Sydney Chaplin | Broadway star, 82
Sydney Chaplin, 82, Charlie Chaplin's son and a Tony-winning actor, died Tuesday at his home in Rancho Mirage, Calif., a longtime family friend, Jerry Bodie, said. He said Mr. Chaplin had recently suffered a stroke.
Sydney Chaplin, 82, Charlie Chaplin's son and a Tony-winning actor, died Tuesday at his home in Rancho Mirage, Calif., a longtime family friend, Jerry Bodie, said. He said Mr. Chaplin had recently suffered a stroke.
Mr. Chaplin appeared in two of his father's later films, Limelight (1952) and A Countess From Hong Kong (1967). But he never achieved the success in Hollywood that he enjoyed in New York's musical theater.
He won his Tony for Bells Are Ringing, the 1956 Betty Comden and Adolph Green musical about an answering-service operator (Judy Holliday) who falls in love with a customer (Chaplin).
His best-remembered show was the 1964 smash Funny Girl; as gambler Nicky Arnstein, he wooed Barbra Streisand, in her star-making role as Fanny Brice. The New York Times called him "a tall, elegant figure as Nick, gallant in courting and doing his best when he must be noble." - AP