David Frankham

Acting

David Frankham

Born
(age 100)
Birthplace
Kent, England
Credits
34 titles

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

David Frankham (born 16 February 1926) is a film and television actor. After serving in India and Malaya in WWII, Frankham worked first as a news reader, and then a writer, interviewer and producer for the BBC from 1948 through 1955.

In 1955 Frankham moved to Hollywood to pursue a career as an actor. He soon found work, appearing on five episodes of the live television program Matinee Theater. He worked steadily in television, as well as appearing in films such as Return of the Fly (1959), Ten Who Dared (1960), Master of the World (1961), Tales of Terror (1962), The Spiral Road (1962), King Rat (1965), and The Great Santini (1979). Frankham provided the voice of Sergeant Tibbs the cat in Walt Disney's One Hundred and One Dalmatians.

He appeared in guest roles on American television from the late 1950s through the 1980s. His career peaked in the 1960s with frequent roles on such popular shows as Thriller (U.S. TV series), Twelve O'Clock High (TV series), The F.B.I., Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The Beverly Hillbillies, The Outer Limits, Star Trek, then onward into the 1970s in Cannon (TV series), The Waltons, and McCloud (TV series).

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Signature work

Known For

Acting credits 34

YearTitleRole
2021 Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists! Film Self
2016 Lugosi: The Forgotten King of Horror Film Self
2010 Ink: A Tale of Captivity Film Country Gentleman
1993 The Substitute Film Riggs
1982 Wrong Is Right Film British Reporter
1979 The Great Santini Film Capt. Weber
1974 Winter Kill Film Rev. Phillips
1974 The Six Million Dollar Man TV Captain Abbott (1 ep)
1973 The Magician TV Derek Sheffield (1 ep)
1972 The Waltons TV Neville Chamberlain (voice) (1 ep)
1970 McCloud TV English Police Officer (1 ep)
1966 Star Trek TV Larry Marvick (1 ep)
1965 King Rat Film Cox
1965 The F.B.I. TV Stirling Grant (1 ep)
1964 Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. TV 2nd Lieutenant (2 ep)
1964 12 O'Clock High TV Col. Percy Vivyan (1 ep)
1963 The Outer Limits TV Capt. Terrence Ralph Brookman, Harvey Kry Jr. (1 ep)
1962 The Beverly Hillbillies TV Lieutenant, Lieutenant Richards (1 ep)
1962 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour TV Peter (1 ep)
1962 Tales of Terror Film Dr. James ("The Case of M. Valdemar")
1961 Master of the World Film Phillip Evans
1961 One Hundred and One Dalmatians Film Sergeant Tibbs (voice)
1960 Ten Who Dared Film Frank Goodman
1960 Surfside 6 TV Ian Smallens (1 ep)
1960 Thriller TV Proctor (1 ep)
1959 Men Into Space TV (1 ep)
1959 The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis TV Derek (1 ep)
1959 Return of the Fly Film Ronald Holmes, alias Alan Hinds
1957 Maverick TV Captain Fitzgerald (1 ep)
1956 The Gale Storm Show TV (1 ep)
1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV Philip Haven, Holsom (1 ep)
1955 Navy Log TV (1 ep)
1954 Studio 57 TV (1 ep)
1950 The Jack Benny Program TV (1 ep)
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