Biographical Essay: Charlie Chaplin's Career

Charlie Chaplin was one of the most famous movie stars in the world. He acted in over 100 silent films.

When Charlie was 14 he got his first chance to act in a real stage show as Billy the page boy in a play called " Sherlock Holmes." Then started his career in Vaudaville, which eventually took him to America. Then things got better and better. he was offered a motion picture contract. he agreed. He was paid one hundred fiftey Dollars a week. Then he got another job doing the same thing. Then his brother Sidney Chaplin took his place in the job he had had before.

At his new acting job he acted in a lot of movies like "The Florewalker," "The Fireman," "The Vagabond," "One AM," "The Count," "The Pawnshop," "Behind the Screen," "Easy Street," and "The Cure."

Then Charlie Chaplin wanted more Freedom in his acting and started making his own movies and acting in them. The first film he wrote was "A Dogs life." Also he wrote a movie called "The Bond," both released in 1919.

Charlie Chaplin died christmas day 1977.

Charlie Chaplin acted in movies until he was very old, and married 18 year old Oona o'Niel. His last movie was "A countess in hong Kong."