Charlie Chaplin

For our A2 task we needed to create a silent film after being given our briefing. The idea of a silent film is to have a film without any scripted dialoge. Many people assocaite silent films with the muted handed guestures and the black and white title cards. However this is not only the case.

With us deciding to move down the comedy silent film track we needed to research into specialist comedy silent film directors, such as Charlie Chaplin!



Charlie Chaplin was an English comic actor and film director of the silent film era. He became one of the best-known film stars in the world before the end of the First World War. His most famous role was that of The Tramp, which he first played in the Keystone comedy Kid Auto Races at Venice in 1914. Chaplin was one of the most creative and influential personalities of the silent-film era. He was influenced by his predecessor, the French silent movie comedian Max Linder, to who he dedicated one of his films to. His working life in entertainment spanned over 75 making him one of the all time greats in the film industry.

Charlie Chaplin has recieved 3 Academy Awards in his lifetime: one for Best Original Score, and two Honorary Awards.
City Lights and Modern Times, considered by several polls to be two of the greatest of all motion pictures..