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Timeline 1961-Present |
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| 1962 | ||||
| 6/7 |
Christopher James Chaplin is born. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1964 | ||||
| 'My Autobiography' is published. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1967 | ||||
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Makes his final big screen appearance in a cameo role as a seasick steward in A Countess from Hong Kong, which he also wrote, produced and directed. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1972 | ||||
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Returns to the United States after 20 years to receive an honorary Academy Award. He receives a five minute standing ovation when he collects the award. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1974 | ||||
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Chaplins pictorial autobiography, My Life in Pictures, is published. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1975 | ||||
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Chaplin is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1977 | ||||
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Dies in his sleep at his home in Vevey, Switzerland at the age of 88. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1978 | ||||
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Chaplins body is stolen from his grave in an attempt to extort money from his family. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| May | His body is recovered near Lake Geneva and reburied under 2 metres of concrete. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 1981 | ||||
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3623 Chaplin, a minor planet discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Georgievna is named after Chaplin. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1985 | ||||
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His image appears on a British postage stamp. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1992 | ||||
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Chaplin, a biopic about the comic actor directed by Richard Attenborough is released. Robert Downey Jr plays Chaplin. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1994 | ||||
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A caricature of his image drawn by Al Hirschfield appears on a US postage stamp. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 2001 | ||||
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British comedian Eddie Izzard plays Chaplin in Peter Bogdanovichs The Cats Meow, a film which dramatises the mysterious death of film producer Thomas Ince aboard media magnate William Randolph Hearsts yacht in 1924. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 2009 | ||||
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A previously unknown Chaplin film is found in a tin purchased on the eBay auction site. The film, called Zepped, is believed to be a WWI propaganda film using excerpts from films Chaplin made for Essanay. [MORE] |
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| 24/11 - | Chaplin's son Michael announces that the silent comic's former mansion in Corsier-sur-Vevey is to be turned into a museum dedicated to his father's memory within the next two years. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| A 'lost' Chaplin film, A Thief Catcher (1914), is bought at a Michigan antiques fair by film historian Paul E. Gierucki. Chaplin appears as a policeman in the film, which stars Ford Sterling, Mack Swain and Edgar Kennedy. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 2010 | ||||
| 7/1 - | The London Museum holds an exhibition focusing on Chaplin's early, impoverished life in Lambeth. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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Method Animation and MK2 announce that they are to recreate Charlie Chaplins iconic tramp character in a series of computer-generated 3D animation films. [MORE] |
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| 29/10 - | Internet theories that a woman in Chaplin's 1928 film The Circus who appears to be talking on a mobile phone is a time traveller are dismissed by experts who come up with a more mundane solution - she is carrying an ear trumpet. Click here to see the footage. [ADD] | |||
| 2011 | ||||
| Feb - | A newly discovered hand-written document found in the drawer of a bureau that once belonged to Chaplin suggests that the comic was born in a Gypsy caravan in Smethwick near Birmingham. The writer of the letter, which dates back to the 1970s was an octogenarian named Jack Hill (Chaplins mothers maiden name). [ADD] | |||
| Jun - | The print of Zepped, the 'lost' Chaplin film discovered in 2009, fails to meet its reserve price of £100,000 in auction at Bonhams. [ADD] | |||
| 11/7 - | A second, incomplete, version of Chaplin's 1917 WW1 propaganda film Zepped is found in a second-hand shop in South Shields. [ADD] | |||
Charles Chaplin