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The English performer Charlie Chplin had many talents: he acted, produced, directed, wrote the scripts for his movies and composed music, too.

Charlie started his artistic carrer when he was a child. He was influenced by his parents, who were poor artists who dreamed of fame and fortune. When he was only five, his mother got mentally sick and his father died. Charlie and his brother became orphans. They lived in orphanages and in the streets on the poor side of London.

After a while, he got an invitation to travel with a children's musical group. When he was 17, he got a job with a show company that went to the USA,. There director Mack Sennet discovered him, and invited him to work at his movie company.

In 1914, Chaplin created his famous acharacter, The Little tramp. He wore a hat and carried a cane, and became the first movie star famous all over the world.

Some of his famous films include The kid and The Gold Rush. Chaplin was a very imporant artist, but he just received two honorary Oscars - the first one, for the film The Circus, in 1928, and another one iin 1972, for the work of his lifetime.