Frank Lawton
Frank Lawton (30 September 1904, St Giles, London - 10 June 1969, Marylebone, London) was an English actor.
His parents were stage players Daisy May Collier and Frank Lawton (I).[1] His first major screen credit was Young Woodley (1930).[2] In the mid-1930s, Lawton appeared in some Hollywood films, most significant as the adult David Copperfield in MGM's literature adaption David Copperfield (1935). However, Lawton never made the breaktrough in Hollywood and returned to the British film and theatre.
He was married to actress Evelyn Laye until his death, with whom he acted several times including in My Husband and I (? - 10 June 1969) (his death). He was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium and his ashes lie in Bed 2 of the East Central Thorn Bed.
Selected filmography
- Birds of Prey (1930)
- The Skin Game (1931)
- After Office Hours (1932)
- Cavalcade (1933)
- Friday the Thirteenth (1933)
- Heads We Go (1933)
- David Copperfield (1935)
- The Devil-Doll (1936)
- The Mill on the Floss (1937)
- The Four Just Men (1939)
- Went the Day Well? (1942)
- The Winslow Boy (1948)
- Gideon's Day (1958)
- A Night to Remember (1958)
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