The Professor is a 1919 American silent

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 made at the Chaplin Studios for the First National film company starring Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I...

. However, the film was never released or even completed. Chaplin abandoned production after finishing only one scene. The remaining film is included in Unknown Chaplin

Unknown Chaplin

Unknown Chaplin is an acclaimed three-part 1983 British television documentary about the career and the methods of the film luminary Charles Chaplin using previously unseen film for illustration....

and on at least one of the Limelight DVD releases.

Cast

• Charlie Chaplin
  Charlie Chaplin
  Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I...
  
   - Professor Bosco
• Albert Austin
  Albert Austin
  Albert Austin was an actor, film star, director and script writer, noted mainly for his work in Charlie Chaplin films. He was the brother of actor William Austin....
  
   - Man in flophouse
• Henry Bergman
  Henry Bergman
  Henry Bergman was an American actor of stage and film, known for his long association with Charlie Chaplin....
  
   - Bearded man in flophouse
• Loyal Underwood
  Loyal Underwood
  Loyal Underwood was an American stock actor for Charlie Chaplin's film studio.Underwood's movie debut was in The Count, a 1916 Chaplin short film created for the Mutual Film Corporation...
  
   - Flophouse proprietor
• Tom Wilson
  Tom Wilson (actor)
  Tom Wilson was an American film actor. He appeared in 254 films between 1915 and 1963. He was born in Helena, Montana, and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:* Little Marie...
  
   - Man in flophouse
• Tom Wood
  Tom Wood
  Thomas "Tom" Wood is a street photographer working in England, particularly Merseyside . He has had solo shows, and his work has been collected in five books.- Practice :...
  
   - Fat man in flophouse

See also

• List of American films of 1919
• Her Friend the Bandit
  Her Friend the Bandit
  Her Friend the Bandit is a 1914 American comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios starring Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand, both of whom co-directed the movie. This is Chaplin's only lost film as no copy is known to exist....
  
  - a 1914 lost film
  Lost film
  A lost film is a feature film or short film that is no longer known to exist in studio archives, private collections or public archives such as the Library of Congress, where at least one copy of all American films are deposited and catalogued for copyright reasons...
  
   co-directed by Chaplin and Mabel Normand
  Mabel Normand
  Mabel Normand was an American silent film comedienne and actress. She was a popular star of Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios and is noted as one of the film industry's first female screenwriters, producers and directors...
  
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