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Billy Chapin is a Actor American born on 28 december 1943 at Los Angeles (USA)
Billy Chapin (born December 28, 1943 in Los Angeles) is an American former child actor, known for a considerable number of screen and TV performances from 1943 to 1959 and best remembered for both his roles as the “diaper manager” Christie Cooper in the 1953 family feature The Kid from Left Field, starring Dan Dailey, Anne Bancroft and Lloyd Bridges and little John Harper in Charles Laughton's 1955 film noir classic The Night of the Hunter, opposite acting legends Robert Mitchum and Lillian Gish.
He is the brother of former child actors Lauren Chapin, known as Kathy “Kitten” Anderson from the TV series Father Knows Best (1954–60) and Michael Chapin, another successful child performer of the 1940s and 1950s.
He is also an uncle of professional singer Summer-Healey Chapin, his sister's daughter.
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Birth name William McClellan Chapin
Nationality USA
Birth 28 december 1943 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 2 december 2016 (at 72 years)
Nationality USA
Birth 28 december 1943 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 2 december 2016 (at 72 years)
He is the brother of former child actors Lauren Chapin, known as Kathy “Kitten” Anderson from the TV series Father Knows Best (1954–60) and Michael Chapin, another successful child performer of the 1940s and 1950s.
He is also an uncle of professional singer Summer-Healey Chapin, his sister's daughter.
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Billy Chapin est un enfant acteur, qui commença à tourner précocement, à l'âge d'un an. Sa carrière cinématographique, relativement courte, s'étend de 1944 à 1956. Par la suite, il tourna dans nombre de séries télévisées, notamment Mon amie Flicka.Usually with
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Tension at Table Rock (1956)
, 1h33Directed by Charles Marquis Warren
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Actors Richard Egan, Dorothy Malone, Cameron Mitchell, Angie Dickinson, Billy Chapin, Royal Dano
Roles Jody Burrows
Rating63%
After killing a man whom many thought was his friend, Wes Tancred is assaulted and immortalized in an uncomplimentary song about one man shooting his best friend in the back, when in fact Wes' friend was reaching for his gun to shoot Wes in the back as he started out the door. Wes leaves town and winds up working as a hostler at a Stagecoach Outpost. He adopts an alias and befriends the father and son that run the outpost. Three outlaws arrive with plans to rob the Stagecoach when it arrives. The Father is killed in a showdown with the three outlaws. Wes kills them and takes the boy to live with his aunt and uncle, who is the Sheriff in Table Rock. A reckless band of herders that are running a cattle drive come to town with revelry and kill a sodbuster. In court there is testimony presented that the murder was self-defense, because the ramrodder had placed a weapon in the victim's hand. Both the Sheriff and Wes are aware of this, however the Sheriff, who was traumatized from a previous beating, states in his report, that it was self-defense. He revises his report when Wes steps forward with testimony to the contrary, challenging him to overcome his fear. Wes shoots down a hired gun that comes to town to kill the Sheriff and the Sheriff, in turn, shoots the man who hires the gunman when he attempts to shoot Wes in the back.
Violent Saturday (1955)
, 1h25Directed by Richard Fleischer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Heist films, Children's films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Lee Marvin, Stephen McNally, Virginia Leith, Tommy Noonan
Roles Steve Martin
Rating68%
Harper (Stephen McNally) is a bank robber posing as a traveling salesman. He arrives in town, soon to be joined by sadistic benzedrine addict Dill (Lee Marvin) and bookish Chapman (J. Carrol Naish).
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
, 1h33Directed by Charles Laughton, Robert Mitchum, Terry Sanders
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Noir, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry, Films about capital punishment
Actors Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Billy Chapin, Peter Graves
Roles John Harper
Rating79%
In the 1930s West Virginia, along the Ohio River, Reverend Harry Powell, a serial killer, flees the scene of his latest victim. Powell is a self-anointed preacher with a penchant for switchblade knives; a misogynist who is both attracted to and repulsed by women. He travels rural roads, preaching in small towns, and seems to believe he is doing God's work. The letters "L-O-V-E" are tattooed on one hand and the letters "H-A-T-E" on the other, which Powell uses as symbols in impromptu sermons. In one small town, police arrest Powell for driving a stolen car and sentence him to jail, unaware that he is a murderer.
A Man Called Peter (1955)
, 1h59Directed by Henry Koster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Children's films
Actors Richard Todd, Jean Peters, Marjorie Rambeau, Edward Earle, Jill Esmond, Les Tremayne
Roles Peter John Marshall
Rating70%
Naked Alibi (1954)
, 1h26Directed by Jerry Hopper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Sterling Hayden, Gloria Grahame, Gene Barry, Chuck Connors, Max Showalter, Billy Chapin
Roles Petey
Rating64%
Police chief Joe Conroy (Hayden) is relieved of his police duties after he accuses a "respected community man" Al Willis (Barry) of murdering a group of police officers. Despite his lack of authority, Conroy puts so much heat on Willis that the latter, making the excuse to his wife Helen (Marcia Henderson) that he needs time to clear his head, skips town for Border City, where he's living a double life as a hoodlum with bar-singer mistress Marianna (Grahame), whom he treats abusively.
Tobor the Great (1954)
, 1h17Origin USA
Genres Science fiction
Themes Robot films
Actors Charles Drake, Billy Chapin, Karin Booth, Steven Geray, Henry Kulky, William Schallert
Roles Brian 'Gadge' Roberts
Rating52%
At his underground laboratory in Los Angeles, Professor Nordstrom (Taylor Holmes), worried that manned space exploration is too dangerous, enlists the help of Dr. Ralph Harrison (Charles Drake), who recently left the new government-appointed Civil Interplanetary Flight Commission. The two scientists embark on a research project to create a robot that can replace a human for space flight. Nordstrom's daughter, Janice Roberts (Karin Booth), and her 11-year-old son Brian (Billy Chapin), nicknamed “Gadge”, become very interested in the project.
Affair with a Stranger (1953)
, 1h27Directed by Roy Rowland
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about writers
Actors Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Jane Darwell, Dabbs Greer, Monica Lewis, Olive Carey
Roles Timmy
Rating56%
On a train, playwright Bill Blakeley fends off the romantic flirtations of Janet Boothe, an actress from his play. But when wife Carolyn decides not to join him, Bill makes a dinner date with Janet, who plants a story with a gossip columnist about the Blakeleys possibly heading for a divorce.
The Kid from Left Field (1953)
, 1h20Directed by Harmon Jones
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Baseball films
Actors Dan Dailey, Anne Bancroft, Billy Chapin, Lloyd Bridges, Fess Parker, Ray Collins
Roles Christie Cooper
Rating64%
Former ballplayer 'Coop' (Dailey) is working as a peanut vendor at the ballpark of a struggling major league club, the Bisons. He has passed on his love of the game to his son Christie (Chapin), but after sneaking his son into the game one too many times, he is fired from his job. Christie ingratiates himself with the former owner's niece (Bancroft) and gets his father's job back as well as a position as batboy for himself.
Casanova Brown (1944)
, 1h34Directed by Sam Wood
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Frank Morgan, Anita Louise, Edmund Breon, Patricia Collinge
Roles L'enfant des Brown
Rating61%
Arriving in a small Illinois town by train, Casanova Brown is met by Madge Ferris and tells her not to bring up his trip to New York.