Charles Spencer Chaplin was born in London, England, on April 16th 1889. His father was a vocalist and actor and his mother was an a attractive actress and singer. Due to his fathers early death and the illness of his mother at the age of ten, meant that Charile and his brother, Sydney had to fend for themselves.
When he was twelve, he first acted in a legitimate stage show and appeared as ''Billy'' the paper boy, in the support of William Gillette in ''Sherlock Holmes''. Charlie then started a career as a comedian in vaudeville, which eventually took him to the United States in 1910.
Charlie starred in many films like:
The Kid - 1921
In 1921, he came out with a six-reem masterpiece: The Kid, in which he introduced to the screen one of the greatest child actors the world has ever known, Jackie Coogan.
The Circus - 1928
''The Circus'' won him his first Academy Award in 1929 but as late as 1964, it seemed this was a film he preferred to forget. The reason was not the film itself, but the deeply fraught circumstances surrounding its making.
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