Ben Chapman

Nacimiento : 1908-12-25, Oak Park, Illinois, USA

Muerte : 1991-07-08

Películas

The Ghost of Flight 401
Unit Production Manager
An aircraft crashes in the Florida Everglades, killing 103 passengers. After the wreckage is removed, salvageable parts from the plane are used to repair other aircraft. Soon passengers and crew on those aircraft report seeing what they believe to be the ghost of the wrecked airplane's flight engineer.
Citizens Band
Production Manager
The interlaced stories of several characters in a small town united by their use of CB (citizen's band) radio.
Search for the Gods
Unit Production Manager
A valuable medallion believed to prove that aliens from outer space visited Earth in prehistoric times is sought.
Class of '44
Unit Production Manager
Sequel to "Summer of '42" reunites Hermie, Oscy and Benjie as they graduate from high school. Benjie departs shortly to war while Hermie and Oscy go on to college and experience fraternity hazings, cheating on exams, sex scandals and other unsavory college activities. Hermie grows apart from his childhood friend Oscy and begins a relationship with Julie that allows him to settle down into maturity.
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
Unit Production Manager
A Harvard graduate transports a load of marijuana from Boston to Berkeley, California.
Cómo me hice agente de la CIA
Production Manager
Mrs. Emily Pollifax of New Jersey goes to the CIA to volunteer for spy duty, being in her own opinion, expendable now that the children are grown and she's widowed. And being just what the department needed (someone who looks and acts completely unlike a spy), she's assigned to simple courier duty to pick up a book in Mexico City. But when the pickup doesn't go as planned, Mrs. Pollifax finds herself handcuffed to a handsome stranger on a plane bound for an Albanian prison. And it's up to her to get them out.
Generation
Production Manager
Newlyweds shock the bride's father with plans for natural childbirth in a Greenwich Village loft.
Birds Do It
Production Executive
Melvin Byrd es conserje en Cabo Kennedy. Conoce a Judy, una chimpancé involucrada en un proyecto ultrasecreto. Cuando se cuela en la sala donde se lleva a cabo el proyecto, queda ionizado negativamente, lo cual le facilitará volar como un pájaro...
La vuelta al mundo bajo el mar
Associate Producer
La tripulación de un submarino dirigido por el Dr. Doug Standish se embarca en una misión que les llevará a través de todos los océanos del mundo: Los científicos diseñarán dispositivos de alerta que harán sonar las primeras alarmas en caso de terremotos y maremotos. Pero la tarea es más peligrosa y ardua de lo esperado, especialmente porque las tensiones entre los miembros de la tripulación aumentan constantemente.
Rinocerontes blancos
Producer
A zoologist working to save the endangered animals of africa has problems with poachers and local tribesmen who don't understand his methods. But, with the help of the local district nurse,...
Flipper y los piratas
Associate Producer
El famoso delfín y su amigo Sandy viajan a las Bahamas, donde se enfrentan a una banda de secuestradores que ha tomado a una familia como rehenes. Gracias a la gran amistad que les une, Flipper y Sandy intentan vencer todos los obstáculos.
Mi amigo Flipper
Production Supervisor
Sandy es un muchacho que vive con sus padres en una casa de la costa. Un día, el joven es ayudado por un delfín, que se convertirá desde entonces en su inseparable mascota.
The Adventures of Superboy
Production Manager
Jimmy, Clark Kent and Lana Lang's friend, is ashamed that his father works as a doorman at the Smallville theater. His opinion changes when Superboy is able to thwart a robbery with Jimmy's father's help.
Gila, el monstruo gigante
Production Manager
En una pequeña localidad de Tejas comienzan a producirse unas misteriosas desapariciones y localizan coches totalmente aplastados sin señal aparente de haber sufrido un accidente. El sheriff recurrirá a la ayuda de un joven mecánico y ambos tendrán que enfrentarse a una terrible y gigantesca criatura, con forma de lagarto
The Killer Shrews
Production Manager
Trapped on a remote island by a hurricane, a group discover a doctor has been experimenting on creating half sized humans. Unfortunately, his experiments have also created giant shrews, who when they have run out of small animals to eat, turn on the humans....
