Frank Atkinson (actor)

in Reach for the Sky (1956)

Frank Atkinson (19 March 1893 in Blackpool, Lancashire – 23 February 1963 in Pinner, Middlesex) was a British actor and writer.

He appeared in at least 130 films between 1930 and 1963. A stalwart of British films, often in small or uncredited roles, and also in Hollywood in the 1930s, notably in the Raoul Walsh directed Me and My Gal and Sailor's Luck. Allmovie described him as "tall and slender, and with gaunt facial features that lent themselves to looks of eccentricity, and with a highly cultured speaking voice, he could melt unobtrusively into a scene, as an anonymous bit-player, or could, with the utterance of a few words or a look, transform himself into a wryly comedic presence -- he played everything from jailers, guards, garage attendants, and soldiers to upper-class twits."

Selected filmography

Actor

• The Great Defender (1934)
• Play Up the Band (1935)
• Death Drives Through (1935)
• Look Up and Laugh (1935)
• The Limping Man (1936)
• The Schooner Gang (1937)
• Intimate Relations (1937)
• The Show Goes On (1937)
• Knights for a Day (1937)
• A Romance in Flanders (1937)
• Oh, Mr Porter! (1937)
• Pygmalion (1938)
• I've Got a Horse (1938)
• Hard Steel (1942)
• The Great Mr. Handel (1942)
• The Man in the White Suit (1951)
• The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953)
• The Fake (1953)
• Lease of Life (1954)
• The Black Rider (1954)
• Hour of Decision (1957)
• At the Stroke of Nine (1957)
• High Flight (1957)
• Trouble with Eve (1960)
• The Kitchen (1961)
• Murder at the Gallop (1963)

Screenwriter

• Play Up the Band (1935)
• Not So Dusty (1936)
• Knights for a Day (1937)

External links

• Frank Atkinson at the Internet Movie Database