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Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. was an English comic actor, filmmaker, film editor and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is considered one of the film industry's most important figures. His career spanned more than 75 years, from his childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both accolade and controversy.
Buster Keaton
American actor, comedian, and director (1895–1966)
Harold Lloyd
American actor and comedian (1893–1971)
Stan Laurel
British-American actor (1890–1965)
Oliver Hardy
American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy (1892–1957)
Marie Dressler
Canadian-American actress (1868-1934)
Laurel and Hardy
American comedy double act

W. C. Fields
American comedian, actor, juggler and writer (1880–1946)

Roscoe Arbuckle
American actor, director and comedian
Mabel Normand
American actress (1893–1930)

Edna Purviance
actress (1895-1958)

Max Linder
French silent film actor and director (1883–1925)
Thelma Todd
American actress (1906-1935)

Ben Turpin
American actor (1869-1940)
ZaSu Pitts
American actress (1894-1963)
Henry Bergman
American actor (1868-1946)
Larry Semon
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (1889-1928)
Mack Swain
American actor, vaudevillian (1876–1935)
Chester Conklin
actor, comedian (1886-1971)
Eric Campbell
British actor (1880–1917)
Ford Sterling
American comedian (1883–1939)
Charley Chase
actor, comedian, director, writer (1893–1940)
Igor Ilyinsky
Soviet film and stage actor, director (1901–1987)
Harry Langdon
American actor and comedian (1884–1944)
Edgar Kennedy
actor (1890–1948)
Jimmy Finlayson
Scottish actor (1887–1953)

Al St. John
American film actor (1892–1963)
John Bunny
American actor (1863-1915)
James Parrott
American actor and director (1897–1939)
Snub Pollard
Australian actor (1889-1962)
Billy Bevan
Australian American film actor (1887–1957)

Anita Garvin
American actress (1907–1994)
Tiny Sandford
American actor (1894-1961)
Marion Byron
American actress (1911-1985)
Reginald Denny
British actor, aviator and businessman (1891–1967)
Monty Banks
Italian comedian and director (1897–1950)
Otis Harlan
American actor (1865-1940)
Billy West
American actor and film director (1892-1975)
Léonce Perret
French movie director, screenwriter and actor (1880-1935)
Max Davidson
actor (1875-1950)
Thelma Hill
American actress (1906-1938)
Charlie Hall
British actor (1899–1959)
Heinie Conklin
actor (1886-1959)
Lloyd Hamilton
American actor (1891-1935)
Fred Mace
actor (1878-1917)

Madeline Hurlock
American actress (1899–1989)
Marcel Perez
silent-movie actor (1884-1929)
Gale Henry
American actress
Lupino Lane
British actor (1892–1959)
Charles Bowers
American cartoonist and actor
Clyde Cook
vaudevillian and actor (1891-1984)
Raymond Griffith
American actor (1895–1957)

Alice Howell
American actress (1888-1961)
George Robey
English music hall singer, film & theatre actor (1869-1954)

Charles Puffy
Hungarian actor (1884–1943)

Polidor
Italian actor and producer (1887–1977)

Mae Dahlberg
Australian-born vaudeville performer and actress
Billy Quirk
actor (1873-1926)
Brooks Benedict
American actor (1896-1968)
Spencer Bell
actor (1887-1935)