Sydney Chaplin (actor)
| Sydney Chaplin | |
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| Born | Sydney Earle Chaplin March 31, 1926 Los Angeles, California |
| Died | March 3, 2009 (aged 82) Rancho Mirage, California |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1952-1977 |
| Spouse(s) | 1) Noëlle Adam (divorced) 2) Margaret Beebe (m.1998-2009; his death) |
Sydney Earle Chaplin (March 31, 1926 – March 3, 2009) was a film and theatre actor.
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Biography [edit]
The third son of Sir Charles Chaplin and the second by his second wife, actress Lita Grey, Sydney Chaplin was named after his uncle Sydney Chaplin (1885–1965). His mother was of Mexican and Irish descent.
Lita Grey was 16 when she married the 35-year-old Charles Chaplin in 1924. Sydney was born two years later in Beverly Hills. His parents divorced a year later. Their elder son, Charles Chaplin, Jr. died in 1968.
After serving in World War II, including a stint in Europe, he turned to acting. Chaplin was a founding member of the Circle Players at The Circle Theatre, now known as El Centro Theatre.
In 1957 he won Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical for Bells Are Ringing, opposite Judy Holliday, and received a Tony nomination for his performance as Nicky Arnstein, the gambling first husband of Fanny Brice, opposite Barbra Streisand, in the Broadway musical Funny Girl in 1964.
Chaplin appeared in two of his father's films, Limelight (1952; in a part specially written for him by his father) and A Countess from Hong Kong (1967). He had a much-publicised romance with Joan Collins after filming Land of the Pharaohs (1955).
He was also half-brother to Geraldine, Michael, Josephine, Victoria, Eugene, Jane, Annette, Christopher and Norman Chaplin.
He was the longtime owner and manager of Chaplin's, a popular restaurant in Palm Springs, California.
Death [edit]
Chaplin died of stroke on March 3, 2009, at the age of 82. He was survived by his second wife, Margaret Beebe Chaplin, a son Stephan (by his first marriage) and a granddaughter Tamara.
Selected filmography [edit]
- Limelight (1952)
- Land of the Pharaohs (1955)
- Confession (1955)
- Abdullah the Great (1955)
- Pillars of the Sky (1956)
- Fours Girls in Town (1957)
- Quantez (1957)
- A Countess from Hong Kong (1966)
- Double Face (1969)
- The Adding Machine (1969)
External links [edit]
- Sydney Chaplin (actor) at the Internet Broadway Database
- Sydney Chaplin at the Internet Movie Database
- Sydney Chaplin at Find a Grave
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- 1926 births
- 2009 deaths
- 20th-century American actors
- Actors from Los Angeles, California
- American film actors
- American musical theatre actors
- American people of English descent
- American people of Irish descent
- American people of Mexican descent
- American stage actors
- Cardiovascular disease deaths in California
- Chaplin family
- Deaths from stroke
- People from the Greater Los Angeles Area
- Tony Award winners
