Although the entertainer is celebrated as one of London’s most famous sons, newly declassified files reveal that Britain’s MI5 domestic intelligence service found no records to back up Chaplin’s claim that he was born in the city on April 16, 1889. Uncertainty about Chaplin’s origins linger to this day a mystery Chaplin himself may have helped to nurture. read more
Read more from the original source: Britain’s spies were unable to solve the mystery of Charlie Chaplin’s birth
