The silent movie star’s whiskers beat other famous movie taches sported by the likes of Borat and Ron Burgundy. It comes as poll of 2,000 blokes found that 48% had tried top lip fuzz out in the last 12 months
Charlie Chaplin has been voted as having the most iconic movie moustache ever.
The actor, who is famed for his mini-mouser, starred in 81 movies, including the iconic City Lights film of 1931 and The Great Dictator in 1940.
Other famous whiskers from the movies that polled well include Borat, played by Sacha Baron Cohen, and Ron Burgundy from Anchorman, played by Will Ferrell.
Chaplin, who died aged 88 in 1977, was born in south London, and famed across the world as an actor, comedian and film-maker.
Mousers are increasingly popular with blokes, with 48% of chaps trying one out in the last year – like Zac Efron, Henry Cavill, Harry Styles, and Timothee Chalamet.
Cinema buff Steve Hornby, 56, of Norwich, said Charlie Chaplin was the first person he thought of when it came to moustaches in the movies.
He said: “There really isn’t anyone who can hold a candle to Charlie Chaplin when it comes to sheer talent, and style, and, of course, his moustache.
“In The Great Dictator his mockery of Adolf Hitler – and his moustache – is unforgettable.”
The poll of 2,000 blokes found that 48% had tried top lip fuzz out at some point in the past year.
A total of 23% said they loved it and had decided to keep it, with 15% growing it into a beard, and 10% shaving it off.
The top 10 tashes were voted as follows in the OnBuy.com poll;
1 – The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) – 21%
2 – Rhett Butler (Clark Gable in Gone with the Wind)- 15%
3 – Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman in Hook) – 14%
4 – Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat movies) – 12%
5 – Paul Kerseyn (Charles Bronso in Death Wish) – 9%
6 – Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin, The Princess Bride) – 8%
7 – Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell in Anchorman) – 7%
8 – Peter Mitchell (Tom Selleck in Three Men and a Baby) – 6%
9 – Sirius Black (Gary Oldman in Harry Potter movies) – 6%
10 – Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon) – 5%
In November, the Daily Star revealed Britain has been hit by a moustache shortage – as handlebars halve as beard mania and female snubs kill off top lip hair.
Just 500,000 men – down from around million a decade ago – sport moustaches according to YouGov studies. Many are snubbing looking like Freddie Mercury or actor Tom Selleck as fellas follow the trend for full face fuzz.
They are also getting of taches as polls show one in five women hate them. Men’s tache snub comes despite the Army earlier this year lifting its moustache and beard ban – in what moustache fans hoped would be a throwback to the Dad’s Army days of moustaches.
Studies show a moustache is least popular among southerners, with just two per cent having one. Northerners are more in favour with four per cent, while Scotland is the UK’s tache hotspot with one in 10 men sporting one.
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