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CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Charlie Chaplin (Charles Chaplin) was an English-born actor, film director, film producer, writer and composer. He was born in 1889 at London and died in 1977. At first appearing on stage in musicals from the age of five he joined Fred Karno's English vaudeville troupe when he was 17 and went with it to New York, before going to Hollywood in 1913 and making his first film in 1914, followed by 34 more films the same year and 14 the following year, before his first full-length film, 'The Kid' which was screened in 1921.
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