Frank Pettingell

Born: 1891-01-01

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Frank Pettingell (1 January 1891 – 17 February 1966) was an English actor. Pettingell was born in Liverpool, and educated at Manchester University. During the First World War he served with the King's Liverpool Regiment. He appeared in such films as the original 1940 Gaslight (as the former detective who solves the case), Kipps (1941 - as Old Kipps), and Becket (1964 - as the Duke of York). His collection of printed and manuscript playscripts - mostly acquired from the son of the comedian Arthur Williams (1844–1915) - is held at the Templeman Library, University of Kent. Description above from the Wikipedia article Frank Pettingell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia


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The Crimson Pirate

as Colonel
Released: 1952-09-27

Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in...

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Becket

as Bishop of York
Released: 1964-03-11

King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he...

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Gaslight

as B.G. Rough
Released: 1940-08-31

Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds...

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The Card

as Police Superintendent
Released: 1952-02-25

A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in...

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Corridors of Blood

as Mr. Blount
Released: 1958-12-01

Dr. Thomas Bolton fights for the use of anesthetic in surgery and uses himself as a guinea pig,...

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Meet Mr. Lucifer

as Mr. Roberts
Released: 1953-11-30

A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.

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Term of Trial

as Ferguson
Released: 1962-08-16

A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir...

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Queer Cargo

as Dan
Released: 1938-08-06

The Captain of a tramp steamer is forced by his ship's owner to smuggle some priceless pearls,...

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The Great Game

as Sir Julius
Released: 1953-01-01

The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical...

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The Young Mr. Pitt

as Coachman
Released: 1942-09-21

This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great...

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The Magic Box

as Bridegroom's Father in Wedding Group
Released: 1952-01-01

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As...

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Trial and Error

as Tuppy Morgan
Released: 1962-09-25

After nearly 40 years of waiting for his big chance, Wilfred Morgenhall is given the case of...

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The Goose Steps Out

as Professor Hoffman
Released: 1942-08-01

Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by...

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Escape

as Constable Beames
Released: 1948-03-01

A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the...

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The Last Journey

as Goddard
Released: 1935-10-01

Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by...

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My Old Dutch

as Uncle Alf
Released: 1934-10-01

Moving family drama of the life of a working-class Hackney couple over 40 years, inspired by the...

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The Good Companions

as Sam Oglethorpe
Released: 1933-02-28

Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a...

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Value for Money

as Mayor Higgins
Released: 1955-08-09

A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides...

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Gaiety George

as Grindley
Released: 1946-07-15

The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the...

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Return to Yesterday

as Prendergast
Released: 1940-03-09

Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small...

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Red Wagon

as McGinty
Released: 1933-12-06

Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an...

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Busman's Honeymoon

as Puffett
Released: 1940-07-22

When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime...

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This England

as Gage
Released: 1941-07-22

Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well...

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Ships with Wings

as Fields
Released: 1941-11-10

Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working...

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The Amateur Gentleman

as John Barty
Released: 1936-04-26

A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of...

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Sailing Along

as Steve's Father
Released: 1938-04-15

A barge-owner's adopted daughter falls in love with his son, and gives up her chances of stardom...

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The Seventh Survivor

as Thomas Pettifer
Released: 1942-01-05

During the Second World War, a German spy goes on the run, carrying important news about a...

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No Room at the Inn

as Burrells
Released: 1948-11-22

A group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman.

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Meet Me Tonight

as Mr. Edwards (segment "Red Peppers")
Released: 1952-09-09

Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the...

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Up the Creek

as Stationmaster
Released: 1958-05-13

Bumbling navy officer Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) is transferred to HMS...

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Get Cracking

as Alf Pemberton
Released: 1943-05-17

Get Cracking is a 1943 British comedy war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Dinah...

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A Cuckoo in the Nest

as Landlord
Released: 1933-11-11

A crowded inn means that a man and a woman must share the same room for a night. One problem is...

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Sing As We Go

as Uncle Murgatroyd
Released: 1934-09-13

When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of...

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It's a Grand Old World

as uncredited
Released: 1937-01-01

An unemployed man wins the football pools, and decides to buy a country house for his actress...

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Hobson's Choice

as Will Mossup
Released: 1931-10-02

A coarse boot-shop owner becomes outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler.

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Spring Handicap

as Scullion
Released: 1937-10-18

A wife tries to prevent her husband, a miner, from gambling away the money he receives as an...

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No Hiding Place

as uncredited
First aired: 1959-09-16

No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by...

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An Age of Kings

as Sir John Falstaff
First aired: 1960-04-28

A linking together of Shakespeare's history plays chronicling the rise and fall of monarchs over...

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