Sydney Chaplin, the son of legendary comic genius Charles Chaplin, has died at age 82. Chaplin was an accomplished actor, but he never earned fame and fortune in his own right, perhaps because of the long shadow cast by his father's legend. Sydney Chaplin hit the peak of his career with his Tony Award as Best Actor for the 1957 Broadway hit The Bells Are Ringing. He also starred opposite Barbra Streisand in the stage version of Funny Girl. However, when both plays were brought to the screen, Chaplin was replaced by Dean Martin and Omar Sharif, respectively, because of their box-office appeal. Sydney appeared in two of his father's films: the bittersweet 1952 drama Limelight and Charles Chaplin's ill-fated late career directorial effort, the 1967 comedy A Countess From Hong Kong. It was on the latter that Marlon Brando observed what he termed Charles' tendency to routinely ridicule and berate his son in front of the cast and crew. It led to Brando terming the elder Chaplin as one of the cruelest people he ever worked with. While Sydney never reached top stardom as an actor, he was a popular restauranteur as owner of Chaplin's, which drew the rich and famous on a nightly basis. For more click here