Charlie Chaplin Films
List of Films from 1914 - 1967
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Keystone Films - All made in 1914
Mack Sennett
The Keystone Film Company
Edendale, California

Making a Living - Feb. 2
Other English Titles:
A Busted Johnny
Troubles
Doing His Best
Directed by Henry Lehrman

Kid Auto Races at Venice - Feb. 7
Other English Titles:
The Children's Automobile Race
Directed by Henry Lehrman

Mabel's Strange Predicament - Feb. 9
Other English Titles:
Hotel Mixup
Directed by Henry Lehrman and Mack Sennett


Between Showers - Feb. 28
Other English Titles:
The Flirts
Charlie and the Umbrella
In Wrong
Directed by Henry Lehrman

A Johnnie Film - March 2
Other English Titles:
Movie Nut
Million Dollar Job
Charlie at the Studio
Directed by George Nichols

Tango Tangles - March 9
Other English Titles:
Charlie Recreation
Music Hall
Directed by Mack Sennett

His Favorite Pastime - March 16
Other English Titles:
The Bonehead
Reckless Fling
Directed by George Nichols

Cruel, Cruel Love - March 26
Other English Titles:
Lord Helpus
Directed by George Nichol

The Star Boarder - April 4
Other English Titles:
Hash-House Hero,
Landlady's Pet
In Love with his Landlady
Directed by George Nichols

Mabel at the Wheel - April 18
Other English Titles:
His Daredevil Queen
Hot Finish
Directed by Mabel Normand (?) and
Mack Sennett

Twenty Minutes of Love - April 20
Other English Titles:
He Loved Her So
Cops and Watches
Love -Friend
Directed by *Charles Chaplin(?)
Latest records show Joseph Maddern directed

Caught in a Cabaret - April 27
Other English Titles:
The Waiter
Jazz Waiter
Faking with Society
Directed by Mabel Normand (?)
and Charles Chaplin

Caught in the Rain - May 4
Other English Titles:
Who Got Stung?
At It Again
In the Park (spurious title)
Directed by Charles Chaplin

A Busy Day - May 7
Other English Titles:
Lady Charlie
Militant Suffragette
Directed by Charles Chaplin (?)

The Fatal Mallet - June 1
Other English Titles:
The Pile Driver
The Rival Suitors
Hit Him Again
Directed by Mack Sennett

Her Friend the Bandit - June 4
Other English Titles:
Mabel's Flirtation
A Thief Catcher
Directed by (?)

The Knockout - June 11
Other English Titles:
Counted Out
The Pugilist
Directed by Charles Avery

Mabel's Busy Day - June 13
Other English Titles:
Charlie and the Sausages
Love and Lunch
Hot Dogs
Directed by Mabel Normand (?)

A Mabel's Married Life - June 20
Other English Titles:
When You're Married
The Squarehead
Directed by Charles Chaplin

Keystone Films - 1914

Laughing Gas - July 9
Other English Titles:
Tuning his Ivories
The Dentist
Down and Out
Busy Little Dentist
Directed by Charles Chaplin

The Property Man - Aug. 1
Other English Titles:
Getting his Goat
The Rustabout
Vamping Venus
Directed by Charles Chaplin

The Face in the
Bar Room Floor- Aug. 10
Other English Titles:
The Ham Artist
The Ham Actor
Directed by Charles Chaplin

Recreation - Aug. 18
Other English Titles:
Spring Fever
Directed by Charles Chaplin

The Masquerader - Aug. 27
Other English Titles:
Putting One Over
The Female Impersonator
His New Profession (unauthenic title)
Directed by Charles Chaplin

His New Profession - Aug. 31
Other English Titles:
The Good for Nothing
Helping Himself
Directed by Charles Chaplin

The Rounders - Sept. 7
Other English Titles:
Revelry
Two of a Kind
Oh, What a Night!
The Love Thief
Tip, Tap, Toe
Directed by Charles Chaplin

The New Janitor - Sept. 24
Other English Titles:
The Porter
The Blundering Boob
The New Porter
Directed by Charles Chaplin

Those Love Pangs - Oct. 10
Other English Titles:
The Rival Mashers
Buster Hearts
Directed by Charles Chaplin

