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Charlie Chaplin was born in London in 1889 . His parents were very poor and his father died when Charlie was still very young . His mother was an actress , but was often sick and couldn’t look after Charlie very well Charlie started working as an actor in a traveling show when he was just ten years old.
The company he worked for went on a tour of America when Charlie was about twenty years old . He loved the American theater , and a few years later he returned to the US and started to work in the film industry . His first film was Making a living in 1914 . It was very successful , but he didn’t like the style of the movie. The actors only acted like clowns . He thought that the movies could show more about the feelings of the people in them . Some of his most famous movies were the Kid(1921) , The Gold Rush(1925) and The Circus(1928).perhaps his most famous movie was City Lights(1931).All these movies were silent .
Charlie was very popular because he was able to play a poor person in his movies and seem attractive and likeable . It always made Charlie happy to see ordinary people enjoy his movies.
The first popular talking movie was made in 1927, but Chaplin didn’t like talking movies . He didn’t make a movie with sound until 1940 . By then he was over fifty years old and he wanted to try a new challenge . He succeeded so well that the movie he made then , The Great Dictator , is still regarded as a masterpiece today .
Charlie Chaplin married three times and lived in England and Switzerland after the Second World War . He returned to America for occasional visits . On one of those visits , in 1972 , he received a special Oscar award . He died in Switzerland in 1977
In 1995 a worldwide survey of film sritics voted him the greatest actor in movie history.