Chaplin profile

Charlie Chaplin, born in London, England on April 1889, is a British film and television actor, director and screenwriter.

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Chaplin started writing, directing and performing from 19 15, and even worked as a producer and editor. Later, he joined Essani Company, and 19 17 produced Immigration and Easy Street. 19 18, he and his brother started their own company in los Angeles. 1923, Chaplin made the first film "A Woman in Paris" for this company.

1925' s The Gold Rush and 1928' s Circus won Chaplin an Oscar. Chaplin came to London at 193 1 for the premiere of City Lights. 1936 shooting modern. Four years later, he filmed The Great Dictator. 1952, his audio film "Life on the Stage" was released. 1967, he made the last film The Countess from Hong Kong. 1977 died at his home in Switzerland at the age of 88.

Chaplin, with his superb performing arts, showed deep sympathy for the lower-class workers, made bitter satires on various drawbacks of capitalist society, and mercilessly flogged the fascist leader Hitler.

1952, persecuted by McCarthyism, was forced to leave the United States and settle in Switzerland. During his stay in Switzerland, he made a sharp satire on King McCarthyism in new york. 1972, the United States solemnly invited Chaplin to return to Hollywood and awarded him the Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award, saying that he "made an indelible contribution to the film art of this century".

Reference: Chaplin-Baidu Encyclopedia