Charlie Chaplin Lausanne, Switzerland. The British Film Institute has also established the Charles Chaplin Research Foundation, and the first international Charles Chaplin Conference was held in London in July 2005. Chaplin is the subject of a biographical film, "Chaplin" (1992) directed by Richard Attenborough, and starring Robert Downey Jr. in the title role and Geraldine Chaplin playing Hannah Chaplin. He is also a character in the period drama film "The Cat's Meow" (2001), played by Eddie Izzard, and in the made-for-television movie "The Scarlett O'Hara War" (1980), played by Clive Revill. A television series about Chaplin's childhood, "Young Charlie Chaplin", ran on
Geraldine Chaplin (1981), Alain Resnais' "Life Is a Bed of Roses" (1983), Jacques Rivette's experimental "Love on the Ground" (1984), and then the American film, "I Want to Go Home" (1989). Chaplin also starred in Rudolph's 1920s-set film, "The Moderns" (1988). In the biographical film about her father, "Chaplin" (1992), she played her grandmother Hannah Chaplin, for which she was nominated for her third Golden Globe Award. Soon after, she was directed by Martin Scorsese in "The Age of Innocence" (1993), and appeared in Franco Zeffirelli's version of "Jane Eyre" (1996). Chaplin went on to appear in "" (1997). Chaplin received a