Frank Williams (actor)
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Frank Williams (born 1931) is a British actor.
He starred in The Army Game (as Captain Pocket) and as the Vicar (the Reverend Timothy Farthing) in Dad's Army. In 1970, he starred in the short-lived sitcom As Good Cooks Go. In 1972, at the height of his Dad's Army fame, he made a cameo appearance in Monty Python's Flying Circus. He also had an occasional role as a Bishop in You Rang, M'Lord?.
Williams also appeared in one episode of All Gas and Gaiters starring as the one of the vicars choral. Although not a real-life clergyman, Williams was for some years a lay member of the General Synod of the Church of England, until 2000.
Williams has also appeared in many films, among them three Norman Wisdom films: The Square Peg (1958), The Bulldog Breed (1960), and A Stitch In Time (1963)
His autobiography, Vicar to Dad's Army - the Frank Williams story was published in 2002. He has lived for many years in Edgware, Middlesex.
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