Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
10
Gender
Male
Birthday
March 07, 1946 ( 78 years old )
Place of Birth
Santa Monica, California, USA
Also Known As
Michael John Chaplin
Michael Chaplin
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.
Known For
Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years
2003-05-18Strolling Into the Sunset
2008-10-14Chaplin Today: 'A King in New York'
2003-03-01Chaplin | Espíritu gitano
2024-09-20A King in New York
1957-09-12The Sandwich Man
1966-07-01Limelight
1952-10-23Promise Her Anything
1966-02-22