Charlie Chaplin (Actor)

Reviews of Charlie Chaplin Movies

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Movies starring Charlie Chaplin have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 60%.

City Lights - released in 1931 - is Charlie Chaplin's highest rated movie, with a score of 89% based on 750 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Charlie Chaplin is Cruel, Cruel Love - released in 1914 - with a score of 35% based on 4 reviews.

Actor Biography

Charles “Charlie” Chaplin (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best-known for his work during the silent film era. He used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency by the end of the 1920s. His most famous role was that of The Tramp, which he first played in Kid Auto Races (1914). From 1914 onwards he was writing and directing most of his films, by 1916 he was producing them, and by 1918 he was also composing the music for them. In 1919 he co-founded United Artists. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Chaplin the 10th greatest male screen legend of all time.

Charlie Chaplin has acted in films with Edna Purviance, Henry Bergman, Albert Austin and John Rand.

Charlie Chaplin has worked with these film directors: Mack Sennett, George Nichols, Henry Lehrman and Mabel Normand.