Edward Chapman
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1901-10-13 (76 years old)
Deathday
1977-08-09
Place of Birth
Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, UK
Also known As
Эдуард Чепмен
Эдвард Чепмен
Edward Chapman
Biography
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 Th...
Acting
1936
as Pippa Passworthy / Raymond Passworthy
1934
as Guard
1930
as Ted Markham
1956
as John Elliott
1947
as George Sandigate
1960
as Gloatbridge
1952
as Mr. Duncalf
1960
as Mr. Philpots
1958
as Mr Grimsdale
1963
as Mr Grimsdale
1957
as Mr. Stoneway
1930
as Captain Boyle
1964
as McPherson
1947
as Mr. Peachy
1936
as Major Grigsby
1936
as Fabrizius
1952
as Father in Family Group
1931
as Dawker
1949
as Mr. Johnson
1938
as Joe Morgan
1939
as Sammy Sanders
1940
as Dick Parry
1950
as Mr. James
1942
as Mr. Johnson
1956
as Thomas Jones
1941
as Uncle Arnold
1949
as Minister for War
1934
as Wormwood
1953
as Mr. Robinson
1952
as The Admiral
1941
as Mr. Blenkinsop
1939
as Captain Edwin Fraser
1948
as Birkland
1938
as Mordan
1952
as Stranger
1965
as Mr. Thomas Grimsdale
1934
as Meyerhoffer
1935
as Mr. Gaunt
1949
as Chief Inspector Mitchell
1941
as Mr. Jansen
1934
as Grey
1958
as George Connor
1962
1939
as Len Griffin
1939
as B.J. Burrell
1958
as Manley
1961
as Sir Pierson Cale
1940
as Captain Eckersley
1936
as Price
1941
as Papadopoulos
1935
as Saverio Mercadante
1960
as Marquis of Queensberry
1941
as Mr. Jones
1940
as Charley Briggs
1930
as Sam Gerridge
1931
as Percy Welwyn
1932
as Sedeman
1955
as Mr Longworth
1952
as Ackland
1953
as Lowden
1938
as Inspector Chortley
1950
as Hoskins (uncredited)
1952
as Joseph Byres M.P.
1965
as Tom Hobson
1955
as Duke of Fontenham
1957
as Wilkins
1956
as Edgar Selwyn
1970
as Barton
1940
as Alf Small
1954
as Mr. Bunting
1954
as Works Manager
1940
as Detective Inspector Bray
1932
as Colonel
1938
as Lohrmann
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