The Swindler (uncredited)
• 1914Recreation — Tramp, Director, Writer, Editor
• 1914Tango Tangles — Tipsy Dancer, Writer
• 1914The Face on the Barroom Floor — Artist, Director, Editor, Writer
• 1914The Fatal Mallet — Suitor aka The Tramp (uncredited)
• 1914The Knockout — Referee (uncredited), Writer
• 1914The Masquerader — Film actor, Director, Writer, Editor
• 1914The New Janitor — The Janitor, Director, Editor, Writer
• 1914The Property Man — Property Man (uncredited), Director, Writer, Editor
• 1914The Rounders — Mr. Full, Director, Writer, Editor
• 1914The Star Boarder — The Star Boarder aka The Tramp (uncredited)
• 1914Those Love Pangs — Masher, Director, Editor, Writer
• 1914Tillie's Punctured Romance — The City Guy
• 1914Twenty Minutes of Love — Pickpocket, Director

Appearances as themselves (92)

• 2028Charmed Lives: A Family Romance — Self (archive footage)
• 2025Chaplin et Les temps modernes, La voie du silence — Self (archive footage)
• 2025Chaplin: Spirit of the Tramp — Self (Archive Footage)
• 2025Gene Kelly: An American in Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
• 2025John Candy: I Like Me — Self - Actor (archive footage)
• 2025One to One: John & Yoko — Self (archive footage)
• 2024High & Low – John Galliano — Self (archive footage)
• 2024Life and Deaths of Max Linder — Self (archive footage)
• 2024Remembering Gene Wilder — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Le Baron et l'Empereur : Japon, la voie de la guerre — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse — Self
• The Century of Icons — Self (archive footage)
• 2021The Real Charlie Chaplin — Self (archive footage)
• 2021The Spanish Flu: The Invisible Enemy — Self (archive footage)
• 2021This Is Francis X. Bushman — Self (Archive Footage)
• 2020A Night at the Opera — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Chaplin vs the FBI — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Churchill and the Movie Mogul — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Sophia Loren, a special destiny — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Propaganda: Engineering Consent — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
• 2018Геннадий Хазанов. Лицо под маской — Self
• 2017Chaplin in Bali — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Charlie Chaplin: The Long Year at Essanay — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
• 2016Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died — Self (archive footage)
• 2015Chaplin's Limelight: Its Evolution and Intimacy — Self (archive footage)
• 2015Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star — Self (archive footage)
• 2015Looking for Mabel Normand — Self (archive footage)
• 2014Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century — Self (archive footage)
• 2013Birth of the Tramp — Self (archive footage)
• 2012Chaplin at Keystone — Self (archive footage)
• 2011Bali: Island of the Dogs — Self (archive footage)
• 2011Dancing Chaplin — Self (archive footage)
• 2011The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet — Self (archive footage)
• 2010Sigrid Holmquist — Himself (archive footage)
• 2008Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies — Self (archive footage)
• 2007The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk — Self (archive footage)
• 2007Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema — Self (archive footage)
• 2005Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler — Self (archive footage)
• 2003Chaplin Today: A King in New York — Self (archive footage)
• 2003Chaplin Today: A Woman of Paris — Self (archive footage)
• 2003Chaplin Today: City Lights — Self (archive footage)
• 2003Chaplin Today: Limelight — Self (archive footage)
• 2003Chaplin Today: Modern Times — Self (archive footage)
• 2003Chaplin Today: Monsieur Verdoux — Self (archive footage)
• 2003Chaplin Today: The Circus — Self (archive footage)
• 2003Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush — Self (archive footage)
• 2003Chaplin Today: The Great Dictator — Self (archive footage)
• 2003Chaplin Today: The Kid — Self (archive footage)
• 2003Murders of Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
• 2002The Tramp and the Dictator — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2000Buñuel in Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
• 1998Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life — Self (archive footage)
• 1998Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists — Self / Various roles (archive footage)
• 1997Birth of a Nation — Self
• 1997Sports on the Silver Screen — Self (archive footage)
• 1996Chaplin's Goliath — Self (archive footage)
• 1995El último panfleto — Self
• 1995The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies — Self (archive footage)
• 1994The Grave Case of Charlie Chaplin — Self (archive footage)
• 1992The Chaplin Puzzle — Self / The Tramp (archive footage)
• American Experience — Self
• 1988The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind — Self - In Clip with Paulette Goddard (archive footage)
• Sacrée soirée — Self (archive footage)
• 1984Going Hollywood: The '30s — Self (archive footage)
• 1983Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Unknown Chaplin — Self & in Out-Takes
• 1982Hollywood’s Children — Self (archive footage)
• 1980Charlie Chaplin: The Little Tramp — Self (archive footage)
• 1977Hitler: A Career — Self (archive footage)
• 1977ViennaFilm 1896-1976 — Self (archive footage)
• 1976It's Showtime — Self (archive footage)
• 1976The Gentleman Tramp — Self
• 1975Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? — Self (archive footage)
• Spécial cinéma — Self (archive footage)
• 1973Charlie Chaplin's visit to the French Cinematheque — Self
• 1970Brasileiros em Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
• Omnibus — Self
• 1967The Funniest Man in the World — Self (archive footage)
• 1961Days of Thrills and Laughter — Self (archive footage)
• The DuPont Show of the Week — Self (archive footage)
• 1961The Legend of Rudolph Valentino — Self (archive footage)
• 1954German Giants — Self
• 1950Life Begins Tomorrow — Self (archive footage)
• 1940The Eternal Jew — Self (1931) (archive footage)
• 1933All at Sea — Self
• 1933Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1931Charlie Chaplin in Wien — Self (archive footage)
• 1928The Circus: Premiere — Self
• 1928The Movie City of Hollywood — Self
• 1923Souls for Sale — Self - Celebrity Director
• 1917Max Linder Visits Charlie Chaplin — Self