Charlie Chaplin Biography

His work is rich in memorable scenes and heroes, and life was full of rise, falls and scandals. The material was translated, which is designed to introduce the reader to the main milestones of the personal and cinematic history of the great artist. Share Telegram Samuel James for Film Inquury, on March 1, did you ever think, who is the most influential director in history?

The question is complex, since the word “influential” can be understood in different ways: from the genre to technical techniques and narrative structures. Nevertheless, one such director immediately comes to mind: Sir Charlie Chaplin, the key figure of the nested cinema, the personification of the concept of “star”, a person with an outstanding but full of contradictions by history.

Chaplin, whose career stretched for half a century, starting from x films and ending with the “Countess from Hong Kong” of the year, in the era of silent cinema was known as a director who focuses on expression. He told the story with the help of the action and the stage, and not through the dialogs and the conflict between the heroes. Chaplin created the most significant films in a lump era, but also after the x.

Chaplin was known as a talented and versatile artist, and he became one of the first director-authors in history. Although Chaplin was considered an author, he was also an outstanding actor who played in many of his films. His religious character was a “little tramp” or just a “tramp”, whose branded image consisted of a pot, large shoes, torn trousers, canes and mustaches with a brush.

A little tramp this character erected Chaplin to the status of an absolute star both the early period of cinema development and his subsequent history. Charlie Chaplin was a pioneer of cinema, working on both sides of the camera, and in this article we will trace his creative path and how the artist’s personal life influenced him. Early years: children's injury, which ended in the gift of Charlie Chaplin, was born on April 16 in the very heart of London; His parents were Charles Chaplin-Sr.

and Hannah Chaplin. He had a rather difficult childhood: his father left his family, and his mother was forced to educate Charlie and his combined brothers Sidney Chaplin and George Draden. Soon Hannah became seriously ill and lost her mind, and Charlie and Sydney moved to Chaplin-Sr. for a short time before gaining independence at a very young age for 10 years. Life in the family was filled with difficulties and traumatic events, but already in early childhood, Chaplin gained a reputation in the field of entertainment.

Having inherited the pop talent from his parents, he threw the school with his brother Sydney and joined the group of comic artists, where he danced the tapeworm. In the year, Chaplin became a member of the children's dance group "Eight Lancashire Guys" and became widely known as an outstanding bowel. The role was so successful that it ultimately appeared on the same stage with the largest actors of the British theater.

In the youth years, he continued to work in the theater and developed his acting career. Gradually, he established himself as an artist of the comic genre, taking part in the sketch show “Repair” and the play called “Case Casey”. But, since he constantly toured, it was difficult to find stable work. Chaplin-Autor and the creation of a small tramp Chaplin began to act in a movie in the x.

Chaplin became the star of her comedies, debuting in the film “Enhancing the Life” at the same time his cult character was created, a small tramp who gained world popularity and became one of the symbols of the XX century movie. The debut of the tramps fell on the film "Children's Automobile Races", and then it appeared in a number of short -term studies. From this moment, both the financial condition of Chaplin began to grow, and his reputation by the artist and comedian.

Then he began to constantly change the studios, one of which turned out to be the Mutual Film Corporation, which offered a higher salary and a contract for shooting 12 two -orch comedies. Thanks to this, as well as the success of previous films, the current reputation and growing financial independence, Chaplin was able to become his own employer and build his own film studio.

All this allowed him to freely embody creative plans and ultimately establish himself as an author. He gradually expanded his duties and became a screenwriter, director, producer, editor, composer and leading star of his films, in many of which appeared in the image of a tramp.

To some extent, Chaplin created a whole, in modern language, a franchise from films with a tramp, and also determined the difference between dumb and sound cinema. The first full -length film with the participation of the tramp was the “baby” in which he finds an abandoned baby. They become a real family, but certain events separate them. The film reflected Chaplin’s personal experience: the lack of his own father in his life could serve as an inspiration for the picture.

In the "Golden Rush" he goes on a trip to the gold mines. And although in the credits it is indicated as a “lone gold detector”, in the feature of the hero you can still recognize the old-good tramp.It was precisely for this film that Chaplin received his first Oscar nominations, which, however, fell on the ceremony of the year, probably, they were dedicated to re -released a new or restored version.

Officially, Chaplin returned to the tramp in the Circus, one more characteristic of the author’s film, in which you can see the biographical features and the director of the director as a participant in festivals and touring shows. One of the examples was the “Lights of the Big City”, a romantic comedy with Chaplin in the role of a tramp, which falls in love with a beautiful, but blind girl.

