13 Facts About The Tramp

The Tramp, known as the Little The 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 the title of a silent film starring Chaplin, which Chaplin wrote and directed in 1915.

The Tramp, as portrayed by Chaplin, is a childlike, bumbling but generally good-hearted character who is most famously portrayed as a vagrant who endeavours to behave with the manners and dignity of a gentleman despite his actual social status.

Character of the Tramp was originally created by accident while Chaplin was working at Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios, when dressing up for the 1914 short film Mabel's Strange Predicament starring Mabel Normand and Chaplin.

The Tramp wears an air of romantic hunger, forever seeking romance, but his feet won't let him.

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The Tramp debuted to the public in the Keystone comedy Kid Auto Races at Venice .

The Tramp was closely identified with the silent era, and was considered an international character.

Chaplin officially retired the character in the film Modern Times, which appropriately ended with the Tramp walking down an endless highway toward the horizon.

Physical attributes of the Tramp include a pair of abnormally large baggy pants, an abnormally tight coat, an abnormal bowler hat, an abnormally large pair of shoes, an abnormally springy and flexible cane, and an abnormal toothbrush moustache - a mass of contradictions, as Chaplin wanted it to be.

The Tramp was usually the victim of circumstance and coincidence, but sometimes the results worked in his favour.

The gamine cooks a cheap breakfast, and then the Tramp is off to work, while the gamine stays to maintain the home—an allusion to a middle-class setting.

Chaplin used not one but two similar-looking characters to the Tramp in The Great Dictator ; however, this was an all-talking film .

Chaplin wrote, produced, directed, and starred in 12 films for the Mutual Film Corporation, 10 of which were Chaplin dressed properly as the character the remaining two were pseudo The Tramp films were he wore the mustache but dressed in different clothes.