Edward Chapman

Acting

Edward Chapman

Born 1901-10-13 Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, UK 77 films

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 s…

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Filmography

77 films
The Early Bird poster

Norman Pitkin is the assistant helping to run a small, old fashioned dairy which is threatened by a…

The Early Bird

★ 7.6 1965

Joey Boy poster

While posters urge austerity and vigilance in wartime Britain, 'Joey Boy' Thompson has never had it…

Joey Boy

★ 6.2 1965

Hide and Seek poster

A professor of astronomy helping on a missile development program. An old friend of his is a Russia…

Hide and Seek

★ 7.0 1964

The Big Deal poster

Unscrupulous business Sir Pierson Cale is determined to win the contract to build a power station.…

The Big Deal

★ 0.0 1961

Oscar Wilde poster

England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman…

Oscar Wilde

★ 5.2 1960

The Square Peg poster

Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale are council workmen mending the road outside an Army base when they…

The Square Peg

★ 6.5 1958