<Tr> <Th> Language </Th> <Td> English </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $323,000 (US) $1.5 million (international) </Td> </Tr> <P> Monsieur Verdoux is a 1947 black comedy film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, who plays a bigamist wife killer inspired by serial killer Henri Désiré Landru . The supporting cast includes Martha Raye, William Frawley, and Marilyn Nash . </P> <P> Henri Verdoux had been a bank teller for thirty years before being laid off . To support his wheelchair - bound wife and child, he turns to the business of marrying and murdering wealthy widows . The Couvais family becomes suspicious when Thelma Couvais withdraws all her money and disappears, only two weeks after marrying a man named "Varnay", whom they only know through a photograph . </P>

Who plays the title role in the 1947 film monsieur verdoux