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The Connections of Charlie Chaplin

Silent-film genius whose Tramp became cinema's first icon Every person recorded alongside Charlie Chaplin in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.

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Family & Connections

People recorded alongside Charlie Chaplin in the ledgers of the archive.

Parents
Charles Chaplin Sr., Hannah Chaplin
Spouses
Mildred Harris, Lita Grey, Paulette Goddard, Oona O'Neill
Children
Charles Chaplin, Geraldine Chaplin, Michael Chaplin, Josephine Chaplin, Victoria Chaplin, Eugene Chaplin, Christopher Chaplin, Jane Chaplin, Sydney Chaplin
Siblings
Wheeler Dryden, Sydney Chaplin
Influenced
Federico Fellini, Rowan Atkinson

Alive in the same years

Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 1889 to 1977.