Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tenses: past simple, past continuous, past perfect or past perfect continuous. use used to or would in front of the verb where possible: charles spencer chaplin was born in 1889 in london. he (1)… (have) a very difficult childhood. as a boy, charlie (2) … (work) to earn his living, and before he was fifteen, he (3) … (see) his mother from backstage while she (4) … (perform) and it was then that he first (5) … (think) about taking up such a career for himself. when chaplin (6) … (tour) the us twice with the famous fred karno group, he was headhunted by the american keystone film company. he (7) … (work) for them for three years before he discovered he could direct for himself. along with douglas fairbanks and mary pickford, chaplin (8) … (form) united artists in 1919, with whom he (9) … (make) most of his classic films. he (10) … (appear) in his first talking film, the great dictator, in 1940. in 1952, after mccarthy’s commission (11) … (accuse) him of communist sympathies he (12) …(emigrate) to switzerland, where he (13) … (live) with his family until his death in 1977.
