Daughter of Charlie Chaplin, actress Josephine Chaplin dies aged 74

July 24: Josephine Gardin-Chaplin, an actress and daughter of Sir Charlie Chaplin, died at the age of 74 in France.

A funeral service for Gardin-Chaplin, whose mother was Charlie’s fourth wife, the British-American actress Oona O’Neill, was held on Friday at the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

Josephine Chaplin, the sixth of 11 children fathered by screen legend Charlie Chaplin, died on 13 July in Paris, her family announced.

It said in a statement: “She passed away peacefully, surrounded by her beloved family and friends."

“For years, Josephine managed the Chaplin office in Paris on behalf of her siblings until she took leave to care for her husband Jean-Claude Gardin."

“Our deepest condolences are with her family.”

Born on March 28, 1949, in California, she followed in the footsteps of her famous British father who was best known for his silent movies and on-screen character the Little Tramp.

Gardin-Chaplin starred in Pier Paolo Pasolini‘s 'The Canterbury Tales' and 'Limelight and A Countess From Hong Kong', which were both written and directed by her father, who died in December 1977 at the age of 88.

She also acted in French films such as Doctor Francoise Gailland, Chicken In Vinegar, and Red Nights.

Her maternal grandfather was the American playwright Eugene O’Neill, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936 and wrote The Iceman Cometh and Long Day’s Journey Into Night.

She lived in Paris and would go on holiday in Waterville in Ireland with Charlie, who had made regular trips to the area since the 1950s.

She is survived by siblings Geraldine, Michael, Victoria, Jane, Annette, Eugene and Christopher, and sons Charly, Julien and Arthur.