Personal Info
Birth date
1927-07-12 (97 Years)
Day of death
2020-09-30
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Walsall, Staffordshire, England, UK
Also known as
-Frank Windsor
Biography
Actor known for the television series Z-Cars and its spin-offs Softly, Softly and Softly, Softly: Taskforce.
Filmography
Midsomer Murders
7.5
Overview:
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.Doctor Who
7.9
Overview:
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.The Avengers
7.734
Overview:
A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).Z-Cars
7
Overview:
Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.Play for Today
6.333
Overview:
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.All Creatures Great and Small
7.7
Overview:
The trials and misadventures of the staff at a country veterinary office in Yorkshire. James Herriot, a young animal surgeon, moves to a small Yorkshire town to begin his first job.Softly, Softly
5
Overview:
Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966. It centred around the work of regional crime squads, plain-clothes CID officers based in the fictional region of Wyvern, supposedly in the Bristol area of England.The Goodies
7.5
Overview:
A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and situation comedy.Casualty
6.1
Overview:
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.Peak Practice
6.1
Overview:
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based on the Staffordshire village of Longnor for the final series, but was previously based in the Derbyshire village of Crich, although certain scenes were filmed at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably Matlock, Belper and Ashover.Wogan
4.5
Overview:
Chat show hosted by Terry Wogan, featuring live studio interviews with famous and notable personalities.Lovejoy
7.3
Overview:
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.Softly Softly: Task Force
6
Overview:
Softly, Softly: Task Force is a police based drama series which ran on BBC 1 from 1969 to 1976. It was a revamp of Softly, Softly, itself a spin-off from Z-Cars. The change was made partly to coincide with the coming of colour broadcasting to the BBC's main channel BBC1. The programme was due to be called simply Task Force, but reluctant to sacrifice a much-loved brand the BBC compromised this so it became Softly, Softly: Task Force.Playhouse
7
Overview:
A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).The Detectives
6.7
Overview:
The absurd adventures of two defective detectives, who - despite unbelievable incompetence - somehow manage to solve their cases (or be nearby when the cases are solved) and retain their jobs.A for Andromeda
5
Overview:
Set in 1970, a team of scientists decipher a mysterious signal from space and discover that it provides instructions to build a powerful super-computer. Once built, this computer provokes argument between two of leading team members, Fleming and Dawnay, over the machine's real intentions as it provides further instructions to create a living organism, which Dawnay starts to develop. Later it appears to compel lab assistant Christine to commit suicide, and when the organism is fully developed, it appears in the exact form of Christine, and named Andromeda. But what is the purpose of this "creature" ...?Bleak House
6
Overview:
Bleak House is BBC television drama first broadcast in 1985. The serial was adapted by Arthur Hopcraft from Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House and it was the second adaptation by the BBC.Judge John Deed
6.6
Overview:
Judge John Deed is a British legal drama television series produced by the BBC in association with One-Eyed Dog for BBC One. It was created by G.F. Newman and stars Martin Shaw as Sir John Deed, a High Court judge who tries to seek real justice in the cases before him. It also stars Jenny Seagrove as the barrister Jo Mills, frequently the object of Deed's desire. A pilot episode was broadcast on 9 January 2001, followed by the first full series on 26 November 2001. The sixth and last series concluded on 18 January 2007. The programme then went on an indefinite break after Shaw became involved in another television programme, and he and Seagrove expressed a wish for the format of the series to change before they filmed new episodes. By 2009, the series had officially been cancelled. The six series produced make it the longest-running BBC legal drama. The factual accuracy of the series is often criticised by legal professionals and journalists; many of the decisions taken by Deed are unlikely to happen in a real court. The romanticised vision of the court system created by Newman caused a judge to issue a warning to a jury not to let the series influence their view of trials—referring to an episode where Deed flouts rules when called up for jury duty. Another episode led to complaints about biased and incorrect information about the MMR vaccine, leading the BBC to ban repeats of it in its original form. All six series have been released on DVD in the UK.An Age of Kings
