One of the most important filmmakers of the silent era and the early twentieth century in general, Chaplin is best known for his Little Tramp character, who starred in dozens of shorts. The best, and best-known, Tramp films are The Kid (1921), The Gold Rush (1925), and 1931’s City Lights, Chaplin’s first sound feature, though it contained no dialogue. His attack on Nazism, The Great Dictator, was his first talkie -- and left the Little Tramp behind, as Chaplin felt he belonged solely to the silent era when film was a pantomime art.


The final movie he directed, A Countess from Hong Kong, was one of only two in which he didn’t star -- and his only color movie. The comedy starred Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren, and the theme music Chaplin wrote for it became one of the year’s biggest hits.

Filmography
Keystone Studios (1914) - Making A Living - Kid Auto Races at Venice -
Mabel’s Strange Predicament - Between Showers - A Film Johnnie - Tango
Tangles - His Favourite Pastime - Cruel, Cruel Love - The Star Boarder
- Mabel at the Wheel - Twenty Minutes of Love - Caught in a Cabaret - Caught
in the Rain - A Busy Day - The Fatal Mallet - Her Friend the Bandit -
Mabel’s Busy Day - Mabel’s Married Life - Laughing Gas - The Face on the Bar
Room Floor - Recreation - The Masquerader - His New Profession - The
Rounders - The Property Man - The New Janitor - Those Love Pangs - Dough
and Dynamite - Gentlemen of Nerve - His Musical Career - His Trysting Place -
Tillie’s Punctured Romance - Getting Acquainted - His Prehistoric Past


Essanay Studios (1915-1918) - His New Job - A Night Out - The
Champion - In the Park - A Jitney Elopement - The Tramp - By the Sea
- His Regeneration (uncredited) - Work - A Woman - The Bank - Shanghaied -
A Night in the Show - Burlesque on Carmen - Police - Triple Trouble


Mutual Film Corporation (1916-1917) - The Floorwalker - The Fireman
- The Vagabond - One A.M. - The Count - The Pawnshop - Behind the Screen -
The Rink - Easy Street - The Cure - The Immigrant - The Adventurer


First National (1918-1923) - A Dog’s Life - The Bond - Shoulder Arms
- Sunnyside - A Day’s Pleasure - The Professor - The Kid - The Idle Class
- Pay Day - The Pilgrim


United Artists (1923-1952) - A Woman of Paris - The Gold Rush - The
Circus - City Lights - Modern Times - The Great Dictator - Monsieur Verdoux
- Limelight


Later Productions & Misc. - A King in New York - The Chaplin Revue -
A Countess from Hong Kong - The Freak - The Nut - Souls For Sale - A Woman
of the Sea - Show People - Chaplin