Frank Pettingell

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

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.. He also had an extensive collection of serial fiction and penny-dreadfuls., and this can now be found in the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books in Toronto.

Filmography

Hobson's Choice (1931)
Jealousy (1932)
Frail Women (1932)
A Tight Corner (1932)
In a Monastery Garden (1932)
The Crooked Lady (1932)
Once Bitten (1932)
Double Dealing (1932)
The Lucky Number (1933)
The Medicine Man (1933)
That's My Wife (1933)
The Good Companions (1933)
Yes, Madam (1933)
Excess Baggage (1933)
This Week of Grace (1933)
A Cuckoo in the Nest (1933)
Red Wagon (1933)
Sing As We Go (1934)
Keep It Quiet (1934)
My Old Dutch (1934)
Say It with Diamonds 
Hope of His Side (1935)
Where's George? (1935)
The Right Age to Marry (1935)
The Big Splash (1935)
The Amateur Gentleman (1936)
On Top of the World (1936)
Fame (1936)
The Last Journey (1936)
Millions (1937)
It's a Grand Old World (1937)
Take My Tip (1937)
Spring Handicap (1937)
Queer Cargo (1938)
Sailing Along (1938)
So Much to Do (1938)
Return to Yesterday (1940)
Gaslight (1940)
Busman's Honeymoon (1940)
The Seventh Survivor (1941)
Kipps (1941)
This England (1941)
Once a Crook (1941)
Ships with Wings (1942)
The Goose Steps Out (1942)
The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)
Get Cracking (1943)
The Butler's Dilemma (1943)
Gaiety George (1946)
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1947 British TV movie)
Escape (1948)
No Room at the Inn (1948)
When We Are Married (1951)
The Magic Box (1951)
The Card (1952)
Meet Me Tonight (1952)
The Crimson Pirate (1952)
The Great Game (1953)
Value for Money (1955)
Corridors of Blood (1958)
Up the Creek (1958)
Coronation Street (1961)
Term of Trial (1962)
Trial and Error (1962)
Becket (1964)

References

External links

Frank Pettingell: A chronology
Items from the Pettingell Collection of periodicals and penny dreadfuls held in the The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books at the Public Library of Toronto.

Category:1891 births
Category:1966 deaths
Category:English male film actors
Category:Alumni of the University of Manchester
Category:British Army personnel of World War I
Category:Male actors from Liverpool
Category:King's Regiment (Liverpool) soldiers
Category:20th-century English male actors