Anna Chappell | |
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Born | Anna Oksanen September 15, 1925 |
Died | July 31, 2005
Appleton, Wisconsin, U.S. | (aged 79)
Occupation | Actress |
Spouse |
Harry Chappell
(
m. 1946; died 1981) |
Children | 2 [1] |
Anna Chappell (née Oksanen; September 15, 1925 – July 31, 2005) was a Canadian-American actress. She appeared in two feature films: Mountaintop Motel Massacre (1983) and The Man in the Moon (1991), and was a longtime resident of Shreveport, Louisiana, where she was a prolific theater actress.
Chappell was born Anna Oksanen [1] [2] in 1925 to Finnish parents Carl and Aino Oksanen. [1] [2] Although born in Finland, Chappell relocated to Toronto, Canada in her early childhood. [3] Both her parents were actors. [1] Chappell was raised in Toronto, where she became interested in theater at a young age. [3] As a child, she sang with the Canadian Navy entertainment corps. [1]
She met her husband, American musician Harry Chappell, while working as a singer. [4] The couple married in Binghamton, New York in 1946, [5] and relocated to Shreveport, Louisiana in the mid-1950s; there, Chappell became active in local theater. [4] She appeared as Lady Thiang in a production of The King and I, which toured in Corning, New York in 1959. [6] In 1970, Chappell earned critical acclaim [7] for her performance in Mame at the Marjorie Lyons Playhouse in Shreveport. [8] For her performance, she was awarded a Best Actress award from The Shreveport Times. [9]
Chappell's husband, Harry, who ran a music store in Shreveport, died on March 31, 1981. [10] In 1983, she starred as Mme. Danzard in a production of My Sister in this House at the Kennedy Center, directed by Robert Buseick. [3] The same year, she made her feature film debut in the slasher film Mountaintop Motel Massacre, playing an unhinged woman who begins murdering guests in the hotel she operates. [11] Terry Lawson of the Dayton Daily News praised her performance as being handled with "a comic intensity." [11] She later had a supporting role in Robert Mulligan's drama film The Man in the Moon (1991). [12]
In the spring of 2005, Chappell relocated from Shreveport to live with her daughter in Appleton, Wisconsin. [2] [13] She died two months later in Appleton on July 31, 2005. [2] [3] A memorial service for Chappell was arranged in Shreveport. [2] [3]
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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1983 | Mountaintop Motel Massacre | Evelyn | [14] | |
1991 | The Man in the Moon | Mrs. Taylor | [14] |
Anna Chappell | |
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Born | Anna Oksanen September 15, 1925 |
Died | July 31, 2005
Appleton, Wisconsin, U.S. | (aged 79)
Occupation | Actress |
Spouse |
Harry Chappell
(
m. 1946; died 1981) |
Children | 2 [1] |
Anna Chappell (née Oksanen; September 15, 1925 – July 31, 2005) was a Canadian-American actress. She appeared in two feature films: Mountaintop Motel Massacre (1983) and The Man in the Moon (1991), and was a longtime resident of Shreveport, Louisiana, where she was a prolific theater actress.
Chappell was born Anna Oksanen [1] [2] in 1925 to Finnish parents Carl and Aino Oksanen. [1] [2] Although born in Finland, Chappell relocated to Toronto, Canada in her early childhood. [3] Both her parents were actors. [1] Chappell was raised in Toronto, where she became interested in theater at a young age. [3] As a child, she sang with the Canadian Navy entertainment corps. [1]
She met her husband, American musician Harry Chappell, while working as a singer. [4] The couple married in Binghamton, New York in 1946, [5] and relocated to Shreveport, Louisiana in the mid-1950s; there, Chappell became active in local theater. [4] She appeared as Lady Thiang in a production of The King and I, which toured in Corning, New York in 1959. [6] In 1970, Chappell earned critical acclaim [7] for her performance in Mame at the Marjorie Lyons Playhouse in Shreveport. [8] For her performance, she was awarded a Best Actress award from The Shreveport Times. [9]
Chappell's husband, Harry, who ran a music store in Shreveport, died on March 31, 1981. [10] In 1983, she starred as Mme. Danzard in a production of My Sister in this House at the Kennedy Center, directed by Robert Buseick. [3] The same year, she made her feature film debut in the slasher film Mountaintop Motel Massacre, playing an unhinged woman who begins murdering guests in the hotel she operates. [11] Terry Lawson of the Dayton Daily News praised her performance as being handled with "a comic intensity." [11] She later had a supporting role in Robert Mulligan's drama film The Man in the Moon (1991). [12]
In the spring of 2005, Chappell relocated from Shreveport to live with her daughter in Appleton, Wisconsin. [2] [13] She died two months later in Appleton on July 31, 2005. [2] [3] A memorial service for Chappell was arranged in Shreveport. [2] [3]
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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1983 | Mountaintop Motel Massacre | Evelyn | [14] | |
1991 | The Man in the Moon | Mrs. Taylor | [14] |