The Tramp
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Key facts
- First appearance
- Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914)
- Last appearance
- Modern Times (1936)
- Created by
- Charlie Chaplin
- Portrayed by
- Charlie Chaplin
- Aliases
- The Little Tramp Charlot Charlie
- Gender
- Male
- Title
- The Little Fellow
- Occupation
- Tramp
- Children
- Kid ("John") (surrogate son)
- Religion
- Christianity
- Nationality
- British
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- Image
- The Tramp Essanay.jpg
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- The Tramp (character)
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The Tramp (Charlot in several languages), also known as the Little Tramp, was English actor Charlie Chaplin's most memorable on-screen character and an icon in world cinema during the era of silent film. The Tramp is also the title of a silent film starring Chaplin, which Chaplin wrote and directed in 1915.
The Tramp, as portrayed by Chaplin is a childlike and bumbling but generally good-hearted character who is most famously portrayed as a mischievous vagrant. He endeavours to behave with the manners and dignity of a gentleman despite his actual social status. However, while the Tramp is ready to take what paying work is available, he also uses his cunning self to get what he needs to survive and escape the authority figures who will not tolerate his antics.