4.7
Overview:
A linking together of Shakespeare's history plays — Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V, 1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI, and Richard III — chronicling the rise and fall of monarchs over the 86 years between Richard II and Richard III.Jack the Ripper
7.2
Overview:
The highly popular detective pair from the series Softly, Softly, Barlow and Watt, try to solve the old mystery of Jack The Ripper in this documentary series.Revolution
5.3
Overview:
New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy. Tom attempts to find his son, and eventually becomes convinced that he must take a stand and fight for the freedom of the Colonies, alongside the aristocratic rebel Daisy McConnahay. As Tom undergoes his change of heart, the events of the war unfold in large-scale grandeur.Sunday Bloody Sunday
6.6
Overview:
Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with their repressive pasts, and though both know that Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings to their otherwise stable lives.Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
6
Overview:
Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest Chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.This Sporting Life
7.009
Overview:
In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.Spring and Port Wine
5.6
Overview:
A stern father and lenient mother try to deal with the ups and downs of their four children's lives in working class Bolton, England.The Plank
7.4
Overview:
Classic short British comedy, full of stars, about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion. TV remake of the 1967 short.The Fifteen Streets
6.25
Overview:
In northern England around 1900, the worker John O'Brien lives near poverty in a small house in the worker's district. He falls in love with Mary, the teacher of his highly intelligent younger sister Kathy and daughter of a rich family. Their love is doomed by the social difference, but the vigorous Mary refuses to allow outer circumstances destroying their love.Acting
2004Between Two Women as Mr. Walker
2001Judge John Deed (2, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Sir James Valentine
1998Touch and Go as Frank Wood
1997Midsomer Murders (1 Episode) as George Meakham
1996Trip Trap as Unknown
1993Peak Practice (2, 2 Episode) as Ken Alton, Peter Osborne
1993The Detectives (8 Episodes) as Chief Superintendent
1989Doctor Who: Ghost Light as Insp Mackenzie
1989The Fifteen Streets as James Llewellyn
1987Flying Lady (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1987Make and Break as Ted Shaw
1986Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus as Chorus
1986Casualty (8, 1 Episode) as Kenneth Samuels, Leslie Smith
1986Lovejoy (1 Episode) as Ralph Peagram
1985Revolution as Gen Washington
1985Theatre Night (1 Episode) as Unknown
1985Bleak House (2 Episodes) as Gridley
1985The Shooting Party as Glass
1984Charlie (4 Episodes) as Unknown
1984Charlie as Harry Ainsworth
1983Doctor Who: The King's Demons as Ranulf
1982Coming Out of the Ice as Sam Herman
1982Wogan (1 Episode) as Self
1981The Union as Frank Haxell
1981Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective as Fred Fennell
1979The London Connection as McGuffin
1979The Plank as Motorist
1979Every Good Boy Deserves Favour as Doctor
1978Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? as Blodgett
1978All Creatures Great and Small (1 Episode) as David Rayner
1978Using Tops as Commentator
1977The Mayor's Charity as Ex-W/O Higham
1977Two Legs...Three Widows...And a near Miss as Unknown
1974Barry McKenzie Holds His Own as Police Sergeant
1974Headmaster as Unknown
1974Playhouse (1 Episode) as Doctor
1973Assassin as Stacy
1973Jack the Ripper (6 Episodes) as Unknown
1971Sunday Bloody Sunday as Bill Hodson
1970Dropout as Unknown
1970The Goodies (1, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Scoutfinder General
1970Play for Today (1, 1 Episode) as Ex-W.O. Higham, Tom Fisher
1970Spring and Port Wine as Ned Duckworth
1969Softly Softly: Task Force (149 Episodes) as Det. Chief Supt. Watt
1968There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah as Trevelyan 'Bloody Delilah' Sinclair
1967Robert as Mr Harkness
1966Softly, Softly (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1963Doctor Who (1, 2 Episode) as Ranulf, Inspector Mackenzie
1963This Sporting Life as Dentist
1962Z-Cars (2, 1, 183 Episode) as Det. Sgt. Watt, Det. Sergeant John Watt, DS John Watt
1961A for Andromeda (3 Episodes) as Dennis Bridger
1961The Avengers (1 Episode) as Tobin
1960An Age of Kings (8, 2, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as Bishop of Carlisle, Sir Walter Blunt, Bullcalf, Earl of Cambridge, Williams