Frank Thornton Biography

Fast Facts

• He supported the World Land Trust, which is an international conservation charity
• At his home in Barnes, London, he died of natural causes while in his sleep
• After leaving Alleyn's School, he began working for an insurance company
• He was known for portraying unusual or eccentric characters
• His first professional stage appearance was in playwright Terence Rattigan's "French Without Tears․"
• One of his favorite pastimes was to go birding with a pair of binoculars