As a little boy, William Chapman dreamed of fame. Sweet-faced, talented, bright and hard-working, he had all the necessary tools to be a successful actor.
He very nearly made it. By the age of ten, he’d already had bit parts in a number of BBC and ITV productions, and for a time appeared to be following in the footsteps of the likes of Eddie Redmayne and James Corden – his stage school’s most famous alumni.
His proud teacher at the Jackie Palmer Stage School in High Wycombe remembers a ‘vibrant, talented and popular’ boy from a ‘lovely family’ who had all the
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