Edward Chapman

Edward Chapman

English actor (1901-1977)

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.

Filmography in the catalog

Credited on 10 films (1936–1963) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field. Also mentioned in 8 other records (descriptions, transcriptions, copyright notes).

Year ▲ Title CreatorLengthFormatColorSound
1936 Things to come FESTIV 92 min. 16mm B&W
1936 Things to come. London Film Productions Ltd. 10 reels 16mm B&W sound
1950 Night And The City. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp 95 min. 35mm B&W sound
1955 A Yank in Ermine Gordon Parry
1957 Doctor At Large J Arthur Rank Organization 104 min 16mm sound
1957 X The Unknown. Sol Lesser Productions Inc. 86 min. 35mm B&W sound
1959 The Square Peg The Rank Organisation Film Productions, Ltd 89 min sound
1960 Oscar Wilde Gregory Ratoff 98 min 16mm B&W
1960 School For Scoundrels Sterling Educational Films 94 min 16mm B&W sound
1963 A Stitch in Time Robert Asher