Frank Singuineau
Born
8 April 1913 (112)
Place of Birth
Port of Spain, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago
Biography
Francis Ethlebert Singuineau (April 8, 1913 - September 11, 1992), known as Frank Singuineau, was a Trinidadian actor of stage and screen who worked in Britain, where he moved from Trinidad and Tobago in the 1940s. Employed by the Shell Company, he took an active interest in Amateur Dramatics. Just after the Second World War he gave up his job with Shell, travelled to London and became an actor, acting with the Unity Theatre and the Bristol Old Vic.[1] His London stage debut was in 1948 in Rich...
Francis Ethlebert Singuineau (April 8, 1913 - September 11, 1992), known as Frank Singuineau, was a Trinidadian actor of stage and screen who worked in Britain, where he moved from Trinidad and Tobago in the 1940s. Employed by the Shell Company, he took an active interest in Amateur Dramatics. Just after the Second World War he gave up his job with Shell, travelled to London and became an actor, acting with the Unity Theatre and the Bristol Old Vic.[1] His London stage debut was in 1948 in Richard Wright's Native Son (1948), and Singuineau's acting career spanned the subsequent decades until his last roles in Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine at the Royal National Theatre and Mustapha Matura's Playboy of the West Indies at the Tricycle Theatre in 1984. Singuineau also appeared in such films as The Pumpkin Eater, Séance on a Wet Afternoon, Pressure and An American Werewolf in London and in several television series including Z-Cars, Crane, and Doomwatch. Singuineau retired in the late 1980s. He died on 11 September 1992 in London, England at the age of 79.
Filmography (29)
Playboy of the West Indies
1985
An American Werewolf in London
1981
Firepower
1979
Pressure
1976
Club Havana
1975
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1972
In the Beautiful Caribbean
1972
The World in a Room
1970
Carry On Again Doctor
1969
Follow That Camel
1967
The Whisperers
1967
The Eye
1966
The Wrong Box
1966
Fable
1965
Guns at Batasi
1964
The Pumpkin Eater
1964
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
1964
On the Beat
1962
Night of the Eagle
1962
The Day of the Fox
1961
Peeping Tom
1960
The Heart of a Man
1959
The Mummy
1959
The Nun's Story
1959
Man from Tangier
1957
The Heart Within
1957
Safari
1956
Storm Over the Nile
1955
Simba
1955