Charles Chaplin

Charles Spencer Chaplin was born in Londres the 16th of April 1889 and died the 25th of December 1977. He worked as an actor, director, writer, producer and composer.

With 90 films, he has become the most important and representative figure in the mute cinema world, which has given him a very important recognition. He created a very peculiar man whose name was The Tramp (in Spanish: Charlot), who was vagabond but with refined ways to act and the dignity of a gentleman. He was wearing a narrow jacket, big trousers, shoes that were bigger that he needed, a bowler hat, a cane and a characteristic moustache. People knew him because of his unmistakable way of walking and his disillusion of the injustice of the new society made him the emblem of the new working-class.

The famous film produced in 1936, called: Modern Times, is the last one where we can see this personage. This is because when Chaplin created The Tramp, his idea wasn’t to give him the faculty of talking, so, made him as mime as possible without talking. This film was recorded when the new system of recording sounds was created, but our personage doesn’t talk or he does it only a little bit. Moreover he conserves his way of moving like a mime and the music of mute films. This was criticised by the more reactionaries sectors.
Later, this film was considered one of the bests in the story of cinema.