Charles Chaplin

Charles Chaplin was an English actor and filmmaker.

He was born on April 6, 1889 and died on December 25, 1977. One of the greatest comedians of cinema. Charles Spencer Chaplin was born in London. Son of actors, is no father early and spends his childhood in orphanages. In 1908 employed in music halls and is popular as a mimic.

Go to the United States (U.S.) in 1913 and a year later, he started working in Hollywood. In 1915 creates the comedy Tramp his most famous character: the bum Carlitos, a cane, coconut hat and baggy pants. It has an intense emotional life - married four times, with the top three movie stars. 54, meets the daughter of the Irish playwright Eugene O'Neill, Oona, 18, who becomes his fourth wife and those who live by the end of life, having six children. Persecuted by McCarthyism, he moved in 1952 to Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland. During his career, is involved in more than 60 films as director and actor.

The work is in its prime brand for the Gold (1925), which appears in the popular dance of the bread. Some of his films are considered masterpieces of world cinema as The Kid (1921), even in time of silent films. After the advent of sound, performs works such as City Lights (1931), in which Charlie Chaplin falls in love with a blind flower girl, Modern Times (1936), which satirized the mechanization of modernity, and The Great Dictator (1940), in taking sides against Hitler and against racial persecution in Europe.