Verboten!
Unit Manager
A punto de concluir la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), Rotchbach, una ciudad alemana en ruinas, se convierte en un núcleo de resistencia contra los aliados. Los francotiradores ocupan los puntos más estratégicos de la ciudad. El sargento norteamericano David Brent resulta herido y encuentra refugio en la casa de Helga Schiller, una joven que vive con su madre y su hermano Franz, miembro de la Resistencia. Terminada la guerra e iniciado el Juicio de Nuremberg, Helga trata de hacer comprender a su hermano la magnitud de la tragedia y del dolor ocasionado por el nazismo. (FILMAFFINITY)
El baile de los malditos
Production Manager
Christian Diestl (Marlon Brando) es un teniente del ejército alemán que ama a su país, pero guarda serias dudas con la guerra que comienza a abrirse camino. Noah Ackerman (Montgomery Clift) es un soldado americano que sufre las presiones de sus propios compañeros y jefes, pero está dispuesto a defender lo que es justo a como dé lugar. Ambos se enamoran de chicas con carácter, y esto también sirve de acicate para mantener el impulso de preservar sus principios.
Escapada en Japón
Unit Production Manager
Narra las aventuras que corren dos niños, uno americano y otro japonés, al escaparse éste último de casa para ayudar a su amigo a encontrar a sus padres. Estas aventuras sirven de pretexto para mostrar la belleza y las costumbres del Japón.
Yuma
Assistant Director
Ha terminado la Guerra de Secesión (1861-1865), pero el soldado sureño O'Meara se niega a aceptar la derrota y decide huir hacia el Oeste para unirse a los indios Sioux e integrarse en su modo de vida. Sin embargo, para disgusto de O'Meara, el gran jefe Nube Roja ha decidido firmar un tratado de paz con el hombre blanco.
Sobre la pista del Oregón
Unit Production Manager
The pioneering trail to Oregon was littered with constant danger. Yet, the hope of the "promised land" keeps American families westward bound despite overwhelming odds. A calm, clear-thinking pioneer attempts to lead a wagon train through territory occupied by Pawnees and Sioux. Along the way, the hardy settlers face horse thieves, kidnappers, and unpredictable Indian attacks in their push to establish a new life in the rugged West.
Hunters of the Deep
Director
Underwater exploration by oceanographers and geologists round the coast of Southern California and Mexico. Portrays many species and varieties of fish and mammals as well as ocean flora and rock formation.
This Is My Love
Production Supervisor
A single woman tries to keep her sister from another man by framing her for her husband's murder.
Crazylegs
Production Manager
The story of the life and career of football star Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch (who plays himself).
El cerebro de Donovan
Production Supervisor
Un millonario muere en un accidente de aviación cerca de la casa del profesor Patrick Cory, un científico que realiza experimentos sobre el cerebro. Cory decide extraer el cerebro del cadáver y mantenerlo vivo de manera artificial. Sin embargo, el cerebro se va adueñando progresivamente de la voluntad del científico cuando intenta comunicarse con él telepáticamente.
Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
Assistant Director
Professional killer Bus Crow is hired by cattlemen to eliminate squatters. When Marshal Sam Rochelle is sent to investigate, saloon owner Hallie has to be a reluctant witness.
Los invasores de Marte
Assistant Director
Desde la ventana de su habitación, el pequeño Jimmy divisa un platillo volante que aterriza cerca de su casa. El extraño comportamiento que a partir de entonces muestran las personas que lo rodean, lo lleva a pedir ayuda a la doctora Pat Blake y a su amigo el astrónomo doctor Kelston. Tras investigar el caso, llegan a la conclusión de que todo lo que está ocurriendo forma parte de un plan de invasión de la Tierra desde el planeta Marte.
