Auteur

Edward Chapman

1901–1977 · English actor

Edward Chapman was an English actor who starred in many films and television programmes, but is chiefly remembered as "Mr William 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.

Edward Chapman, in order

  1. 1929 Juno and the Paycock: acted · directed by Alfred Hitchcock · streaming on YouTube (free), Plex
  2. 1930 Murder!: acted · directed by Alfred Hitchcock · critics 80%, audiences 39% · streaming on Roku Channel, Kanopy, Hoopla
  3. 1931 The Skin Game: acted · directed by Alfred Hitchcock · critics 38%, audiences 18% · streaming on Kanopy, Plex
  4. 1931 Tilly of Bloomsbury: acted · directed by Jack Raymond
  5. 1932 Happy Ever After: acted · directed by André Daven and Paul Martin
  6. 1935 The Divine Spark: acted · directed by Carmine Gallone
  7. 1936 Rembrandt: acted · directed by Alexander Korda · streaming on Criterion Channel
  8. 1936 Things to Come: acted · directed by William Cameron Menzies
  9. 1938 Marigold: acted · directed by Thomas Bentley
  10. 1938 The Citadel: acted · directed by King Vidor
  11. 1939 Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday: acted · directed by Walter Forde
  12. 1939 There Ain't No Justice: acted · directed by Pen Tennyson
  13. 1940 Convoy: acted · directed by Pen Tennyson
  14. 1940 Law and Disorder: acted · directed by David MacDonald
  15. 1940 The Briggs Family: acted · directed by Herbert Mason
  16. 1940 The Proud Valley: acted · directed by Pen Tennyson
  17. 1941 Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It: acted · directed by Walter Forde
  18. 1942 They Flew Alone: acted · directed by Herbert Wilcox
  19. 1947 It Always Rains on Sunday: acted · directed by Robert Hamer
  20. 1947 The October Man: acted · directed by Roy Ward Baker
  21. 1949 Man on the Run: acted · directed by Lawrence Huntington
  22. 1949 The Spider and the Fly: acted · directed by Robert Hamer
  23. 1950 Gone to Earth: acted · directed by Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell
  24. 1950 Madeleine: acted · directed by David Lean · streaming on Criterion Channel, YouTube (free), Plex
  25. 1950 Night and the City: acted · directed by Jules Dassin
  26. 1951 The Magic Box: acted · directed by John Boulting · audiences 76%
  27. 1952 The Card: acted · directed by Ronald Neame · audiences 64% · streaming on Criterion Channel
  28. 1952 The Wild Heart: acted · directed by Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell
  29. 1953 Folly to Be Wise: acted · directed by Frank Launder
  30. 1955 The Love Match: acted · directed by David Paltenghi
  31. 1956 Bhowani Junction: acted · directed by George Cukor
  32. 1956 Lisbon: acted · directed by Ray Milland
  33. 1956 X the Unknown: acted · directed by Joseph Losey and Leslie Norman
  34. 1957 Doctor at Large: acted · directed by Ralph Thomas
  35. 1959 The Rough and the Smooth: acted · directed by Robert Siodmak
  36. 1959 The Square Peg: acted · directed by John Paddy Carstairs
  37. 1960 Oscar Wilde: acted · directed by Gregory Ratoff
  38. 1960 School for Scoundrels: acted · directed by Robert Hamer
  39. 1962 Venus fra Vestø: acted · directed by Annelise Reenberg
  40. 1963 A Stitch in Time: acted · directed by Robert Asher
  41. 1965 The Early Bird: acted · directed by Robert Asher
  42. 1967 Champion House (TV series): acted