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| honorific_prefix   = [[Sir]]
| name               = Charlie Chaplin
| honorific_suffix   = {{post-nominals|size=100%|country=GBR|KBE}}
| image              = Charlie Chaplin portrait Getty 1739411952.jpg
| caption            = Chaplin in 1921
| birth_name         = Charles Spencer Chaplin
| birth_date         = {{birth date|df=y|1889|4|16}}
| birth_place        = [[Walworth, London]], England
| death_date         = {{death date and age|df=y|1977|12|25|1889|4|16}}
| death_place        = [[Manoir de Ban]], [[Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut District, Vaud]], Switzerland
| resting_place      = Cimetière de Corsier-sur-Vevey, [[Corsier-sur-Vevey]], Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut District, Vaud, Switzerland
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| occupation         = {{hlist|Actor|comedian|director|composer|screenwriter|producer|editor}}
| years_active       = 1899–1975
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| works              = [[Charlie Chaplin filmography|Full list]]
| spouse             = {{Unbulleted list |
   | {{marriage|[[Mildred Harris]]|1918|1920|reason=divorced}}
   | {{marriage|[[Lita Grey]]|1924|1927|reason=divorced}}
   | {{marriage|[[Paulette Goddard]]|1936|1942|reason=divorced}}
   | {{marriage|[[Oona O'Neill]]<br>|1943<!--Year omitted when marriage ends by death of article subject, per Template:Marriage instructions-->}}
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| children           = 11, including [[Charles Chaplin Jr.|Charles]], [[Sydney Chaplin (American actor)|Sydney]], [[Geraldine Chaplin|Geraldine]], [[Michael Chaplin (actor)|Michael]], [[Josephine Chaplin|Josephine]], [[Victoria Chaplin|Victoria]], [[Eugene Chaplin|Eugene]], and [[Christopher Chaplin|Christopher]]
| parents            = [[Charles Chaplin Sr.]]<br>[[Hannah Chaplin|Hannah Hill]]
| relatives          = [[Chaplin family]]
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| signature          = Firma de Charles Chaplin.svg
| website            = {{url|charliechaplin.com}}
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'''Sir Charles Spencer'''  "'''Charlie'''" '''Chaplin''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KBE}} (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer. He was famous in [[silent movie]]s (where there was no talking or sound). He acted, directed, scripted, and produced many of them.

Charlie Chaplin was a performer for almost 70 [[year]]s. He started working when he was 5, and worked until he was 80. The character that Charlie Chaplin played most was called "the Little Tramp".
== Biography ==
Charles Spencer Chaplin was born on 16 April 1889 in [[London]], [[England]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]]. Chaplin had a rough childhood; his mother, [[Hannah Hill Chaplin]], a talented singer, actress, and piano player, spent most of her life in and out of mental hospitals. His father, [[Charles Spencer Chaplin Sr]]. was a fairly successful singer until he began drinking. After his parents separated, Charlie and his half-brother, Sidney, spent most of their childhood in orphanages, where they often went hungry and were beaten if they misbehaved. He first started acting at age five. He acted in a music hall in [[1894]], standing in for his mother.

When Charlie was a child, he was kept in bed for many weeks from a bad illness. At night, his mother would sit at the window and act out what was going on outside. His first important work came when he joined The Eight Lancashire Lads. In [[1900]], his brother Sydney helped him get the role of a comic cat in the pantomime ''Cinderella''. In 1903 he was in a play called “Jim: A Romance of Cockayne”. Chaplin was in Casey's 'Court Circus' variety show. The next year, he became a clown in Fred Karno's 'Fun Factory' comedy company.
== Assassination attempt ==
Chaplin was the target of an assassination attempt which took the life of [[Prime Minister of Japan]] [[Inukai Tsuyoshi]].

