Charlie Chaplin portraying Adenoid Hynkel in the film 'The Great Dictator' mb-height 1912 A print from Hero Myths

A print from Hero Myths and Legends of the British Race by MI Ebbutt

The Coldstream guards seen here mounting the guard at Buckingham Palace with the new Belgian FN automatic rifle being watched by 6 year old John Tidy of Surrey

Director of the Oldham Repertory theatre Club's Coliseum venue in Fairbottom Street

Rosamond's Pond

Charlie Chaplin portraying Adenoid Hynkel in the film 'The Great Dictator' mb-height 1912 A print from Hero MythsCharlie Chaplin portraying Adenoid Hynkel in the film 'The Great Dictator', 1940. The film was Chaplin's (1889 1977) first talking picture. As well as directing and producing the film, Chaplin played a dual role in it, one of his characters being Hynkel, a parody of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. It was the only film of the period to satirise Hitler and Nazism. 'The Great Dictator' was nominated for five Oscars, but did not win any.