Actor

Michael Chaplin

March 7, 1946 · 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.

Notable work

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Limelight (1952)
as Child on Steps (uncredited)

Often works with

Charlie Chaplin
2 titles together
Limelight, A King in New York
Warren Mitchell
2 titles together
Promise Her Anything, The Sandwich Man

Full filmography · 4

The Sandwich Man
as Pavement Artist
1966
Promise Her Anything
as Heathcliff – Beatnik (uncredited)
1966
A King in New York
as Rupert Macabee
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Limelight
as Child on Steps (uncredited)
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