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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.
Filmography
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2016
Lugosi: The Forgotten King of Horror
Movie Self
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2010
Ink: A Tale of Captivity
Movie Country Gentleman
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1993
The Substitute
Movie Riggs
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1982
Wrong Is Right
Movie British Reporter
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1979
The Great Santini
Movie Capt. Weber
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1974
Winter Kill
Movie Rev. Phillips
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1974
The Six Million Dollar Man
TV show Captain Abbott
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1973
The Magician
TV show Derek Sheffield
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1972
The Waltons
TV show Neville Chamberlain (voice)
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1970
McCloud
TV show English Police Officer
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1966
Star Trek
TV show Larry Marvick
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1965
King Rat
Movie Cox
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1965
The F.B.I.
TV show Stirling Grant
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1964
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
TV show
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1964
12 O'Clock High
TV show Col. Percy Vivyan
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1963
The Outer Limits
TV show Capt. Terrence Ralph Brookman
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1962
The Beverly Hillbillies
TV show Lieutenant
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1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV show Peter
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1962
Tales of Terror
Movie Dr. James ("The Case of M. Valdemar")
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1961
Master of the World
Movie Phillip Evans
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1961
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Movie Sergeant Tibbs (voice)
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1960
Ten Who Dared
Movie Frank Goodman
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1960
Surfside 6
TV show Ian Smallens
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1960
Thriller
TV show Proctor
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1959
Men Into Space
TV show
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1959
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
TV show Derek
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1959
Return of the Fly
Movie Ronald Holmes, alias Alan Hinds
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1957
Maverick
TV show Captain Fitzgerald
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1956
The Gale Storm Show
TV show
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1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV show Philip Haven
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1955
Navy Log
TV show
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1954
Studio 57
TV show
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1950
The Jack Benny Program
TV show