His mother and father had married four years previously, at which time Chaplin Sr. became the legal carer of Hannah's illegitimate son, Sydney John ( 1885 – 1965 ).

By 1908, Sydney Chaplin had become a star of Fred Karno's prestigious comedy company.

The star's primary concern in finding a new distributor was independence ; Sydney Chaplin, then his business manager, told the press: " Charlie be allowed all the time he needs and all the money for producing the way he wants ...

Their second son, Sydney Earle Chaplin, was born on 30 March 1926.

However, he also often relied on help from his closest collaborators, such as his long-time cinematographer Roland Totheroh, brother Sydney Chaplin and various assistant directors, such as Harry Crocker and Charles Reisner.

Doctor Who creator Sydney Newman suggested that the Doctor could be a " cosmic hobo " in the mould of Charlie Chaplin, and this was the interpretation eventually chosen.

Chaplin's half-brother Sydney Chaplin directed and starred in a 1921 film called King, Queen, Joker in which, like Charlie, he played the dual role of a barber and ruler of a country who is about to be overthrown.

The extras feature color production footage shot by Chaplin ’ s half-brother Sydney, deleted barbershop sequence from Chaplin ’ s 1919 film Sunnyside, barbershop sequence from Sydney Chaplin ’ s 1921 film King, Queen, Joker, and The Tramp and the Dictator ( 2001 ), Kevin Brownlow and Michael Kloft ’ s documentary paralleling the lives of Chaplin and Hitler, including interviews with author Ray Bradbury, director Sidney Lumet, screenwriter Budd Schulberg, and others.

* Paul Rhys as Sydney Chaplin, Charlie's brother

* Sydney Chaplin ( 1885 – 1965 )

** Jule Styne & Robert Merrill ( composers ) & the original cast ( Barbra Streisand, Sydney Chaplin, Danny Meehan, Kay Medford, Jean Stapleton & John Lankston ) for Funny Girl

She had no children from any of her marriages, though she was the first step-mother to Charlie Chaplin's sons Charles Chaplin, Jr. and Sydney Chaplin whose mother was Lita Grey.

* Funny Girl ( Capitol, 1964 ) performed by the original Broadway cast with Barbra Streisand & Sydney Chaplin

* Sydney Earle Chaplin as Neville

Geraldine Chaplin is also the half sister of Sydney Chaplin, Charles Chaplin, Jr. and Norman Chaplin.

The 2002 TV documentary on the making of the film, The Tramp and the Dictator, presented newly discovered footage of the film production ( shot by Chaplin's elder half-brother Sydney ) which showed Chaplin's initial attempts at the film's ending, filmed before the fall of France.

Chaplin's son Sydney, who also appeared in the film, said that even if some of Keaton's best scenes were cut ( which he did not believe ), the storyline would not logically allow a supporting actor to suddenly appear and upstage the climactic comeback of Chaplin's character.

For Sydney Chaplin's nephew, son of Charlie Chaplin, see Sydney Chaplin ( actor ).

* Sydney Chaplin: Charlie Chaplin's Brother

His mother was Charlie Chaplin's second wife, American Lita Grey, and he was the elder brother of actor Sydney Chaplin.

It co-starred Edna Purviance and Sydney Chaplin, Chaplin's brother.

The documentary also includes interviews with Chaplin's second wife Lita Grey, his son Sydney Chaplin, and his surviving co-stars Jackie Coogan, Dean Riesner, Georgia Hale, and Virginia Cherrill.

The quadrangle at the centre of Smirke's design proved to be a waste of valuable space and was filled at Panizzi's request by a circular Reading Room of cast iron, designed by Smirke's brother, Sydney Smirke.

In 1846 Robert Smirke was replaced as the Museum's architect by his brother Sydney Smirke, whose major addition was the Round Reading Room 1854 – 1857 ; at in diameter it was then the second widest dome in the world, the Pantheon in Rome being slightly wider.

He lived alone for several days, searching for food and occasionally sleeping rough, until his brother Sydney returned from the navy.

He and his brother Cliff ( Clifford Thomas Holt, born 1910 ) spent their early life in Sydney and attended three different schools in Sydney and Adelaide between 1913 and 1919.

Their elder brother Sydney Boulting became an actor and stage producer as Peter Cotes ; he was the original director of The Mousetrap.

His uncle ( his mother's brother ) was Samuel Robert Walder, Lord Mayor of Sydney.

Barker ( 1918 – 2002 ); Betty Box ( 1915 – 1999 ) and her brother Sydney ( 1907 – 1983 ) were film producers.

Her eldest brother Dion Bourne was an opening batsman who played for Bankstown in Sydney Grade Cricket and remains the leading runscorer in the club's history.

George attended Ipswich Grammar School and later Sydney Boys High School, then studied medicine at the University of New South Wales with his twin brother John.

Her eldest brother Dion Bourne was an opening batsman who played for Bankstown in Sydney Grade Cricket and remains the leading runscorer in the club's history.

When only 17 years of age, Hume began exploring the country beyond Sydney with his younger brother John and an Aboriginal boy as far to the south-west as Berrima, and soon developed into a good bushman.

In the midst of his many continuing guest roles on TV, Perry was cast as a regular on the 1990 CBS sitcom Sydney, playing the younger brother of Valerie Bertinelli's title character.

Both he and his wife befriended English Protestants like Francis Walsingham, Mary Sidney, and her brother Philip Sydney.

O ' Doherty, his parents and younger brother Peter immigrated to Sydney, Australia in 1969.

John Thomas Toohey and his brother James Matthew ran pubs in Melbourne ( The Limerick Arms and The Great Britain ) before moving to Sydney in the 1860s.

His nephew, brother Harvey's son, Jerai, who played college basketball for Clemson University, the same school that he and Harvey attended, is playing for the Australasian NBL's Sydney Kings in 2011.

MacDonald had two other sisters, Dorothea Bard and Alison Bard, and one brother, Sydney Cleveland Bard.

Mac Cocker had a successful radio DJ career in Sydney beginning with Double J in the 1970s and then Triple J in the 1980s, and did not counter a common impression there that he was Joe Cocker's brother or cousin ( despite both being from Sheffield, they are not related in any way ).

His older brother ( S. H. Smith ) was Director of Education in New South Wales, his younger brother ( S. A. Smith ) acting professor for anatomy at the university of Sydney.

: Nephew to Frank ( son of a late unnamed Agretti brother ), who ends up becoming involved with Sydney before being killed by her husband Ian St. James

Sydney lives with her father Jim, brother Robbie, sister Joanie, and sister's baby Hannah in a large home in suburban Providence that also houses her father's veterinary clinic.