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Frank Thornton Ball (15 January 1921 – 16 March 2013), professionally known as Frank Thornton, was an English actor. He was best known for playing Captain Peacock in the TV sitcom Are You Being Served? and its sequel Grace & Favour ( Are You Being Served? Again!) and as Herbert "Truly" Truelove in TV sitcom Last of the Summer Wine . Early life.
Frank Thornton was an English actor, best remembered for portraying ‘Captain Stephen Peacock’ in the ‘BBC’ comedy series ‘Are You Being Served?’ Check out this biography to know about his childhood, family, personal life, career, and death.
Frank Thornton. Actor: Are You Being Served?. He was the third child of William Ernest Ball, a bank manager and Rosina whose other children were Marjorie, who died in 1980 and John, Thornton was his mother's maiden name and his middle name, He played the cello in his school's orchestra and was a corporal in the Officer's Training Corps which he left in1937 and became a clerk with the Guardian...
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Actor. Facts. Frank Thornton Ball was born in Dulwich, London, the son of Rosina Mary (née Thornton) and William Ernest Ball. His father was an organist at St Stephen's Church, Sydenham Hill, where Frank learned to play the organ for a short while. Music proved too difficult for him, however, and he wanted to act from an early age.
- Male
- Dulwich, London, England, UK
- Actor
- January 15, 1921
Frank Thornton Ball (15 January 1921 – 16 March 2013), professionally known as Frank Thornton, was an English actor. He was best known for playing Captain Peacock in the TV sitcom Are You Being Served? and its sequel Grace & Favour (Are You Being Served? Again!
Thornton was born in Dulwich, London, the son of Rosina Mary (née Thornton) and William Ernest Ball. His father was organist at St Stephen’s Church, Dulwich, and Frank learned to play for a short while. Music proved too difficult for him, however, and he wanted to act from an early age.
Frank Thornton wurde als Frank Thornton Ball als Sohn von William Ernest Ball und dessen Ehefrau Rosina Mary (Thornton) Ball im Londoner Stadtbezirk Dulwich geboren. Sein Vater war Bankangestellter und war nebenbei als Organist an der St Stephen’s Church in Dulwich tätig; Thornton selbst lernte zeitweise das Orgelspiel.
