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Lonny Chapman is a Actor American born on 1 october 1920 at Tulsa (USA)
Lon Leonard "Lonny" Chapman (October 1, 1920 – October 12, 2007) was an American television actor best known for his numerous guest star appearances on drama series, such as Storefront Lawyers, Quincy, M.E., The A-Team, Murder, She Wrote, Matlock, and NYPD Blue. He played "Ernie the plumber" in the 1954 movie, Young at Heart, starring Doris Day and Frank Sinatra,
He also appeared as a guest star on the CBS adventure/drama Harbourmaster, starring Barry Sullivan, and on the same network's anthology series The Lloyd Bridges Show. He guest starred too in several episodes of NBC's McCloud, which starred his long-time friend Dennis Weaver, whom Chapman had originally urged to go into show business. He also appeared in three episodes of Gunsmoke and appeared in such series as The Rifleman, The Everglades, Decoy and Dundee and the Culhane. In 1964 he appeared on Perry Mason as murderer Jack Talley in "The Case of the Tandem Target". In 1966, Chapman appeared in the episode "Lone Woman" of The Road West. In 1977, he appeared in the episode "The Waterhole" on The Oregon Trail and in 1979 in the episode "Now You see Her..." on The Eddie Capra Mysteries.
His other film roles included appearances in A Covenant with Death (1967), Hour of the Gun (1967), The Stalking Moon (1968), Take the Money and Run (1969), The Reivers (1969), I Walk the Line (1970), Welcome Home, Soldier Boys (1971), The Cowboys (1972), Run, Cougar, Run (1972), Where the Red Fern Grows (1974), The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976), Moving Violation (1976), The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978), When Time Ran Out (1980), Running Scared (1980), Amy (1981), The Border (1982), 52 Pick-Up (1986), Reindeer Games (2000), and The Hunted (2003). He had a starring role in the short-lived 1965 series For the People.
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Birth name Lon Leonard Chapman
Nationality USA
Birth 1 october 1920 at Tulsa (USA)
Death 12 october 2007 (at 87 years) at Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 1 october 1920 at Tulsa (USA)
Death 12 october 2007 (at 87 years) at Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles (USA)
Lon Leonard "Lonny" Chapman (October 1, 1920 – October 12, 2007) was an American television actor best known for his numerous guest star appearances on drama series, such as Storefront Lawyers, Quincy, M.E., The A-Team, Murder, She Wrote, Matlock, and NYPD Blue. He played "Ernie the plumber" in the 1954 movie, Young at Heart, starring Doris Day and Frank Sinatra,
He also appeared as a guest star on the CBS adventure/drama Harbourmaster, starring Barry Sullivan, and on the same network's anthology series The Lloyd Bridges Show. He guest starred too in several episodes of NBC's McCloud, which starred his long-time friend Dennis Weaver, whom Chapman had originally urged to go into show business. He also appeared in three episodes of Gunsmoke and appeared in such series as The Rifleman, The Everglades, Decoy and Dundee and the Culhane. In 1964 he appeared on Perry Mason as murderer Jack Talley in "The Case of the Tandem Target". In 1966, Chapman appeared in the episode "Lone Woman" of The Road West. In 1977, he appeared in the episode "The Waterhole" on The Oregon Trail and in 1979 in the episode "Now You see Her..." on The Eddie Capra Mysteries.
Biography
Chapman was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but lived thereafter in Joplin, Missouri. He graduated from Joplin High School and, in 1940, from Joplin Junior College, the predecessor institution of Missouri Southern. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps served in the South Pacific during World War II. After the war, Chapman graduated from the University of Oklahoma at Norman and then moved to New York City, where he landed the role of Turk in Come Back, Little Sheba. After moving to California, he appeared in Young at Heart (1954), East of Eden (1955), Baby Doll (1956) and The Birds (1963).His other film roles included appearances in A Covenant with Death (1967), Hour of the Gun (1967), The Stalking Moon (1968), Take the Money and Run (1969), The Reivers (1969), I Walk the Line (1970), Welcome Home, Soldier Boys (1971), The Cowboys (1972), Run, Cougar, Run (1972), Where the Red Fern Grows (1974), The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976), Moving Violation (1976), The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978), When Time Ran Out (1980), Running Scared (1980), Amy (1981), The Border (1982), 52 Pick-Up (1986), Reindeer Games (2000), and The Hunted (2003). He had a starring role in the short-lived 1965 series For the People.
