Frank Thornton was born Frank Thornton Ball on January 15, 1921 at Dulwich, London, England, United Kingdom. He's a British actor best known as Captain Peacock on the long running BBC series Are You Being Served? from 1972-1985, and later reprise his role for Grace and Favour (aka Are You Being Served? Again in the USA from 1992-1993. In 1998 he took the role of Truly Truelove in Last of the Summer Wine. He can also be seen in Gosford Park (2001) as Mr. Burkett. January 15 is the 15th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Dulwich is a generally prosperous settlement in the London Borough of Southwark and which has the post code London SE21. ... The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster which contains Big Ben Tower Bridge at night A red double-decker bus crosses Piccadilly Circus. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (2001) - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Religion... The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was formed in 1927 by means of a royal charter. ... Are You Being Served? was a British sitcom broadcast from 1972 to 1985. ... Last of the Summer Wine, written by Roy Clarke, is a British sitcom, which has run longer than any other comedy series in the world, now in its twenty-sixth series. ... Movie poster of Gosford Park Gosford Park is a 2001 period film. ...
He guest starred in two of the episodes of the British televison comedy series The Goodies. The Goodies was a surreal British television comedy series of the 1970s combining elements of sketch and situation comedy, starring Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie. ...
Stanley Arthurs, Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott, Gayle Hoskins, William H.D. Koerner, Thornton Oakley, Violet Oakley, Katharine Pyle, N. Wyeth, Maxfield Parrish, Henry J. Peck, Frank Schoonover, and Jessie Wilcox Smith were among the cadre of his famous students who created images that became part of the popular culture of the early twentieth century.
Thornton Oakley (1881-1953) was an illustrator who studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and illustration with Howard Pyle.
Frank E. Schoonover (1877-1972) studied with Howard Pyle at Drexel Institute and his art school in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.
Thornton obviously touched a public nerve with his portrayal of Karl, a simple man who's "turned loose from the nervous hospital" twenty-five years after killing his mother and her lover.
And besides Thornton, both John Ritter and Dwight Yoakum also transcend their public images so as to be nearly unrecognizable in "Sling Blade." Their performances are a triumph, as is Lucas Black's, playing Karl's young friend.
Thornton's audio commentary on the DVD is low-key; he mumbles a bit, and so you have to crank up the volume, but the commentary is informative.
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