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](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/267/267698_9241dd.jpg)
Charlie Chaplin
UK
Best movies:
The Chaplin Revue (1959)
The Kid (1921)
The Great Dictator (1940)
![Maxine Audley](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/499/158499941_ed3dca.jpg)
Maxine Audley
UK
Best movies:
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
Prime Suspect (1991) (TV movie)
A King in New York (1957)
![Jerry Desmonde](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/416/416766_b52642.jpg)
Jerry Desmonde
UK
Best movies:
Trouble in Store (1953)
The Early Bird (1965)
A Stitch in Time (1963)
![Sidney James](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/274/274618_cc7ffc.jpg)
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](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/458/160458012_5f8164.jpg)
Harry Green
USA
Best movies:
A King in New York (1957)
![Dawn Addams](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/471/471141_f3ea43.jpg)
Dawn Addams
UK
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The Silent Enemy (1958)
The Black Tulip (1964)
![Shani Wallis](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/093/886/93886115_bee11c.jpg)
Shani Wallis
UK
Best movies:
Columbo (1971) (series)
A King in New York (1957)
Arnold (1973)
![Yvonne Romain](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/357/159357923_18a7c7.jpg)
Yvonne Romain
UK
Best movies:
The Silent Enemy (1958)
A King in New York (1957)
Double Trouble (1967)
![Alan Gifford](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/915/159915647_994657.jpg)
Alan Gifford
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Brainwashed (1960)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
![Hugh McDermott](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/762/159762321_5e63cd.jpg)
Hugh McDermott
UK
Best movies:
A King in New York (1957)
The Divorce of Lady X (1938)
Lawman (1971)
![Phil Brown](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/326/160326521_f37b4b.jpg)
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](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/391/161391615_a3fc86.jpg)
Richard Shaw
UK
Best movies:
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
A Night to Remember (1958)
A King in New York (1957)
![Robert Cawdron](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/391/161391681_114cf2.jpg)
Robert Cawdron
France
Best movies:
The Great Manhunt (1950)
The One That Got Away (1957)
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](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/479/161479820_b20261.jpg)
George Woodbridge
UK
Best movies:
The Red Shoes (1948)
Richard III (1955)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
![Oliver Johnston](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/803/162803022_1f29ea.jpg)
Oliver Johnston
UK
Best movies:
A King in New York (1957)
Indiscreet (1958)
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960)
![Frazer Hines](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/593/161593267_3729c8.jpg)
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)
Ragtime (1981)