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The Hunted (2003)
, 1h34Directed by William Friedkin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Transport films, Political films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio del Toro, Connie Nielsen, Leslie Stefanson, John Finn, Ron Canada
Roles Zander
Rating61%
U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Aaron Hallam (Benicio del Toro), a former United States clandestine operator, is introduced initially as the focus of the story. He is shown to have performed extraordinarily courageous and savage tasks in the course of government service. These actions leave the sensitive and intelligent Hallam conflicted and it is portrayed that he was either set up, or that the government was at some point later dissatisfied with the results of his further assignments.
Reindeer Games (2000)
, 1h44Directed by John Frankenheimer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Christmas films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Ben Affleck, Gary Sinise, Charlize Theron, James Frain, Danny Trejo, Clarence Williams III
Roles Old Timer
Rating57%
Nick Cassidy and Rudy Duncan are cellmates in prison two days away from release. Nick has been corresponding with a young woman named Ashley Mercer, who is waiting for him on the outside. After Nick takes a shiv in a prison fight and dies, Rudy, who just wants to have a cup of hot chocolate after he reunites with his family, takes his place and lets the beautiful Ashley think he is the one who has been writing her. Gabriel, the leader of a gang who assaults Rudy and Ashley in their cabin, and is Ashley's brother and tells "Nick" that the gang, with Nick's help, will rob the casino he used to work at. Rudy reveals he is not Nick, but Ashley continues to confirm he is and that she wrote to him knowing Gabriel was going to kidnap and force Rudy to assist in the robbery. Rudy, while furious with Ashley, is reluctantly forced to go along with his ruse.
Nightwatch (1997)
, 1h41Directed by Ole Bornedal
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Serial killer films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Ewan McGregor, Patricia Arquette, Josh Brolin, Lauren Graham, Nick Nolte, Brad Dourif
Roles Old Watchman
Rating61%
Martin Bells (McGregor), a law student is hired as a night watchman at a Hospital's morgue. A string of gruesome serial murders which happen in the surroundings quickly point to him as the lead suspect in the investigation carried out by Inspector Thomas Cray (Nolte). Nevertheless, at the same time Martin slowly discovers clues that point to the real perpetrator.
The China Lake Murders (1990)
, 1h37Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Tom Skerritt, Michael Parks, Nancy Everhard, Danny Hassel, Lauren Tewes, J. C. Quinn
Rating59%
The sheriff of China Lake is confronted with a series of grisly murders that have shocked the small desert town. During the investigation, he befriends a vacationing city cop who is eager to join in the investigation. As facts about the killings surface, the sheriff is forced to put his new friendship to the test.
52 Pick-Up (1986)
, 1h50Directed by John Frankenheimer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about films, Films about sexuality, Snuff films in fiction, Films about television, Films about pornography
Actors Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, John Glover, Vanity, Kelly Preston, Clarence Williams III
Roles Jim O'Boyle
Rating63%
Harry Mitchell (Roy Scheider) is a successful industrialist living in the suburbs of Los Angeles whose wife Barbara (Ann-Margret) is running for city council while he is having an affair. Harry is confronted by three blackmailers demanding $105,000 for a videotape of him and his mistress, Cini (Kelly Preston).
Cave-In! (1983)
, 2hOrigin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Disaster, Action, Adventure
Themes Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Dennis Cole, Susan Sullivan, Leslie Nielsen, James Olson, Ray Milland, Julie Sommars
Roles Walt Charles
Rating52%
A park ranger must lead a US senator, a disgraced cop, his wife, a manipulative professor and his daughter across five miles of dangerous terrain to escape an unstable cavern, unaware that the seventh member of the group is an armed and violent escaped convict.
Who Will Love My Children? (1983)
, 1h35Directed by John Erman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Ann-Margret, Frederic Forrest, Cathryn Damon, Donald Moffat, Lonny Chapman, Patricia Smith
Roles Milton Hammond
Rating72%
Basé sur une histoire vraie de Lucile Fray, la femme d'un fermier de l'Iowa. Ann-Margret joue le rôle d'une mère mourante de dix enfants dont le dernier souhait est de trouver des familles aimantes pour ses enfants.
