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David Frankham

David Frankham

Born: 1926-02-16 • Kent, England

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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).

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Filmography
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists! poster
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
2021 • Self
Lugosi: The Forgotten King of Horror poster
Lugosi: The Forgotten King of Horror
2016 • Self
The Substitute poster
The Substitute
1993 • Riggs
The Great Santini poster
The Great Santini
1979 • Capt. Weber
Winter Kill poster
Winter Kill
1974 • Rev. Phillips
King Rat poster
King Rat
1965 • Cox
Tales of Terror poster
Tales of Terror
1962 • Dr. James ("The Case of M. Valdemar")
Master of the World poster
Master of the World
1961 • Phillip Evans
One Hundred and One Dalmatians poster
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
1961 • Sergeant Tibbs (voice)
Ten Who Dared poster
Ten Who Dared
1960 • Frank Goodman
Return of the Fly poster
Return of the Fly
1959 • Ronald Holmes, alias Alan Hinds