Frank Pettingell

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
Occupation(s)Theatre and film actor

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

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]

  1. ^ "Frank Pettingell". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 29 September 2017. 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.