Dave Chapman (actor)

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For other people with the same name, see David Chapman.

David Chapman is an English

voice artist
.

Career

Chapman trained at the

Shooting Stars, Sport Relief, Time Trumpet, Tiny and Mr. Duk's Huge Show, What's Up Doc?, Nuzzle and Scratch, Xchange, The X Factor and on Jim Henson Company's Pajanimals
.

He has had a long association with

BAFTA and RTS award-winning Dick & Dom in da Bungalow. Between 2002 and 2006, Chapman played numerous characters alongside other Bungalow regulars Ian Kirkby, Melvin Odoom
and Lee Barnett.

Chapman's other characters include Scratch in CBeebies show Nuzzle and Scratch, Vinnie the Ferret in CBBC's Xchange, Matt Lucas' Singing Potatoes in Shooting Stars, Tiny the Giant Hamster in The Saturday Show and Tiny and Mr Duk's Huge Show, Riff the dog in Carrie and David's Popshop and Windy the rat in Space Pirates.

Chapman played bad

ventriloquist Peter Nokio in four series of The Slammer.[1] Additionally, he played the villain Alan Draylon in Harry Batt, both for CBBC. He has also appeared as himself on three episodes of Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive and has guested on The Chris Evans Show, The Chris Moyles Show
and Kiss Breakfast. His voice work includes The Mimic, Jamie's American Road Trip, Strictly:It takes Two, School of Silence and Casualty Revealed, and his commercial work includes voices for Sandisc, Cadburys, Sony, BBC3, The Times newspaper, Seat, and Citibank.

In 2001, he wrote and co-directed the short film Dinner Money. He also writes and performs live comedy in the double act Chapman and Crompton.

Chapman hosted the gameshow

BAFTA award
in 2010.

Chapman played Dougie Colon, Eddie Watts, Dad and Josh in the

Jim Henson Company and BBC co-production That Puppet Game Show. He also joined Brian Henson on stage for Brian Henson's Evolution of Puppetry lectures at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival and guested in the Henson Alternative improv show "Puppet Up!
".

He has also co-written a children's book with Dick and Dom, which he illustrated. Entitled Dick and Dom's Slightly Naughty but Very Silly Words, it was published by Macmillan in the autumn of 2013.

In June 2014, Chapman was one of the puppeteers performing

Rio Durant in Solo: A Star Wars Story. He puppeteers Emperor skekSo, Gurjin, and Ordon in The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance and The Fly in Quentin Dupieux's French comedy Mandibles. Chapman also performed and voiced B2EMO in Andor.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Curtis Brown". www.curtisbrown.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
  2. ^ "Star Wars: BB-8 Dishes on Meeting Prince William and Harry at The Last Jedi Premiere". Peoplemag. Retrieved 2023-04-19.
  3. ^ Newbold, Mark (2022-11-29). "Tony Gilroy on Star Wars: Andor and the voice of B2EMO Dave Chapman: "This guy's really good"". Fantha Tracks. Retrieved 2023-04-19.

External links

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