Mini biography charlie chaplin

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00:30Charlie Chaplin, the screen's most famous clown, was born in London in 1889.

00:35His vaudeville parents battled unemployment and the bottle,

00:38and Charlie experienced poverty and hunger,

00:41experiences that later found their way into his classic films.

00:45Chaplin toured with a stage company as a nine-year-old

00:48and left home to make his own way in show business aged 14.

00:51In 1912, Chaplin joined the Keystone Pictures studio in California

00:56and put his vaudeville talents to good effect as a comic actor

00:59in a series of popular silent films.

01:01His first appearance was in the one real comedy, Making a Living, in 1914.

01:08It was Chaplin's second film, Kid Auto Races at Venice,

01:12that his best-known character, the Tramp, first made an appearance.

01:16An appealing vagrant, both innocent and world-weary,

01:20the Tramp strutted across the screen and into audiences' hearts.

01:25Chaplin himself had no idea of the type of