Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, KBE, better known as Charlie Chaplin, was a British actor, director, producer, comedian, entrepreneur, writer, comedian, dancer, screenwriter and musician. Chaplin was one of the most famous actors of the silent film era, noted for his use of mime and comedy slapstick. He is well-known for his films The Immigrant, The Boy, In Search of Gold, The Circus, City Lights, Modern Times, The Great Dictator, Lights of Ribalta, A King in New York and The Countess of Hong Kong. Influenced by the work of his predecessors - French comedian Max Linder, Georges Méliès, DW Griffith Luís and Auguste Lumière - and sharing the work with Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, he was influenced by mime, pantomime and the genre of slapstick and influenced a huge team of comedians and filmmakers such as Federico Fellini, The Three Stooges, Peter Sellers, Milton Berle, Marcel Marceau, Jacques Tati, Rowan Atkinson, Johnny Depp, Michael Jackson, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton and other directors and comedians.