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The Great Dictator is a 1940 American political satire black comedy film written, directed, produced by, and starring, British filmmaker Charlie Chaplin. Having been the only Hollywood filmmaker to continue to make silent films well into the period of sound films , Chaplin made this his first true sound film.
Oakie portrayed Benzino Napaloni, the boisterous dictator of Bacteria, in Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator (1940), for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. This role was a broad parody of the fascist dictator of Italy, Benito Mussolini, then in power. With Tina Louise in The New Breed TV series, 1961.
Chaplin also received Academy Award nominations in 1940 for Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay for The Great Dictator. In 1942, Chaplin released a new version of The Gold Rush, taking the original silent 1925 film and composing and recording a musical score. The Gold Rush was nominated for Best Music (Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture).
Charles Henry Pywell Daniell (5 March 1894 – 31 October 1963) [1] was an English actor who had a long career in the United States on stage and in cinema. He came to prominence for his portrayal of villainous roles in films such as Camille (1936), The Great Dictator (1940), Holiday (1938) and The Sea Hawk (1940).
It is likely also taking inspiration from the 1940 comedy “The Great Dictator” starring Charlie Chaplin as a fictional Hilter-eseque character as well as a Jewish barber who looks just like him.
The Great Dictator spent a year in production and was released in October 1940. [242] ... The cast included various members of his family, including his five oldest ...
The cast of Taskmaster season 19 has been officially unveiled and fans are equally surprised and elated to see Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Jason Mantzoukas among the famous faces involved.. The show ...
Gardiner and Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator (1940) His Hollywood film debut came in 1936. [2] During his career he was cast in numerous roles, often as a British butler. One of his most famous roles was that of Schultz in Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator.