The silent movie pioneer and iconic “little tramp” split sons Charles Spencer Chaplin III (May 5, 1925) and Sydney Earl Chaplin (March 30, 1926) with second wife Trust gray and then had eight children with fourth wife Ohhaneilywho was 18 years old when she married the 54-year-old in 1943 (much to her playwright father Eugene O’NeillArtnation).
The couple would remain together until Chaplin’s death in 1977 at 88 years, welcoming Geraldine Leigh (31 July 1944), Michael John (March 7, 1946), Josephine Hannah (March 28, 1949), Victoria Agnes (May 19, 1951), Eugene Anthony (August 23, 1953), Jane Cecil (May 1957), Annette Emily (December 1959) and Christopher James (July 8, 1962).
Chaplin was 73 years old when Christopher was born.
Geraldine played her own grandmother, Hannah Chaplin (who had three sons of the same number of fathers), in Biopiken 1992 Chapel game Robert Downey Jr. as the titular legend. “There was no rule that we couldn’t see other films, but the films shown in our house were Charlie Chaplin movies,” She recalled to Baltimore Sun at that time. “And one did not talk about other comedians who Storage and Hardy. I think he did it because he was very insecure and couldn’t bear that someone else’s movie could be good. “
