Gordon Waterman Chaplin
Gordon Chaplin( born 1945) is an American writer and conservationist.
Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film.
He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, "The Tramp", and is considered one of the most important figures in the history of the film industry.
His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both adulation and controversy.
Chaplin's childhood in London was one of poverty and hardship, as his father was absent and his mother struggled financially, and he was sent to a workhouse twice before the age of nine.
When he was 14, his mother was committed to a mental asylum.
Chaplin began performing at an early age, touring music halls and later working as a stage actor and comedian.
At 19, he was signed to the prestigious Fred Karno company, which took him to America.
He was scouted for the film industry and began appearing in 1914 for Keystone Studios.
He soon developed the Tramp persona and formed a large fan base.
He directed his own films and continued to hone his craft as he moved to the Essanay, Mutual, and First National corporations.
By 1918, he was one of the best-known figures in the world.
In 1919, Chaplin co-founded the distribution company United Artists, which gave him complete control over his films.
His first feature-length film was "The Kid" (1921), followed by "A Woman of Paris" (1923), "The Gold Rush" (1925), and
"The Circus" (1928).
He refused to move to sound films in the 1930s, instead producing "City Lights" (1931) and "Modern Times" (1936) without dialogue.
He became increasingly political, and his next film, "The Great Dictator", (1940) satirized Adolf Hitler.
The 1940s were a decade marked with controversy for Chaplin, and his popularity declined rapidly.
He was accused of communist sympathies, while he created scandal through his involvement in a paternity suit and his marriages to much younger women.
An FBI investigation was opened, and Chaplin was forced to leave the United States and settle in Switzerland.
He abandoned the Tramp in his later films, which include "Monsieur Verdoux" (1947), "Limelight" (1952), "A King in New York" (1957), and "A Countess from Hong Kong" (1967).
Chaplin wrote, directed, produced, edited, starred in, and composed the music for most of his films.
He was a perfectionist, and his financial independence enabled him to spend years on the development and production of a picture.
His films are characterized by slapstick combined with pathos, typified in the Tramp's struggles against adversity.
Many contain social and political themes, as well as autobiographical elements.
He received an Honorary Academy Award for "the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century" in 1972, as part of a renewed appreciation for his work.
He continues to be held in high regard, with "The Gold RushCity LightsModern Times", and "The Great Dictator" often ranked on lists of the greatest films of all time.
Obata Toramori
He was the father of Obata Masamori.
Andrea Chaplin
Andrea Chaplin( born 3 January 1964) is an Australian fencer.
She competed in the women's individual foil events at the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics.
Ben Chaplin
Ben Chaplin( born Benedict John Greenwood; 31 July 1969) is an English actor, director and writer.
Michael Chaplin (actor)
Michael John Chaplin (born March 7, 1946) is an 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 was first married to the writer Patrice Chaplin, with whom he has two sons.
He remarried Patricia Betaudier, a painter and the daughter of Trinidian painter Patrick Betaudier.
He has four children with her, including actresses Carmen Chaplin and Dolores Chaplin.
In the mid-1960s Chaplin signed a book contract with British publisher Leslie Frewin to publish his autobiography
"I Couldn't Smoke The Grass
On My Father's Lawn", which was ghostwritten with Tom Merrin and Charles Hamblett.
This was a teenage hippie-memoir of drugs and rebellion against a world-famous father.
Before its release Chaplin filed an injunction to prevent publication, arguing that it would have a detrimental effect on himself and his family.
The injunction was set aside by judges for the Court of Appeal, who argued that Chaplin's contract was binding because he stood to gain from the work's publication, as it launched his writing career.
In addition, Chaplin is the author of a novel, "The Fallen God", a modern version of the story of Tristan and Iseult.
Conor Chaplin
Conor Mark Chaplin( born 16 February 1997) is an English professional footballer who plays for Barnsley as a striker or winger
Tom Chaplin
Thomas Oliver Chaplin( born 8 March 1979), is an English singer- songwriter, musician and composer, best known as the lead singer of the British pop rock band Keane.
Carmen Chaplin
Carmen Chaplin( born 1972) is a British and Irish actress and film director.
She is the daughter of Michael Chaplin, granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin, and great- granddaughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill.
Her mother is the British and Irish painter Patricia Betaudier, daughter of Trinidadian artist Patrick Betaudier.
Dieter Zorc
Dieter Zorc( born 17 October 1939 – 16 October 2007) was a German football defender.
He was the father of Michael Zorc.

Question: Where was the father of Michael Chaplin (Actor) born?
Answer: London