Frank Williams

AKA: Frank John Williams

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1931-07-02

Edgeware, Middlesex, England, UK

Biography

Frank Williams was an actor best known for playing the Reverend Timothy Farthing in the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army.

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {55}

Reverend Timothy Farthing

1971-03-12 4.9

Dad's Army

Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman Cohen, it was filmed between series three and four and was based upon material from the early episo ...

Genre :Comedy, War

Captain Ford

1958-12-04 6.5

The Square Peg

Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale are council workmen mending the road outside an Army base when they come into conflict with the military. Shortly afterwards, they get drafted and fall into the clutches ...

Genre :War, Comedy

Mr. Easton

1980-07-11 5.514

Oh! Heavenly Dog

Browning is a PI with a bad cold, who's sent to investigate a case by a mysterious client. He stumbles across the body of a young woman and is stabbed to death, and when he wakes up in heaven, they t ...

Genre :Comedy, Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Fantasy

Vicar

1977-01-01 4.7

What's Up Nurse

When Dr. Robert "Sweeney" Todd arrives to fill his post at a new hospital, he is shocked to see the lengths that the nurses go to in caring for their patients. ...

Genre :Comedy

Dr. Freemo

1975-07-09 5.663

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing

Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Southmere, a Queen's Messenger, is chased by a group of Chinese spies. ...

Genre :Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Mystery, Thriller

Clergyman

1970-10-14 6.2

Atlantic Wall

1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et black marketeers. Léon unwillingly joins the Résistance when a British pilot is shot down and hides in his ...

Genre :Adventure, Comedy, War

Racegoer (uncredited)

1964-12-31 6.109

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

One Rolls-Royce belongs to three vastly different owners, starting with Lord Charles, who buys the car for his wife as an anniversary present. The next owner is Paolo Maltese, a mafioso who purchases ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy, Romance

Committee Man

1964-06-21 6

Hide and Seek

A professor of astronomy helping on a missile development program. An old friend of his is a Russian chess champion. The Russian is working with shady businessman Marek and they plan to kidnap the pro ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Assistant to Airport Director

1963-09-01 6.1

The V.I.P.s

Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials. ...

Genre :Drama

Barrister

1962-09-25 6.5

The Dock Brief

After nearly 40 years of waiting for his big chance, Wilfred Morgenhall is given the case of defending Herbert Fowle who is accused of murdering his wife. Despite Fowle's insistence of guilt, Moregenh ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Mr. Carruthers

1960-12-13 5.7

The Bulldog Breed

Norman Puckle, a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right. After being rejected by Marlene, the love of his life, he attempts suicide, but can't even do that. He is ...

Genre :Comedy

Man in Bowler Hat

1960-06-01 6

Jazz Boat

A bumbling gang of thieves crash a jazz party. ...

Genre :Comedy

Percy Pirbright

1960-01-31 6.5

Inn for Trouble

Peggy Mount and David Kossoff star as Ada and Alf Larkin in this big screen version of the hugely popular 1950s TV comedy. Alf Larkin has finally made good his dream to own a pub. The trouble is, it's ...

Genre :Comedy

Police Constable Hesketh

1958-12-12 5.6

Bachelor of Hearts

A German scholar has girl troubles while studying at Cambridge. ...

Genre :Comedy

Sid

1956-01-01 6.6

The Extra Day

Director William Fairchild's 1956 British comedy takes a peek into the private lives of various performers employed as extras in a new film that's currently shooting. ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Spectator

1955-04-15 5.4

The Glass Cage

A circus barker stages a sensational new act, the world's longest fast undertaken by “Sapolio”, on view in a glass cage. But this act also results in several murders, a kidnapping, and a poisoning! ...

Genre :Crime

Boxing Spectator (uncredited)

1955-01-04 6.1

One Good Turn

Norman is the oldest orphan at Greenwood Children's Home and now acts as their caretaker. All the orphans are very happy and well cared for. The adventures start when a nasty property developer who is ...

Genre :Comedy

Derby Racegoer

1952-06-09 6.5

Derby Day

Entertaining ensemble piece dealing with several characters who are on the way to the races on Derby day. It cleverly blends dramatic, romantic and comic elements, including the woman and lover who ha ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy, Romance, Crime

Singer Rehearsing

1953-02-14 4

The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan

The career of W. S. Gilbert, a barrister turned comic librettist, and Arthur Sullivan, a composer turned against his will to light music, who together wrote fifteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, ...

Genre :Drama, Music

Witch #2 (in Macbeth)

1967-01-26 6.2

The Deadly Affair

Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination ...

Genre :Thriller, Mystery, Drama

The Reverend Timothy Farthing

2016-02-05 4.991

Dad's Army

A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy as World War II draws to its conclusion. ...

Genre :Comedy, War

The Confidente

2014-02-01 2.7

Katherine of Alexandria

The life of Katherine of Alexandria. Constantine joins the Roman army to find his missing childhood friend. Once alerted to his friend's whereabouts, he prepares for an all out war between the East an ...

Genre :Drama, History

2nd Merchant

1977-03-28 6

Jabberwocky

After the death of his father, young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventures. The town and the whole kingdom is threatened by a terrible monster called 'Jabberwocky'. Will D ...

