Sonny Bupp
Acting
Biography
Moyer MacClaren Bupp (January 10, 1928 – November 1, 2007) professionally known as Sonny Bupp, was an American child film actor and businessman. His most notable film was Citizen Kane (1941), in which he appears as Junior, Charles Foster Kane III, the eight-year-old son of Charles Foster Kane and his first wife, Emily. Bupp was the last surviving credited member of the Citizen Kane cast at his death.
Born: January 10, 1928
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known For
Citizen Kane
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
On Borrowed Time
Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's future and wary of a scheming relative who seeks custody of the child. One day Mr. Brink, an agent of Death, arrives to take Gramps "to the land where the woodbine twineth." Through a bit of trickery, Gramps confines Mr. Brink, and thus Death, to the branches of a large apple tree, giving Gramps extra time to resolve issues about Pud's future.
Sergeant York
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
All That Money Can Buy
Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his sale before he collects. Over that time, Jabez pays off his debts and helps many neighboring farmers, then becomes an advocate for the upstanding Sen. Daniel Webster. When Jabez's contract with Mr. Scratch concludes, he desperately turns to Webster to represent him in a trial for his soul.
Little Orvie
Family film, based on a Booth Tarkington tale, about a young boy who takes extreme measures to keep the stray dog he befriends.
We Who Are About to Die
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
One Foot in Heaven
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
The Great O'Malley
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien).
Fixer Dugan
Charlie Dugan is a quick-thinking boss of a traveling circus playing small towns in Missouri and Kansas.
Filmography
as Student Fighting with Mickey
as Boy (uncredited)
as Martin Van Buren Aldrich (uncredited)
as Boy in Sunday School (uncredited)
as Young Grat
as Charles Foster Kane III
as Billy Welles
as Newsboy
as Willy
as Freddie Jackson (uncredited)
as Willie Lincoln (uncredited)
as Bobby Mattison
as Peter
as Thomas "Tommy" M. Foster
as Younger Son
as Boy Hiding from Policeman (uncredited)
as Joey Joyce
as Boy in Tree (uncredited)
as Boy Chiseler
as Billy
as Chester Platt
as Sonny the Kid in Hospital (uncredited)
as Monk (uncredited)
as Smallest G-Men Club Member
as Boy
as Little Boy (uncredited)
as Billie - Boy on Radio Program
as Boy Asking for Rabbit (uncredited)
as Jimmie (uncredited)
as Sarge (uncredited)
as Orphan Boy (uncredited)
as Boy with Lollipop (uncredited)
as Hit-and-Run Victim (uncredited)
as Little Freddy Worthington
as School boy
as Young Boy (uncredited)