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Title:

Chaplin's Goliath [videorecording (DVD)] : in search of Scotland's forgotten star.

Format:

[videorecording (DVD)] :

Publisher:

Image Entertainment,

Copyright Date:

2003

Description:

1 videodisc (52 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Campbell, Eric
Chaplin, Charlie,--1889-1977.
Motion picture actors and actresses--Biography.
Actors--Scotland--Biography.
Documentary television programs.
Silent films
Biographical television programs.

Other Authors:

Robertson, Fran.
Macdonald, Kevin, 1967-
Campbell, Eric
Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977.
Figment Films (Firm)
Scottish Arts Council Lottery Fund.
Scottish Film Production Fund.
Scottish Television (Firm)
Kino International Corporation.

Notes:

Videodisc release of the 1996 Scottish Television documentary by Figment Films and the Scottish Arts Council Lottery Fund in association with the Scottish Film Production Fund. Bill Patterson, narrator.

Summary:

Presents the life of silent film star Eric Campbell, who appeared in many of Charlie Chaplin's films as a villain. Follows the life of the Scottish actor from Dunoon in Scotland, thru his years in the music halls to his short but intense film career and the bizarre final six months of his life before he was killed in an automobile accident in December 1917.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)52730402

Locations:

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)