Keith Faulkner

Keith Faulkner (born 25 July 1936 in Richmond, Surrey) is an English-born Australian film and television actor.[1]

This article is about the English actor. For the British academic, see Keith W. Faulkner. For the English bass-baritone singer, see Keith Falkner.

Faulkner started his career at Corona Academy at the age of eleven and moved on to an adult career in film and television in the late 1950s and early 1960s before leaving the "business" and moving to Australia, with the Telephone Rentals telecommunications company he then worked with, along with his wife Pat and two sons Lee and Simon. In the late 1940s, he appeared at the London Coliseum in Annie Get Your Gun playing Annie Oakley's brother Little Jake. In 1951, he appeared at Stratford-upon-Avon's Memorial Theatre during the Festival of Britain Season, playing Falstaff's Page in Henry IV and the Boy in Henry V.[2] This was followed by an extensive tour of Britain with the Elizabethan Theatre Company, performing various Shakespearean productions. In the 1950s, Keith Faulkner was known for his roles as Ginger in Just William and Bob Cherry in Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School (both BBC TV series) and also featured in juvenile roles in a number of feature films. In the early 1960s, he appeared in several B-film thrillers and crime films and starred in The Man in the Back Seat, and Strongroom.[3] His last screen credit was in 1963.[4]

Partial filmography

References
  1. "Keith Faulkner".
  2. "Keith Faulkner - Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
  3. McFarlane, Brian (16 May 2016). The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9781526111968 – via Google Books.
  4. "Keith Faulkner - Movies and Filmography - AllMovie". AllMovie.


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