Who was charlie chaplin?

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April – 25 December ) was an.

He was famous in silent movies where there was no talking or sound. He acted, directed, scripted, and produced many of them. Charlie Chaplin was a performer for almost 70 years. He started working when he was 5, and worked until he was The character that Charlie Chaplin played most was called "the Little Tramp". 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. 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 , 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.

Charles Chaplin was one of the rare comedians who not only financed and produced all his films (with the exception of “A Countess from Hong Kong”), but was the.

His first important work came when he joined The Eight Lancashire Lads. In , his brother Sydney helped him get the role of a comic cat in the pantomime Cinderella. Chaplin was in Casey's 'Court Circus' variety show.