Death of Josephine Chaplin: Charlie Chaplin’s daughter dies in Paris at the age of 74.

One of the eleven children of silent film star Charlie Chaplin, his daughter Josephine Gardin-Chaplin has died in Paris at the age of 74.

The actress, whose mother was Sir Charlie Chaplin’s fourth and last wife, British-American actress Oona O’Neill, passed away peacefully with her friends and family in the French capital on 13 July.

The cause of death was not disclosed and the funeral took place in private “in the privacy of his family”.

Born in Santa Monica, California, in 1949, Josephine Chaplin was the third of eight children from his last wife, Oona, the daughter of Charlie Chaplin’s playwright Eugene O’Neill. After “Charlot” is expelled from the United States, which is thought to be a little too close to the Communist Party, the family immigrates to Switzerland.

At the age of seven, Josephine made her debut in a public school play in Montreux, Switzerland. The incident was described in a 1956 Life magazine article entitled “Chaplin’s Dancing Girl.” There, she is described as an “playful young girl” who shows “grace and confidence” in her role.

As an adult, Josephine Chaplin made her film debut in Swiss director Raymond Vouillamoz’s “François et Françoise” in 1968. He appeared in two of his father’s films, “Limelight” in 1952 and “The Countess from Hong Kong” in 1967. In 1972, she played the role of May in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “The Canterbury Tales”.

Joséphine Chaplin has also appeared in several French films, including “Red Nights” and “In the Shadow of a Summer”. In “The Smell of Fauves” we find him with Vittoria De Sica and Maurice Ronel. He also starred with Klaus Kinski in a German film about Jack the Ripper and with Liv Ullman and Kiefer Sutherland in Daniel Petrie’s “Spring in the Snow”. She played Ernest Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley Richardson, in the 1988 mini-series with Stacy Keach.

He made numerous appearances in Philippe Bouvard’s Big Heads in the 1980s.

Very attached to his family legacy, he became head of the French office of the Chaplin Foundation in Paris, where he lived for several years.

On the private side, Josephine Chaplin was first married to the Greek Nikolas Sistovaris, with whom she had a son named Charles. She later became the wife of actor Maurice Ronet, with whom she has a son named Julien, born in 1980. She remarried in 1989 to Jean-Claude Gardin and had a third son named Arthur she.

He is survived by his brothers Michael, Eugene and Christopher, his sisters Geraldine, Victoria, Jane and Annette and their sons.

His father, Charlie Chaplin, died in 1977; his mother Oona died in 1991.

Melissa Tella