Josephine Chaplin Obituary: With sorrowful hearts, we bid farewell to the late Josephine Chaplin, a remarkable individual whose life and work have left an indelible mark on the world. Josephine Chaplin was the daughter of the well-known actor and director Charlie Chaplin, so she inherited his talent and aesthetic. Her performances as an actress and dancer throughout the majority of her existence wowed audiences.
As news of her passing spreads, admirers whose lives she touched express their condolences. Let us honour and remember the extraordinary life of Josephine Chaplin by cherishing the memories she created and the happiness she brought to so many hearts.
Josephine Chaplin Obituary
Thursday, her family revealed that Josephine Chaplin, whose father was the legendary actor Charlie Chaplin, had passed away. The death of Josephine Chaplin occurred on July 13. She was aged 74 years. The cause of demise was not immediately disclosed.
As an infant, she appeared alongside her father in his films “Limelight” from 1952 and “A Countess From Hong Kong” from 1967. As May, the unfaithful wife of the elderly Sir January (Hugh Griffith), she subsequently appeared in the 1972 films “L’odeur des Fauves” with her future husband Maurice Ronet, “Escape to the Sun” with Laurence Harvey, and the X-rated “The Canterbury Tales” with Pier Paolo Pasolini.
“The Bay Boy” (1984), starring Liv Ullman and Kiefer Sutherland, was one of her later films. She played Hadley Richardson opposite Stacy Keach as Ernest Hemingway in the 1998 miniseries “Hemingway.”
She supervised the Chaplin office in Paris for a number of years and funded the construction of a statue of her father as the Little Tramp in Waterville, County Kerry, Ireland. In 1998, the structure was unveiled.
Born in Santa Monica on March 28, 1949, she was the third of Chaplin’s eight children with his fourth wife, Oona O’Neill, the daughter of a playwright.
Josephine and Nikki Sistovaris, a Greek merchant, were wed in 1969. In 1977, they separated. She subsequently lived with “Purple Moon” actor Maurice Ronet until his death in 1983. She was married to the archaeologist Jean-Claude Gardin from 1989 until his death in 2013.
Her sons Charly Sistovaris, Julien Ronet, and Arthur Gardin survive her, along with her siblings Geraldine and Michael. In addition to her sisters Victoria, Jane, and Annette, she is also survived by her brothers Eugene and Christopher.
