Charlie Chaplin portraying Adenoid Hynkel in the film 'The Great Dictator' mb-height 1912 by mechanical compression and dilatation'

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Director of the Oldham Repertory theatre Club's Coliseum venue in Fairbottom Street

A print from Hero Myths and Legends of the British Race by MI Ebbutt

As well as producing a string of best-selling road sports cars including the 356 and the 911

16th April 1968

Charlie Chaplin portraying Adenoid Hynkel in the film 'The Great Dictator' mb-height 1912 by mechanical compression and dilatation'Charlie Chaplin portraying Adenoid Hynkel in the film 'The Great Dictator', 1940. The film was Chaplin's (1889 1977) first talking picture. As well as directing and producing the film, Chaplin played a dual role in it, one of his characters being Hynkel, a parody of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. It was the only film of the period to satirise Hitler and Nazism. 'The Great Dictator' was nominated for five Oscars, but did not win any.