Sonny Bupp

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.

Known For

Citizen Kane

All That Money Can Buy

On Borrowed Time

Sergeant York

Acting

1941

Citizen Kane

as

Charles Foster Kane III

1937

Michael O'Halloran

as

Sarge (uncredited)

1937

Cash and Carry

as

Jimmie (uncredited)

1938

Hunted Men

as

Smallest G-Men Club Member

1936

What Becomes of the Children?

as

Little Freddy Worthington

1939

No Place to Go

as

Thomas "Tommy" M. Foster

1939

Boy Trouble

as

Chester Platt

1942

Eyes of the Underworld

as

Student Fighting with Mickey

1941

All That Money Can Buy

as

Martin Van Buren Aldrich (uncredited)

1937

My Dear Miss Aldrich

as

Boy Asking for Rabbit (uncredited)

1937

We Who Are About to Die

as

Hit-and-Run Victim (uncredited)

1937

Love Is on the Air

as

Billie - Boy on Radio Program

1939

On Borrowed Time

as

Boy in Tree (uncredited)

1937

You Can't Buy Luck

as

Orphan Boy (uncredited)

1939

Fixer Dugan

as

Boy Chiseler

1937

Missing Witnesses

as

Little Boy (uncredited)

1940

Parole Fixer

as

Bobby Mattison

1937

The Great O'Malley

as

Boy with Lollipop (uncredited)

1939

Renegade Trail

as

Joey Joyce

1940

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

as

Willie Lincoln (uncredited)

1940

Emergency Squad

as

Peter

1941

Sergeant York

as

Boy in Sunday School (uncredited)

1936

Man Hunt

as

Young Boy (uncredited)

1940

Half a Sinner

as

Willy

1940

Three Faces West

as

Billy Welles

1936

And Sudden Death

as

School boy

1940

Little Orvie

as

Freddie Jackson (uncredited)

1941

Bad Men of Missouri

as

Young Grat

1938

Men in Fright

as

Sonny the Kid in Hospital (uncredited)

1939

The Day of Rest

as

Younger Son

1939

Sudden Money

as

Billy

1938

Penrod's Double Trouble

as

Monk (uncredited)

1940

Queen of the Mob

as

Newsboy

1941

One Foot in Heaven

as

Boy (uncredited)

1938

Hunted Men

as

Boy

Production

Crew

Directing