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Character played by Charlie Chaplin

For the film featuring Charlie Chaplin's character of the same name, see The Tramp (film). For the song, see The Tramp (song). For other uses, see Tramp (disambiguation).

Fictional character

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.

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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 to get what he needs to survive and escape the authority figures who will n