Los invasores de Marte
Production Manager
Desde la ventana de su habitación, el pequeño Jimmy divisa un platillo volante que aterriza cerca de su casa. El extraño comportamiento que a partir de entonces muestran las personas que lo rodean, lo lleva a pedir ayuda a la doctora Pat Blake y a su amigo el astrónomo doctor Kelston. Tras investigar el caso, llegan a la conclusión de que todo lo que está ocurriendo forma parte de un plan de invasión de la Tierra desde el planeta Marte.
Nunca saludes a un soldado
Assistant Director
Jo, una joven dama divorciada de la buena sociedad, decide alistarse en el ejército para estar más cerca de su novio, un coronel. No cuenta con que su ex marido ha sido fichado como consultor de defensa, y que va a hacer todo lo que esté en su mano para sabotear el romance de Jo
Three for Bedroom C
Assistant Director
After beginning their train trip to California, a famous film actress and her daughter discover their compartment has also been assigned to a handsome biology professor. Comedy.
Historia de San Francisco
Assistant Director
Jim Martin, el director de un periódico de San Francisco, pide ayuda a Rick, un rico minero, para denunciar a Andrew Cain, un político corrupto.
Kid Monk Baroni
Assistant Director
Leonard Nimoy is "Kid" Monk Baroni, the leader of a street gang who becomes a professional boxer to escape his life in "Little Italy" New York.
La rosa de Cimarrón
Production Manager
Una joven blanca que ha sido criada por los indios Cherokees, quiere vengarse de los enemigos blancos que mataron a sus parientes indios. Para ello, necesitará la ayuda de un hombre blanco, el marshal Hollister. (FILMAFFINITY)
La rosa de Cimarrón
Assistant Director
Una joven blanca que ha sido criada por los indios Cherokees, quiere vengarse de los enemigos blancos que mataron a sus parientes indios. Para ello, necesitará la ayuda de un hombre blanco, el marshal Hollister. (FILMAFFINITY)
El secreto de Convict Lake
Assistant Director
Un preso, condenado por un crimen que no ha cometido, se escapa de una cárcel de Nevada acompañado de varios criminales peligrosos. Su propósito es encontrar al verdadero culpable. Sin embargo, al detenerse en un pueblo, debido a una intensa tormenta de nieve, encuentran sólo a un grupo de aguerridas mujeres, que aguardan el regreso de sus hombres. Entonces se le plantea un dilema: seguir buscando a su enemigo o proteger a las mujeres de sus depravados compañeros.
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
Assistant Director
A ruthless fashion designer steps on everyone in her way in order to reach the top of her profession. Eventually she is forced to choose between her ambition and the man she loves.
The Fighting O'Flynn
Assistant Director
A swashbuckling Irishman opposes French agents during the Napoleonic wars.
The Valiant Hombre
Unit Manager
The Cisco Kid and Pancho set off to find the missing owner of a devoted little dog in this western adventure. From the vanished man's sister, the heroes learn that her brother disappeared soon after striking a major gold vein in his mine. In the end Cisco accosts the villain, saves the kidnapped miner and reunites him with his dog.
La otra cara del bosque
Assistant Director
Película inspirada en la Loba (1941) de William Wyler, que presenta a los mismos protagonistas veinte años antes. En 1880, tras celebrarse el día de los confederados en Bowden, Alabama, comenzaremos a ver la difícil relación que sostienen los Hubbard, en la que el padre, Marcus (Fredrich March) atiende su negocio, lee a Aristóteles... y sostiene una relación de absoluta frialdad con su esposa Lavinia (Florence Eldridge), la cual le guarda profundo respeto, mientras preserva resentimientos que no puede sacudir de su conciencia. Sus hijos: Regina (Ann Blyth), anhela casarse con el confederado John Bagtry (John Dall) a quien su padre desestima, Oscar (Dan Duryea), ansía organizarse con una bailarina de can-can que sólo él ve con buenos ojos. Y Benjamin, ansía surgir socialmente sin importarle los medios. Con ellos, un fuerte drama está a punto de servirse.
