Directed by:
Charlie ChaplinScreenplay:
Charlie ChaplinComposer:
Charlie ChaplinCast:
Charlie Chaplin, Maxine Audley, Jerry Desmonde, Sidney James, Michael Chaplin, Harry Green, Dawn Addams, Shani Wallis, Yvonne Romain, Alan Gifford (more)Plots(1)
A wonderful parody of 1950's American society, A King in New York, follows King Igor Shahdov's adventures in the Big Apple after a revolution in his country forces him from the throne. Shahdov becomes an accidental television celebrity, experiments with plastic surgery and is wrongly accused of being a Communist. (Transmission Films)
Cast
Charlie Chaplin
UK
Best movies:
The Chaplin Revue (1959)
The Kid (1921)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Maxine Audley
UK
Best movies:
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
Prime Suspect (1991) (TV movie)
A King in New York (1957)
Jerry Desmonde
UK
Best movies:
Trouble in Store (1953)
The Early Bird (1965)
A Stitch in Time (1963)
Sidney James
South Africa
Best movies:
Father Brown (1954)
The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)
The Silent Enemy (1958)
Michael Chaplin
USA
Best movies:
Limelight (1952)
A King in New York (1957)
A Little Love Package (2022)
Harry Green
USA
Best movies:
A King in New York (1957)
Paramount on Parade (1930)
Born to Be Bad (1934)
Dawn Addams
UK
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The Silent Enemy (1958)
The Black Tulip (1964)
Shani Wallis
UK
Best movies:
Columbo (1971) (series)
A King in New York (1957)
Arnold (1973)
Yvonne Romain
UK
Best movies:
The Silent Enemy (1958)
A King in New York (1957)
Action of the Tiger (1957)
Alan Gifford
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Brainwashed (1960)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Hugh McDermott
UK
Best movies:
A King in New York (1957)
The Divorce of Lady X (1938)
Lawman (1971)
Phil Brown
USA
Best movies:
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Chaplin (1992)
Penelope Horner
UK
Best movies:
The Nun's Story (1959)
A King in New York (1957)
The Angry Silence (1960)
Richard Shaw
UK
Best movies:
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
A Night to Remember (1958)
A King in New York (1957)
Robert Cawdron
France
Best movies:
The One That Got Away (1957)
The Great Manhunt (1950)
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)
Clifford Buckton
UK
Best movies:
Night and the City (1950)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
A King in New York (1957)
George Woodbridge
UK
Best movies:
The Red Shoes (1948)
Richard III (1955)
The Fallen Idol (1948)
Oliver Johnston
UK
Best movies:
A King in New York (1957)
Indiscreet (1958)
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960)
Frazer Hines
UK
Best movies:
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors (1983) (TV movie)
The Last Valley (1971)
A King in New York (1957)
Robert Arden
UK
Best movies:
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960)
A King in New York (1957)