Ellen Cheshire

134 years ago today (in 1889), Charlie Chaplin was a born in South London. 10 years ago (in 2013), I was invited to research and write three chapters for Taschen’s The Charlie Chaplin Archives . The three chapters I wrote covered Chaplin’s childhood, theatre career, his move to Hollywood and first few years there working at Keystone and Essanay, and his signing with Mutual. Little did I know that this commission would lead to so many great opportunities including speaking at

On the 4 March 1975, a frail 85 year old Charlie Chaplin, became Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin when he was knighted by the Queen at...

Back in May 2013 I started working on Taschen's The Charlie Chaplin Archives edited by Paul Duncan. This was an amazing project for which I had to trace Chaplin's life from birth through to 1915/16 for the first three chapters of the book which covered his early life/stage career, his first year in Hollywood at Keystone and this second year at Essanay before handing over to other researchers/writers. Following this I have given a number of talk on Chaplin's early career, hi