Frank Pettingell

Frank Edmund George Pettingell (1 January 1891 – 17 February 1966) was an English actor.[1]

Frank Pettingell
Born
Frank Edmund George Pettingell

(1891-01-01)1 January 1891
Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Died17 February 1966(1966-02-17) (aged 75)
London, England
OccupationTheatre 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 (1844–1915) - 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]

Filmography
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gollark: The UK government is trying to address this by throwing money at small businesses. A lot of money.
gollark: If, say, potatoes used to cost £10, because people were willing to buy and sell potatoes at that price, but then go down to £5, there's no actual loss of money (directly).
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References
  1. "Frank Pettingell". British Film Institute. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  2. "Pettingell Collection". kent.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  3. "Pettingell Collection". kent.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  4. Bodleian Library (1963). Annual Report of the Curators of the Bodleian Library. University Press. p. 37.
  5. "Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books: Home page". Toronto Public Library. 2020. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
  6. Release date for The Magic Box, in IMDb.
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