Christopher Chaplin

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Christopher Chaplin at a concert, 2017

Christopher James Chaplin (born July 8, 1962 in Lausanne ) is an English composer and actor who grew up in Switzerland . He is the youngest child of the actor and director Charlie Chaplin and his wife Oona O'Neill .

Life

Christopher James Chaplin was born on the morning of July 8, 1962 in the Clinique Montchoisi in Lausanne . The Chaplin family lived in Corsier-sur-Vevey at the time , where Christopher grew up. He studied piano with Irène Dénéréaz in Vevey before moving to London in the early 1980s .

Chaplin initially focused on an acting career . He made his first film appearance in 1983 in the British comedy Where Is Parsifal? which was shown at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section . He subsequently appeared in several other films, including in 1991 as Franz Kafka in The Labyrinth by the Czech director Jaromil Jireš and in 1995 as Charles Cros in Total Eclipse - The Affair of Rimbaud and Verlaine by the Polish director Agnieszka Holland .

Since 2005 he has mainly worked as a composer . Among other things, he has worked with the German experimental musician Hans-Joachim Roedelius . Chaplin has been under contract with the Austrian music label Fabrique Records since 2010 , where he released his first solo album Je suis le Ténébreux in 2016 . Chaplin combines experimental electronic music with elements of chamber music and contemporary music .

Discography

Solo albums:

  • Je suis le Ténébreux (2016, Fabrique Records)
  • Paradise Lost (2018, Fabrique Records)
  • M (2020, Fabrique Records)

Collaborate:

  • Seven Echoes , with KAVA, d. i. Thomas Pötz (2010, Fabrique Records)
  • King of Hearts , with Hans-Joachim Roedelius (2012, Sub Rosa)
  • Triptych in Blue , with Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Andrew Heath (2017, Disco Gecko Recordings)
  • BJARMI , with Stereo Hypnosis (2019, Fabrique Records)

Remixes:

  • Slippery Forces , Boz Boorer (2012, Fabrique Records)
  • Virtue , Loretta Who (2016, Fabrique Records)

Filmography

literature

  • Frank Heer: The shy one. In: Das Magazin No. 14, April 6, 2019, pp. 20–27 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Robinson: Chaplin. His life, his art . Diogenes, Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-257-01801-1  ( formally incorrect ) , p. 685 .
  2. ↑ a b Christopher Chaplin ( English ) Fabrique Records. Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  3. ↑ Where is Parsifal? ( English ) Festival de Cannes. Retrieved April 7, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Chaplin, Christopher
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chaplin, Christopher James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English composer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Lausanne