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Charlie Chaplin

Died in 1977

Charles Spencer Chaplin was born in London in 1889, to two music-hall performers. His mother was committed in 1898, his father died in 1901, and he went twice through the Lambeth workhouse; around the age of ten, he joined a troupe of dancers. Having left on tour in America in 1910, he reached Los Angeles at the end of 1913, created the tramp there, built his own studio and in 1919 founded, with Griffith, Pickford and Fairbanks, a distribution company. Accused of communist sympathies, he left the United States in 1952; his re-entry permit was cancelled during the crossing. He settled in Switzerland at the beginning of 1953 and died there in 1977.

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