Lonny Chapman

Birthday: Oct 1, 1920
Birthplace: Tulsa, Oklahoma

Bio: University of Oklahoma alumnus Lonny Chapman inaugurated his professional acting career in 1948. While co-starring in the Broadway production of Come Back Little Sheba, Chapman arranged for his college chum Dennis Weaver to understudy for him. Weaver went on to TV fame as Chester on the Western series Gunsmoke, while Chapman prospered as a film character actor,… More Bio: University of Oklahoma alumnus Lonny Chapman inaugurated his professional acting career in 1948. While co-starring in the Broadway production of Come Back Little Sheba, Chapman arranged for his college chum Dennis Weaver to understudy for him. Weaver went on to TV fame as Chester on the Western series Gunsmoke, while Chapman prospered as a film character actor, playing such roles as Roy in East of Eden (1955), Rock in Baby Doll (1957), and Deke Carter in Hitchcock's The Birds (1963). On TV, Lonny Chapman starred as private eye Jeff Prior in the 1958 summer-replacement series The Investigator, and was featured as another detective, Frank Malloy, in the 1965 courtroom weekly For the People (1965). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Most Popular

Hour of the Gun

Baby Doll

The Birds

Norma Rae

Filmography

King (2009)
- Actor
Reindeer Games (Deception) (2000)
- Old Timer
- 25%
Nightwatch (1998)
- Johnson
- 24%
The Rape of Doctor Willis (1991)
- Dr. McMahon
The China Lake Murders (1990)
- Actor
52 Pick-Up (1986)
- Jim O'Boyle
- 45%
Who Will Love My Children? (1983)
- Milton Hammond
The Border (1982)
- Andy
- 89%
Amy (1981)
- Virgil Goodloe
When Time Ran Out (1980)
- Kelly
Norma Rae (1979)
- Gardner
- 90%
Terror Out of the Sky (The Revenge of the Savage Bees) (1979)
- Earl Logan
Running Scared (1979)
- Pa Beecher
The Bad News Bears Go To Japan (1978)
- Louis the Gambler
- 0%
He Who Walks Alone (1978)
- Actor
Moving Violation (1976)
- Sheriff Rankin
Witch Who Came From the Sea (1976)
- Actor
Where the Red Fern Grows (1974)
- Sheriff
Hurricane (1974)
- Actor
Running Wild (1973)
- Actor
The Cowboys (1972)
- Preacher
- 73%
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys (1972)
- Danny's Father
I Walk the Line (1970)
- Bascomb
The Reivers (1969)
- Maury McCaslin
Take the Money and Run (1969)
- Jake
- 90%
The Stalking Moon (1968)
- Purdue
Hour of the Gun (1967)
- Turkey Creek Johnson
- 100%
A Covenant with Death (1966)
- Musgrave
The Birds (1963)
- Deke Carter
- 96%
Baby Doll (1956)
- Rock
- 100%
East of Eden (1955)
- Roy
- 87%
Young at Heart (1954)
- Ernest Nichols
- 83%
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Lonny Chapman Videos
                        
The Birds1 minutes 56 seconds

East Of Eden3 minutes 53 seconds

Take The Money And Run1 minutes 3 seconds

Young At Heart2 minutes 8 seconds

King2 minutes 35 seconds

The China Lake Murders2 minutes 55 seconds

When Time Ran Out1 minutes 12 seconds

Norma Rae3 minutes 44 seconds

The Witch Who Came From The Sea2 minutes 3 seconds

Where The Red Fern Grows1 minutes 59 seconds

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