Frank Pettingell
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Frank Edmund George Pettingell (1 January 1891 ā 17 February 1966) was an English actor.[1]
Frank Pettingell | |
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Born | Frank Edmund George Pettingell (1891-01-01)1 January 1891 Liverpool, Lancashire, England |
Died | 17 February 1966(1966-02-17) (aged 75) London, England |
Occupation(s) | Theatre and film actor |
Pettingell was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, and educated at Manchester University. During the First World War he served with the King's Liverpool Regiment.[2]
He appeared in such films as the original version of Gaslight (1940), Kipps (1941 - as Old Kipps), and Becket (1964 - as the Bishop of York). His collection of printed and manuscript playscripts - mostly acquired from the son of the comedian Arthur Williams (1844ā1915) - is held at the Templeman Library, University of Kent.[3] He also had an extensive collection of serial fiction and penny-dreadfuls,[4] and this can now be found in the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books in Toronto.[5]