Chaplin's life story, compiled in full version

In 1889, Chaplin was born into an acting family in South London, England. His parents were both entertainers. His parents separated when he was very young, and Charlie and his half-brother Sydney Chaplin lived with their mother.

In 1896, his mother lost her job and the two brothers were sent to a juvenile reformatory in Lambeth, London. A few weeks later they were sent to a school for orphans. When Chaplin was 12 and a half years old, his father died of alcoholism, and his mother became mentally ill and was eventually sent to a mental hospital.

At that time, Sydney and Charlie did not know that they had a half-brother who was raised by their father. Later, this brother worked with Charlie Chaplin in a Hollywood studio. Because his father died young at the age of 37 and his mother suffered from mental illness, the young Chaplin was sent to a school for poor orphans.

Seven years later, he left the orphan school and became a street child. He worked as a newsboy, a grocer's boy, a toy vendor, a doctor's servant, a glass blower, and a sweeper at an amusement park.

In 1920, Charlie Chaplin brought his mother to the United States. In 1928, his mother died in Hollywood.

Beginning in 1919, Chaplin began to produce independently. Since then, he has starred in more than 80 comedies throughout his life. Among them, famous films in film history include "The Gold Rush", "The Circus", " "City Lights", "Modern Times", "The Great Dictator", "Monsieur Verdoux", "A Stage Life", etc.

These films reflect Chaplin's transformation from an ordinary humanitarian to a great master of critical realism. With his superb performing arts, Chaplin expressed deep sympathy for the lower-class workers, made bitter satire on the shortcomings of capitalist society, and ruthlessly flogged the fascist leader Hitler.

In 1952, he was persecuted by McCarthyism and was forced to leave the United States and settle in Switzerland. While in Switzerland, he filmed the film "A King in New York," a scathing satire of McCarthyism.

In 1972, the United States solemnly invited Chaplin back to Hollywood and awarded him the Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award, saying that he had "made an indelible contribution to film art in this century."

Died in 1977 at the age of 88.

Extended information:

Chaplin's most outstanding role is a tramp, but he is a gentleman at heart, wearing a narrow dress, oversized trousers and shoes, Wearing a bowler hat, holding a bamboo cane and sporting a mustache. Chaplin was one of the most talented and influential figures of the silent film period.

He writes, directs, acts in and distributes his own films. His career spanned more than 70 years in the entertainment industry, from his debut as a child actor in Britain's major theaters to his death at the age of 88.

From his childhood in Dickensian London to reaching the top of the world's film industry, Chaplin is one of the most compelling figures of the 20th century and a cultural icon in his own right. Throughout his life, his private and public life was highly praised by some and harshly criticized by others.

Chaplin won two honorary Oscars. When the Academy Awards were first awarded on May 16, 1929, there was no voting process in place today, and the distinctions between the various awards were very blurry.

Chaplin was originally nominated for Best Actor and Best Comedy Director for his film The Circus, but his nominations were later withdrawn and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decided that he should not be nominated for Best Actor or Best Comedy Director. He was given a special award "for the diversity and talent in acting, collaboration, directing and producing in Circus." Another film that received a special award was "The Jazz Singer."

Forty-four years later, Chaplin received his second Honorary Award in late 1972 for his "immeasurable contribution to the art of motion pictures in this century."

Chaplin returned to the United States. In addition to winning, he also received the longest standing salute in the history of the Academy Awards. The audience in the star-studded venue stood up and applauded for five minutes.

Chaplin was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay for "The Great Dictator" and Best Original Screenplay for "Mr. Verdoure". Chaplin himself despised the Academy Awards during a period when he was making films.

His son Charlie Jr. wrote that Chaplin joked about using the Academy Award he won in 1929 as a doorstop, and people at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences became very unhappy with him in the 1930s.

Chaplin's last two films were "The King of New York" (1957) and "The Countess of Hong Kong" (1967) with Sophia Loren and Marlon Brando.

People tend to overlook that Chaplin also won an Academy Award, in 1973 for Best Original Score for his 1952 film "Stage Life" with Claire Bloom.

Buster Keaton also appears in the film. This is the only time these two great comedians appear together. Due to the political difficulties Chaplin was facing at the time, the film was never staged in Los Angeles, a condition of being nominated. This condition was not achieved until 1972.

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