Michael Chaplin
Actor
- Born
- March 7, 1946 (age 80) · 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 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.
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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.
Known for
Limelight
October 16, 1952
A King in New York
September 12, 1957
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
May 1, 2003
The Real Charlie Chaplin
November 19, 2021
Promise Her Anything
February 22, 1966
The Sandwich Man
July 15, 1966
Chaplin Today: A King in New York
March 1, 2003
Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years
May 18, 2003
Chaplin: Spirit of the Tramp
April 10, 2025
Chaplin - The Legend of the Century
May 13, 2014
Acting11
- 2025Chaplin: Spirit of the Tramp as Self
- 2021The Real Charlie Chaplin as Self (archive footage)
- 2014Chaplin - The Legend of the Century as Self
- 2008Strolling Into the Sunset as Self
- 2003Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years as Self
- 2003Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin as Self
- 2003Chaplin Today: A King in New York as Self
- 1966The Sandwich Man as Pavement Artist
- 1966Promise Her Anything as Heathcliff – Beatnik (uncredited)
- 1957