Eddie's first mission was to blow up a de Havilland Mosquito factory.The 1966 movie Triple Cross, staring Christopher Plummer and directed by Terence Young, is loosely based on Chapman's life.Chapman died in 1997 at the age of 83, having published a couple of volumes of memoirs which are considered unreliable. After the war Chapman also remained friends with his German handler, Von Gröning, who by then had fallen on hard times. Chapman became friendly with many celebrities including Noel Coward, Marlene Dietrich and Terence Young, who directed the first two James Bond films.Later, it was the settings for A Clockwork Orange (the house where Alex is caught by the police). Their daughter, Suzanne, was born in 1954, and the Chapmans set up a health farm at Shenley Lodge in Hertfordshire (south of England), which was apparently a popular meeting place for movie stars and the Freemasons. After the war, Chapman dumped his various girlfriends and went back to pre-war lover Betty Farmer, who he last saw as he hurriedly extricated himself from dinner with her in order to escape the Jersey police in 1938. Eddie Chapman and the de Havilland Mosquito
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