The Champion (1915 film) main subject boxing
Notes
In some versions of the film, an inter-title introducing the heavyweight boxers refers to Spike Dugan as "Spike Hennessey"—although the surname Dugan is clearly painted on the wall surrounding his training camp.
This was the second Chaplin film to focus on boxing.  He had already made a comedy for Keystone Studios, titled The Knockout (1914), in which he was a secondary character—a boxing referee.  In City Lights (1931) he would again play an outsized and outclassed pugilist.Cast
Charles Chaplin as Challenger
Edna Purviance as Trainer's daughter
Ernest Van Pelt as Spike Dugan
Lloyd Bacon as Second sparring partner / Referee
Leo White as Crooked gambler
Carl Stockdale as Sparring partner
Billy Armstrong as Sparring partner
Paddy McGuire as Sparring partner
Bud Jamison as Bob Uppercut, Champion
Ben Turpin as Ringside vendor
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