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Frank Vosper in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

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Frank Vosper

Overview

  • Born
    December 15, 1899 · Hampstead, London, England, UK
  • Died
    March 6, 1937 · at sea
  • Birth name
    Frank Permian Vosper
  • Height
    5′ 11″ (1.80 m)

Biography

  • Frank Vosper was born on December 15, 1899 in Hampstead, London, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Shadows on the Stairs (1941), A Night of Terror (1937) and Love from a Stranger (1947). He died on March 6, 1937 in at sea.

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  • Heavyweight British character actor and playwright, the son of a doctor. On stage from 1919, he later became a noted purveyor of suave villainy in films. He was seen to good effect as an assassin in Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934). At the peak of his career, Vosper died mysteriously, falling overboard and drowning during a sea voyage from New York to England aboard the transatlantic liner "Paris".
  • His sister Margery Vosper was a literary agent.

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