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Frank Pettingell (1 January 1891 – 17 February 1966) was an English actor.
Pettingell was born in Liverpool, 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 1940 Gaslight (as the former detective who solves the case), Kipps (1941 - as Old Kipps), and Becket (1964 - as the Duke 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.
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17 May 1943
Get Cracking is a 1943 British comedy war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Dinah Sheridan, Ronald Shiner and George Formby.
24 March 1933
'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)
22 July 1941
Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans, 1588, 1804, 1914, and 1940.
01 March 1932
A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
31 August 1940
Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house where the crime was committed.
06 August 1938
The Captain of a tramp steamer is forced by his ship's owner to smuggle some priceless pearls, and take them to Singapore.
20 October 1935
A Yorkshire mill owner retires and leaves control to his nephew, who promptly gets married.
15 April 1938
A barge-owner's adopted daughter falls in love with his son, and gives up her chances of stardom to be with him.
18 August 1935
A British comedy about a blacksmith who in looking to get away from his wife discovers a talent for rugby league.
01 January 1937
An unemployed man wins the football pools, and decides to buy a country house for his actress girlfriend.
22 July 1940
When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good.
16 August 1962
A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him, including his bitter wife, Anna.
09 September 1952
Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel Coward stage production of the same name.
11 March 1964
Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding when he is unwillingly appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury in an attempt to gain absolute loyalty from the Church.
30 June 1933
Grace Milroy loses her job working at a factory. However, through a strange set of circumstances, she is taken on as housekeeper at the nearby Swinford Castle the home of the eccentric Duchess of Swinford.
27 September 1952
Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s.
01 March 1948
A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes and goes on the lam, aided by a local girl.
25 February 1952
A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so.
28 August 1931
A man falls madly in love with a woman and stages a robbery in an effort to frame her sweetheart
01 January 1937
Lord and Lady Pilkington get tricked out of their money by a con man. They later run into the swindler in a hotel - which happens to be owned by their butler - and they devise a plan to scam the con man and get both revenge and their money back.
11 November 1933
A crowded inn means that a man and a woman must share the same room for a night. One problem is that they are both married - to other people.
11 March 1932
An Italian musician begins to steal his brother's compositions after he is jailed for shooting a prince.
26 April 1936
A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn, who happen to be members of English royalty.
25 December 1957
Three long-married couples in northern England discover that their marriages are in fact invalid, causing much re-evaluation and chaos.
01 October 1934
Moving family drama of the life of a working-class Hackney couple over 40 years, inspired by the famous music hall song This moving family drama - with time for some laughs - portrays the life and hardships of a working class Hackney couple over a span of 40 years.
10 November 1941
Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier.
09 March 1940
Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
06 December 1933
Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many struggles, achieves his life-long ambition of owning a circus.
02 October 1931
A coarse boot-shop owner becomes outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler.
01 December 1958
In 1840s London, Dr. Thomas Bolton [Boris Karloff] dares to dream the unthinkable: experimenting with anesthesia gases to make surgery pain-free.
11 October 1959
Geoffrey Hansbury's clothing empire is on the verge of collapse. His health his deteriorating and relies on his secretary Jane Harrison, who is also his mistress.
25 December 1951
Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually married in the eyes of the law.
01 January 1952
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once young and handsome William Green.
16 March 1932
An ex army officer is forced to resort to a life of crime.
13 May 1958
Bumbling navy officer Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) is transferred to HMS Berkeley, an old World War II destroyer, to keep him out of harm's way.
30 November 1953
A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.
18 October 1937
A wife tries to prevent her husband, a miner, from gambling away the money he receives as an inheritance.
18 August 1932
A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
28 February 1933
Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
01 October 1935
Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman.
25 September 1962
After nearly 40 years of waiting for his big chance, Wilfred Morgenhall is given the case of defending Herbert Fowle who is accused of murdering his wife.
09 August 1955
A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decides to let her.
05 January 1942
During the Second World War, a German spy goes on the run, carrying important news about a U-Boat campaign.
21 September 1942
In 1783 England, King George III appoints William Pitt only 24 years old, as PM. When members of Parliament refuse to take Pitt seriously, he calls for a general election and wins.
22 November 1948
A group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman.
15 July 1946
The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment.
01 January 1933
A young man impersonates a doctor.
01 January 1953
The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach to a star player of another club, and the ensuing scandal costs him his job.
01 January 1935
A millionaire hires a man to play his double...
21 September 1937
Two feuding millionaires try to destroy each other's business while their children fall in love with each other.
15 January 1932
Lilian has an illegitimate war-baby which is then adopted by a wealthy spinster.
01 August 1942
Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process.
13 September 1934
When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of the amusements of Blackpool.
02 July 1961
A ship powered by a nuclear reactor, is heading for the port of New York and is unable to slow down.
