Biography Charlie Chaplin

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. Bernard Show called him "the only genius who left the film industry." The creator and performer of the famous image of the tramp, a universal master of cinema, who worked as a director, screenwriter, composer. The films “Baby”, “Golden Figure”, “The Lights of the Great City”, “The Great Dictator” and many others were included in the Golden Fund of Cinema.

In the photo: Charlie Chaplin, the whole life of the tragicomic actor was filled with extraordinary adventures and stories. Even after his death, they did not stop: the attackers stole a coffin with his body from the grave, demanding a ransom from the family. Soon the body of the genius was returned back, burying under a concrete slab. Childhood, youth, family Charles Spencer Chaplin was born in the spring of the year in the creative family of Londoners Hannah and Charles Spencer Chaplin-Sr..

Mom, a pop artist with gypsy roots and the stage pseudonym Lily Harley, was already a child from the past marriage, four-year-old Sydney, who later gave his surname Chaplin. Charlie Chaplin in childhood, his father, whose pedigree ascended to the Huguenots, was famous for the baritone in those days, sang in the capital's Music Halls, composed compositions, toured in Europe.

Charlie Chaplin's parents were pop artists, the family lived comfortably in a cozy three-room apartment for West Square in Lambet. Chaplin later writes about one of his early memories in the book: ... Before going to the theater, my mother lovingly puts Sydney and me in soft cribs and, having tucked up the blankets, leaves the maid in the care of the maid. In my three and a half years, everything seemed to me possible.

If Sydney knew how to show the tricks, he could swallow the coin, and then pull it out of the back of the head, then I could do the same and no worse. In proof, I swallowed half -peenny, and the mother had to call the doctor. Parents divorced a year after the birth of their son because of the constant binges of his father. Hannah's patience came to an end when Charles Sr.

stopped coming home and giving money to maintain a house and children. In addition, having drunk, the artist became violent, once the woman could not stand it and escaped from home to friends. When the boy was five years old, he went on stage of Variet to replace his mother, who suddenly lost his voice in the concert program, and sang a song from her repertoire, interrupting the collection of coins that the public began to throw him.

This caused laughter in the hall, but Charlie’s children's immediacy combined with a good voice brought the baby the first success among the audience. The voice to Hannah never returned, and along with his loss, the financial situation began to deteriorate. At first, she and her sons moved to two rooms, then in one, each time moving to increasingly wretched areas.

The path was ordered on stage, the woman bought a sewing machine to at least somehow earn on bread. Hoping that the voice would still return, Hannah carefully kept a chest with theatrical costumes. But the miracle did not happen. When the money ended completely, the woman, along with her sons, entered Lambet's work house, in the care of the state. There Charlie for the first time acutely felt what loneliness is: my mother was in the female department, she and her brother in the children's.

They saw in fits. Later, the Chaplin brothers were sent to school for the poor in Hanwell.

There, Charlie first felt what physical pain, coupled with humiliation, was punished with rods for the misconduct, which he did not commit. Charlie Chaplin at the age of 9 when Sida was eleven years old and he was sent to the fleet, to the Exmut ship, Charlie was left completely alone. He learned to read and write, but was very yearning for his relatives. Hannah somehow drunk money, left the work house and took her youngest son into the room, which she managed to rent.

Soon Sydney joined them. But happiness did not last long, and the children went to the shelter again, and their mother - to state care. Chaplin will write about his first feeling of trouble: once, when Sydney played football, he was recalled by two educators and reported that our mother had lost his mind, and she was sent to the Kenhillian psychiatric hospital.

Hearing this terrible news, Sydney did not give a look that he was upset after graduating from the game, he hut in a dark corner and cried. When he told me about our grief, I could not believe for a long time. I did not cry, but despair took possession of me. Why did she do this? Mom, as cheerful and careless, how could she go crazy? I had a vague feeling that she had lost her mind on purpose, so as not to think about us.

The boys moved to his father, to his new family. His wife Louise was not too delighted with this turn: Charles received fewer engagements, and they already had his son. The woman drank, like her husband, and the boys more than once spent the night on the street, because she did not let them home. Once the police even intervened. One day in front of the door of the apartment was Hannah, who left the psychiatric hospital.

She took her sons, rented a room again and settled there with them. Charlie was happy again to listen to her stories about the theater.At school, the boy was bored, but once, when it turned out before Christmas that they would put up the performance “Cinderella”, he was inspired. Charlie was sure that he would be taken on production. He was waiting for disappointment.

But soon he became a school celebrity: the boy read a funny poem about a fluffy cat, his comedic talent was appreciated, and he began to participate in school performances. Realizing what he was capable of, Charlie began to speak on the streets, amusing random passers -by. There, he was noticed by the school teacher Jackson and invited the eight Lancashir guys, with whom Charlie performed since the year, invited him to the dance ensemble.

