Charlie Chaplin Short Films
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1. Sunnyside (1919)
34 min | Comedy, Short
Charlie works on a farm from 4am to late at night. He gets his food on the run (milking a cow into his coffee, holding an chicken over the frying pan to get fried eggs). He loves the ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Olive Ann Alcorn, Albert Austin
Votes: 3,303
2. Dough and Dynamite (1914)
Not Rated | 33 min | Comedy, Short
Charlie and another waiter must become bakers when the regular bakers go out on strike. The strikers put dynamite in a piece of bread which is delivered to the cake counter. It winds up in the oven and explodes.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Chester Conklin, Fritz Schade, Norma Nichols
Votes: 1,170 | Gross: $0.13M
3. His Trysting Place (1914)
32 min | Short, Comedy
Charlie's wife sends him to the store for a baby bottle with milk. Elsewhere, Ambrose offers to post a love letter for a woman in his boarding house. The two men meet at a restaurant and ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Mack Swain, Phyllis Allen
Votes: 980
4. The Idle Class (1921)
TV-G | 32 min | Short, Comedy
A tramp sneaks into a upper class golf resort. The tramp meets a rich woman who is having an argument with her drunken husband. Complications arise when she mistakes the tramp for her husband.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Charles Aber, Joe Anderson
Votes: 4,157
5. A Day's Pleasure (1919)
TV-G | 18 min | Short, Comedy
A father takes his family for an outing, which turns out to be a ridiculous trial.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, C. Allen, Naomi Bailey
Votes: 3,634
6. His Prehistoric Past (1914)
Not Rated | 22 min | Short, Comedy
Charlie dreams he is in the Stone Age, where King Low-Brow rules a harem of wives. Charlie, in skins and a bowler, falls in love with the king's favorite wife, Sum-Babee. During a hunting ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, May Wallace, Gene Marsh
Votes: 1,055
7. Pay Day (I) (1922)
TV-G | 21 min | Comedy, Short
After a difficult day at work, a bricklayer tries to enjoy his pay day without his wife knowing.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Phyllis Allen, Mack Swain, Edna Purviance
Votes: 4,853 | Gross: $0.13M
8. Mabel's Married Life (1914)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Comedy
Accosted by a masher in the park and unable to motivate husband Charlie into taking action, Mabel gets him a boxing mannequin to sharpen his fighting skills.
Director: Mack Sennett | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Mack Swain, Eva Nelson
Votes: 1,404
9. Caught in the Rain (1914)
Not Rated | 16 min | Short, Comedy
When a married couple become separated in the park, Charlie takes up with the lady and is beat up when her husband rejoins her. He takes a room in their hotel, and she sleepwalks into his ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Alice Davenport, Alice Howell
Votes: 1,124
10. His New Profession (1914)
16 min | Short, Comedy
A nephew takes his wheelchair-bound uncle and sweetheart to the park, where he meets the Little Tramp. The Tramp knows a money-making opportunity when he sees one.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Charley Chase, Peggy Page, Jess Dandy
Votes: 1,384
11. Gentlemen of Nerve (1914)
Not Rated | 16 min | Short, Comedy
Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's friend is attempting to enter the raceway through a hole, the friend gets stuck and a policeman ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Mabel Normand, Chester Conklin
Votes: 945
12. The New Janitor (1914)
Not Rated | 16 min | Short, Comedy
Charlie is janitor for a firm the manager of which receives a threatening note about his gambling debts. He throws a bucket of water out the window which lands on his boss and costs him his... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, John T. Dillon, Al St. John, Glen Cavender
Votes: 1,187
13. His Musical Career (1914)
Not Rated | 16 min | Short, Comedy
Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospect St. They confuse the addresses. The difficulties of delivering the piano by mule cart,... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Fritz Schade, Cecile Arnold
Votes: 1,147
14. A Fair Exchange (1914)
Not Rated | 16 min | Short, Comedy
A continuous exchange of meetings between husbands and wives of different couples in which a policeman intrudes in daring chase until both couples are found.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Phyllis Allen, Mack Swain, Mabel Normand
Votes: 1,005
15. A Film Johnnie (1914)
Not Rated | 15 min | Short, Comedy
Charlie attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at the Keystone Studio, but does not win friends there.
