Statue of Charlie Chaplin, London In a later refurbishment of 2010–2012 Chaplin's statue was removed altogether, together with busts of William Hogarth, John Hunter, Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Joshua Reynolds. The statue was installed in a nearby street, Leicester Place, in 2013. This was in order to prevent damage to the sculpture during improvement works. In 2016 it returned to Leicester Square and was re-unveiled on Chaplin's birthday. 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
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