Actor

Michael Chaplin

Acting

Career Snapshot

Explained

These indicators come from TMDB. They are relative signals, not review ratings.

Acting credits

Active

Consistent number of acting credits.

TMDB popularity

0.2

Low visibility

TMDB internal trend index. Higher usually means more searches and page activity now.

Movies: 10Series: 1

TMDB ID: 147981

IMDb ID: nm0152249

Known for: Acting

Born: March 7, 1946

Age: 79

Place of birth: Santa Monica, California, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1952 - 2025

Years active: 74

Average TMDB rating: 7.27

Wikidata: Q453804

Also known as

Michael John Chaplin

TMDB TMDB IMDb IMDb W Wikidata

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.