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Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin Timeline

1889 Apr 16 Charlie Chaplin is Born
Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" 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 not...
1914 Feb 2 "Making a Living" (film) is Released
Making a Living is the first film featuring Charlie Chaplin. It premiered on February 2, 1914. Chaplin plays Edgar English, a lady-charming swindler who runs afoul of the Keystone Cops. ...
1914 Feb 7 "Kid Auto Races at Venice" (film) is Released
Kid Auto Races At Venice is a 1914 American-made motion picture starring Charlie Chaplin in which his "Little Tramp" character makes a first appearance (although Mabel's Strange Predicame...
1914 Feb 9 "Mabel's Strange Predicament" (film) is Released
"I had no idea what makeup to put on. I did not like my get-up as the press reporter [in Making a Living]. However on the way to the wardrobe I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big sh..." —Charlie Chaplin
1914 Feb 28 "Between Showers" (film) is Released
Between Showers is a 1914 short film made by Keystone Studios and directed by Henry Lehrman. It starred Charlie Chaplin, Ford Sterling, Emma Bell Clifton, and Chester Conklin. In Betwe...
1914 Mar 2 "A Film Johnnie" (film) is Released
A Film Johnnie is a 1914 American-made motion picture starring Charles Chaplin, Roscoe Arbuckle, and Mabel Normand.
1914 Mar 9 "Tango Tangles" (film) is Released
Tango Tangles is a 1914 American-made motion picture starring Charlie Chaplin and Fatty Arbuckle. Chaplin appears with no moustache. The action takes place in a dance hall, with a drunken...
1914 Mar 16 "His Favorite Pastime" (film) is Released
His Favourite Pastime is a 1914 American-made motion picture starring Charlie Chaplin. A very drunken man follows a pretty woman home, and proceeds to make a nuisance of himself.
1914 Mar 26 "Cruel, Cruel Love" (film) is Released
Cruel, Cruel Love is a 1914 American comedy silent film made at the Keystone Studios and starring Charlie Chaplin. This early Chaplin film has him playing a character quite different f...
1914 Apr 4 "The Star Boarder" (film) is Released
The Star Boarder is a 1914 American-made motion picture starring Charlie Chaplin. Charlie is the favorite of his landlady, and the other boarders are jealous.
1914 Apr 18 "Mabel at the Wheel" (film) is Released
Mabel at the Wheel is a 1914 American-made motion picture starring Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand, and directed by Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett. Charlie, competing with his rival'...
1914 Apr 20 "Twenty Minutes of Love" (film) is Released
Twenty Minutes of Love is a 1914 American comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios. It was the first film directed by Charlie Chaplin.
1914 Apr 27 "Caught in a Cabaret" (film) is Released
Caught in a Cabaret is a short film from 1914 starring Charlie Chaplin and the film's writer/director Mabel Normand. Chaplin plays a waiter who fakes being a Greek Ambassador to impress a...
1914 May 4 "Caught in the Rain" (film) is Released
Caught in the Rain is a 1914 American comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios starring Charlie Chaplin. This film was the first of many movies that Charlie Chaplin both directed and s...
1914 May 7 "A Busy Day" (film) is Released
A Busy Day is a 1914 short film starring Charlie Chaplin and Mack Swain. In A Busy Day, Chaplin plays a wife jealous of her husband's (Mack Swain) interest in another woman, played by ...
1914 Jun 1 "The Fatal Mallet" (film) is Released
The Fatal Mallet is a 1914 American-made motion picture starring Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand. The film was written and directed by Mack Sennett, who also portrays one of Chaplin's r...
1914 Jun 4 "Her Friend the Bandit" (film) is Released
Her Friend the Bandit is a 1914 American comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios starring Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand, both of whom co-directed the movie. This is Chaplin's only...
1914 Jun 11 "The Knockout" (film) is Released
The Knockout (1914) was Charlie Chaplin's seventeenth film for Keystone Studios. Chaplin only has a small role, and Fatty Arbuckle takes up the main role. It also stars Arbuckle's wife, M...
1914 Jun 13 "Mabel's Busy Day" (film) is Released
Mabel's Busy Day is a 1914 short starring Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand; the film was also written and directed by Mabel Normand. Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but is...
1914 Jun 20 "Mabel's Married Life" (film) is Released
Mabel's Married Life is a 1914 American comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios starring and co-written by Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand, and directed by Chaplin. As was so often ...
1914 Jul 9 "Laughing Gas" (film) is Released
Laughing Gas is a 1914 film starring Charlie Chaplin. It is also known as "Busy Little Dentist", "Down and Out", "Laffing Gas", "The Dentist", and "Tuning His Ivories". Although only a...
1914 Aug 1 "The Property Man" (film) is Released
The Property Man is a 1914 American comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios starring Charlie Chaplin. Charlie has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets the star'...
1914 Aug 10 "The Face on the Bar Room Floor" (film) is Released
The Face on the Bar Room Floor is a short film written and directed by Charles Chaplin in 1914. Chaplin stars in this film, loosely based on the poem of the same name by Hugh Antoine d'Ar...
1914 Aug 13 "Recreation" (film) is Released
Recreation is a short comedy film written, directed, and starring Charlie Chaplin. It was released on 13 August 1914.
1914 Aug 27 "The Masquerader" (film) is Released
The Masquerader is a 1914 film written and directed by Charles Chaplin and starring Chaplin and Roscoe Arbuckle. Its running time is 16 minutes. It is the tenth film directed and the seco...
