Links

Discovering Chaplin

An amazing blog run by a self-described “Charlie Chaplin enthusiast and researcher”. This incredibly well-researched site is full of rare images, fascinating historical information, fun trivia, news and all sorts of gems any Chaplin fan would love to stumble upon.

The British Film Institute

A large section of the BFI’s website devoted to Chaplin with biographical information, a research programme, restoration information, and more.

Sydney Chaplin website

An entire website dedicated to Charlie’s half-brother, Sydney, created by Lisa Stein Haven, author of Syd Chaplin: A Biography.

Edna Purviance Website

Dedicated to Chaplin’s leading lady from 1915 to 1923.

Chaplin Film Locations: Then and Now

A website created by Gerald Smith, a retired IBM engineer, showing locations from Chaplin films “then and now”.

Time with Charlie Chaplin

A blog with a simple mission: Keep Charlie Alive.
Created by Gerry Mandel, author of Shadow and Substance: My Time with Charlie Chaplin

Wikipedia

Wikipedia’s extensive entry on Chaplin.

Laura Chaplin’s Website

Laura Chaplin is passionate about her grandfather and paints portraits of him.

Silent Locations

A website by John Bengston, which supplements his series of books about Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, entitled Silent Traces, Silent Echoes, and Silent Visions, respectively, which examine the historical settings preserved in the background of classic films, and the changes wrought by ensuing decades.

Chaplin Walks

Charlie Chaplin guided walks around Kennington, London where Chaplin grew up. Your guide will be dressed up like Chaplin.

La Mémoire du réel

A list by award-winning producer-director Serge Viallet of approximately 80 noteworthy archival centres that can help researchers, archivists and others, published by French authors’ rights society, La Scam.