Charles Chaplin, Jr.
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actor
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and the son of Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I...
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Chaplin was born in Beverly Hills, California
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. His mother was Charlie Chaplin's second wife, Mexican-American Lita Grey
Lita Grey
Lita Grey was an American actress and the second wife of Charlie Chaplin. She was born in Hollywood, California, in 1908, to a Mexican-born mother and a father of Irish heritage and christened Lillita Louise MacMurray.-Personal life:Grey married four times...
, and he was the elder brother of actor Sydney Chaplin. He was also half-brother to Geraldine Chaplin
Geraldine Chaplin
Geraldine Leigh Chaplin is an English-American actress and the daughter of Charlie Chaplin.Chaplin first came to prominence for her Golden Globe-nominated role of Tonya in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago . She received her second Golden Globe nomination for Robert Altman's Nashville...
, Michael Chaplin, Josephine Chaplin
Josephine Chaplin
Josephine Hannah Chaplin is an actress and the daughter of actor/comedian/director Charlie Chaplin and his last wife, Oona O'Neill. Her siblings include Geraldine Chaplin, Christopher Chaplin and Michael Chaplin. She was also half-sister to Sydney Chaplin, Charles Chaplin, Jr...
, Victoria Chaplin
Victoria Chaplin
Victoria Chaplin is an Anglo-American actress, the daughter of actor/comedian Charlie Chaplin and Oona O'Neill Chaplin, and the granddaughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill....
, Eugene Chaplin
Eugene Chaplin
Eugene Chaplin is a Swiss recording engineer and documentary filmmaker. He is the president of the International Comedy Film Festival of Vevey, Switzerland...
, Jane Chaplin, Annette Chaplin, Christopher Chaplin
Christopher Chaplin
Christopher James Chaplin is a composer and actor who appeared in the film Total Eclipse as the character Charles Cros, as well as in other roles. However, he is best known for being the youngest son of Charlie Chaplin and Oona O'Neill...
and Norman Chaplin.
As young children, he and his brother were used as pawns in their mother's bitter divorce from Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I...
, during which a lot of the couple's "dirty linen" was aired in sensational—and very public—divorce hearings. Following the divorce, the young brothers were raised by their mother and maternal grandmother until the mid-1930s, when they began to make frequent visits to their father.
Chaplin attended the Black-Foxe Military Institute
Black-Foxe Military Institute
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in Hollywood and The Lawrenceville School
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in Lawrenceville, New Jersey
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. He also served in the US Army in Europe during World War II
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Charlie Chaplin Jr. married Susan Magness, an actress in 1958. They lived in Los Angeles, CA. They had one child, Susan Maree Chaplin, in May 1959. They were divorced in 1959. His ex-wife and daughter still live in Los Angeles, CA.
Chaplin Jr. acted in 13 films, appearing with his father in Limelight (1952). He was on stage with his brother, Sydney Chaplin in the play Ethan Frome
Ethan Frome
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at the Circle Theatre, now named El Centro Theatre
El Centro Theatre
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. In 1960 he wrote a book about his family life entitled My Father, Charlie Chaplin. He died of a pulmonary embolism
Pulmonary embolism
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(blood clot in the lungs).
He is buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
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, in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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with his grandmother Lillian Grey.