On 15 May 1932, [[Prime Minister of Japan|Prime Minister]] [[Inukai Tsuyoshi]] was shot by eleven young naval officers (most were just turning twenty years of age) in the prime minister's residence.<ref>Toland, ''The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945''</ref> The original assassination plan had included killing Chaplin who had arrived in Japan on 14 May 1932, at a reception for Chaplin, planned by Prime Minister Inukai. When the prime minister was killed, his son [[Inukai Takeru]] was watching a [[sumo]] wrestling match with Charlie Chaplin, which probably saved both their lives.<ref>''Erotic Grotesque Nonsense:The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times'', p.1 - Miriam Silverberg, 2006 Univ of California Press.</ref>
== Awards ==
Chaplin won two special [[Oscars]]. Chaplin had first been chosen for both "Best Actor" and "Best Comedy Directing". But then, instead, he was given a special award "for versatility and genius in acting, writing, directing and producing". Chaplin's second special award came 44 years later, in [[1972]]. When getting this award, Chaplin had the longest standing ovation (people standing up and clapping) in Academy Award history.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/charlie-chaplin-prepares-for-return-to-united-states-after-two-decades|title=Charlie Chaplin prepares for return to United States after two decades|publisher=A&E Television Networks|accessdate=30 June 2010}}</ref> In 1976 he was given the [[BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award]], a lifetime achievement award. Chaplin became the first actor to have appeared on the cover of [[Time (magazine)|Time]] in 1925.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tiptoptens.com/2011/04/18/10-interesting-facts-about-charlie-chaplin/|title=10 Interesting Facts about Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)|publisher=TipTopTens.com|accessdate=7 September 2013|archive-date=8 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130608175729/http://www.tiptoptens.com/2011/04/18/10-interesting-facts-about-charlie-chaplin/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Myths say,<ref>{{Cite web|title=history - Did Charlie Chaplin lose a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest?|url=https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/9423/did-charlie-chaplin-lose-a-charlie-chaplin-look-alike-contest|access-date=2020-11-24|website=Skeptics Stack Exchange}}</ref> Chaplin once entered in a Charlie Chaplin look-a-like contest.<ref name="contest">{{cite web|url=http://www.mayonews.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6594&Itemid=40|title=Charlie and the Chaplin lookalike contest|publisher=Mayo News.ie|accessdate=September 18, 2014|archive-date=September 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210928072125/https://www.mayonews.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6594&Itemid=40|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="DYK">{{cite web|url=http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/the-little-tramp/article_3290dfbb-ba7b-584f-979d-6d727b0d2275.html|title=The Little Tramp|publisher=Gazette Times.com|accessdate=September 19, 2014}}</ref> Chaplin lost the contest.<ref name="contest"/><ref name="DYK"/>
== Movies ==
[[File:Charlie Chaplin, by Witzel Studios, LA.jpg|thumb|right|Charlie Chaplin without his disguise]]
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* 1914: ''Making a Living''
* 1916: ''The Floorwalker''
* 1916: ''The Fireman''
* 1916: ''The Vagabond''
* 1916: ''One A.M.''
* 1916: ''The Count''
* 1916: ''The Pawnshop''
* 1916: ''Behind the Screen''
* 1916: ''The Rink''
* 1917: ''Easy Street''
* 1917: ''The Cure''
* 1917: ''The Immigrant''
* 1917: ''The Adventurer''
* 1918: ''A Dog's Life''
* 1918: ''The Bond''
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* 1918: ''Shoulder Arms''
* 1919: ''Sunnyside''
* 1919: ''A Day's Pleasure''
* 1921: ''The Kid''
* 1921: ''The Idle Class''
* 1922: ''Pay Day''
* 1923: ''The Pilgrim''
* 1925: ''[[The Gold Rush]]''
* 1928: ''The Circus''
* 1931: ''City Lights''
* 1936: ''Modern Times''
* 1940: ''The Great Dictator''
* 1947: ''Monsieur Verdoux''
* 1952: ''Limelight''
* 1957: ''A King in New York''
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== Becoming a Knight ==
[[File:Charlie Chaplin.jpg|thumb|right|Charlie Chaplin wearing his [[costume]] as "the Tramp".]]
On 9 March 1975, Charlie Chaplin was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in England by [[Elizabeth II]], the Queen of the United Kingdom.
== Death ==
Chaplin died on [[Christmas|Christmas Day]] in [[1977]] of a stroke in his sleep in [[Vevey]], [[Vaud]], [[Switzerland]], at the age of 88. On March 1, 1978, his body was stolen by a small group of Swiss people. They were trying to get money from Chaplin’s family. This plan didn't work. The criminals were caught, and Charlie’s body was found 11 weeks later near [[Lake Geneva]]. He was buried under concrete to prevent further incidents.

== Charlie Chaplin Media ==
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File:Chaplin at Hanwell.jpg|Seven-year-old Chaplin (centre, head slightly cocked) at the [[Central London District School]] for [[pauper]]s, 1897

File:Chaplin in Sherlock Holmes.jpg|A teenage Chaplin in the play ''[[Sherlock Holmes (play)|Sherlock Holmes]]''

File:Chaplin and Purviance in Work.jpg|Chaplin and [[Edna Purviance]], his regular leading lady, in ''[[Work (1915 film)|Work]]'' (1915)

File:Charlie Chaplin with doll.jpg|By 1916, Chaplin was a global phenomenon. Here he shows off some of his merchandise, {{circa|1918}}.

File:Chaplin The Kid 2 crop.jpg|''[[The Kid (1921 film)|The Kid]]'' (1921), with [[Jackie Coogan]], combined comedy with drama and was Chaplin's first film to exceed an hour.

File:The Kid scenes.webm|Collection of scenes from ''[[The Kid (1921 film)|The Kid]]'' (1921) that demonstrate Chaplin's use of slapstick, pathos, and social commentary
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== Related pages ==
* [[Audrey Hepburn (semi-postal)|German semi-postal series]]
== References ==
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