David Frankham

100, from Kent, England

Artwork for One Hundred and One DalmatiansImage of David Frankham

Biography

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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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Timeline

2021Aged 95

  • Poster for Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!

    Self

2016Aged 90

  • Poster for Lugosi: The Forgotten King of Horror

    Self

1993Aged 67

  • Poster for The Substitute

    Riggs

1979Aged 53

  • Poster for The Great Santini

    Capt. Weber

1974Aged 48

  • Poster for Winter Kill

    Rev. Phillips

1965Aged 39

  • Poster for King Rat

    Cox

1962Aged 36

  • Poster for Tales of Terror

    Dr. James ("The Case of M. Valdemar")

1961Aged 35

  • Poster for One Hundred and One Dalmatians

    Sergeant Tibbs (voice)

  • Poster for Master of the World

    Phillip Evans

1960Aged 34

  • Poster for Ten Who Dared

    Frank Goodman

1959Aged 33

  • Poster for Return of the Fly

    Ronald Holmes, alias Alan Hinds