Edward Chapman

Edward Chapman

Acting 1901-10-13 Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, UK

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Edward Chapman (13 October 1901 - 9 August 1977) was an English actor who starred in many films and television programmes, but is chiefly remembered as "Mr. Wilfred Grimsdale", the officious superior and comic foil to Norman Wisdom's character of Pitkin in many of his films from the late 1950s and 1960s. Chapman was born in Harrogate, Yorkshire, England. On leaving school he became a bank clerk but later began his stage career with Ben Greet's Company in June 1924 at the Repertory Theatre, Nottingham, playing Gecko in George du Maurier's Trilby. He made his first London stage appearance at the Court Theatre in August 1925 playing the Rev Septimus Tudor in The Farmer's Wife. Among dozens of stage roles that followed, he played Bonaparte to Margaret Rawlings's Josephine in Napoleon at the Embassy Theatre in September 1934. In 1928 he attracted the attention of Alfred Hitchcock, who gave him the role of "The Paycock" in the 1930 film, Juno and the Paycock. In the same year he also made an appearance in Caste (of which no prints are known to exist). He had a role in The Citadel in 1938 and appeared alongside George Formby in the Ealing Studios comedy Turned Out Nice Again in 1941. During the Second World War he took a break from acting and joined the Royal Air Force. After training he was posted to 129 (Mysore) Squadron as an intelligence officer. This Spitfire squadron was based at Westhampnett and Debden. The squadron was heavily engaged in combat during this period and many of Chapman's fellow squadron mates were killed in action. Chapman first starred alongside Wisdom in 1957's Just My Luck in the role of Mr. Stoneway, but the next year in The Square Peg he appeared as Mr. Grimsdale for the first time opposite Wisdom's character of Norman Pitkin. In 1960 he and Wisdom acted together again in The Bulldog Breed, playing the roles of Mr. Philpots and Norman Puckle - Mr. Grimsdale and Pitkin in all but name. Wisdom appeared alone as Norman Pitkin in On the Beat in 1962, while Chapman branched out, starring in the Danish folktale Venus fra Vestø, but Grimsdale and Pitkin were reunited for 1963's A Stitch in Time. Their final performance together was in The Early Bird in 1965, Wisdom's first film in colour. In all, he appeared alongside Norman Wisdom in five films. After Sir John Gielgud was arrested for "persistently importuning male persons for immoral purposes", Chapman started a petition to force him to resign from Equity. Sir Laurence Olivier reportedly threw Chapman out of his dressing room when he solicited his signature for the petition. From 1965 Chapman played mostly characters roles on television. His final role was as Mr. Callon for nine episodes of the BBC's seafaring melodrama The Onedin Line between 1971 and 1972. Chapman died of a heart attack in Brighton, East Sussex, England at the age of 75. Description above from the Wikipedia article Edward Chapman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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1994 Self (archive footage)
1971 Mr. Callon
1970 Barton
1965 Mr. Thomas Grimsdale
1965 Tom Hobson
1965 Oliver Crawford
1964 McPherson
1963 Mr. Grimsdale
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1961 Sir Pierson Cale
1960 Gloatbridge
1960 Mr. Philpots
1960 Marquis of Queensberry
1960
1959 Mr. Grandland
1958 Private Wilfred Grimsdale
1958 George Connor
1958 Manley
1957 Mr. Stoneway
1957 Mr. Wilkins
1956 John Elliott
1956 Thomas Jones
1956 Edgar Selwyn
1955 Mr Longworth
1955 Duke of Fontenham
1954 Mr. Bunting
1954 Works Manager
1953 Mr. Robinson
1953 Lowden
1952 Mr. Duncalf
1952 Father in Family Group
1952 The Admiral
1952 Stranger
1952 Ackland
1952 Joseph Byres M.P.
1952 Self - Commentator
1950 Mr. James
1950 Hoskins (uncredited)
1949 Mr. Johnson
1949 Minister for War
1949 Chief Inspector Mitchell
1948 Birkland
1947 George Sandigate
1947 Mr. Peachy
1942 Mr. Johnson
1941 Uncle Arnold
1941 Mr. Blenkinsop
1941 Mr. Jansen
1941 Papadopoulos
1941 Mr. Jones
1940 Dick Parry
1940 Captain Eckersley
1940 Charley Briggs
1940 Alf Small
1940 Detective Inspector Bray
1939 Sammy Sanders
1939 Captain Edwin Fraser
1939 B.J. Burrell
1939 Len Griffin
1938 Joe Morgan
1938 Mordan
1938 Inspector Chortley
1938 Lohrmann
1936 Pippa Passworthy / Raymond Passworthy
1936 Major Grigsby
1936 Fabrizius
1936 Price
1935 Mr. Gaunt
1935 Saverio Mercadante
1934 Guard
1934 Wormwood
1934 Meyerhoffer
1934 Grey
1932 Sedeman
1932 Colonel
1931 Dawker
1931 Percy Welwyn
1930 Ted Markham
1930 Captain Boyle
1930 Sam Gerridge