Leo White

Leo White

November 9, 1873

Leo White (born Leo Weiss) grew up in England and began his stage career there. In 1910 he came to the United States and the following year started working in Silent films. Typically cast as a dapper continental villain or a nobleman, White frequently played uncredited bit parts and as a character a…

Known For

22 titles
1
Easy Street

Easy Street

1917 · 24m · Movie

A reformed tramp becomes a police constable who must fight a huge thug who dominates an inner-city street.

7.4
2
The Tramp

The Tramp

1915 · 21m · Movie

The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm.

6.8
3
The Vagabond

The Vagabond

1916 · 24m · Movie

Charlie, the emotional violinist, flees to a gipsy camp, only to find himself playing for an abducted girl. Soon, a unique birthmark will pave the way for an unexpected rescue and a marvellous new life. But, will she forget him so...

6.8
4
Behind the Screen

Behind the Screen

1916 · 30m · Movie

Charlie is an overworked labourer at a film studio who helps a young woman find work even while his coworkers strike against his tyrannical boss.

6.9
5
The Fireman

The Fireman

1916 · 24m · Movie

Charlie is a fireman who always does everything wrong. A man talks the Fire Chief into ignoring his burning home (he wants the insurance money) unaware that his daughter (the love of the Chief) is upstairs in the house. When the h...

6.5
6
The Champion

The Champion

1915 · 31m · Movie

Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training camp advertising for a boxing partner "who can take a beating." After watching others lose, Charlie puts the horseshoe in his glove...

6.7
7
The Floorwalker

The Floorwalker

1916 · 29m · Movie

The Tramp is tricked into impersonating an embezzling floorwalker in a department store.

6.6
8
A Night in the Show

A Night in the Show

1915 · 24m · Movie

Mr. Pest tries several theatre seats before winding up in front in a fight with the conductor. He is thrown out. In the lobby he pushes a fat lady into a fountain and returns to sit down by Edna. Mr. Rowdy, in the gallery, pours b...

6.4
9
The Count

The Count

1916 · 21m · Movie

The fifth film in the Mutual series Charlie Chaplin impersonates a man of means in order to underscore the contrast between rich and poor.

6.6
10
His New Job

His New Job

1915 · 22m · Movie

Charlie is trying to get a job in a movie. After causing difficulty on the set, he is told to help the carpenter. When one of the actors doesn't show, Charlie is given a chance to act but instead enters a dice game. When he does f...

6.0
11
Why Worry?

Why Worry?

1923 · 1h 3m · Movie

A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.

7.3
12
Work

Work

1915 · 29m · Movie

Charlie works for a painter hired to wallpaper a house. The owner can't get breakfast. The kitchen gas stove explodes. The wife's secret lover arrives. Looks like a rough day for all at the corner of Easy Street and Hardluck Ave.

6.2
13
Police

Police

1916 · 34m · Movie

Charles Chaplin, a convict, is given $5.00 and released from prison after having served his term. He meets a man of the church who makes him weep for his sins and while he is weeping takes the $5.00 away from him. Chaplin goes to ...

6.4
14
A Night Out

A Night Out

1915 · 34m · Movie

After a visit to a pub, Charlie and Ben cause a ruckus at a posh restaurant. Charlie later finds himself in a compromising position at a hotel with the head waiter's wife.

5.9
15
A Woman

A Woman

1915 · 26m · Movie

A man disguises himself as a lady in order to be near his newfound sweetheart, after her father has forbidden her to see him.

6.4
16
A Burlesque on Carmen

A Burlesque on Carmen

1915 · 31m · Movie

A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.

6.0
17
Shanghaied

Shanghaied

1915 · 27m · Movie

Intent on scuttling his ship, a financially-pressed shipowner conspires with the vessel's captain to collect the insurance money, unbeknownst to him that his daughter and her beau, Charlie, are aboard. Will they get away with it s...

6.1
18
A Jitney Elopement

A Jitney Elopement

1915 · 26m · Movie

Edna's father wants her to marry wealthy Count He-Ha. Charlie, Edna's true love, impersonates the Count at dinner, but the real Count shows up and Charlie is thrown out. Later on Charlie and Edna are chased by her father, The Coun...

5.9
19
Triple Trouble

Triple Trouble

1918 · 23m · Movie

Foreign agents try to steal a wireless explosive from an inventor. Only the clueless Little Tramp and the Keystone Cops can stop them.

5.1
20
Black Fury

Black Fury

1935 · 1h 34m · Movie

An immigrant coal miner finds himself in the middle of a bitter labor dispute between the workers and the mine owners.

6.4
21
Anna Christie

Anna Christie

1930 · 1h 25m · Movie

A young woman reunites with her estranged father and falls in love with a sailor, but struggles to tell them about her dark past.

6.9
22
Paths to Paradise

Paths to Paradise

1925 · 1h 18m · Movie

A con-woman has a nice business fleecing gullible tourists who want a genuine 'underworld' experience, but the tables are turned when one of her victims turns out to be less innocent than he looks. Dodging the city detective who k...

7.1