Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
10/13/1901
Place of Birth
Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, UK
Also Known As
Эдуард ЧепменЭдвард 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...
Known For
Blossom Time
as Meyerhoffer
Murder!
as Ted Markham
The Card
as Mr. Duncalf
Rembrandt
as Fabrizius
Mandy
as Ackland
Bhowani Junction
as Thomas Jones
Jeannie
as Mr. Jansen
His Excellency
as The Admiral
The Intruder
as Lowden
Lisbon
as Edgar Selwyn
The Ringer
as Stranger
The Skin Game
as Dawker
Poison Pen
as Len Griffin
Things to Come
as Pippa Passworthy / Raymond Passworthy
The Magic Box
as Father in Family Group
The Citadel
as Joe Morgan
The Early Bird
as Mr. Thomas Grimsdale
School for Scoundrels
as Gloatbridge
Juno and the Paycock
as Captain Boyle
Convoy
as Captain Eckersley