Milton Berle's fim debut.

Berle's claims (and he was the only one to make the claim) of playing the newsboy who Chaplin slaps and kicks to the ground have been pretty much debunked. For one thing, the actor playing the newsboy is likely too old to be Berle, who would have been seven at the time of filming. It's more likely Gordon Griffith, Keystone's "house" child actor (although some sources now claim that the newsboy doesn't resemble Griffith either, but that's another question). In any case, historians are pretty much convinced that Berle's claims were untrue. For what it's worth, Berle approached Chaplin later, in the 1970s, telling him he'd played the role, but of course Chaplin couldn't remember one way or the other (why should he remember the name of a child actor he worked with for a single day 50 years earlier?)

It's also difficult to say how many of his other silent film credits are accurate. Unless some sort of studio records can be examined, we may never know for sure, and even if records exist, that's still not a 100% guarantee (although darn close to it). The claims for having appeared in "Perils of Pauline" are now impossible to disprove, because so much of that serial is lost (surviving copies come from a re-release print-I believe it derives from France sometime in the 20s, or at least post-WWI period-and are missing so much footage that it's impossible to know if Berle appeared in it or not).

Some of the IMDb credits are just plain wrong. It lists him in the cast of "Birthright", credited under his real name of Milton Berlinger, which just isn't true. He's credited as playing a "boy" in Fairbanks' "Mark of Zorro", which seems highly dubious. He used to have a listing here with a role in Mary Pickford's "Sparrows", again listed as playing a "child", which is really stretching it considering he would have been 19 at the time-a juvenile role, perhaps, but hardly a "child". Until some sort of records turn up, we have reason to be skeptical of all of his unconfirmed silent film appearances, because there have been too many "false" listings on this site over the years to believe any of them without evidence. I also find it interesting how many of these listings have only appeared on the IMDb, where the content can be contributed by anyone, and not in any other print sources.
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