MOVIE NEWS – The daughter of actor Charlie Chaplin, Josephine Chaplin, who appeared in many other productions in addition to the 1971 film The Canterbury Tales, died on July 13 in Paris. The family announced the sad news on Friday.

Josephine Chaplin was born to her father, Charlie Chaplin, and her fourth wife, Oona O’Neill. He was the sixth of the comedy legend’s 11 children, and the third of the eight he raised with O’Neill. His mother was the daughter of Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O’Neill.

Charlie Chaplin met O’Neill in 1942, who married him the following year. According to a statement from Chaplin’s Office, the silent film icon “finally found true happiness, as they both found a soulmate in each other, despite the fact that Oona was only 18 and Charlie was 53.”

Josephine Chaplin was born in March 1949 in Santa Monica, California. She appeared as an actress in Menahem Golan’s politically oriented film The Last Day; with Vittorio De Sica and Maurice Ronet in The Scent of the Wild; with Klaus Kinski in the German-language Jack the Ripper; and in Daniel Petrie’s The Bay Boy opposite Liv Ullmann and Kiefer Sutherland.

He first appeared on screen at the age of three, in his 1952 film Limelight, written and directed by his father. In 1967, she also appeared in A Countess from Hong Kong. However, Josephine played most of her roles in French films, such as Nuits rouges and À l’ombre d’un été.

Later in his life, he managed the Paris office of the Chaplin family and supported the erection of his father’s statue in Waterville, Ireland.

He settled in Paris, where shortly after his father’s death in 1978, he became the target of a strange extortion plot when two men stole Charlie Chaplin’s body and coffin. The family refused to pay the ransom, and the remains were found 11 weeks later. His mother, Oona O’Neill, died in 1991.

Josephine Chaplin was married twice: her first husband was Greek businessman Nikki Sistovaris, and then she married archaeologist Jean-Claude Gardin. He also lived with Maurice Ronet, who was his former co-star, for a long time.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Josephine is survived by her brothers Michael, Eugene and Christopher, sisters Geraldine, Victoria, Jane and Annette, and sons Charly, Julien and Arthur. According to the announcement of the death, the funeral will take place in Paris, in the presence of only a small circle of the family.

Source: The Guardian