A Dog's Life (1918) is a silent film written, produced and directed by Charlie Chaplin. This was Chaplin's first film for First National Films.
Chaplin plays opposite an animal as "co-star". "Scraps" (the dog) was the hero in this film, as he helps Charlie and Edna toward a better life. Edna Purviance plays a dance hall singer and Charlie Chaplin, The Tramp. Sydney Chaplin (Chaplin's brother) had a small role in this film; this was the first time the two brothers were on screen together.
Charles Lapworth, a former newspaper editor who had met Chaplin when he interviewed him, took a role as a consultant on the film.
§Cast
- Charlie Chaplin - The Tramp <li>Edna Purviance - Bar singer
- Mut - Scraps, a thoroughbred mongrel
- Syd Chaplin - Lunchwagon owner
- Henry Bergman - Fat unemployed man/Dance-hall lady
- Charles Reisner - Employment agency clerk
- Albert Austin - Employment agency clerk / Thief
- Bud Jamison - Thief
- Tom Wilson - Policeman
- M. J. McCarthy - Unemployed man
- Mel Brown - Unemployed man
- Charles Force - Unemployed man
- Bert Appling - Unemployed man
- Thomas Riley - Unemployed man
- Slim Cole - Unemployed man
- Ted Edwards - Unemployed man
- Louis Fitzroy - Unemployed man
§Stills
§References
§External links
- A Dog's Life at the Internet Movie Database
- A Dog's Life at AllMovie
- alternate lobby poster
- A Dog's Life is available for free download at the Internet Archive