• appearing on radio and in films. Ronald Frankau was born in London, the third child of Arthur Frankau, son of Joseph Frankau, a German Jew who came to London...
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  • Rosemary A. Frankau (14 April 1933 – 16 April 2017) was a British actress, born in Marylebone, London. She played Beattie Harris in nine series of the...
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  • Renee Roberts (category Frankau family)
    starting in the 1960s. She was married to the actor Ronald Frankau. Her daughter, Rosemary Frankau, was also an actress. "Renee Roberts". BFI. Archived...
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    Frankau (1884–1952) and actor Ronald Frankau (1894–1951) (thus Julia Frankau is grandmother of novelist Pamela Frankau and actress Rosemary Frankau,...
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  • of BBC radio in the 1930s and 1940s. It was written and performed by Ronald Frankau (Murgatroyd) and Tommy Handley. Handley's biographer Barry Took describes...
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  • grandmother was the satirist Julia Frankau, one of several famous siblings, and her uncle was the British radio comedian Ronald Frankau. Never attentive to his two...
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  • Pressure, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme Cyril Fletcher (1913–2005) Ronald Frankau (1894–1951) Graeme Garden (born 1943), I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again...
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  • several times: c. 1939 – Murgatroyd and Winterbottom (Tommy Handley and Ronald Frankau), British comedians, as a novelty song 1940s – Pete Seeger, American...
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    grandfather Ronald Frankau, his grandmother Renee Roberts, his great-grandmother Julia Davis, and cousins Pamela Frankau and Nicholas Frankau. "Samuel Christopher...
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  • Frankau) Julia Frankau (1859-1916), British novelist Nicholas Frankau (born 1954), English actor Pamela Frankau (1908-1967), English novelist Ronald Frankau...
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  • Arthur Frankau (February 1849 – 21 November 1904) was the son of Bavarian-born Joseph Frankau (previously Frankenau), a Jewish merchant who moved to London...
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    Mitford Murgatroyd and Winterbottom, a British comedy act consisting of Ronald Frankau and Tommy Handley Ambrose Murgatroyd, in the 1941 Preston Sturges movie...
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    Morris and David Kindersley attended St Cyprian's School. Comedian Ronald Frankau died at Eastbourne in 1951. Vernon Dobtcheff, Prunella Scales, Eddie...
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    In the 1930s Handley frequently performed on air with the comedian Ronald Frankau in a popular comedy act as "Mr Murgatroyd and Mr Winterbottom". Handley's...
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    Captain Gilbert Frankau (21 April 1884 – 4 November 1952) was a popular British novelist. He was known also for verse (he was a war poet of World War...
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  • Dawker R.E. Jeffrey as First Stranger George Bancroft as Second Stranger Ronald Frankau as Auctioneer The Skin Game is copyrighted worldwide but has been heavily...
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    to solitude." Her nephew Gilbert Frankau became a journalist and novelist, and Gilbert's younger brother Ronald Frankau went onto the stage. In 1884, Eliza...
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  • politician Thomas Castaignède, rugby player Turner Layton, musician Ronald Frankau, comedian Kim Philby, British intelligence officer and spy for the Soviet...
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  • Baxter) 1942 Much Too Shy (screen adaptation from an original story by Ronald Frankau) Starring George Formby; directed by Marcel Varnel. 1947 A City Speaks...
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  • Phyllis Dixey as Penny aka Gloria Gregg Terence De Marney as Mike Bergen Ronald Frankau as Vincent Barney Abraham Sofaer as French Judge Eugene Deckers as French...
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  • Mary A. E. Matthews as Gen. Bristow John Longden as Mortimer Digby Ronald Frankau as Tex Farnum Wilfrid Hyde-White as Staff Captain Wally Patch as Foreman...
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    Fletcher, architect Gilbert Frankau, novelist Ronald Frankau, comedian and comedy partner of Tommy Handley Pamela Frankau, author Ronald Fraser, actor Walter...
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    from the film Elstree Calling and Clapham and Dwyer, Claude Dampier, Ronald Frankau and Stanelli from the film Radio Parade of 1935. Although cine-variety's...
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  • comedian (1) Flotsam and Jetsam, Anglo-Australian musical comedy duo (6) Ronald Frankau (1894–1951), English comedian (3) Steven Geray (1904–73), Hungarian-born...
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  • "In Town Tonight": Eve Becke Fay Carroll Peggy Cochrane Yvette Darnac Ronald Frankau Alberta Hunter Joyce Richardson Ted Ray Stanelli And His Hornchestra...
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  • (additional scenes) John L. Arthur Jack S. Marks Based on original story by Ronald Frankau Produced by Marcel Varnel Ben Henry (associate producer) Starring George...
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  • Newall as Maurice Worthington Donald Calthrop as Counsel for Defense Ronald Frankau as Major Tony Barlow Betty Schuster as Rosita Worthington Marjorie Brooks...
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  • a result developed an interest in performing on stage. She joined Ronald Frankau's "Cabaret Kittens" concert party, and at an engagement in Newquay met...
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  • fiancé Henry Wenman as The Butler Rita Page as The Bride Who Wasn't Ronald Frankau as Father George K. Gee as Detective Let's Love and Laugh profile, ftvdb...
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    Arthur Frankau and was the mother of the author Gilbert Frankau and the comedian Ronald Frankau and grandmother of the novelist Pamela Frankau and the...
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