FrameThrower · Actors · Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
6 films · 383 frames · top-billed in 5 · 1921–2025
Born 16 April 1889 · Walworth, London, England, UK · died 25 December 1977
Charles “Charlie” Chaplin was an English comic actor, film director and composer best-known for his work during the silent film era. He used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency by the end of the 1920s. His most famous role was that of The Tramp, which he first played in Kid Auto Races (1914). From 1914 onwards he was writing and directing most of his films, by 1916 he was producing them, and by 1918 he was also composing the music for them. In 1919 he co-founded United Artists. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Chaplin the 10th greatest male screen legend of all time.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 383 frames · top-billed in 5 · 1921–2025
- Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score1973
- Academy Awards
- BAFTA Fellowship1976
- Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement1972
- Golden Lion1972
- Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire1975
- Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic1952
- Order of the British Empire
- Commander of the Legion of Honour
- Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- Academy Honorary Award1972
- Erasmus Prize1965
How their films are shot
Measured across 383 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Charlie takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 6 films we hold, 67% of their frames are day, 55% natural — the look of the work Charlie takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 383 frames from Charlie Chaplin's 6 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.