Dough and Dynamite - Oct. 26
Other English Titles:
The Doughnut Designer
The Cook
The New Cook
Directed by Charles Chaplin

Gentlemen of Nerve - Oct. 29
Other English Titles:
Some Nerve
Charlie at the Races
Directed by Charles Chaplin

His Musical Career - Nov. 7
Other English Titles:
The Piano Movers
Musical Tramps
Directed by Charles Chaplin

His Trysting Place - Nov. 9
Other English Titles:
Family House
Directed by Charles Chaplin

Tillie's
Punctured Romance - Nov. 14
Other English Titles:
Tillie's Nightmare
For the Love of Tillie
Marie's Millions
Tillie's Big Romance
His New Girl (16MM segment from film)
Directed by Mack Sennett

Getting Acquainted - Dec. 5
Other English Titles:
A Fair Exchange
Exchange is No Robbery
Hullo Everybody
Directed by Charles Chaplin

His Prehistoric Past - Dec. 7
Other English Titles:
A Dream
King Charlie
The Caveman
Directed by Charles Chaplin

Early ad of Charlie and Edna in 'Police'












July 1920 ad for 'A Day's Pleasure'

Essanay Films - 1915 - 1916
All Films Directed by Charles Chaplin

His New Job - Feb. 1, 1915
Other English Titles:
Charlie's New Job
Essanay - Chicago

A Night Out - Feb. 15, 1915
Other English Titles:
Champagne Charlie
Charlie's Drunken Daze
Essanay - Niles (Fremont), California

The Champion - March 11, 1915
Other English Titles:
Champion Charlie
Battling Charlie
Essanay - Niles (Fremont), California

In the Park - March 18, 1915
Other English Titles:
Charlie on the Spree
Essanay - Niles (Fremont), California

A Jitney Elopement - April 1, 1915
Other English Titles:
Married in Haste
Charlie's Elopement
Essanay - Niles (Fremont), California

The Tramp - April 11, 1915
Other English Titles:
Charlie the Hobo
Essanay - Niles (Fremont), California

By the Sea - April 29, 1915
Other English Titles:
Charlie's Day Out
Essanay: Crystal Pier, Los Angeles area

Work - June 21, 1915
Other English Titles:
The Paperhanger
Charlie at Work
Only a Working Man
The Plumber
Essanay: Bradbury Mansion, Los Angeles

A Woman - July 12, 1915
Other English Titles:
The Perfect Lady
Charlie the Perfect Lady
Essanay: Majestic Studio, Los Angeles

The Bank - Aug. 9, 1915
Other English Titles:
Charlie at the Bank
Charlie Detective
Essanay: Majestic Studio, Los Angeles

Shanghaied - Oct. 4, 1915
Other English Titles:
Charlie the Sailor
Charlie on the Ocean
Essanay: Majestic Studio, Los Angeles

A Night in the Show - Nov. 20, 1915
Other English Titles:
Charlie at the Show
Essanay: Majestic Studio, Los Angeles

Charlie Chaplin's Carmen - Dec. 18, 1916
Chaplin's original edited version
Chaplin held the film

Charlie Chaplin's
Burlesque on Carmen
Essanay's long version - April 22, 1916
Other English Titles:
Carmen (short title)
Essanay: Majestic Studio, Los Angeles

Police - May 27, 1916
Other English Titles:
Charlie the Burglar
Housebreaker
Essanay: Majestic Studio, Los Angeles

Mutual Films - 1916 - 1917
All Films Directed by Charles Chaplin
Lone Star Studio, Hollywood

The Floorwalker - May 15, 1916
Other English Titles:
The Store

The Fireman - June 12, 1916

The Vagabond - July 10, 1916

One A.M. - Aug. 7, 1916
(Chaplin near solo work)

The Count - Sept. 4, 1916

The Pawnshop - Oct. 2, 1916

Behind the Screen - Nov. 13, 1916

The Rink - Dec. 4, 1916

Easy Street -Jan. 22, 1917

The Cure - April 16, 1917

The Immigrant - June 17, 1917

The Adventurer - Oct. 22, 1917

First National Films - 1918 - 1923
All Films Directed by Charles Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin's Studio, Hollywood

