2021

1h 54m

7.5(22 votes)

Documentary

Drama

Overview

A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he gave to Life magazine in 1966.

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Cast & Crew

49 members

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Pearl Mackie

Narrator (voice)

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Charlie Chaplin

Self (archive footage)

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Jeff Rawle

Charlie Chaplin 1966

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Matthew Wolf

Richard Meryman

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Dickie Beau

Roddy McDowall

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Anne Rosenfeld

Effie Wisdom

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Dominic Marsh

Kevin Brownlow

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Paul Leonard

Spokeperson

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Eben Young

First Journalist

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Haley Flaherty

Third Journalist

Writing

Alvah Bessie

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Herbert J. Biberman

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Geraldine Chaplin

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Jane Chaplin

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Michael Chaplin

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Oona O'Neill Chaplin

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Virginia Cherrill

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Jackie Coogan

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Alistair Cooke

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Production

Walt Disney

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Adolf Hitler

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Mahatma Gandhi

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Paulette Goddard

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Lita Grey

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Mildred Harris

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J. Edgar Hoover

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Hedda Hopper

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Ring Lardner, Jr.

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Albert Maltz

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Joseph McCarthy

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Edna Purviance

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Paul Robeson

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Mack Sennett

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Robert Taylor

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Dalton Trumbo

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Orson Welles

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Effie Wisdom

Self

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David Olawale Ayinde

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Charlie Carter

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Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

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Merv Griffin

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Oliver Hardy

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Al Jolson

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Buster Keaton

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Stan Laurel

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Sarah Lawn

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Jack Lemmon

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Harold Lloyd

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