Mark Lindsay Chapman
| Mark Lindsay Chapman | |
|---|---|
| Born |
8 September 1954 London, England, UK |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Spouse(s) | 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. 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 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.