Josephine Chaplin, ‘Shadowman’ Actor and Daughter of Charlie Chaplin, Dies at 74

Josephine Chaplin, actor and daughter of Charlie Chaplin, has died. She was 74.

Chaplin died on July 13 in Paris, according to an announcement from her family.

During her career, she starred in a number of foreign films. In 1972 she was featured in Pier Paolo Pasolinis award-winning film The Canterbury Tales and Richard Balduccis Lodeur des fauves. The same year, she also starred alongside Laurence Harvey in Menahem Golans 1972 drama Escape to the Sun about a group of people attempting to flee the Soviet Union.

In 1974, Chaplin starred as Martine Leduc in Georges Franjus European crime-thriller Shadowman alongside Gayle Hunnicutt and Jacques Champreux. The film follows the Man Without a Face, a criminal attempting to find the elusive treasures of the Knights Templar. Chaplin then reprised her role as Martine in the subsequent French mini-series The Man Without a Face, an extended eight-episode version of Franjus film.

In 1976, Chaplin starred as Cynthia in Jess Francos horror film Jack the Ripper and as Anna in Jean-Louis van Belle lombre dun t.

Later, in 1984, she starred in Canadian drama The Bay Boy, a film that marked the start of her co-star Kiefer Sutherlands acting career. In 1988, she starred as Hadley Richardson, opposite Stacy Keach as Ernest Hemingway, in the television mini-series Hemingway.

Chaplin was born on March 28, 1949 in Santa Monica, Calif., the third of eight children born to Charlie Chaplin and Oona ONeill. She began her career on screen at a young age in her fathers 1952 Limelight.

She is survived by her three sons; Charlie, Arthur and Julien Ronet; and her siblings Michael, Geraldine, Victoria, Jane, Annette; Eugene and Christopher.