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Charlie Chaplin was born in London on April 16th, 1889. His parents were music hall actors. The Chaplin family were very poor, and life was difficult in London. Little Charlie had to do his mother’s job in the theatre when she was ill.

When he was only 17 years old, Chaplin got his first real job working as an actor. What he did was to do silly things to make people laugh in the theatre. Seven years later he went to the USA. And over the next four years, he made his own way of art. He made himself a homeless gentleman. And then he became very popular.

From the 1920s to the 1950s, Chaplin made his most famous films. Many of his films told about the poor life and hard time of the working people during that time.

When he was 83 years old, he won his only Oscar for a film music he wrote. He was named Sir Charlie Chaplin(卓别林爵士) when he was 85. Charlie Chaplin died in Switzerland on December 25th, 1977.