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Poster for The Champion

Movie

The Champion

1915 · NR · 31m

Directed by Charlie Chaplin

6.5

TMDB audience score
118 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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 and wins. The trainer prepares Charlie to fight the world champion. A gambler wants Charlie to throw the fight. He and the trainer's daughter fall in love.

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Cast

  • Charlie Chaplin
    Challenger

  • Edna Purviance
    Trainer's Daughter

  • Ernest Van Pelt
    Spike Dugan

  • Lloyd Bacon
    Second Sparring Partner / Exerciser in Gym / Referee

  • Leo White
    Crooked gambler

  • Carl Stockdale
    Sparring Partner

  • Billy Armstrong
    Sparring Partner

  • Paddy McGuire
    Sparring Partner

  • Bud Jamison
    Bob Uppercut, Champion

  • Ben Turpin
    Ringside vendor

  • Fred Windemere
    Cop

  • Henry Youngman
    Bit Role

  • Gilbert M. Anderson
    Enthusiastic Fan (uncredited)