The Chaplin craze

Brief footage of vintage Chaplin imitations:

Famous Faces Friday

Cary Grant

Jessica Alba

Russell Brand

Liv Tyler

Vintage Billy West poster

Charlie in Burlesque!

Every once in a while, Charlie pops up in the modern burlesque community.



UK performer Warren Speed:

Riding clown 'Kochmanski'

Circus Nock

Laura "Charlie" Olson

Florida based mime and clown Laura Olson gives a refreshingly gender-bending edge to a playful Charlie character. Like many female Charlies, she has the small, impish quality that Mr. C himself had, and many male impersonators have a hard time replicating.
She appears regularly with Skitsations, at Churchill's Pub, and with burlesque dancer Betty Pickle.

Charlie Chaplin Jr.

Impersonating his famous father.

Little Las Vegas lookalike

Lunch Break

Hollywood California, 1998.

Ringling Brothers, 1934

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Circus Stardust

A really great Chaplin-esque act with a trashcan and a dog. So simple, and yet so comical.

London street busker

Circus World, Orlando Florida