Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and other famous fathers who later had children

The silent film pioneer and the cult classic “The Little Tramp” have sons. Charles Spencer Chaplin III (May 5, 1925) and Sydney Earl Chaplin (March 30, 1926) with his second wife. Lita Gray and then he had eight children with his fourth wife Una O’Neillwho was 18 when she married the 54-year-old in 1943 (thanks in large part to her playwright father). Eugene O’Neillfright).

The couple remained together until Chaplin’s death in 1977 at the age of 88, welcoming Geraldine Lee (July 31, 1944) Michael John (March 7, 1946), Josephine Hannah (March 28, 1949), Victoria Agnes (19 May 1951), Eugene Anthony (August 23, 1953) Jane Cecil (May 1957), Annette Emily (December 1959) and Christopher James (July 8, 1962).

Chaplin was 73 years old when Christopher was born.

Geraldine played her paternal grandmother. Hannah Chaplin (who had three sons from as many fathers), in the 1992 biopic Chaplin starring Robert Downey Jr. as the main legend. “There was no rule that we couldn’t watch other films, but the films that were shown in our house were Charlie Chaplin films,” she said. recalled to Baltimore Sun while. “And no one was talking about other comedians like Laurel And Hardy. I think he did it because he was very insecure and couldn’t stand the fact that someone else’s film might be good.”