Michael John Chaplin

Michael John Chaplin is an English-American actor, the second child and eldest son from Charlie Chaplin's fourth and final marriage to Oona O'Neill.

He was born on March 7, 1946 in Santa Monica, California. Chaplin 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 first to the writer Patrice Chaplin and second to Patricia, née Betaudier, who is a painter. He is the father of actresses Carmen Chaplin and Dolores Chaplin.

In the mid-1960s, Michael wrote I Couldn't Smoke The Grass On My Father's Lawn, his autobiography.

He was also half-brother to Sydney Chaplin, Charles Chaplin, Jr. and Norman Chaplin.

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Michael Chaplin (7 mars 1946 à Santa Monica) est le fils aîné de Charlie Chaplin et Oona O'Neill.

Enfant, il est apparu dans les films de son père Les Feux de la rampe (1952) et Un roi à New York (1957) .

Il est père de cinq enfants : deux fils (Patrice et Georges) et trois filles : Carmen, comédienne, Dolorès, comédienne, et Kathleen (Paris 20e, 28 décembre 1975), autrice et chanteuse.

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