Charlie Chaplin
Director · Writer · Performer
Independent production
Biography
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) began in music hall and moved into film with Keystone Studios in 1914, quickly taking control of writing and directing his own shorts. He later co-founded United Artists so that he and his fellow filmmakers could distribute their own work — an early, direct argument for creator ownership.
The early shorts in the Grid TV catalog date from that first period, when the physical comedy vocabulary he became known for was still being built on screen.
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