Frank Petley
{{Short description|English actor (1872–1945)}}
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{{Infobox person
|name = Frank Petley
|image = Actor_Frank_Petley.jpg
| caption = Postcard, circa 1905
|birth_name =
|birth_date = 26 March 1872
|birth_place = Charlton, London, England
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1945|1|12|1872|3|26}}
|death_place = Buxton, Derbyshire, England
|occupation = Stage and film actor
|yearsactive =
}}
Frank Petley (sometimes credited as Frank B. or Frank E. Petley){{cite web|url=https://www.kent.ac.uk/library/specialcollections/theatre/r.php/30072/show.html|title=Theatre collections: record view - Information Services – Special Collections - University of Kent|publisher=}} (28 March 1872 – 12 January 1945) was a British actor prominent in the Edwardian theatre and silent era cinema.{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/191798|title=Frank Petley|publisher=|access-date=2011-06-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023214626/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/191798|archive-date=2012-10-23|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/artist/frank-e-petley-p186316|title=Frank E. Petley - Movies and Filmography - AllMovie|publisher=}} During the Second World War he performed with The Old Vic Company then based at the Liverpool Playhouse, appearing as Nat Miller in Ah, Wilderness! by Eugene O'Neill in a production by Noel Willman.{{cite web|url=http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=audrey%20james&county=merseyside,%20england|title=Genes Reunited|first=Genes|last=Reunited|publisher=}}
Selected filmography
- The Chance of a Lifetime (1916)
- Diana and Destiny (1916)
- Ye Wooing of Peggy (1917)
- Nature's Gentleman (1918)
- The Silver Greyhound (1919)
- The Power of Right (1919)
- The Iron Stair (1920)
- The Flame (1920)
- My Lord Conceit (1921)
- The Golden Dawn (1921)
- The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown (1921)
- Melody of Death (1922)
- Night Ride (1937)
References
External links
- {{IMDb name|0677714}}
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Category:English male stage actors
Category:English male film actors
Category:English male silent film actors
Category:20th-century English male actors
Category:People from Charlton, London
Category:Male actors from Kent
Category:Actors from the Royal Borough of Greenwich
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