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Michael Chaplin
Santa Monica, California, USA
Michael Chaplin (born 7 March 1946) is an English-American actor born in Santa Monica, California. He is the second child and eldest son from Charlie Chaplin's fourth and final ma…
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Michael Chaplin (born 7 March 1946) is an English-American actor born in Santa Monica, California. He is the second child and eldest son from Charlie Chaplin's fourth and final marriage to Oona O'Neill. He acted in his father's films Limelight (1952) and A King in New York (1957), In the latter he played 10-year-old Rupert Macabee, a fast-talking advocate of civil rights and a child of communists who, after an initially adversarial period of political dialogue, is befriended by the King and gains his assistance. He was also in "Promise Her Anything", with Warren Beatty and Leslie Caron, 1965, and "The Sandwich Man", 1966. He was married firstly to the writer Patrice Chaplin and secondly to Patricia Betaudier, who is a painter. He is the father of actresses Carmen Chaplin and Dolores Chaplin. In the mid-1960s, Michael wrote his autobiography I Couldn't Smoke The Grass On My Father's Lawn. He was also half-brother to Sydney Chaplin, Charles Chaplin, Jr. and Norman Chaplin.
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2025
Chaplin: Spirit of the Tramp
Movie Self
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2021
The Real Charlie Chaplin
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2014
Chaplin - The Legend of the Century
Movie Self
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2008
Strolling Into the Sunset
Movie Self
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2003
Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years
Movie Self
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2003
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
Movie Self
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2003
Chaplin Today: A King in New York
Movie Self
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1966
The Sandwich Man
Movie Pavement Artist
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1966
Promise Her Anything
Movie Heathcliff – Beatnik (uncredited)
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1962
The Merv Griffin Show
TV show Self
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1957
A King in New York
Movie Rupert Macabee
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1952
Limelight
Movie Child on Steps (uncredited)
