Stock Photo - Apr. 04, 1981 - Chaplin Stars again in the west end : A larger - then-life - size statue of Charles Chaplin was unveiled in Leicester Square today- the 92nd anniversary of his birth. Inscribed 'The comic genius who gave pleasure to so Many', the 6ft bronze is the work of 33-year old Essex scepters John Doubleday. It was commissioned by the Bri-tol and west building society whose chairman Mr Andrew Brooke - partridge, Chairman of the Greater London Council, who received it on behalf of the 'Citizens of London', Chaplin, the son of show business Parents , was born in East Lane, Woolworth, in 1889, He was knighted in 1975 and died in Geneva on Christmas Day, 1977. Photo shows Actor sir Ralph Richardson seen unveiling the statue of Charlie Chaplin in Leicester Square, London today. (Credit Image: © Keystone Press Agency/Keystone USA via ZUMAPRESS.com)