Andre Hartslief
He was destined to become a worldwide icon through his screen persona and is considered one of the most important figures in the history of the film industry. His career spanned all of 75 years, from his impoverished childhood in the Victorian era until just one year before his death in 1977. His acting career encompassed both controversy and adulation. He is of course none other than Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977), Charlie Chaplin, an English comic actor, composer, and filmmaker, who rose to fame in the “silent movie era.
Sir Charles Chaplin died on Christmas day, on December 25, 1977, in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland. He died of a stroke in his sleep, at the age of 88. On March 1, 1978, in keeping with his hilarious antics, in life, his body was stolen by a small group of Swiss people who were trying to extort money from Chaplin’s family.
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Did you recognize him without the hat and curious moustache?
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he attempted to make the world understand the fear that was coming. His movie the Dictator, though a comedy, is the foretelling of Nazi Germany.
Not until I read through your post did I know that it was Charlie Chaplin .
I never knew his career went all the way into the ’70’s because he is mostly well-known for his movies in the first half of the 1900’s.