Frith Banbury

Frith Banbury MBE was a British theatre actor and director.

Frith Banbury was born in Plymouth, Devon, onMay 1912, the son of Rear Admiral Frederick Arthur Frith Banbury and his wife Winifred . While attending Stowe School, Banbury rejected his fathers naval background by refusing to join the Officer Training Corps, later becoming a conscientious objector and serving in the Friends Ambulance Unit. He went on to attend Hertford College, Oxford, though he left after one year without obtaining an academic degree. He trained for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art alongside Joan Littlewood, Rachel Kempson, Robert Morley, and Peter Bull. Banbury died onMay 2008, at the age of 96.

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