Frank Forsyth
Birthday: Born in 1905-12-19 in London, England, UK
Deathday: 1984-05-02
TV Credits
The Young Jacobites
Character: Laird
Two children on holiday on The Isle of Skye, Scotland, go back in time and help Bonnie Prince Charlie escape from Scotland to France....
Dick Turpin
Character: Briggs
Richard O'Sullivan stars as Dick Turpin in this action-filled adventure series chronicling the exploits of England's most celebrated highwayman....
Man in a Suitcase
Character: Commisionaire/Lorry Driver
Accused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name, taking on freelance jobs around Europe as he searches for answers....
Richard the Lionheart
Character: Herald
A kid-friendly take on the exploits of King Richard the Lion Heart, from his participation in the Crusades, to his capture in Austria, to his final return to England....
Movie Credits
The Skull
Character: Judge
An occult investigator buys the 150-year-old skull of the Marquis de Sade, which turns out to be possessed by evil spirits....
The Big Job
Character: Bank Cashier
A gang of hapless crooks, led by Sidney James, successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught after the fact. Fifteen years later they emerge from prison intent on retrieving their stolen loot - and discover a police station has been built over its hiding place....
Man from Tangier
Character: Sgt. Irons
International crook Armstrong flees post-war Tangier with priceless forgery plates and is pursued to London where he accidentally swaps coats in a barber's shop with film actor Chuck Collins, setting off a train of events....
The Psychopath
Character: Tucker
Inspector Holloway is investigating a series of brutal murders in which a doll of each victim is found at the scene. The dolls, as it turns out,were purchased by the crippled Mrs. Von Sturm, whose home is overcrowded with a doll collection. Her pale, wide-eyed, neurotic son is the prime suspect and the daughter of one of the victims discovers the shocking truth....
Blind Corner
Character: Policeman
Paul Gregory (William Sylvester) is an accomplished composer despite his blindness, and his beautiful wife Anne (Barbara Shelley) seems to be the perfect supporting wife. But unknown to Paul, she is having a passionate affair with Ricky (Alexander Davion), a struggling artist. Keen to support her artist lover and give them more time to make love, she persuades Paul to commission Ricky to paint her portrait. But Paul senses their affection for each other, and threatens to cut Anne off without a p...
The Terrornauts
Character: Uncle
A group of scientists are kidnapped and taken to an outer space outpost in order to save Earth from destruction....
The Silent Witness
Character: Detective Forbes
A man phones the police to confess to killing his wife accidentally, but investigations prove that his story is not as straightforward as it first appears...
Late Night Final
Character: Constable Everitt
Scotland Yard detectives race to find a crippled man, the only witness to crime, who has mysteriously disappeared....
The Young Jacobites
Character: Laird
The story of Highland children who help Bonnie Prince Charlie to escape to France after the battle of Culloden. Serial in 8 episodes: 1. Journey into the past (15mins; 1367 feet) 2. The traitor (16mins; 1423 feet) 3. The league in action (14mins; 1290 feet) 4. The ambush (15mins; 1385 feet) 5. The prince must be warned (14mins; 1292 feet) 6. The rescue (17mins; 1542 feet) 7. The enemy closes in (15mins; 1322 feet) 8. Over the threshold (20 mins; 1782 feet)...
No Smoking
Character: 2nd Minister
A scientist invents a pill to cure smokers of their nicotine addiction. However, when he makes his discovery public, he encounters strong resistance from the tobacco industry....
Circus Friends
Character: Police Sergeant
A group of circus children and their friends band together to save the show from financial disaster....
And Now the Screaming Starts!
Character: Servant
In the late 18th century, two newlyweds move into the stately mansion of husband Charles Fengriffen. The bride, Catherine, falls victim to a curse placed by a wronged servant on the Fengriffen family and all its descendants....
The Vault of Horror
Character: Male Customer (segment 1 "Midnight Mess")
The sequel to Tales from the Crypt. Five strangers trapped in a basement vault converse about their recurring nightmares. Their stories include vampires, bodily dismemberment, east Indian mysticism, an insurance scam, and an artist who kills by painting his victims' deaths....
The Stable Door
Character:
This is a film made as an elaborate advert for the Insurance Industry. A group of criminals conspire to rob a warehouse which has also been spotted as a vulnerable target by an insurance salesman who suggests precautions, including buying insurance. Will the works be done in time and sufficient to stop the robbers?...
Pool of London
Character: Police Constable Witnessing Robbery (uncredited)
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London....
Jackpot
Character: Desk Sergeant
Back in London after serving time, an ex-convict learns that his wife is not willing to return to him. He plans to crack a safe at a club....
What a Whopper
Character: 3rd Scot
A writer attempts to raise some cash by writing a book about the Loch Ness Monster. No publisher will take it because they all think there isn't really a monster. The writer and some of his friends make a fake monster and take photographs and then travel to Scotland to see if they can convince the locals....
Scarlet Web
Character: Jeweller (uncredited)
An insurance investigator is framed for murder after a pretty woman hires him to recover a letter from a man who wants to blackmail her....
Rag Doll
Character: Superintendent
A British drama about a girl becoming a woman after she relocates to London. She and her young boyfriend become tempted by one of her older admirers money....
Carry On Constable
Character: Citizen
With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police station. With help from Special Constable Gorse, they manage to totally wreck operations of the police force and let plenty of criminals get away, even before they arrive at the station. They all have to prove themselves or else they'll be out of a job and Sgt. Wilkins will be transferred....
The Embezzler
Character: Inspector Gale
Bank robber's plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims....
