Biography
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). Descriptio…
Movies & TV Shows
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One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) — Sergeant Tibbs (voice)
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Star Trek (1966) — Larry Marvick
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The Six Million Dollar Man (1974) — Captain Abbott
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Return of the Fly (1959) — Ronald Holmes, alias Alan Hinds
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) — Philip Haven
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Tales of Terror (1962) — Dr. James ("The Case of M. Valdemar")
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The Outer Limits (1963) — Capt. Terrence Ralph Brookman
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The Beverly Hillbillies (1962) — Lieutenant
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The Waltons (1972) — Neville Chamberlain (voice)
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Master of the World (1961) — Phillip Evans
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The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962) — Peter
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King Rat (1965) — Cox
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The Great Santini (1979) — Capt. Weber
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Maverick (1957) — Captain Fitzgerald
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Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (1964)
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The F.B.I. (1965) — Stirling Grant
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12 O'Clock High (1964) — Col. Percy Vivyan
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Thriller (1960) — Proctor
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The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959) — Derek
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The Jack Benny Program (1950)
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The Substitute (1993) — Riggs
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The Magician (1973) — Derek Sheffield
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Ten Who Dared (1960) — Frank Goodman
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Winter Kill (1974) — Rev. Phillips
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Men Into Space (1959)
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Navy Log (1955)
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Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists! (2021) — Self
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Surfside 6 (1960) — Ian Smallens
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The Gale Storm Show (1956)
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Studio 57 (1954)
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Lugosi: The Forgotten King of Horror (2016) — Self
- Ink: A Tale of Captivity (2010) — Country Gentleman