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Although Chaplin still had plans for future film projects, he was by now very frail.

In the mid-1970s he experienced several strokes, which made it difficult for him to communicate .< ref name =" EugeneChaplin "></ rev >.

On his father's final years and death, Chaplin's son Eugene stated in a 2002 interview that " Up to the age of 85 he was in really good health.

He never took any special exercise.

He was just naturally like that.

But then his health went down very quickly.

He had several strokes, which suddenly caught up with him, physically.

At the end of his life, he couldn't walk properly and it was another stroke that killed him.

"</ ref > He also showed signs of dementia, and had to use a wheelchair.

His final projects were compiling a pictorial autobiography, My Life in Pictures ( 1974 ) and rescoring A Woman of Paris for re-release in 1976.

He also appeared in a documentary of him, The Gentleman Tramp ( 1975 ), directed by Richard Patterson.

In 1975, two years before his death, Queen Elizabeth II made him a Knight Commander of the British Empire ( KBE ).