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

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