Director: George Nichols | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Peggy Pearce, Mabel Normand
Votes: 1,722
16. Mabel's Busy Day (1914)
TV-G | 10 min | Short, Comedy
A hotdog girl gives one to a policeman who then allows her into a race track. While other customers swipe her hotdogs, Charlie runs off with the whole box, pretending to sell them while ... See full summary »
Director: Mack Sennett | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Dan Albert, Charles Avery
Votes: 1,059
17. Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914)
Not Rated | 11 min | Short, Comedy
The Tramp wanders into and disrupts the filming of a go-kart race.
Director: Henry Lehrman | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Henry Lehrman, Gordon Griffith
Votes: 3,301
18. The Professor (1919)
7 min | Comedy, Short
Professor Bosco, a poor flea trainer, rents a bed in a flophouse. Before going to bed, he rallies his troops and once he has made sure his beloved fleas are settled for the night, the ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Albert Austin, Henry Bergman, Loyal Underwood
Votes: 743
19. The Bond (1918)
10 min | Short, Comedy
Charlie and friends illustrate various bonds in life and the most important, Liberty Bonds for the war...
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Albert Austin, Henry Bergman
Votes: 1,181
20. The Rounders (1914)
Unrated | 16 min | Comedy, Short
Two drunks live in the same hotel. One beats his wife, the other is beaten by his. They go off and get drunk together. They try to sleep in a restaurant using tables as beds and are thrown ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Phyllis Allen, Minta Durfee
Votes: 1,797
21. The Star Boarder (II) (1914)
Not Rated | 16 min | Comedy, Short
A brat's magic lantern show exposes an indiscreet moment between a landlady and her star boarder.
Director: George Nichols | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Minta Durfee, Edgar Kennedy, Gordon Griffith
Votes: 1,024
22. The Masquerader (I) (1914)
Not Rated | 9 min | Short, Comedy
Charlie is an actor in a film studio. He messes up several scenes and is tossed out. Returning dressed as a lady, he charms the director. Even so, Charlie never makes it into film, winding up at the bottom of a well.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Chester Conklin, Charles Murray
Votes: 1,530
23. Tango Tangle (1914)
Not Rated | 12 min | Short, Comedy
Out of costume, Charlie is a clean-shaven dandy who, somewhat drunk, visits a dance hall. There the wardrobe girl has three rival admirers: the band leader, one of the musicians, and now Charlie.
Director: Mack Sennett | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Ford Sterling, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Chester Conklin
Votes: 1,406
24. A Thief Catcher (1914)
Not Rated | 8 min | Short, Comedy
The Keystone Cops pursue a thief.
Director: Ford Sterling | Stars: Ford Sterling, Keystone Kops, Phyllis Allen, Charles Chaplin
Votes: 643
25. Recreation (1914)
Not Rated | 7 min | Comedy, Short
Charlie is walking in the park. A girl leaves a seaman on one bench and joins Charlie on another. The seaman wakes up. He and Charlie stage a brick fight. Policemen get hit and arrest both ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Charles Bennett, Helen Carruthers, Edwin Frazee
Votes: 1,235
26. A Busy Day (1914)
Not Rated | 6 min | Short, Comedy
A jealous wife is chasing her unfaithful husband during a parade, after he starts to flirt with a pretty woman.
Director: Mack Sennett | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Phyllis Allen, Ted Edwards
Votes: 1,262
27. The Champion (1915)
31 min | Short, Comedy, Sport
Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training camp advertising for a boxing partner "who can take a beating." After watching others lose... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Bud Jamison, Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, Billy Armstrong
Votes: 2,768
28. Twenty Minutes of Love (1914)
Not Rated | 20 min | Comedy, Short
Charlie is hanging around in the park, finding problems with a jealous suitor, a man who thinks that Charlie has robbed him a watch, a policeman and even a little boy, all because our friend can't stop snooping.
Directors: Joseph Maddern, Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Minta Durfee, Edgar Kennedy, Gordon Griffith
Votes: 1,424
29. Shoulder Arms (1918)
36 min | Short, Comedy, War
Charlie is a boot camp private who has a dream of being a hero who goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Syd Chaplin, Loyal Underwood
Votes: 7,412
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