Mark Lindsay Chapman
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Mark Lindsay Chapman | |
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| Born | 8 September 1954 London, England, UK |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Spouse | Cheree Vandoren (divorced) |
| Children | 3 |
Mark Lindsay Chapman (born 8 September 1954, London) is an English film and television actor. He attended the Guildford School of Acting where he studied ballet, speech, drama, and fencing.
His television credits include: Max Headroom, Dallas (as Brett Lomax), Falcon Crest, Baywatch, Murder, She Wrote, Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, JAG, Charmed, The Young and the Restless, Swamp Thing,[1] and The Langoliers. He played Chief Officer Henry Tingle Wilde in the 1997 film Titanic.
A Paramount internal memo dated from 1987 has revealed that Chapman was once considered for the part of Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation.[2]
The similarity between his name and that of John Lennon's murderer, Mark David Chapman, prevented him in 1985 from playing Lennon in John and Yoko: A Love Story, a biographical film produced by NBC; the role went instead to Mark McGann.[citation needed] Chapman's full name surfaced again when the story was published in Britain, and reporters began making inquiries about the actor, who was then working as a bricklayer [why?] with his father. He had changed his name when he joined Equity, as there was already a Mark Chapman in the union. Eventually he did portray Lennon, in Chapter 27, a film about Mark David Chapman, released in 2007 at the Sundance Film Festival.[3]
References
- ^ The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present. Ballantine Books. 2003. p. 1158. ISBN 0-345-45542-8.
- ^ Star Trek: The Next Generation details, lettersofnote.com, August 2010.
- ^ Chapter 27 full cast, imdb.com; accessed 4 May 2016.
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