Genre :Fantasy, Comedy

Korsunsky

1961-11-03 6.5

Anna Karenina

Anna, the wife of government minister Alexei Karenin, visits Moscow to help straighten out a family quarrel. There, Count Alexei Vronsky falls in love with her. Television adaptation of a play based o ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Bellamy

1979-12-18 5.9

The Human Factor

When a leak of information in the African section of British Intelligence is discovered, a security man is brought in to investigate. ...

Genre :Thriller

Station Porter

1957-11-22 6.849

The One That Got Away

Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War. ...

Genre :War, Drama

Officer

1983-12-24 6

The Comedy of Errors

Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago. Too bad that Ephesus has just declared war on Syracuse, and will instantly put to ...

Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

Gentleman Client

1978-01-08 6.427

Revenge of the Pink Panther

Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau's car after being shot off the road. Naturally, Clousea ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Angry Major

1982-02-26 0

How Many Miles to Babylon?

Wealthy Alexander Moore and working-class Jerry Crowe are childhood friends and in 1914 find themselves in the same Army unit - Alex as an officer and Jerry as a private. They still remain close, howe ...

Genre :Drama, War, TV Movie

Prison contact (uncredited)

1967-08-01 6.574

Robbery

In this fictionalised account of the Great Train Robbery, career criminal Paul Clifton plans an audacious crime: the robbery of a mail train carrying millions in cash. ...

Genre :Crime, Thriller

Map Shop Owner

1981-12-01 4.5

The Island of Adventure

Four British teens on vacation visit an island and discover that a terrorist group is using it as their headquarters. ...

Genre :Adventure

General

1963-02-01 3.7

Just for Fun

When the government cuts the quota of musical programs permitted on television, teenagers Mark and Cherry lead others youngsters in forming their own political party. ...

Genre :Music

Dull

1985-01-05 7

Love's Labour's Lost

A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Driver Nutall

1963-12-01 7.4

A Stitch in Time

An accident in the butchers shop leads Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after causing the normal ammount of chaos, Pitkin finds Lindy, a little girl who hasn't spoken or smiled si ...

Genre :Comedy

Major Sykes

1989-10-15 0

The Mountain and the Molehill

It is May 1944, two weeks before D-day. Britain stands poised for the long-awaited invasion of France - thousands of troops wait anxiously for the orders to come for embarkation. MI5 is horrified to d ...

Genre :Drama, History, War, TV Movie

Reverend Timothy Farthing

1968-07-31 7.4

Dad's Army

Introducing the Walmington-On-Sea home guard. During WW2, in a fictional British seaside town, a ragtag group of Home Guard local defense volunteers prepare for an imminent German invasion. ...

Genre :Comedy

Frankie Bullock

1970-01-28 0

As Good Cooks Go

As Good Cooks Go was a black-and-white British sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1969 to 1970. Written by John Warren and John Singer, it starred Tessie O'Shea and Frank Williams. ...

Genre :

Price

1962-01-11 6.7

The Scales of Justice

Not strictly TV productions, "The Scales of Justice" were cinema second features produced for Anglo Amalgamated running around 30 minutes and followed the "Scotland Yard" series of shorts also introdu ...

Genre :Crime

Mr. Roberts

1971-09-20 7.4

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

An anthology series produced by Thames Television, comprised of short mystery, suspense or crime adaptations featuring, as the title suggests, detectives who were literary contemporaries of Arthur Con ...

Genre :Mystery, Crime, Drama

Salesman

1959-09-16 3.7

No Hiding Place

No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Various Characters

1973-10-29 0

Tell Tarby

Genre :

Doctor

1960-10-31 6.9

Maigret

BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Artist

1958-09-19 7

The Larkins

'The Larkins' is a British television sitcom which was produced by Associated Television and aired on ITV. It aired for four series between 1958 to 1960. An additional two series aired from 1963 to 19 ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Various

1982-02-25 7

The Kenny Everett Television Show

Sketch comedy show starring Kenny Everett. ...

Genre :Comedy

1987-10-21 3.5

Daytime Live

Genre :

Mr. Chicory

1979-10-29 6.8

Minder

Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Action & Adventure, Crime

Victor

1967-08-29 6

The Big M

A private detective investigates a protection racket and becomes involved in a murder case. ...

Genre :

Treasurer

1990-11-18 8.073

House of Cards

Frustrated at a new moderate Conservative government and deprived of a promotion to a senior position, chief whip Francis Urquhart prepares a meticulous plot to bring down the Prime Minister then to t ...

Genre :War & Politics, Comedy, Drama

Charles - the Bishop

1990-01-14 7.4

You Rang, M'Lord?

You Rang, M'Lord? is a British comedy series written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, the creators of Dad's Army, It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Hi-de-Hi! It was broadcast between 1990 and 1993 on the BBC. ...

Genre :Comedy

George Piddle

1983-08-03 0

Grey Granite

Final part of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 'Scots Quair' trilogy. Chris is now running a boarding house, while her son Ewan is drawn into political activism. ...

Genre :

Angry Major

1974-03-13 7

Playhouse

A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC. ...

Genre :Drama

Captain T. R. Pocket

1957-06-19 6

The Army Game

Follows the exploits of Hut 29, a dysfunctional group of soldiers and their National Service conscription into the British Army during the post war years. ...

Genre :Comedy

Mr Dobson

1967-01-31 5.7

All Gas and Gaiters

All Gas and Gaiters is a British television ecclesiastical sitcom which aired on BBC1 from 1966 to 1971. It was written by Pauline Devaney and Edwin Apps, a husband-and-wife team who used the pseudony ...