Syd Chaplin
Acting Born Mar 14, 1885 London, England 24 credits
Biography
Sydney John Chaplin (né Hill; 16 March 1885 – 16 April 1965) was an English actor. Chaplin was the elder half-brother of actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin and served as his business manager in later life.
Through their mother Hannah, they were older half-brothers to the younger Wheeler Dryden, who grew up separately with his father in England and was not told about his half-brothers until 1915. Dryden later emigrated to the United States, joining the Chaplins in Hollywood. Sydney Chaplin was also a half-uncle of actor Sydney Chaplin (1926–2009), who was named after him.
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Full filmography
- Unknown Chaplin (1983) as Self
- A Dog's Life (1918) as Lunchwagon Owner (uncredited)
- Shoulder Arms (1918) as Charlie's Comrade / The Kaiser
- The Chaplin Revue (1959) as Various (archive footage)
- The Pilgrim (1923) as Eloper / Train Conductor / Little Boy's Father
- Pay Day (1922) as Charlie's Friend and Lunch Cart Owner
- Birth of the Tramp (2013) as Self (archive footage)
- The Bond (1918) as The Kaiser
- Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty (2020) as Self (archive footage)
- Hello, 'Frisco (1924) as Syd Chaplin
- The Parrott Chase (2009) as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Chaplin's Goliath (1996) as Self (archive footage)
- The Tramp and the Dictator (2002) as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Caught in a Park (1915) as The Husband
- Charley's Aunt (1925) as Sir Fancourt Babberley (Babbs)
- Oh! What a Nurse! (1926) as Jerry Clark 'Dolly Whimple'
- Her Temporary Husband (1923) as Judd
- The Better 'Ole (1926) as Private William 'Old Bill' Busby
- The Man on the Box (1925) as Bob Warburton
- A Little Bit of Fluff (1928)
- Gussle's Wayward Path (1915) as Gussle
- The Fortune Hunter (1927) as Nat Duncan
- Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life (1998) as Self (archive footage)
- A Submarine Pirate (1915) as Ambitious waiter