To help solve her financial problems and return her vision, the tramp set off in search of money. Instead, he toured the world - in a relaxed manner more like a vacation. During his travels, he faced the consequences of the Great Depression and met many unemployed. Probably, this is what led him to create the picture “New Times”, which just refers to such issues.

The film marked the last time we see Chaplin as a little tramp, which is especially emphasized by the final frame in which the tramp and his companion Ellen Polett Goddar literally go into dawn along a long road. The final frame of the “new times” Chaplin after the vagabonds and conflicts after Chaplin said goodbye to the tramp, he turned to films more closely related to the socio-political conflicts of the XG.

In Dictator, Chaplin again acts as an author, being a director, screenwriter, producer, composer and chief actor, and also plays simultaneously a protagonist of a Jewish-cylnate and antagonist adenia Hinkel, which caused disputes and at the same time the response of the audience. The film became his most famous, earned 5 Oscar nominations: the best film, the best actor Chaplin, the best original script Chaplin, the best second -plan actor Jack Ouki and the best original Chaplin music.

The next project of the artist was the comedy drama “Monsieur Verdu”, telling about the banker-French, after the loss of work killing his many rich wives for the sake of profit. Six years later, the “Ramfa Lights” come out, in which most of the Chaplin family, including the wife of the Union, the half-brother of Sydney, the sons of Charles, and Michael, the daughters of Geraldina and Josephine, as well as the director and author of Baster Keaton, were released.

The film became Sincere Reflection of Chaplin about his life and lost popularity among the American viewer. Paranoid sentiments, the McCartism policy, the Cold War and military conflicts did not allow the “Ramfa’s lights” to reach wide screens: the film was shown only in a few cinemas of the eastern coast, and Chaplin himself continued to be actively criticized. Nevertheless, the film was perfectly accepted outside the United States, where he was accompanied by great success.

Then, in the year, Chaplin was canceled by a visa and banned the entrance to the States, which forced him to immigrate him to Europe and settle in Switzerland. He lived in Switzerland, wrote scripts and music for his early films. Chaplin’s next project was the King in New York, a satirical comedy about American culture and politics. As in his previous works, the film was reflected in the film and his attitude to the United States.

In America, the film was not awarded special attention, but he was warmly accepted through the rest of the world and on a major note completed the acting career of Chaplin. In the “King”, Chaplin last appeared on the screen, but he had another project - “Countess from Hong Kong” after the onset of Flight, he published memoirs and simultaneously wrote the script of the film, in which Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren, as well as the brother of Chaplin Sidney and four children of the director.

Chaplin and Lauren on the set of Countess from Hong Kong in the year, when the last decade of Chaplin’s life went, he was awarded the honorary Oscar for the “invaluable contribution that cinema has become the art of the 20th century.” The award was awarded by Jack Lemmon, and Chaplin himself made a short but touching speech before moving away from the scene with the branded cane and a pot in his hands.

Chaplin receives an honorary Oscar that at that moment the world finally came between Chaplin and the United States, and the cherry on the cake was the dedication of the great artist into the knight Queen Elizabeth II in the year. Chaplin lived in Switzerland until his death at the age of 88, at Christmas,. He died in a dream surrounded by his wife and children and was buried in a cemetery near the house.

Chaplin's legacy Sir Charlie Chaplin left a significant mark, having a huge impact on the history of cinema and industry. In the year, a film founded on the biography of Chaplin was released, the director of which was Richard Attenborough. The title role was played by Robert Dauni Jr., for which he was awarded the nomination for Oscar. The film is also noteworthy in that the daughter of Chaplin Geraldin played her own grandmother Hannah, Charlie's mother.

Robert Dauni-Ml. The genuine costume of a small tramp is located in the London Museum of Cinema, where a separate exhibition is dedicated to him.In the year, a large museum dedicated to the artist and designed to pay tribute to his life and creative achievements was opened near the Swiss House of Chaplin. The conclusion of Charlie Chaplin boasts that he has mastered almost all professions of the film industry.

He was a director, screenwriter, producer, composer and leading star of many innovative films of the silent cinema and established himself as one of the greatest authors in history. Without him, the movie would be completely different. Chaplin was not only one of the fathers of cinema, but also his first real star. Despite the scandals and persecution for political reasons that have surrounded him all his life, as well as forced emigration and exile, Chaplin was and remains the legend of Hollywood and all American cinema.

Even after the years that have passed since the beginning of his film, and 40 years after his death, the star glory of the influential filmmaker, who to this day inspires us with his work and ideas, has been assigned to Charlie Chaplin.