An early portrait of Charlie Chaplin. - Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin KBE (1889 – 1977) was an English music hall performer, vaudeville actor, comic actor, filmmaker, producer and composer who began his career in silent films before becoming an international icon. He co-founded the distribution company United Artists in 1919, giving him total control over his films. His first feature-length film was The Kid (1921),

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