Ben Chaplin Filmography

Born:: July 31, 1970 in London, England
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Benedict John Greenwood
Biography:: English, soulful, darkly handsome, and no relation to Charlie, Ben Chaplin has been making a small yet significant impression on American audiences since his American film debut in 1996's The Truth About Cats and Dogs. Although not widely recognized by many Americans, the actor has enjoyed a...Read More

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Bronte

Actors: Michelle Williams, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers

2008
Me & Orson Welles

Actors: Zac Efron, Claire Danes, Christian McKay, Zoe Kazan, James Tupper

Synopsis: A young student (Zac Efron) finds love in the theater after being cast in a production of Julius Caesar directed by Orson Welles (Christian McKay) in this 1930s-era romance directed by Richard Linklater. Claire Danes co-stars in the CinemaNX production, with adapting duties handled by Holly Gent Palmo Read More

1/1/08
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep

Actors: Emily Watson, Alex Etel, Ben Chaplin, David Morrissey, Priyanka Xi

Synopsis: A lonely young boy vows to protect the rapidly growing hatchling that emerges from a mysterious egg found on the shores of a Scottish loch in My Dog Skip and Tuck Everlasting director Jay Russell's screen adaptation of writer Dick King-Smith's popular children's novel. Angus MacMorrow (Alex Etel) Read More

12/25/07
Two Weeks

Actors: Sally Field, Ben Chaplin, Lauren Ellman, Julianne Nicholson, Tom Cavanagh

Synopsis: Director Steve Stockman takes the helm for this semi-autobiographical comedy drama about an estranged family that comes together for one last goodbye, and finds their assumedly brief farewell inexorably dragged out for two excruciating weeks. Aging matriarch Anita (Sally Field) is dying, but Read More

3/2/07
Chromophobia

Actors: Ben Chaplin, Penélope Cruz, Ralph Fiennes, Ian Holm, Rhys Ifans

2005
Stage Beauty

Actors: Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Rupert Everett, Tom Wilkinson, Ben Chaplin

Synopsis: The true story of two performers whose careers were changed forever by a shift in gender roles on the British stage comes to the screen in this adaptation of the play Compleat Female Stage Beauty by Jeffrey Hatcher. In London, in the latter half of the 17th century, Ned Kynaston (Billy Crudup) is Read More

10/8/04
Tian Mai Chuanqi

Actors: Michelle Yeoh, Ben Chaplin, Richard Roxburgh, Sihung Lung, Brandon Chang

Synopsis: Peter Pau, the oscar winning cinematographer of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, directed Tian Mai Chuanqi (The Touch). Pak Yin-fay (Michelle Yeoh) and Pak Yeuk-tong (Brandon Chang) are siblings in a family of acrobats. Bad guy Karl (Richard Roxburgh) employs gifted thief/acrobat Eric (Ben Read More

8/1/02
Murder By Numbers

Actors: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Gosling, Michael Pitt, Agnes Bruckner, Chris Penn

Synopsis: When a pair of bright-but sociopathic teens conspires to commit the perfect murder, a troubled cop teams with her eager new partner to solve the case that left the community in fear and the police without a clue. High school ladies' man Richard Haywood (Ryan Gosling) and outcast Justin Pendleton (Michael Pitt Read More

4/19/02
Birthday Girl

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Ben Chaplin, Vincent Cassel, Mathieu Kassovitz, Kate Evans

Synopsis: A man looking for love gets more than he bargained for when he chooses his prospective wife on the internet in this dark comedy. The manager of a bank in a small British community (Ben Chaplin) decides that he's in need of long-term companionship, and through an on-line marriage broker called From Read More

2/1/02
Lost Souls

Actors: Winona Ryder, Ben Chaplin, Sarah Wynter, Philip Baker Hall, John Hurt

Synopsis: A woman who has survived the touch of ultimate evil must now save one man from the same fate in order to protect the world in this supernatural thriller. Maya Larkin (Winona Ryder) is a devout Catholic who is said to have been possessed by a demon as a child; she now works with Father Lareaux Read More

10/13/00
The Thin Red Line

Actors: Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, James Caviezel, Ben Chaplin, George Clooney

Synopsis: The return of director Terrence Malick to feature filmmaking after a twenty year sabbatical, this World War II drama is an elegiac rumination on man's destruction of nature and himself, based on James Jones' semi-autobiographical novel, his follow-up to From Here to Eternity. James Caviezel stars Read More

12/23/98
Washington Square

Actors: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Albert Finney, Ben Chaplin, Maggie Smith, Judith Ivey

Synopsis: This film is the second effort to bring to the screen the 1880 Henry James novel of the same title (the first was The Heiress in 1949). Set in 1850 among the aristocracy of New York, Washington Square examines the inhibitions of Catherine Sloper (Jennifer Jason Leigh), the only child of wealthy Read More

1997
The Truth About Cats & Dogs

Actors: Uma Thurman, Janeane Garofalo, Ben Chaplin, Jamie Foxx, James McCaffrey

Synopsis: In this updated and gender-reversed variation on Cyrano de Bergerac, Janeane Garofalo stars as Abby, the host of a radio talk show for people who have problems with pets. One day, she gets a call from Brian (Ben Chaplin) who is having trouble with his Great Dane (who enjoys roller skating). After Read More

1996
Feast of July

Actors: Embeth Davidtz, Ben Chaplin, Tom Bell, Gemma Jones, James Purefoy

Synopsis: Based on the novel by H.E. Bates, this period drama stars Embeth Davidtz as Bella Ford, a woman living in rural England during the Victorian era. Bella fell victim to Arch Wilson (Greg Wise), a unprincipled man who claimed to be from the nearby village. He seduced her only to vanish without a Read More

1995
The Remains of the Day

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, James Fox, Christopher Reeve, Peter Vaughan, Hugh Grant

Synopsis: Filmed with the usual meticulous attention to period and detail of films from Ismail Merchant and James Ivory, The Remains of the Day is based on a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. Anthony Hopkins plays Stevens, the "perfect" butler to a prosperous British household of the 1930s. He is so unswervingly Read More

1993
Return of the Borrowers

Actors: Ian Holm, Penelope Wilton, Rebecca Callard, Paul Cross, Sian Phillips

Synopsis: First telecast by the BBC on November 14, 1993, the two-part British TV movie The Return of the Borrowers is a sequel to the classic children's book by Mary Norton. Real-life husband and wife Ian Holm and Penelope Wilton head the cast as Pod and Homily Clock, a pair of teeny-tiny people who, with Read More

1993
Bye Bye Baby

1992