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American actor (born 1946)

Michael John Chaplin (born March 7, 1946) is an American actor born in Santa Monica, California.

Career

Chaplin's started acting at age six, appearing (uncredited) in the 1952 film Limelight.

In the mid-1960s Chaplin signed a book contract with British publisher Leslie Frewin to publish his autobiography I Couldn't Smoke The Grass On My Father's Lawn, which was ghostwritten with Tom Merrin and Charles Hamblett.^[1][2] This was a teenage hippie-memoir of drugs and rebellion against a world-famous father.

Before its release his father filed an injunction to prevent publication, arguing that it would have a detrimental effect on himself and his family.^[1][3] The injunction was set aside by judges for the Court of Appeal, who held that Chaplin's contract was binding because he stood to gain from the work's publication, as it launched his writing career.^[4]

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