English comic actor and filmmaker (1889–1977)
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was a British comedic actor and director, usually known by his stage name of Charlie Chaplin.
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Birth Name:
Charles Spencer Chaplin
Native Name:
Charles Chaplin
Also Known As:
The Tramp
Alternative Names:
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin
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Chaplin
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Charlot
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Sir Charlie Chaplin
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Sir Charles Chaplin
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Charlie Chaplin Jr.
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Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr.
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Charles Chaplin Jr.
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Acquaintances were willing to enter into the warmest of friendships and share my problems as though they were relatives. It was all very flattering, but my nature does not respond to such intimacy. I like friends as I like music - when I am in the mood. Such freedom, however, was at the price of occasional loneliness.
In San Francisco one felt the spirit of optimism and enterprise. Los Angeles, on the other hand, was an ugly city, hot and oppressive, and the people looked sallow and anaemic. It was a much warmer climate but had not the freshness of San Francisco; nature has endowed the north of California with resources that will endure and flourish when Hollywood has disappeared into the prehistoric tar-pits of Wilshire Boulevard.