Statue of Charlie Chaplin, London Statue of Charlie Chaplin, London The statue of Charlie Chaplin in Leicester Square, London, is a work of 1979 by the sculptor John Doubleday. It portrays the actor, comedian and filmmaker in his best-known role, as The Tramp. A memorial to Chaplin in the city of his birth was proposed on 25 December 1977, soon after Chaplin's death, by Illtyd Harrington, the leader of the opposition in the Greater London Council. Initial plans for a memorial in the Elephant and Castle, in South London where Chaplin spent his early years, were dropped and instead Leicester Square, at the centre of
Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square factor in his eventual false conviction for the necktie murders. An Indian (Tamil) movie remake of this story, "Kalaignan," was shot in 1993. In "Becoming, Part 2", an episode of the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the British vampire Spike mentions as a reason for wanting to stop the world from ending: "Goodbye, Piccadilly. Farewell, Leicester bloody Square. " Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square is a 1966 novel by Arthur La Bern, which was the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's film "Frenzy" (1972). The novel and film tell the story of Bob Rusk, a serial