A dog's Life

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, she helps Charlie and Edna toward a better life. Edna Purviance plays the role of a singer in a dance salon, Chaplin is a bum. Sydney Chaplin (Chaplin's half-brother) had a small role in this film: it was the first time the two brothers were on screen together.

To see other films in which dogs were with Chaplin, were The Champion(1915), The Gold Rush (1925), City Lights (1931) and Modern Times (1936). ==In popular culture[ Edit] == In the comic series The creating the comic strip by Merho is in the album Choose Peekaboo (1980) by accident in A dog's Life on television Strip 34 displayed.Konstantinopel in the same way and his dog then go for the TV sit as Chaplin and his dog (strip 35). ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] ==
 * Charles Chaplin -Tramp
 * Edna Purviance -Barzangeres
 * Syd Chaplin -Owner eetkraampje
 * Henry Bergman -Fat unemployed man
 * Charles Reisner -clerk in Office workers
 * Albert Austin -clerk in Office workers
 * Tom Wilson -Agent
 * 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