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Frank Jarvis is a Actor British born on 13 may 1941 at Stockton-on-Tees (United-kingdom)
Frank Jarvis (13 May 1941 – 15 September 2010) was a British character actor.
He trained at RADA and made his film debut in Mix Me a Person (1962).
One of Jarvis' best known cinema roles was his portrayal of Roger in the 1969 British crime caper film, The Italian Job. In one of the films iconic scenes, Jarvis' character is stranded in a bus hanging off a cliff. He also appeared in films such as That Kind of Girl (1963), Rotten to the Core (1965), Out of Season (1975) and A Bridge Too Far (1977).
His television appearances include the Doctor Who serials The War Machines (1966), Underworld (1978) and The Power of Kroll (1978).
Jarvis died on 15 September 2010, at the age of 69. He was a resident of Merry Hill Road in Bushey, Hertfordshire.
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Birth name John Francis Train
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 13 may 1941 at Stockton-on-Tees (United-kingdom)
Death 15 september 2010 (at 69 years) at Harefield (United-kingdom)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 13 may 1941 at Stockton-on-Tees (United-kingdom)
Death 15 september 2010 (at 69 years) at Harefield (United-kingdom)
He trained at RADA and made his film debut in Mix Me a Person (1962).
One of Jarvis' best known cinema roles was his portrayal of Roger in the 1969 British crime caper film, The Italian Job. In one of the films iconic scenes, Jarvis' character is stranded in a bus hanging off a cliff. He also appeared in films such as That Kind of Girl (1963), Rotten to the Core (1965), Out of Season (1975) and A Bridge Too Far (1977).
His television appearances include the Doctor Who serials The War Machines (1966), Underworld (1978) and The Power of Kroll (1978).
Jarvis died on 15 September 2010, at the age of 69. He was a resident of Merry Hill Road in Bushey, Hertfordshire.
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The Knowledge (1979)
, 1h29Directed by Bob Brooks
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Nigel Hawthorne, Kim Taylforth, Jonathan Lynn, David Ryall, Michael Elphick, Maureen Lipman
Roles Cabbie
Rating75%
Four out of work Londoners apply to do "The Knowledge" to become London taxi drivers. They have to contend with learning 20,000 streets and 500 set routes as well as Mr Burgess, a notoriously sadistic examiner from the Public Carriage Office.
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
, 2h50Directed by Richard Attenborough, Sidney Hayers
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Pont, Political films
Actors Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Michael Byrne, Edward Fox
Roles Col. Frost's Aide
Rating73%
The film begins with a montage of archival film footage narrated by a Dutch woman, Kate ter Horst, describing the state of affairs in September 1944. The Allied advance is being slowed by overextended supply lines.
Out of Season (1975)
, 1h30Directed by Alan Bridges
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Vanessa Redgrave, Cliff Robertson, Susan George, Edward Evans, Frank Jarvis
Roles Postman
Rating59%
On the coast of Dorset, both Ann and her daughter Joanna run a failing hotel where the winter season is about to set in. As they prepare for winter, they receive a visitor named Joe, who has not mentioned for what purpose he has come to visit. Though he has some things to do, both Ann and Joanna slowly take an interest in him, but one wants him sexually and the other seems to have known him before this visit.
Nobody Ordered Love (1972)
, 1h27Directed by Robert Hartford-Davis
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Horror
Actors Ingrid Pitt, Tony Selby, Peter Arne, Mark Eden, David Lodge, Frank Jarvis
Roles Corporal
Rating65%
The Italian Job (1969)
, 1h39Directed by Peter Collinson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Heist films, Chase films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Michael Caine, Noël Coward, Raf Vallone, Benny Hill, Tony Beckley, Margaret Blye
Roles Roger
Rating71%
Charlie Croker (Michael Caine), a Cockney gangster, is released from prison with the intent of doing a "big job" in Italy. He soon meets with the widow (Lelia Goldoni) of his friend and fellow thief Roger Beckermann (Rossano Brazzi), who was killed driving a Lamborghini Miura in a car crash in the Italian Alps. The car crash was arranged by the Mafia. The widow gives Croker her husband's plans for the robbery that attracted the hostile attention of his killers, and which detail a way to steal 4 million dollars worth of Chinese gold in Italy, and escape with it to Switzerland.
Rotten to the Core (1965)
, 1h29Directed by John Boulting
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Anton Rodgers, Charlotte Rampling, Eric Sykes, Ian Bannen, Thorley Walters, Peter Vaughan
Roles Moby
Rating57%
That Kind of Girl (1963)
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Peter Burton, Frank Jarvis, Linda Marlowe, Martin Wyldeck
Roles Max
Rating53%
Mix Me a Person (1962)
, 1h56Directed by Leslie Norman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors Donald Sinden, Anne Baxter, Adam Faith, Walter Brown, Carole Ann Ford, Anthony Booth
Roles Nobby
Rating61%
Phillip Bellamy, a leading barrister, tells his wife, psychiatrist Anne Dyson, about his most recent case defending a young layabout, Harry Jukes, who has apparently shot a policemen on a country road and been found by police still holding the gun. Bellamy is convinced of his guilt, but Anne is less sure. Much of her practice is with troubled young people and she feels there is more to the story than the police evidence.