The Real Charlie Chaplin

A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he gave to Life magazine in 1966.

Documentary Drama

Pearl Mackie

(Self - Narrator (voice))

Charlie Chaplin

(Self (archive footage))

Jeff Rawle

(Charlie Chaplin 1966)

Matthew Wolf

(Richard Meryman)

Dickie Beau

(Roddy McDowall)

Anne Rosenfeld

Dominic Marsh

(Kevin Brownlow)

Paul Leonard

Eben Young

(First Journalist)

Haley Flaherty

(Third Journalist)

Alvah Bessie

(Self (archive footage))

Herbert J. Biberman

(Self (archive footage))

Geraldine Chaplin

(Self (archive footage))

Jane Chaplin

(Self (archive footage))

Michael Chaplin

(Self (archive footage))

Oona O'Neill Chaplin

(Self (archive footage))

Virginia Cherrill

(Self (archive footage))

Jackie Coogan

(Self (archive footage))

Alistair Cooke

(Self (archive footage))

Walt Disney

(Self (archive footage))

Adolf Hitler

(Self (archive footage))

Mahatma Gandhi

(Self (archive footage))

Paulette Goddard

(Self (archive footage))

Lita Grey

(Self (archive footage))

Mildred Harris

(Self (archive footage))

J. Edgar Hoover

(Self (archive footage))

Hedda Hopper

(Self (archive footage))

Ring Lardner, Jr.

(Self (archive footage))

Albert Maltz

(Self (archive footage))

Joseph McCarthy

(Self (archive footage))

Edna Purviance

(Self (archive footage))

Paul Robeson

(Self (archive footage))

Franklin D. Roosevelt

(Self (archive footage))

Mack Sennett

(Self (archive footage))

Robert Taylor

(Self (archive footage))

Dalton Trumbo

(Self (archive footage))

Orson Welles

(Self (archive footage))

Effie Wisdom

(Self (archive sound))

David Olawale Ayinde

(Freelance Journalist (uncredited))

Charlie Carter

(David Gill (uncredited))

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Merv Griffin

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Oliver Hardy

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Al Jolson

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Buster Keaton

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Stan Laurel

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Sarah Lawn

(Reporter 3 (uncredited))

Jack Lemmon

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Harold Lloyd

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))