David Frankham
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 16, 1926 (age 100)
- Birthplace
- Kent, England
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article David Frankham, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
Movie · as Self
The House of the Seven Gables
Movie · as The Storyteller (voice)
Lugosi: The Forgotten King of Horror
Movie · as Self
Ink: A Tale of Captivity
Movie · as Country Gentleman
The Substitute
Movie · as Riggs
Wrong Is Right
Movie · as British Reporter
The Great Santini
Movie · as Capt. Weber
Winter Kill
Movie · as Rev. Phillips
The Six Million Dollar Man
TV · as Captain Abbott · 1 ep
The Magician
TV · as Derek Sheffield · 1 ep
The Waltons
TV · as Neville Chamberlain (voice) · 1 ep
McCloud
TV · as English Police Officer · 1 ep
Star Trek
TV · as Larry Marvick · 1 ep
King Rat
Movie · as Cox
The F.B.I.
TV · as Stirling Grant · 1 ep
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
TV · as 2nd Lieutenant · 2 eps
12 O'Clock High
TV · as Col. Percy Vivyan · 1 ep
The Outer Limits
TV · as Capt. Terrence Ralph Brookman, Harvey Kry Jr. · 1 ep
Tales of Terror
Movie · as Dr. James ("The Case of M. Valdemar")
The Beverly Hillbillies
TV · as Lieutenant, Lieutenant Richards · 1 ep
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV · as Peter · 1 ep
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Movie · as Sergeant Tibbs (voice)
Master of the World
Movie · as Phillip Evans
Ten Who Dared
Movie · as Frank Goodman
Surfside 6
TV · as Ian Smallens · 1 ep
Thriller
TV · as Proctor · 1 ep
Return of the Fly
Movie · as Ronald Holmes, alias Alan Hinds
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
TV · as Derek · 1 ep
Men Into Space
TV · 1 ep
Maverick
TV · as Captain Fitzgerald · 1 ep
The Gale Storm Show
TV · 1 ep
Navy Log
TV · 1 ep
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV · as Philip Haven, Holsom · 1 ep
Studio 57
TV · 1 ep
The Jack Benny Program
TV · 1 ep