Frank Thornton: 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...
Known For: Are You Being Served? (Captain PeacockStephen Peacock), Gosford Park (Mr. Burkett), The Bed Sitting Room (The BBC), Last of the Summer Wine (Truly)