Frank Mills obit

Actor Albert Frank Mills has died

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Mills was born in London, England, in August 1927. He played Commissionaire Peterson in 'The Blue Carbuncle' episode of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in 1984, and Reginald Crump in Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye in 1985. Also in 1984 he appeared as Harry Martin, an accountant or book keeper employed by agoraphobic bookmaker Albert Wendle in the Minder episode Get Daley! He again appeared in Minder in 1991, this time in the episode The Greatest Show in Willesden in which he played Arthur Daley's barber, Len. He also appeared in Channel 5's revival of Minder starring Shane Richie and Lex Shrapnel. Along with Linal Haft and Paul Brooke he is one of only three actors to appear in both the classic series and this reboot, but starring in different roles in each. In 1997 he played Albert Potter in the third episode of the seventh series of Heartbeat; the episode entitled "Small Beer."

Mills appeared in television series such as The Brief, Midsomer Murders, Foyle's War, Flambards and The Palace and as chip shop proprietor Len Holmes, in The Sweeney episode "May.".

Other television appearances have included Season Three of Hetty Wainthropp Investigates playing Frank Wainthropp (1997), and as William Caulder, an ill-treated pensioner in a retirement home who commits suicide in the 2004 The Royal episode "For Better For Worse".

He starred alongside Ray Brooks in the 1984 hit BBC drama Big Deal as the grumpy bookmaker Gil.[9]

Mills died in February 2021 at the age of 93.

 

Filmography

Year       Title       Role       Notes

1977      The Glitterball   Supermarket Manager   Uncredited

1980      Rough Cut           Passport Clerk  

1982      Witness for the Prosecution        Chief Inspector Hearne

1982      The Missionary                Sir Cyril Everidge              

1984      Champions          Charles

1985      Parker                  Mr. Epps             

1987      Bellman and True             Security Man     

1993      Closing Numbers              Frank    

1995      The Young Poisoner's Handbook                              Uncle Jack          

1998      The Tribe                            Emily's Father   

2001      Bodywork                          Sydney Greengrass        

2002      Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War        Leslie    

2003      Wondrous Oblivion         Mr. Robinson    

2005      Oliver Twist        Elderly Officer