The Chaplin Encyclopedia

April 1889 saw the birth of Charles Spencer Chaplin and Adolf Hitler. During the 1930s the English comic Tommy Handley used to sing a song about Hitler called “Who Is That Man (Who Looks Like Charlie Chaplin)?”. Albert Speer once told Chaplin’s close associate Jerry Epstein that the portrayal of the Fuhrer in The Great Dictator (1940) was very accurate.

I was very impressed by the range of information that Glenn Mitchell has managed to pack in to the 288 pages of this A‐Z of Chapliniana. His main focus is on the 80‐odd films of which Chaplin was either the...