Charlie Chaplin
Director and Actor
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Critic's Choice: New DVDs: 'Hill 24 Doesn't Answer,' Stan Laurel and 'Remembrance of Things to Come'...he goes to work for the producer Hal Roach, in films like "Just Rambling Along" (1918) and "A Man About Town" (1923), he trades Chaplin's bowler and baggy pants for the straw hat and white ducks of Harold Lloyd, Roach's most popular star. In this article: Stan Laurel, Hal Roach, Thorold Dickinson, Colette, Kino International, The Queen of Spades, Chris Marker, Batman, and Jerusalem |
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...your home. Connoisseurs of classic comedy will relish the pratfall-filled antics contained in this exhaustive collection, which features the work of such luminaries as Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Stan Laurel and Hal Roach. Films include...
In this article: DVD, Netflix, Charley's Aunt, By the Sad Sea Waves, Luke Joins the Navy, Hal Roach, Stan Laurel, and Harold Lloyd
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Wikipedia | October 27, 2009
Harold Lloyd
...in seeing her was that "she looked like a big French doll!" Lloyd's early film characters, such as "Lonesome Luke," were by his own admission a frenetic imitation of Chaplin.. From 1915 to 1917, Lloyd and Roach created more than 60...
In this article: Harold Lloyd, Hal Roach, Mildred Davis, Preston Sturges, The Freshman, Stanley Baxter, RKO, Buster Keaton, and Howard Hughes
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Vincent P. Bryan
...Arthur (Scarecrow and Tin Woodman) The Tale of the Monkey (Cynthia Cynch) He was a close behind-the-scenes collaborator of Charlie Chaplin from 1915 to 1917. Along with Hal Roach he directed three Harold Lloyd films in 1919 : He Leads,...
In this article: Vincent P. Bryan, Hal Roach, In My Merry Oldsmobile, Heroin, He Leads, Others Follow, Soft Money, and Oldsmobile Curved Dash
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Edendale, Los Angeles, California
...and would build his own studio in Culver City.) Charlie Chaplin also worked here briefly, under the Lone Star Studios moniker, before setting up his own studio at 1025 Lillian Way in Hollywood. Other studios that operated here included French...
In this article: Tom Mix, Mack Sennett, Los Angeles, William Selig, California, and Keystone Cops
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Laurel and Hardy
...a supporting actor, comic villain, or second banana. For 10 years he memorably assisted star comics Billy West (a Charlie Chaplin imitator), Jimmy Aubrey, Larry Semon, and Charley Chase. Hardy was a member of Hal Roach's stock company when...
In this article: Laurel and Hardy, Stan Laurel, Hal Roach, Oliver Hardy, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Panopticon, and Leo Joannon
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Charley Chase
...Parrott. 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. In 1920,...
In this article: Charley Chase, Hal Roach, Laurel and Hardy, Mighty Like a Moose, Lloyd Hamilton, Turner Classic Movies, Our Gang, and Harold Lloyd
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Bud Jamison
...in messy slapstick and rowdy action guaranteed him work in silent comedies. In 1915 he was a member of Charlie Chaplin's stock company at the Essanay studio. From there he moved to the Hal Roach studio, playing hot-tempered comic foils...
In this article: Bud Jamison, Charley Chase, Hal Roach, Andy Clyde, Buster Keaton, Mack Sennett, California, The Three Stooges, and Christian Scientist
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Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comedic actor and film director. Chaplin became one of the most famous actors as well as a notable filmmaker, composer and musician in the early to mid Classical Hollywood era of American cinema.
Chaplin acted in, directed, scripted, produced and eventually scored his own films as one of the most creative and influential personalities of the silent-film era. His working life in entertainment spanned over 65 years, from the Victorian stage and the Music Hall in the United Kingdom as a child performer almost until his death at the age of 88. His high-profile public and private life encompassed both adulation and controversy. With Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith, Chaplin co-founded United Artists in 1919.
In a review of the book Chaplin: A Life (2008), Martin Sieff writes: "Chaplin was not just 'big', he was gigantic. In 1915, he burst onto a war-torn world bringing it the gift of comedy, laughter and relief while it was tearing itself apart through World War I. Over the next 25 years, through the Great Depression and the rise of Hitler, he stayed on the job. He was bigger than anybody. It is doubtful any individual has ever given more entertainment pleasure and relief to so many human beings when they needed it the most."
==Early life==
- Name At Birth:
- Charles Spencer Chaplin
- Birth Date:
- April 16, 1889
- Birthplace:
- Walworth, London, England
- Death Date:
- December 25, 1977
- Place of Death:
- Vevey, Switzerland
- Spouse:
- Occupation:
- Actor, director, producer, screenwriter, composer, mime
- Years Active:
- 1895–1976
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