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The Floorwalker
The Floorwalker is a 1916 American silent comedy film, Charlie Chaplin's first Mutual Film Corporation film. The film stars Chaplin, in his traditional Tramp persona, as a customer who creates chaos in a department store and becomes inadvertently entangled in the nefarious scheme of the store manager, played by Eric Campbell, and the store's floorwalker, played by Lloyd Bacon, to embezzle money from the establishment. 
The film is noted for the first "running staircase" used in films which is used for a series
with director Lois Weber.
Foster died on January 18, 1923, from complications related to syphilis, a disease euphemistically described as the “general paralysis of the insane.”
Partial filmography.
- "The Vampire" (1910)
- "Shon the Piper" (1913)
- "The Career of Waterloo Peterson" (1914) (as William Foster)
- "The Floorwalker" (1916)
- "The Fireman" (1916) (as W.C. Foster)
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