Sydney Earle Chaplin was born on March 31, 1926 in Los Angeles, California. He is the second son of Sir Charles Chaplin and his second wife, actress Lita Grey. He was named after his half-uncle Sydney Chaplin (1885 - 1965). He is an award winning cinema and theatre actor, who won the 1957 Tony Award for Best Supporting or Featured Actor in a Musical for Bells Are Ringing, opposite Judy Holliday, and received a Tony Award nomination for his performance as Nicky Arnstein the gambling first husband of Fanny Brice, opposite Barbra Streisand, in Broadway musical Funny Girl in 1964. He infamously had an affair with the late British actress Kay Kendall. He has been married three times:
- 1) Noelle Adams
- 2) Susan Magnes
- 3) Margaret Beebe (1998 to date)
He has also been the longtime owner and manager of Chaplin's, a popular restaurant in Palm Springs, California.
Selected filmography
- Limelight (1952)...as Neville
- Land of the Pharaohs (1955)...as Treneh
- Confession (1955)...as Mike
- Abdullah the Great (1955)...as Ahmed
- Pillars of the Sky (1956)...as Timothy
- Fours Girls in Town (1957)...as Johnny Pryor
- Quantez (1957)...as Gato
- A Countess from Hong Kong (1966)
