Chaplin & Co in life: to help others. Chaplin & Co Chaplin & Co is a French-Indian-British animated television series in 104 episodes of 7 minutes, produced in 2010 by DQ Entertainment and aired for the first time in France in December 31, 2011 on France 3, and next in Boomerang and La Trois. It depicts Charlie Chaplin with his friends as the Kid, for the first time in computer-generated images. The series is set in twenty-first century. Shy, awkward, and touching, Charlie Chaplin is a little man dressed all in black, wearing mustache and Bowler hat, who never separated from his cane.
Charlie Chaplin portrayed by Robert McClure in both productions. In 2013, two plays about Chaplin premiered in Finland: "Chaplin" at the Svenska Teatern, and "Kulkuri" ("The Tramp") at the Tampere Workers' Theatre. Chaplin has also been characterised in literary fiction. He is the protagonist of Robert Coover's short story "Charlie in the House of Rue" (1980; reprinted in Coover's 1987 collection "A Night at the Movies"), and of Glen David Gold's "Sunnyside" (2009), a historical novel set in the First World War period. A day in Chaplin's life in 1909 is dramatised in the chapter titled "Modern Times" in Alan Moore's "Jerusalem"