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Billy Chapin

Actor
28 December 1943 to 2 December 2016

An American child actor who retired from acting aged 16, Chapin was best known for his role as the 12-year old Jack Harper who stands up to Robert Mitchum’s psychotic preacher in The Night of the Hunter (1955). His other credits included The Kid From Left Field (1953) and A Man Called Peter (1955).