1914 Aug 31 "His New Profession" (film) is Released
His New Profession is a 1914 American comedy silent film made at the Keystone Studios and starring Charlie Chaplin. The film involves Chaplin taking care of a man in a wheelchair. It is a...
1914 Sep 7 "The Rounders" (film) is Released
For a 1965 film of the same name, see The Rounders (1965 film). For a 1966 television series of the same name, see The Rounders (TV series). The Rounders is a 1914 comedy short star...
1914 Sep 14 "The New Janitor" (film) is Released
The New Janitor was the 27th comedy from Keystone Studios to feature Charlie Chaplin. The film is arguably one of his best for the studio, and a precursor to a key Essanay Studios short, ...
1914 Oct 10 "Those Love Pangs" (film) is Released
Those Love Pangs is a 1914 American comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios starring Charlie Chaplin.
1914 Oct 26 "Dough and Dynamite" (film) is Released
The story involves Chaplin and Chester Conklin working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite ...
1914 Oct 29 "Gentlemen of Nerve" (film) is Released
Gentlemen of Nerve is a 1914 American comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios starring Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand. Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Ch...
1914 Nov 7 "His Musical Career" (film) is Released
His Musical Career is a 1914 American comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios starring Charlie Chaplin. Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repos...
1914 Nov 9 "His Trysting Place" (film) is Released
His Trysting Place is a short 1914 film starring Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand. Charlie and his friend Ambrose meet in a restaurant and accidentally leave with each other's coats. ...
1914 Nov 14 "Tillie's Punctured Romance" (film) is Released
Tillie's Punctured Romance is the first feature-length comedy film from Keystone Film Company and the Christie Film Company, produced in 1914. A silent film directed by Mack Sennett, the ...
1914 Dec 5 "Getting Acquainted" (film) is Released
Getting Acquainted is a 1914 American comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios starring Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand. Charlie and his wife are walking in the park when they enc...
1914 Dec 7 "His Prehistoric Past" (film) is Released
His Prehistoric Past is a short movie written by and directed by Charlie Chaplin in 1914. He also stars in this short. It was Chaplin's last film with Keystone Studios. Set in the ston...
1915 Feb 1 "His New Job" (film) is Released
His New Job is a short 1915 film written by, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. Gloria Swanson appears as an uncredited extra. The title is an inside reference to this being Chapl...
1915 Feb 15 "A Night Out" (film) is Released
A Night Out is a 1915 Charlie Chaplin comedy short. It was Chaplin's first film with Edna Purviance, who would continue as his leading lady for the following eight years. It was also Chap...
1915 Mar 18 "In the Park" (film) is Released
In the Park was Charlie Chaplin's fourth film released in 1915 by Essanay Films. It was his third film while at the Niles Essanay Studio. It was one of several films Charlie Chaplin creat...
1915 Apr 1 "A Jitney Elopement" (film) is Released
A Jitney Elopement was Charlie Chaplin's fifth film for Essanay Films. It starred Charlie Chaplin and Edna Purviance as lovers, with Edna wanting Charlie to take her away from an arranged...
1915 Apr 11 "The Champion" (film) is Released
The Champion is a comedy film released in 1915 by Essanay Studios, starring Charlie Chaplin alongside Edna Purviance and Leo White. Essanay co-owner and star, Broncho Billy Anderson can b...
1915 Apr 11 "The Tramp" (film) is Released
The Tramp was Charlie Chaplin's sixth film for Essanay Studios in 1915. Directed by Chaplin, it was the fifth and last film made at Essanay's Niles, California studio. The Tramp marked th...
1915 Apr 29 "By the Sea" (film) is Released
By the Sea is a 1915 film Charlie Chaplin made while waiting for a studio to work in Los Angeles. He just left Niles Essanay Studio after doing five films at that location. By the Sea was...
1915 Jun 21 "Work" (film) is Released
Work is a 1915 silent film starring Charlie Chaplin (his eighth film for Essanay Films), and co-starring Edna Purviance, Marta Golden and Charles Insley. It was filmed at the Majestic Stu...
1915 Jul 12 "A Woman" (film) is Released
A Woman was Charlie Chaplin's ninth film for Essanay Films. It was made in Los Angeles at the Majestic Studio and released in 1915. The film starts with Chaplin meeting Edna (Edna Purvian...
1915 Aug 9 "The Bank" (film) is Released
The Bank was Charlie Chaplin's tenth film for Essanay Films. Released in 1915, it is a departure from the tramp character, as Charlie Chaplin plays a janitor at a bank. Edna Purviance ...
1915 Oct 4 "Shanghaied" (film) is Released
Shanghaied is a 1915 American comedy silent film made by Essanay Studios starring Charlie Chaplin. A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money...
1915 Nov 20 "A Night in the Show" (film) is Released
A Night in the Show was Charlie Chaplin's 12th film for Essanay. It was made at Majestic Studio in Los Angeles the fall of 1915. Chaplin played two roles: one as Mr. Pest and one as Mr. R...
1915 Dec 18 "Burlesque on Carmen" (film) is Released
Charlie Chaplin's Burlesque on Carmen was Chaplin's 13th film for Essanay Films. It was released in 1915 and then later recut into a different version in 1916. Charlie Chaplin played Darn...
1916 May 15 "The Floorwalker" (film) is Released
The Floorwalker was Charlie Chaplin's first Mutual Film Corporation film, made in 1916. It starred Chaplin as a customer in a department store who finds out the manager is stealing money ...
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