Michael Chaplin
Actor
Biography
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.
Filmography
A King in New York
as Rupert Macabee 1957
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
as Self 2003
The Real Charlie Chaplin
as Self (archive footage) 2021
Promise Her Anything
as Heathcliff – Beatnik (uncredited) 1966
The Sandwich Man
as Pavement Artist 1966
Chaplin Today: A King in New York
as Self 2003
Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years
as Self 2003
Chaplin - The Legend of the Century
as Self 2014
Strolling Into the Sunset
as Self 2008