Frank Pettingell

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1891-01-01 (75 years old)

Deathday

1966-02-17

Place of Birth

Liverpool, England, UK

Frank Pettingell

Biography

​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 W...

Acting

1938

1958

Corridors of Blood

as Mr. Blount

1952

1934

My Old Dutch

as Uncle Alf

1962

Trial and Error

as Tuppy Morgan

1948

Escape

as Constable Beames

1952

The Card

as Police Superintendent

1940

Gaslight

as B.G. Rough

1962

Term of Trial

as Ferguson

1958

Up the Creek

as Stationmaster

1942

The Goose Steps Out

as Professor Hoffman

1938

Sailing Along

as Steve's Father

1941

1933

Red Wagon

as McGinty

1933

1936

1937

Millions

as Sir Charles Rimmer

1935

1933

The Good Companions

as Sam Oglethorpe

1937

Take My Tip

as Willis

1933

Excess Baggage

as Major-General Booster S.O.S.

1959

1940

1933

This Week of Grace

as Mr. Milroy

1932

Frail Women

as McWhirter

1933

The Medicine Man

as Amos Wells

1941

1940

Return to Yesterday

as Prendergast

1935

1942

1942

The Seventh Survivor

as Thomas Pettifer

1932

The Crooked Lady

as Hugh Weldon

1931

Hobson's Choice

as Will Mossup

1931

Jealousy

as Prof. Macguire

1932

Once bitten

as Sir Timothy Blott

1932

A Tight Corner

as Oswald Blenkinsop

1946

Gaiety George

as Grindley

1932

1943

Get Cracking

as Alf Pemberton

1952

Meet Me Tonight

as Mr. Edwards (segment "Red Peppers")

1964

Becket

as Bishop of York

1952

The Magic Box

as Bridegroom's Father in Wedding Group

1953

The Great Game

as Sir Julius

1948

1955

Value for Money

as Mayor Higgins

1934

Sing As We Go

as Uncle Murgatroyd

1957

When We Are Married

as Henry Ormonroyd

1951

When We Are Married

as Henry Ormonroyd

1953

Meet Mr. Lucifer

as Mr. Roberts

1937

Spring Handicap

as Scullion

1961

The Ship That Couldn't Stop

as Commodore Grant

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