Charlie Chaplin
born on 1889 16 April in London,England
age 9-10 became a tap dancer for “The 8 Lancashire Lads”
1901- his dad died when he was 12 and his mother got sick so he had to start looking after himself with help from his brother Sydney
1901- played Billy in Sherlock Holmes stage show
1910 – sail to U.S. with the Fred Kano Repertoire company
1912 – got offered his first motion picture contract
1913 – joined Mack Sennett and the Keystone COmpany
1915 – Joined the Essanay Company
1916 – Joined Mutual film Corporation. Made 12 2 reel comedies.
1917 – Started his own production company
1928 – First Academy Award (before it was called the Oscars) for his movie The Circus
1936 – Made a movie called Modern Times – it was his first political movie about how machines are taking away jobs
1996 – Last movie he produced was A countess from Hong Kong
1977 – Died Christmas day
I have made a short movie clip but I can not work out how to put it on here, it won’t let me