The Border (1982)
, 1h48Directed by Tony Richardson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes La corruption policière, Films about immigration
Actors Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Perrine, Warren Oates, Elpidia Carrillo, Dirk Blocker
Roles Andy
Rating63%
Immigration enforcement agent Smith (Jack Nicholson) lives in California with his wife (Valerie Perrine) in a trailer. She persuades him to move to a duplex in El Paso shared by her friend and border agent Cat (Harvey Keitel). She opens a charge account and starts to purchase expensive items like a water bed as she tries to build a dream home.
Amy (1981)
, 1h40Directed by Vincent McEveety
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Jenny Agutter, Barry Newman, Chris Robinson, Margaret O'Brien, Nanette Fabray, Frances Bay
Roles Virgil Goodloe
Rating64%
Amy Medford (Jenny Agutter) is a dutiful housewife of the early 1900s. But when her husband Elliot (Chris Robinson) objects to a wife with a career, Amy leaves her husband and comfortable lifestyle. She goes on to devote her life to teaching sight-and-hearing-impaired students at a tradition-bound special school. Amy teaches the impaired students how to speak, most of the students have never heard their own name. Amy's students take on a team of "normal" kids at a football game.
Running Scared (1980)
, 1h30Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films
Actors Ken Wahl, Judge Reinhold, John Saxon, Bradford Dillman, Annie McEnroe, Pat Hingle
Roles Pa Beecher
Rating49%
Deux conscrits dérobent une boîte de matériel militaire. Ils y trouvent une caméra et prennent par accident des photos d'une base. Mais l'un des clichés est retrouvé, et l'armée pense avoir à faire à des espions communistes...
When Time Ran Out... (1980)
, 2h1Directed by James Goldstone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Disaster, Action, Adventure
Themes La fin du monde, Seafaring films, Transport films, Volcanisme, Films about volcanoes, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, James Franciscus, Ernest Borgnine, Edward Albert
Roles Kelly
Rating45%
Shelby Gilmore (William Holden), who owns a newly constructed hotel on a remote Pacific island, wants desperately to marry his secretary, Kay Kirby (Jacqueline Bisset) and proposes to her under the impression that she'll become his seventh wife. Kay is in love with Hank Anderson (Paul Newman), an oil rigger whose scientists are warning him that a nearby active volcano is about to erupt.
Norma Rae (1979)
, 1h50Directed by Martin Ritt
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Feminist films, Films about the labor movement, Political films, Children's films
Actors Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Pat Hingle, Morgan Paull, Barbara Baxley
Roles Gardner
Rating72%
Norma Rae Webster is a minimum-wage worker in a cotton mill that has taken too much of a toll on the health of her family for her to ignore their poor working conditions. After hearing a speech by a New York union organizer, Reuben Warshowsky, Norma Rae decides to join the effort to unionize her shop. This causes conflict at home when Norma Rae's husband, Sonny, says she's not spending enough time in the home.
Hanging by a Thread (1979)
, 3h10Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action
Themes Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Patty Duke, Joyce Bulifant, Oliver Clark, Bert Convy, Burr DeBenning, Donna Mills
Roles Charles Minton
Rating57%
Un groupe d'amis est piégé dans un téléphérique en panne au dessus d'un ravin alors qu'un terrible orage se prépare. Le personnel et les autorités font leur possible pour sauver la vie des passagers.
King (miniseries) (1978)
, 5hOrigin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about racism
Actors Paul Winfield, Cicely Tyson, Tony Bennett, Roscoe Lee Browne, Lonny Chapman, Ossie Davis
Roles Chief Frank Holloman
Rating79%
, 1h31Directed by John Berry
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Baseball films, Children's films
Actors Tony Curtis, Jackie Earle Haley, Regis Philbin, Tomisaburō Wakayama, Quinn Smith, George Wyner
Roles Louis the Gambler
Rating37%
Small-time promoter/hustler Marvin Lazar (Curtis) sees a potential money-making venture in the Bears that will help him to pay off his debts. After seeing a TV spot about the Bears, he decides to chaperone the baseball team for a trip to Japan in their match against the country's best little league baseball team.