The Tramp and the Dictator

The Tramp and the Dictator

55 mins | Documentary, TV Movie | Feb. 14, 2002

A look at the parallel lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler and how they crossed with the creation of the film “The Great Dictator,” released in 1940.

The Tramp and the Dictator

55 mins | Documentary, TV Movie | Feb. 14, 2002

The Tramp and the Dictator
A look at the parallel lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler and how they crossed with the creation of the film “The Great Dictator,” released in 1940.
IMDb rating 7.7
Producers BBC, Spiegel TV, Photoplay Productions, Turner Classic Movies
Original title The Tramp and the Dictator
Directors Kevin Brownlow, Michael Kloft
Writers Kevin Brownlow, Christopher Bird

Cast

Kenneth Branagh

as Narrator (voice)

Walter Bernstein

as Self (uncredited)

Ray Bradbury

as Self (uncredited)

Sydney Chaplin

as Self

Brigitte Hamann

as Self (uncredited)

Al Hirschfeld

as Self (uncredited)

Stanley Kauffmann

as Self (uncredited)

Sidney Lumet

as Self (uncredited)

Nikola Radosevic

as Self (uncredited)

Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

as Self (uncredited)

Budd Schulberg

as Self (uncredited)

Gitta Sereny

as Self (uncredited)

Charlie Chaplin

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Oona O'Neill Chaplin

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Syd Chaplin

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Martin Dies

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Douglas Fairbanks

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Joseph Goebbels

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

D.W. Griffith

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Henry Ford

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Adolf Hitler

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ivor Montagu

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Benito Mussolini

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mary Pickford

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Reinhard Spitzy

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Bernard Vorhaus

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)