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Spencer Dryden bio
Who do I contact to correct a mistake on IMDB? The mistake is that Charlie Chaplin is Spencer Dryden's half-brother, not his uncle. Ditto for Syd Chaplin, also Spencer's half-brother. They all share the same mother
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19491949: I believe you have incorrect information. Spencer Dryden (a musician and member of Jefferson Airplane) was the nephew of Charlie Chaplin. That is, Spencer was the son of Charlie Chaplin's half-brother, Wheeler Dryden.
Note that Spencer Dryden (born 1938) was born 49 years after Charlie Chaplin (born 1889), which should effectively rule out the possibility of them having the same mother. (In fact, Charlie Chaplin and Wheeler Dryden's mother Hannah died in 1928, ten years before Spencer was born.)
See also these articles:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jan/15/guardianobituaries.arts ("Spencer always kept quiet about the fact that his father was Charlie Chaplin's half brother ....")
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/spencer-dryden-15354.html ("Born in New York in 1938, Spencer Dryden was the son of Wheeler Dryden, a British actor who was Charlie Chaplin's half-brother, and his wife Alice, a ballet dancer.")
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/spencer-dryden-jefferson-airplane-drummer-2705925.php ("Born in New York City, Mr. Dryden moved with his parents when he was an infant to Los Angeles, where his father went to work as an assistant director for Mr. Dryden's uncle, movie star Charlie Chaplin.")
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