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Charlie Chaplin's daughter passes away at the age of 74

Charlie Chaplin's daughter passes away at the age of 74

Josephine Chaplin, daughter of Charlie Chaplin and his fourth wife, Oona O'Neill, died on July 13 in Paris. The news was confirmed yesterday by the family. The actress, who starred in several films including Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Canterbury Tales, was 74.

Charlie Chaplin met O'Neill in 1942 and married him the following year. Josephine Chaplin was born in Santa Monica, California, in March 1949.

As an actress, she starred in Menahem Golan's politically oriented film Escape to the Sun; with Vittorio De Sica and Maurice Ronet in L'odeur des fauves; with Klaus Kinski in a German-language Jack the Ripper; and in Daniel Petrie's The Bay Boy with Liv Ullman and Kiefer Sutherland.

She made her first screen appearance at the age of three in Limelight, the 1952 film written, directed by and starring her father. She also appeared in his film A Countess from Hong Kong in 1967.

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