Once, there held an action competition. The participants had to imitate the action of Charlie Chaplin. Many people took part on it. Among them one was unknown to others because he took part bu pseudo name. he acted as Charlie but stood third on competition.
That participant was non-other than Charlie Chaplin himself. While taking part on his own imitation is also a great art. then onwards, he widely used to imitate and refined himself. Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. was born on 16 April 1889, in east Street, London. His parents were both entertainers in the music hall tradition. His father was a vocalist and an actor and his mother, a singer and an actress. He learned singing from his parents. Chaplin's father, Charles Chaplin and his half-brother briefly lived with their father.
Charlie was brought up in terrible poverty. He could not give continuity in school. since his childhood he used to ask for alms on the streets. For it he had to amuse people bu singing, dancing, imitating and doing caricature of others. but there, he was best known as a comic actor. After 1901, he had been suffered a lot by poverty. He searched various types of job everywhere. On that course, he accepted the job whatever he found.
Charlie's fortune was slowly opened when the entered into the arts and acting where he developed his tramp character and very quickly learned the art and craft of film making. The tramp was first presented to the public when Chaplin was 24.
His earlier films were all mute. But he was successful to let the meaning and message through his acting. Slowly, he became a good script writer and director as well. he made numerous mute films. Chaplin had his major successes in the United States and was a resident from 1914 to 1952. In 1952, Chaplin left the US fro what was intended as a brief trip home to the united Kingdom for the London but he decided not to re-enter the United States. He stated the reasons.
".......since the end of the last world war, I have been the object of lies and propaganda by powerful reactionary groups who, by their influence and by the aid of America's yellow press, have created an unhealthy atmosphere in which liberal-minded individuals can be singled out and persecuted. Under these conditions I find it virtually impossible to continue my motion-picture work and I have therefore given up my residence in the United States."
Chaplin then made his home in Vevey, Swizerland. he briefly and triumphantly returned to the United states in April 1972, with his wife, to receive an Honorary Oscar, and also to discuss how his films would be re-released and marketed. He was welcomed warmly. From 1969 until 1976, Chaplin wrote original music compositions and scores for his silent pictures and re-released them. His fame slowly spread everywhere. Regarding his contribution in the field of film, he was widely honored. Chaplin was named in the New Year's Honors List in 1975. On 4 March, he was knighted at age eighty-five as a Knight Commander of the British empire by Queen Elizabeth II.
Chaplin's robust health began to slowly fail in the late 1960s, after the completion of his final film A Countess from Hong Kong, and more rapidly after he received his Academy Award in 1972. He died in his sleep in Vevey, Switzerland. On 1 March 1978, his corpse was stolen by a small group of Swiss mechanics in a tempt to extort money from his family. the plot failed, the robbers were captured, and the corpse was recovered eleven weeks later near Lake Geneva. His body was reburied under two meters of concrete to prevent further attempts.
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