{"slug": "charlie-chaplin", "label": "Charlie Chaplin", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q882", "qid": "Q882", "description": "English actor and filmmaker (1889–1977)", "entries": 7, "years": 6, "span": [1889, 1978], "span_label": ["1889 CE", "1978 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 4}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "albert-einstein", "label": "Albert Einstein", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1889, "year_label": "1889 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "April 16", "text": "April 16 – Charlie Chaplin, English comic actor, film director (d. 1977)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367594292#April", "title": "1889", "revid": 1367594292, "section": "Births › April"}}, {"year": 1919, "year_label": "1919 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "February 5", "text": "February 5 – United Artists (UA) is incorporated in the United States by D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks as a motion picture producer.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373508849#February", "title": "1919", "revid": 1373508849, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1921, "year_label": "1921 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "January 21", "text": "January 21 – The full-length silent comedy drama film The Kid, written, produced, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin (in his Tramp character), with Jackie Coogan, is released in the United States.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371086035#January", "title": "1921", "revid": 1371086035, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1931, "year_label": "1931 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "January 30", "text": "January 30 – Charlie Chaplin comedy drama film City Lights receives its public premiere at the Los Angeles Theater with Albert Einstein as guest of honor. Contrary to the current trend in cinema, it is a silent film, but with a score by Chaplin. Critically and commercially successful from the start, it will place consistently in lists of films considered the best of all time.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371310518#January", "title": "1931", "revid": 1371310518, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1940, "year_label": "1940 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "October 15", "text": "October 15 – Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator, a satirical anti-fascist comedy film, premieres in New York City. Written, directed, produced by and starring Chaplin as his first true sound film, it is a critical and commercial success and goes on to become Chaplin's most financially successful work. Filming began in September 1939.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368818987#October", "title": "1940", "revid": 1368818987, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1978, "year_label": "1978 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "March 1", "text": "March 1 – Charlie Chaplin's remains are stolen from Cosier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022681#March", "title": "1978", "revid": 1370022681, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1978, "year_label": "1978 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "May 17", "text": "May 17 – Charlie Chaplin's coffin is found some 15 km mi from the cemetery from which it was stolen, near Lake Geneva.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022681#May", "title": "1978", "revid": 1370022681, "section": "Events › May"}}]}