Charlie Chaplin Biography
Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin (born in Walworth, London, England, United Kingdom, died in Vevey, Switzerland) was an English comedian, actor and film director in the silent film period. He was one of the most famous movie stars by the end of WWI. Chaplin used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy with a certain sense of what was funny. He continued well into the audio file while age, but his films were more rarely from the late 1920's. His most famous role was as the Tramp, which he first performed in the film company Keystone Studios' film Kid Auto Races at Venice in 1914. From April of that year, with enrullsfilmen Twenty Minutes of Love onwards, he wrote and directed himself most of his films. From 1916 he was also a producer, and in 1918 he composed music as well. Together with
Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and DW Griffith, he was co-founded film company United Artists in 1919.
Chaplin was one of the most creative and influential personalities in the silent period. He was inspired by the French silent movie comedian Max Linder, which he dedicated one of his movies to. Chaplin's career in entertainment spanned over 75 years, from the Victorian era and varietéer in England as a child performer until 1970, shortly before he died at the age of 88 years. His high-profile public and private life consisted of both excessive flattery and the strife. During the McCarthy era in the early 1950s forced Chaplin's association with leftist and his freedom of thought him to leave the United States and settle in Europe.
In 1999, rated the American Film Institute Chaplin as the 10th biggest male movie legend of all time. In 2008, Martin Sieff wrote in a review of the book Chaplin: A Life, written by the psychoanalyst Stephen M. Weissman: "Chaplin was not only" great "he was enormous. In 1915 he broke out into a world torn by war to give away the gift of comedy, laughter and relief while the world was torn apart in the first world war. Over the next 25 years, through the Great Depression and the rise of
Adolf Hitler, he stayed on the job ... It is doubtful whether anyone else has ever given more entertainment, pleasure and relief to so many people when they needed it most. "George Bernard Shaw called Chaplin of" the only genius that the film industry has brought forth. "
Our collection contains 40 quotes who is written / told by Charlie, under the main topic
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Related authors: Adolf Hitler (Criminal), Fatty Arbuckle (Comedian), Mary Pickford (Actress), George Bernard Shaw (Dramatist), Louise Brooks (Actress), D. W. Griffith (Director), Otto Friedrich (Writer)
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