A Dog's Life - April 14, 1918

Shoulder Arms - October 20, 1918

The Bond - December 16, 1918

Sunnyside - June 15, 1919

A Day's Pleasure - December 15, 1919
Other English Titles:
A Pleasant Day

The Kid - February 6, 1921

The Idle Class - September 25, 1921
Other English Titles:
Vanity Fair

Pay Day - April 2, 1922

The Pilgrim - February 26, 1923


United Artist Films - 1924 - 1952
All Films Directed by Charles Chaplin

A Woman of Paris - October 1, 1923

The Gold Rush - June 21, 1925

The Circus - January 6, 1928

City Lights - January 30, 1931

Modern Times - February 5, 1936

The Great Dictator - October 15, 1940

The Gold Rush - 1942 (re-release)
(Chaplin replaced title slides with comments)

Monsieur Verdoux - April 11, 1947

Limelight - October 23, 1952
Last U.S. Film


British Productions
London 1957 - 1967
All Films Directed by Charles Chaplin

A King in New York
September 12, 1957
Last film Charles Chaplin starred in

A Countess From Hong Kong
January 2, 1967


Other Films and Appearances
Triple Trouble
August 11, 1918
(Created from out-takes from Chaplin film work at Essanay. Chaplin did sue to stop release, but lost)

Chase Me Charlie
May 1918
(Created from out-takes by Essanay. Not an official Chaplin film.)

The Chaplin Revue - 1959
Chaplin First National Collection
(Three films including scenes from 'How to Make Movies' with Chaplin as himself in and out of make-up)


Films Chaplin Appeared
His Regeneration
1915 - Essanay Broncho Billy film

How to Make Movies
1918 - First National
(Never released - available Chaplin DVD Collection)

The Nut
1921 - Douglas Fairbanks film

The Professor
1922 - First National
(Never released - available Unknown Chaplin collection)

Souls for Sale
1923 - Rupert Hughes - MGM

Hollywood
1923 - Paramount Picture
(This star filled film appears to be lost.)

Show People
1928 - Cosmopolitan - MGM


Charles Chaplin Production
A Woman of the Sea
1923 - Also known as The Sea Gull
Directed and story by Josef von Sternberg
(never released - BOOK ABOUT FILM)

Charlie Chaplin Documentaries
Some of the main collections

The Eternal Tramp - 1965
Early Biography
Narrated by Gloria Swanson

Chaplin's Art of Comedy - 1969
Mainly features film clips
Early documentary

The Gentleman Tramp - 1975
Official Biography
Narrated by Walter Matthau

Unknown Chaplin Series - 1983
Happiest Years
(rare clips of Edna Purviance)
The Great Director
(interviews Coogan, Grey, Hale and Cherrill)
Hidden Treasures
(The Professor and outtakes of The Circus)
Kevin Brownlow and David Gill

The Tramp and the Dictator - 2002
Contains Sydney Chaplin's color films of Chaplin on the Dictator set
Kevin Brownlow and Michael Kloft

Charlie:The Life and
Art of Charles Chaplin - 2003
included in the Chaplin DVD collection
by Richard Schickel

Charlie Chaplin
Forgotten Years - 2003
Last twenty plus years of the filmmaker's life
with interviews with Chaplin's children

Chaplin Today
Special Series of nine documentaries. Each about a different film. Available in the Chaplin DVD Collection
Created in France



Updated April 11, 2007
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Release dates from Robinson's 'Chaplin: His Life and Art'. Other English Titles from Asplund's 'Chaplin Films'. Not all of Robinson's film release dates agree with Asplund's list of release dates.

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Note: Charlie and Edna worked together on Essanay, Mutual and First National Films.
Chaplin's three film works not released originally:
'The Professor' - 1919, 'Nice and Friendly' - 1920
and 'How to Make Movies' - 1918

Learn more about Charles Chaplin
from the following books:



David Robinson's - 'Chaplin, His Life and Art'
Charles Chaplin -'My Autobiography'
Uno Asplund - 'Chaplin's Films'

And check out Garen Ewing's 'A Woman of Paris'
Chaplin's first United Artist Film starring Edna Purviance


Visit Edna Purviance's Film List