Michael Chaplin
Acting
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Acting Credits
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 gai...
Known For
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
Limelight
Child on Steps (uncredited)
A King in New York
Rupert Macabee
The Real Charlie Chaplin
Self (archive footage)
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
Self
Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years
Self
Promise Her Anything
Heathcliff – Beatnik (uncredited)
The Sandwich Man
Pavement Artist
Filmography
Chaplin: Spirit of the Tramp
2025
as Self
The Real Charlie Chaplin
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Chaplin - The Legend of the Century
2014
as Self
Strolling Into the Sunset
2008
as Self
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
2003
as Self
Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years
2003
as Self
Chaplin Today: A King in New York
2003
as Self
The Sandwich Man
1966
as Pavement Artist
Promise Her Anything
1966
as Heathcliff – Beatnik (uncredited)
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
A King in New York
1957
as Rupert Macabee
Limelight
1952
as Child on Steps (uncredited)