Craze
Character: Man at Will Reading (uncredited)
A demented art dealer and antique shop owner performs nightly rituals in honour of the African god Chuku, whom he believes will reward him with unimaginable wealth and power if he merely offers up human sacrifice....
Oh! What a Lovely War
Character: President Woodrow Wilson (uncredited)
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare....
Carry On Screaming!
Character: Desk Sergeant
The sinister Dr. Watt has an evil scheme going—he's kidnapping beautiful young women and turning them into mannequins to sell to local stores. Fortunately for him, Detective Sergeant Bung is on the case, and he doesn't have a clue!...
They Came from Beyond Space
Character: Mr. Blake
A group of scientists are possessed by an alien force when they investigate a meteor shower in a rural field....
Tales That Witness Madness
Character: Uncle Albert (segment "Penny Farthing")
Dr. Tremayne is an enigmatic psychiatrist running an asylum that houses four very special cases. Visited by his colleague Nicholas, Tremayne explains his amazing and controversial theories as to why each of the four patients went mad....
Before I Wake
Character: Jack Storey
A woman travels to England to attend her parents' funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn't buy it. She comes to suspect that the nurse who took care of her parents was involved in their deaths, but since the nurse is well thought of in the town, no one believes her. What she doesn't know is that her parents' killer has selected her as the next victim...
Twice Round the Daffodils
Character: Dorothy's Father
Twice Round the Daffodils is a 1962 British comedy drama film directed by Gerald Thomas and starring Juliet Mills, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston, Kenneth Williams, Ronald Lewis, Andrew Ray, Joan Sims and Jill Ireland. A new group of patients arrive at a hospital to be treated for tuberculosis where they all take a fancy to one of the nurses. The film was adapted from the play Ring for Catty by Patrick Cargill and Jack Beale. Carry on Nurse from 1959 was based on the same play. The cast and pro...
Carry On Spying
Character: Prof. Stark
Carry On favourite Barbara Windsor makes her debut in this outrageous send-up of the James Bond movies. Fearless agent Desmond Simpkins and Charlie Bind, aided and abetted by the comely Agent Honeybutt and Agent Crump, battle against the evil powers of international bad guys STENCH and their three cronies....
Double Exposure
Character: Inspector Grayle
A chance photograph may reveal a murderer's identity - and someone's after the photographer!...
The Surgeon's Knife
Character: Anaesthetist
A doctor becomes the victim of extortionists when one of his patients dies under questionable circumstances....
Stolen Assignment
Character: Dr. Roberts
Henry Crossley is an artist whose wife is spending a week's holiday with her aunt. But when her aunt comes to see him, worried because her niece has not arrived, a police investigation into her disappearance begins. It seems that Henry was fully occupied at the time his wife went missing; but is his alibi completely truthful?...
Chain of Events
Character: Johnson
When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences...
Tales from the Crypt
Character: Tramp
Five people find themselves in a tomb. The Crypt keeper explains why they are there through a series of frightening stories. Based on the classic comic book....
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Character: Toastmaster (segment 4 "Disembodied Hand")
Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their Tarot cards. Five separate stories unfold: An architect returns to his ancestoral home to find a werewolf out for revenge; a doctor discovers his new wife is a vampire; a huge plant takes over a house; a musician gets involved with voodoo; an art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand....
The Naked Civil Servant
Character: Family Doctor
Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2....
Raising the Wind
Character: Prof. Gerald Abrahams
'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams, Liz Fraser and Eric Barker. The film follows the hi-jinks of a group of music students who move into a shared flat in order to cut costs and have somewhere to practice their instruments. Things get tricky when Mervyn Hughes (Phillips) accidentally sells one of his compositions to an advertising agency and risks losing his scholarship. Can...
Love Among the Ruins
Character: Jessop
An aging actress and socialite, Jessica Medlicott has ended her engagement with a younger man and is now being sued by her former fiancé. Esteemed barrister Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones is assigned to represent Jessica in the lawsuit, and he also happens to be an old suitor of hers from decades earlier. While Jessica claims not to remember him, and Arthur still smarts from her earlier rejection, the two form a close bond during the case....
Carry On Again Doctor
Character: Mr. Bean (uncredited)
Dr. Nookey is disgraced and sent to a remote island hospital. He is given a secret slimming potion by a member of staff, Gladstone Screwer, and he flies back to England to fame and fortune. But others want to cash in on his good fortunes, and some just want him brought down a peg or two....
Traitor's Gate
Character: Chief Yeoman Warden
A businessman organises a caper to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London....
The Deadly Bees
Character: Doctor
Trouble strikes when an exhausted pop singer, sent on a vacation to a farm, realizes that the farm's owner grows deadly bees....
Three on a Spree
Character: Barman
A young man will inherit a huge fortune--8 million pounds--but to qualify, he must spend a million pounds in just two months. Easy to do? That's what you think!...
Game for Three Losers
Character: Jimmy
A politician is set up by his secretary and blackmailed by her brother....
Carry On Sergeant
Character: Second Specialist
Sergeant Grimshawe wants to retire in the flush of success by winning the Star Squad prize with his very last platoon of newly called-up National Servicemen. But a motley bunch they turn out to be, and it's up to Grimshawe to put the no-hopers through their paces....
The Dark Road
Character:
Crime thriller following the rise of a petty thief to underworld crime boss....
Heads We Go
Character: Restaurant Patron
A model inherits a great deal of money and pretends to be a movie star....
Eye of the Devil
Character: Guest at Harp Recital (uncredited)
A French nobleman deserts his wife because of an ancient family secret....
The Solitary Child
Character: Doctor
A young woman marries a gentleman farmer who may have murdered his first wife....