The Unique Skills of Charlie Chaplin "Even today, Charlie Chaplin remains one of history’s most well known, and also most criticized members of the film industry. Though he established himself as a stage performer in England, it wasn’t until he walked into Mack Sennett’s Los Angeles office in 1913 that he began his meteoric rise to cinema fame. On this day, Chaplin chose to wear “baggy pants, big shoes, and a derby hat” (…showed first 75 words of 1382 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1382 total…creativity. These skills allowed Chaplin to achieve success throughout his long life. At four o’clock in the morning of Christmas Day 1977, Chaplin died at his home in Corsier sur Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland. Chaplin hailed as the last survivor from among the founding fathers of the American cinema, one of the greatest comic creators in films, and achieved greater, more widespread fame in his own lifetime than perhaps anyone else in the history of mankind.