Charlie Chaplin

The archives of Charlie Chaplin - in pictures

A new edition of an expansive Taschen book collates the vast archives of the much-loved star with an oral history of the man and his films and further treasures.

Review: Charlie And Stan at Theatre Royal Bath

Slapstick metatheatre: Lilith Wozniak reviews Told By an Idiot's comic tribute to Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel.

Charlie And Stan tour announces cast and dates

Casting and new tour dates have been revealed for Told By An Idiot's hit comedy Charlie And Stan.

Opening on tour at Theatre Royal Bath on 17th July, the piece will then visit the Minack Theatre in Cornwall for an official press night on 2nd August.

When Stan Laurel understudied Charlie Chaplin

Before achieving cinematic fame, Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel briefly worked together in music hall, an episode recounted in Told by an Idiot's latest show. Creator Paul Hunter tells Nick Smurthwaite about evoking their world with silent storytelling.

Billie Ritchie: Scots comic may have inspired Chaplin

Glaswegian Billie Ritchie was hailed as one of the greatest comedians of his day but his fame was eclipsed by Charlie Chaplin after the Englishman allegedly copied the Scot's acts.

Slapstick Festival online events during August

Bristol's annual Slapstick festival of silent and classic comedy is adding a choice of celebrity-led live online events to the series of archive treasures it has been sharing via its YouTube channel since the start of the Covid-19 lockdown.

Praise of the pratfall: why slapstick can be high art

Any surprise at Buster Keaton's painstaking preparation hints, I think, at a widespread misconception. Namely, that physical comedy - despite having its roots in the 16th-century Commedia dell'arte and being, at its best, the finest and funniest kind of comedy full stop - is somehow inherently inferior to the more obviously "clever" verbal kind; that it is, as the Edinburgh Fringe favourite Adam Riches suggests, someone "just pratting about and being a fool".

When Chaplin, Keaton and Laurel came to Elstree Studios

Borehamwood has been no stranger to the biggest comedy stars of all time and from the 1930s they have all been driven along Shenley Road, the high street, albeit at a faster speed than nowadays.

Charlie Chaplin: The original distracted boyfriend

Charlie Chaplin was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood's silent movie era. But was he a precursor to Internet humour? He is now being dubbed the "inventor of memes" on Reddit due to the resemblance between a still from his 1922 film Pay Day and the 2017 "distracted boyfriend meme".

Look inside Charlie Chaplin's childhood home

His was "the most dramatic of all the rags to riches stories ever told", according to his official biographer, and now a house where he spent part of his difficult childhood is on the market. Charlie Chaplin is believed to have lived in this house in Kennington, south London, between 1898 and 1899, when he was around 10 years old.