Charlie Chaplin

Early life.

Charles Spencer Chaplin was born on 16 April 1889, East Street, Walworth, London, England. His parents were artists in music-hall tradition, his father was a singer and actor, and his mother, singer and actress. They separated before Charlie was three. He learned singing from his parents. In the 1891 census shows that her mother, an actress of Hannah Hill, lived with Charlie and his half-brother Sydney, the Holy Barlow Walworth. As a child Charlie lived with his mother at different addresses and around Kennington Road, Lambeth, including 3 Pownall Terrace, Chester Street, and 39 Methley Street. His maternal grandmother was half of the Roma, but in fact he was extremely proud of [3], but has also been described as "skeletons in the closet of our family" [4]. Chaplin's father , Charles Chaplin Senior, was an alcoholic and have little contact with his son, but Chaplin and his half-brother briefly lived with his father and his mistress, Louise, at 287 Kennington Road where a plaque. In the two brothers lived while their mother, the mentally ill residing in the Cane Hill Asylum at Coulsdon. Chaplin's father's mistress sent the child to school Bishop Church for boys. His father died of alcoholism when Charlie was twelve in 1901. Since 1901, Charles lived at 94 Ferndale Road, Lambeth Lancashire with eight men, led by John William Jackson (17 years, son of one of the founders). 

A larynx condition ended the career of singer Chaplin mother. Hanna first crisis came in 1894 when she was performing in the dining room, a play in Aldershot. The theater is mainly frequented by rioters and soldiers. Hannah was badly injured when spectators threw objects, and was booed at the scene. Backstage, she cried and argued with his manager. Meanwhile, for five years, Chaplin was alone on stage and sings the famous adjust at that time, "Jones Poo". 

After Chaplin mother (who went on the stage name of Lilly Harley) was again admitted to the Cane Hill Asylum, his son was left in the workhouse at Lambeth in South London, passing in a few weeks the Central London District School for the poor in Hanwell. The young Chaplin brothers have established close links in order to survive. They seriousness of the music, still very young, and they had great natural talent stage. Chaplin in the early years of poverty, a major influence on his characters. The themes of his films in the years to re-visit the places of his childhood deprivation in Lambeth. 

Chaplin, his mother died in 1928 in Hollywood, seven years after their introduction in the United States of his son. Unknown to Charlie and Sydney until years later, they had a half-brother through their mother. The boy, Wheeler Dryden, was raised on his father but later connected with the rest of the family and went to work for Chaplin at his Hollywood studio.