Leigh Chapman

Leigh Chapman was born on Mar 29, 1939 in USA. Leigh Chapman's big-screen debut came with Law of the Lawless directed by William F. Claxton in 1964. Leigh Chapman is known for The Professionals directed by Richard Brooks, Burt Lancaster stars as Dolworth and Lee Marvin as Fardan. The upcoming new movie Leigh Chapman plays is After the Storm which will be released on Jul 08, 2003.

Actress and screenwriter Leigh Chapman was born Rosa Lee Chapman on March 29, 1939 in Kannapolis, North Carolina. Following graduation from Winthrop College in Rock Hill, South Carolina, Chapman moved to Los Angeles in the early 1960s. Her first job was working as a secretary at the William Morris Agency. Leigh acted in a few TV shows -- most notably a recurring part as Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn)'s secretary on several episodes of Des agents très spéciaux (1964) -- prior to embarking on a successful career as a writer of tough-minded action-adventure fare for both TV series and motion pictures.Although possibly best-known for penning the gritty screenplay for the car chase cult classic, Larry le dingue, Mary la garce (1974), she also wrote scripts for such hard-edged action outings as Des nerfs d'acier (1979), La fureur du juste (1980) and Le roi de la montagne (1981). She also did an uncredited script polish on Robert Aldrich's last movie Deux filles au tapis (1981) and a script treatment for the blaxploitation blast, Truck Turner & Cie. (1974), as well as rewrote the pilot for Walker, Texas Ranger (1993) (she attributed this latter credit to a pseudonym after she had a falling out with the creative people behind that particular program).In her later years, Chapman pursued underwater photography; her work was featured at a 2011 exhibit at Calumet Photography in Hollywood, California. Leigh died of cancer, aged 75, at her home in West Hollywood, California on November 4, 2014. She was survived by her siblings (two sisters and a brother).