Sonny Bupp

Sonny Bupp
Sonny Bupp
	Sonny Bupp in Half a Sinner (1940).jpg Bupp in Half a Sinner (1940)
Born	Moyer MacClaren Bupp; January 10, 1928; New York City, U.S.
💀Died	November 1, 2007 (aged 79); Henderson, Nevada, U.S.November 1, 2007 (aged 79)
Resting place	Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery
💼 Occupation	Actor; businessman;
📆 Years active	1934–1976

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.

Career[edit]

Born Moyer MacClaren Bupp in New York City, Sonny Bupp was the brother of actors Tommy (1924–1983), June (1913–1989) and Ann Bupp (1922–2005). He appeared in over 60 films during his career, including two Our Gang comedies, 1935's Our Gang Follies of 1936 and 1938's Men in Fright.

He appeared in Citizen Kane as the son of Charles Foster Kane, and was the last surviving credited cast member of that film.^[1] He also appeared in the 1937 Three Stooges' Cash and Carry, as well as such films as Love Is on the Air (Ronald Reagan's first film), The Renegade Trail, Annie Oakley (with Barbara Stanwyck), Kid Millions, Angels With Dirty Faces, The Devil and Daniel Webster and Tennessee Johnson.

Later life[edit]

He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War and, after his film career ended, became an auto industry executive. He died in Henderson, Nevada, aged 79, from an undisclosed cause. His remains are interred at Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City, Nevada.^[2]

Filmography[edit]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1934	Kid Millions	Little Boy in Ice Cream Number	Film debut, Uncredited ^[3]
1935	It Happened in New York	Child	Uncredited
1935	Annie Oakley	Boy at Shooting Gallery	Uncredited
1936	Man Hunt	Young Boy	Uncredited
1936	Song and Dance Man	Boy	Uncredited
1936	Hearts in Bondage	Boy	Uncredited ^[3]
1936	And Sudden Death	School Boy	Uncredited
1936	San Francisco	Choirboy	Uncredited ^[3]
1936	Star for a Night	Fritz	Uncredited^[3]
1936	Rose Bowl	Young Boy	Uncredited
1936	What Becomes of the Children?	Little Freddy Worthington
1937	We Who Are About to Die	Hit-and-Run Victim	Uncredited
1937	Woman-Wise	Boy	Uncredited
1937	The Great O'Malley	Boy with Lollipop	Uncredited
1937	Lost Horizon	Boy Being Carried to Plane	Uncredited^[3]
1937	Murder Goes to College	Boy	Uncredited
1937	You Can't Buy Luck	Orphan Boy	Uncredited
1937	Michael O'Halloran	Sarge	Uncredited
1937	Reported Missing!	Little Boy on Plane	Uncredited
1937	My Dear Miss Aldrich	Little boy	Uncredited^[3]
1937	Love Is on the Air	Little boy	Uncredited^[3]
1937	Love on Toast	Boy	Uncredited
1937	Missing Witnesses	Little boy	Uncredited
1937	Hollywood Hotel	Little boy	Uncredited^[3]
1938	Swing Your Lady	Len
1938	Hunted Men	Boy	Uncredited
1938	Penrod's Double Trouble	Monk	Uncredited
1938	The Storm	Boy	Uncredited
1938	Angels with Dirty Faces	Boy	^[3]
1939	Risky Business	Boy	Uncredited
1939	Boy Trouble	Chester Platt
1939	Sudden Money	Billy	Uncredited
1939	Fixer Dugan	The Boy Chiseler	Uncredited
1939	On Borrowed Time	Boy in Tree	Uncredited
1939	Renegade Trail	Joey Joyce	^[3]
1939	When Tomorrow Comes	Boy Hiding from Policeman	Uncredited
1939	No Place to Go	Tommy
1940	Emergency Squad	Peter	Uncredited
1940	Abe Lincoln in Illinois	Willie Lincoln	Uncredited^[3]
1940	Parole Fixer	Bobby Mattison
1940	I Take This Woman	Murphy Kid	Scenes cut
1940	Little Orvie	Freddie Jackson	Uncredited
1940	Half a Sinner	Willy
1940	Queen of the Mob	Newsboy
1940	Three Faces West	Billy Welles	^[3]
1940	Diamond Frontier	Karl Bloem	Uncredited
1940	Slightly Tempted	Sonny	Uncredited
1940	She Couldn't Say No	Boy with News of Pansy	Uncredited
1941	Father's Son	Berries Sweeney	Uncredited
1941	Citizen Kane	Charles Foster Kane III	^[3]
1941	Sergeant York	Boy in Sunday School	Uncredited^[3]
1941	Bad Men of Missouri	Young Grat	Uncredited
1941	International Squadron	Boy	Uncredited
1941	One Foot in Heaven	Boy	Uncredited
1941	The Devil and Daniel Webster	Martin Van Aldrich	Uncredited^[3]
1941	West of Cimarron	Young Boy	Uncredited
1942	Code of the Outlaw	Work Farm Kid	Uncredited
1942	Syncopation	Newsboy	Uncredited
1942	Wings for the Eagle	Kid Playing Football	Uncredited
1942	The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe	Graham's Office Boy	Uncredited^[3]
1942	Eyes of the Underworld	Boy	Uncredited^[3]
1942	Tennessee Johnson	Bellboy	Uncredited
1942	For Me and My Gal	Charles	Uncredited^[3]
1974	Show Business of Motorettes	Harry	Uncredited; final film role^[3]

References[edit]

↑ "'Citizen Kane' actress Louise Currie dead at 100". Wellesnet: The Orson Welles Web Resource. September 15, 2013. Retrieved 2016-01-19.
↑ Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14000 Famous Persons by Scott Wilson
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Bibliography[edit]

Goldrup, Tom and Jim (2002). Growing Up on the Set: Interviews with 39 Former Child Actors of Film and Television. McFarland & Co. pp. 38–46. ISBN 1476613702. Search this book on
Holmstrom, John (1996). The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995. Norwich: Michael Russell, p. 156-157.

External links[edit]

Sonny Bupp on IMDb
Sonny Bupp at AllMovie

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[Wellesnet_Currie-1] "'Citizen Kane' actress Louise Currie dead at 100". Wellesnet: The Orson Welles Web Resource. September 15, 2013. Retrieved 2016-01-19.

[2] Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14000 Famous Persons by Scott Wilson

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