Charlie Chaplin's daughter Josephine Chaplin passes away at 74

Actor and daughter of Charlie Chaplin, Josephine Chaplin, has passed away at 74. Her family issued a statement confirming that she passed away on July 13 in the city of Paris.

Throughout her career, she has been in a variety of films that were produced in other countries. She appeared in Richard Balducci's 1972 film L'odeur des fauves as well as Pier Paolo Pasolini's award-winning 1972 film The Canterbury Tales. She also appeared in the Menahem Golan-directed drama Escape to the Sun, which was about a group of people attempting to leave the Soviet Union, alongside Laurence Harvey in the same year. Escape to the Sun was released in 1972.

The European criminal thriller Shadowman, directed by Georges Franju and starring Chaplin, Gayle Hunnicutt, and Jacques Champreux, was released in 1974. Chaplin played the role of Martine Leduc. The plot of the movie centres on a thief known only as The Man Without a Face, who is on the hunt for the legendary jewels of the Knights Templar. After that, Chaplin performed her role as Martine once more in the French mini-series The Man Without a Face," which was an expanded adaptation of Franju's film consisting of eight episodes.

Both Jack the Ripper by Jess Franco and l'ombre d'un été by Jean-Louis van Belle were released in 1976, with Chaplin playing the role of Cynthia in the former and Anna in the latter.

Later, in 1984, she starred in the Canadian drama The Bay Boy, which was also the first film in which her co-star Kiefer Sutherland appeared in a professional capacity as an actor. In the television miniseries Hemingway, which aired in 1988, she played the role of Hadley Richardson, starring opposite Stacy Keach, who played the role of Ernest Hemingway.

Josephine was the third of eight children to be born to Charlie Chaplin and Oona O'Neill on March 28, 1949, in Santa Monica, California. She made her debut on the big screen in the 1952 film Limelight, which her father directed, when she was just a child.

Her three sons, Charlie, Arthur, and Julien Ronet, as well as her siblings Michael, Geraldine, Victoria, Jane, Annette, Eugene, and Christopher, are the only ones who will remember her after her passing.