In 1946, he joined his friend Jerry Epstein, the actor Kathleen Freeman and students from UCLA in forming the Circle Theatre. He was variously educated at the Black-Foxe military institute, Lawrenceville preparatory school, New Jersey, and North Hollywood high and did war service in the 65th Infantry Division. Sydney Earl Chaplin was born March 30th, 1926. In 1960 he wrote a biography of his father entitled My Father, Charlie Chaplin. He acted in several films, including in his father’s Limelight (1952) but never managed to break into movies or theatre, remaining on the periphery of Hollywood.
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He subsequently married Marta Brown, which marriage also ended in divorce. Charles married (and later divorced) Susan Magness and they had one daughter, Susan Maree. The boys were mostly raised by their mother and grandmother but as teenagers visited their father frequently, and adored “step mother” Paulette Goddard. He served in the US Army in Europe during World War II. He and his brother Sydney attended the Black-Foxe Military Institute in Hollywood and the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. He is buried under a stone marked simply The Little Mouse.Ĭharles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. Norman Spencer Chaplin, son of Mildred Harris and Charlie Chaplin, was born on July 7th, 1919, but sadly died three days later.
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Left to right: Charlie Chaplin, his wife Oona, and six of their eight children, Josephine, Victoria, Eugene, Jane, Annie and Christopher
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Postcard London: Entire British Production (1916), ex Lisa Stein Haven Collectionįamily tree available here.