Charlie made great successes, and he was read a great future in the steppe, but he himself longed to laugh people. The ensemble "Eight Lankashir guys" Chaplin - the second in the left of the year Chaplin threw the school and began to work. He sold flowers, traded newspapers, and was alleged. But the dreams of how he will become an actor did not leave him. He regularly visited the theater agency on Badford Street, but to no avail.

Finally, at the age of 14, shortly after his mother was again in the hospital, and his father died two years earlier from cirrhosis of the liver, he got a small role-he had to play the Sherlock Holmes boy and another boy, Sammy, in the tribe anger, Jim, Roman of the rampant. Charlie Chaplin in the production of Sherlock Holmes the first roles of the boy’s happiness knew no bounds: they will be able to break out of poverty, and the mother, who was obsessed with the hospital again.

Sid helped him quickly learn his role and Charlie began rehearsals. With Sherlock Holmes, they went on a tour, after which Chaplin received an offer to play in the West End Theater. The artist called this moment his second birth, but an even more cool turn in fate was already waiting for him. Charlie's elder brother worked in the troupe of Fred Carno, playing roles in the Comedies of the Crash.

Charlie at this time was left without work and worried. Sid persuaded Carno in every possible way to look at his younger talented brother. Once, Fred, who was dissatisfied with the partner of the then star, Harry Weldon in one of his most successful sketches “Football Match”, suggested that Charles try herself in this pantomime. And Chaplin surpassed all the expectations.

Charlie Chaplin at the poster of the theater Carno signed a contract with him, and Chaplin traveled with tour not only in Britain. He visited France, which he had long dreamed of: Paris turned out to be the way I expected. Moving from Gar du Nor to Geoffrea-Marie Street brought me to such excitement and impatience that on every corner I wanted to jump out of the carriage and walk. It was still Paris Monet, Pissarro and Renoir.

And even such innovations as a car did not spoil the paintings. Soon after returning from France, the Carno troupe went through Canada to the United States, where she stayed with tour for two years, completing the first tour in Salt Lake City. Chaplin really wanted to stay in the States forever, realizing that in London he had already reached his ceiling.

The United States seemed to him a place where he could realize his new aspirations. Charlie Chaplin in his youth but had to leave for Britain - the contract was not extended. But during the second tour of America, film producer Mack Sennet, who invited Chaplin, to the place of comedian Ford Sterling in the comedies of the Cystone Comedia, drew attention to the actor. The first role of Chaplin in the cinema is a newspaper reporter in one of Henry Lerman’s short films “earning a living”, which was released in February, all his comic finds were mercilessly sparkling with the director, he almost fell into despair when the film was released.

Much later, Henry admitted that he did this with his role because Chaplin “allowed himself too much” for a novice actor. The first role of Charlie Chaplin on the left in the cinema is the heyday of his career once producer Mac Sennet suggested Charlie to make up and portray something comic. It was then that the image of an absurd ragged ragged was born: with a cane, in a pot, baggy pants and huge shoes.

To add age, Chaplin glued small antennae that did not hide facial expressions. Charlie Chaplin in the image of a tramp character acquired his eccentric character almost immediately: he was a tramp, a poet, and a gentleman who dreams of love and adventures and this is a little movie in an era! And at the same time, under appropriate circumstances, he could give a kick in anger and immediately stir up.

Next was the tape of “the unusually difficult position of Mabel”, in which Chaplin first came out in a suit, which soon became an integral part of his image. The first film, for which he himself invented the script, was called “caught by the rain” - something between an action movie and a comedy. A frame from the film “Caught Rain” creating several paintings, Chaplin moved to a new film company - “Essence”, where he began to receive a fee by an order of magnitude more.

A year later, he began to work at the Mychuel studio, and in the year he concluded a millionth contract with the Fertia Neshnl studio. At this time, his films “Immigrant”, “Adventure of Adventures”, “Quiet Street” are released. Charlie Chaplin, in his youth, from a year, the director found almost complete creative freedom, creating his own United Artist studio with several friends.

Until the last, he remained faithful to the low cinema, although progress was inexorably striking to the sound. It was at that time that he took off his touching “baby” and the psychological drama “Parisian”. Next followed by the famous “Pilgrim”, “Golden Factory” and “Circus”. The frame from the film “Circus” was so great that hundreds of thousands of letters came to him, they came to look at the stations, barely learning that the actor would simply drive the station by train.

The film “Lights of the Big City” about a blind flower girl and a tramp brought the director a great glory.