Frank Singuineau
Born: 1913-04-08 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago
Died: 1992-09-11
Known For: Acting
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 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
1985
- Playboy of the West Indies as Jimmy
1981
1979
- Firepower as Manley Reckford
1976
- Pressure as Lucas
1975
- Club Havana as Jim
1972
- Crown Court
- In the Beautiful Caribbean as Judge
1970
- Doomwatch as Chemist
- The World in a Room as Aaron Willis
1969
- Carry On Again Doctor as Native Porter
1967
- Follow That Camel as Riff at Abdul's Tent (uncredited)
- The Whisperers as Negro Doctor
1966
- The Wrong Box as Native Bearer
1965
- Fable as Minister
1964
- The Wednesday Play as Minister
- The Pumpkin Eater as King of Israel
- Guns at Batasi
- Seance on a Wet Afternoon as Bus Conductor
1963
- Crane as Second Customer
1962
- Man of the World as Simon
- On the Beat as Porter (uncredited)
- Out of This World as For
- Night of the Eagle as Truck Driver (uncredited)
1961
- The Day of the Fox as Doctor
1960
- Peeping Tom as Electrician #1 (uncredited)
1959
- The Heart of a Man as Louis
- The Nun's Story as Murderer of Sister Aurelie (uncredited)
- The Mummy as Head Porter
1957
- The Heart Within as Bobo
- Man from Tangier as Montez
1956
- The Buccaneers as Chief
- Safari as African
1955
- Storm Over the Nile as Native Servant
- Simba as Waweru
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as John