Charlie Chaplin — Actor (52)
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Work (1915) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Work
director: Charlie Chaplin actor: Charlie Chaplin / Charles Inslee …
other title: Charlot apprendista / Chaplin som Tapetserer …
Charlie and his boss have difficulties just getting to the house they are going to wallpaper. The householder is angry because he can't get breakfast and his wife is screaming at the maid as they arrive. The kitchen gas stove explodes, and Charlie offers to fix it. The wife's secret lover arrives and is passed off as the workers' supervisor, but the husband doesn't buy this and fires shots. The stove explodes violently, destroying the house.
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A Night in the Show (1915) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
A Night in the Show
director: Charlie Chaplin actor: Charlie Chaplin / Edna Purviance …
other title: Una serata a teatro / Chaplin paa Variete …
Two disruptive theater patrons, the wealthy drunk Mr. Pest (played by Charlie Chaplin) and the rowdy working-class Mr. Rowdy (also played by Chaplin), attend a live vaudeville theater production. Their constant antics, seat-hopping, and physical altercations quickly overshadow the acts on stage and plunge the entire theater into absolutely hilarious chaos.
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The Count (1916) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Count
director: Charlie Chaplin actor: Charlie Chaplin / Edna Purviance …
other title: Charlot conte / Chaplin som Greve …
A tailor's apprentice burns Count Broko's clothes while ironing them and the tailor fires him. Later, the tailor discovers a note explaining that the count cannot attend a dance party, so he dresses as such to take his place; but the apprentice has also gone to the mansion where the party is celebrated and bumps into the tailor in disguise…
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The Champion (1915) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Champion
director: Charlie Chaplin actor: Charlie Chaplin / Edna Purviance …
other title: Charlot boxeur / Chaplin som Mesterbokser …
Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training camp advertising for a boxing partner "who can take a beating." After watching others lose, Charlie puts the horseshoe in his glove and wins. The trainer prepares Charlie to fight the world champion. A gambler wants Charlie to throw the fight. He and the trainer's daughter fall in love.
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The Pawnshop (1916) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Pawnshop
director: Charlie Chaplin actor: Charlie Chaplin / Henry Bergman …
other title: Charlot usuraio / Chaplin som Pantelaaner …
A pawnbroker's assistant deals with his grumpy boss, his annoying co-worker and some eccentric customers as he flirts with the pawnbroker's daughter, until a perfidious crook with bad intentions arrives at the pawnshop.
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Cruel, Cruel Love (1914) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Cruel, Cruel Love
director: George Nichols / Mack Sennett actor: Charlie Chaplin / Edgar Kennedy …
other title: Charlot aristocratico / Chaplins ulykkelige Kærlighed …
This early Chaplin film has him playing a character quite different from the Tramp for which he would become famous. He is a rich, upper-class gentleman whose romance is endangered when his girlfriend oversees him being embraced by a maid. Chaplin's romantic interest in this film, Minta Durfee, was the wife of fellow Keystone actor, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.
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Easy Street (1917) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Easy Street
director: Charlie Chaplin actor: Charlie Chaplin / Edna Purviance …
other title: La strada della paura / Chaplin som politibetjent …
A derelict, huddled under the steps of a missionary church, feels enlightened by the sermon of a passionate preacher and infatuated by the beauty of the congregation's pianist, in such a way that he tries to improve his life of poverty by becoming a policeman. His first assignment will be to patrol along Easy Street, the turf of a vicious bully and his criminal gang.