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A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

Charlie Chaplin

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Charlie Chaplin
Age: 88 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 16
Died: 1977
Died: December 25
Actor
Autobiographer
Comedian
Composer
Director
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Film Score Composer
Mime Artist
London
England
Charles Spencer Chaplin
Charles Chaplin
Poet
Gentleman
Always
Fellow
Romance
Tramp
Loneliness
Tramps
Fellows
Lulls
Lonely
Adventurous
Adventure
Dreamer
Travel
Hopeful

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