Charlie Chaplin's parents, Charles and Hannah Chaplin, were music hall entertainers. His first stage appearance, at age five, was singing a song in place of his mother who had become ill. At eight he toured in a musical "The Eight Lancaster Lads". Nearly eleven, he appeared in "Giddy Ostende" at London's Hippodrome. From age 17 to 24 he was with Fred Karno's English vaudeville troupe which brought him to New York in 1910, aged 21. In November of 1913 he signed a contract with 'Mack Sennett' (Keystone) and left for Hollywood the next month. His first movie Making a Living(1914) premiered in February of 1914. He did 35 films that year, moved to Essanay in 1915 and did 14 more, moved on to Mutual for 12 two-reelers 1916-7. In 1918 he joined First National (later absorbed by Warner Bros.) and in 1919 forms United Artists along with 'Douglas Fairbanks' Mary Pickford and D.W.griffith His first full-length film Kid The(1912) came out in 1921; his first for UA, fully produced and directed by himself, Woman of Paris,A.(1923) was released in 1923. In 1929 he won a special award "for versatility and genius in writing, acting, directing and producing Circus The(1923) at the first Oscar awards. In 1943 he was unfairly accused of fathering a child; the papers made much of the scandal. The same year he entered his fourth marriage, to Oona, daughter of playwright 'Eugene O'Neill'. They had eight children. Tired of political and moralistic controversies and plagued by tax collectors, he left the United States for Switzerland in 1952. He published his memoirs in 1964. In 1972 he returned to Hollywood to claim a special Oscar honoring his lifetime contributions to movies. He was named Knight Commander of the British Empire in 1975. He died in his leep from old age.<br>
Though he is short,he is a great man.He acted in many comedy ,which made him famous until now.And his movie will be passed from one generation to another as a heritage.