The Exile
Assistant Director
In 17th-century England, Charles II, the rightful heir to the kingdom, is driven from his country by militants working for rogue leader Oliver Cromwell. Charles ends up in the Netherlands, where he falls for local beauty Katie and spends his days happily in the quiet countryside. Unfortunately, Cromwell's associate Col. Ingram and his men track Charles down, and the would-be monarch must resort to swashbuckling his way to freedom.
Sky Bandits
Assistant Director
Sgt. Renfrew and Constable Kelly go aloft to search for a plane missing with a shipment of gold from the Yukon Mine Company. Inventor Speavy has devised a power ray which disrupts electrical impulses, and Morgan and his gang of crooks has brought in Prof. Lewis to increase the ray's range, telling him he's helping the government develop this new weapon. Speavy spills the beans to Prof. Lewis and his daughter Madeleine,and Morgan threatens to implicate them in his crimes unless they cooperate. Morgan kills Speavy when he tries to warn Renfrew, but when Madeleine stows away on board the doomed plane Renfrew is piloting, will the crooks be able to make Prof. Lewis use the power ray to bring the plane down?
Gang War
Assistant Director
Two mobs fight for control of the jukebox racket.
Murder on the Yukon
Assistant Director
Unknown to Joan Manning, her trading post partner Weathers is operating a counterfeiting ring. When miner Jim Smithers brings his gold dust in, Weathers pays him off in counterfeit money. Jim's drunken brother, Bill, comes to the post and Weathers hears him say that Jim is leaving the area for good. Weathers sends Hawks to kill Jim and retrieve the bogus money. RCMP Sergeant Renfrew and Constable Kelly find Jim's body, and Renfrew hurries for Jim's cabin to search it. He is attacked by Weathers' men who have found the money. Renfrew is suspicious when Bill Smithers body is found, supposedly a suicide, with a note he had burned the money. This leads the Mounties to suspect counterfeiting. Kelly follows Manti, an Indian who works for Weathers, to the gang's hideout and is captured. But Renfrew is trailing Kelly.
Danger Ahead
Assistant Director
The Royal Mounties are called in when one of the armored cars owned by Maxwell, containing a gold shipment, disappears with driver George Hill suspected of trying to get away with the gold. Actually, Maxwell and two henchmen had poured acid on the brake lines, causing the car to crash. Genevieve, daughter of the Mountie chief, suspects Maxwell and Thomas Hatch, president of the bank shipping the gold, but she quickly becomes more trouble than help to Sergeant Renfrew in charge of the investigation. Renfrew and Constable Kelly drive the next shipment but Maxwell plans to make them crash the same way as Hill did. Renfrew steers the vehicle into a hillside and this gives him an idea of what happened to the other car.
Yukon Flight
Assistant Director
When the plane owned by the "Yukon and Columbia Mail Service" crashes, RCMP Sergeant Renfrew (James Newill) and Constable Kelly (Dave O'Brien) suspect murder. Their suspicions are confirmed when Renfrew finds the control stick has been jammed, forcing the plane to fly in one direction until the gas ran out. Mine owner Louise Howard (Louise Stanley) reports that her superintendent is missing. The Mounties find him murdered and that too has been made to look like an accident. A new mail service pilot, Bill Shipley (Warren Hull), arrives. He had gone to training school with Renfrew but had been cashiered for misconduct. The Mounties discover that Raymond (Karl Hackett), who had been working for Louise, really owns the flying line managed by Yuke Cardoe (William Pawley.) They find proof that all the gold from the mine isn't being turned over to Louise, and suspect that Raymond and Yuke are stealing the gold and shipping it to Seattle by plane.