Frank THORNTON (1921-2013)

Frank Thornton This Is Your Life

programme details...

  • Edition No: 1006
  • Subject No: 981
  • Broadcast date: Mon 19 Oct 1998
  • Broadcast time: 7.00-7.30pm
  • Recorded: Sun 11 Oct 1998
  • Venue: Teddington Studios
  • Series: 39
  • Edition: 7
  • Code name: Bird

on the guest list...

  • Beryl - wife
  • Jane - daughter
  • Jonathan - grandson
  • Andrew - grandson
  • David - grandson
  • Bill Owen
  • Peter Sallis
  • Kathy Staff
  • Jane Freeman
  • Jean Ferguson
  • Alan Bell
  • Roy Clarke
  • John Ball - brother
  • Joan Ball - sister-in-law
  • Peter Hull
  • Peter Jones
  • Margaret Wolfit
  • Richard Lyndhurst
  • Esther Rogers
  • Iris Russell
  • Johnny Ladd
  • Jean Barber
  • Hugh Lloyd
  • Derek Nimmo
  • Clementina Bentine
  • Richard Bentine
  • Mollie Sugden
  • Wendy Richard
  • John Inman
  • Madeline Smith
  • Ursula Smith
  • Dulcie Gray
  • David Shepherd
  • Donald Sinden
  • Filmed tributes:
  • Julian Clary
  • June Whitfield
  • Danny La Rue
  • Trevor Bannister

production team...

  • Researcher: Emma Dooley
  • Writer: Ian Brown
  • Directors: John Gorman, Steve Docherty
  • Associate Producer: Helen Gordon-Smith
  • Executive Producer: John Longley
  • Series Producer: Jack Crawshaw
  • Producer: Sue Green
  • names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life
related pages...

Frank Thornton recalls his experience of This Is Your Life in an exclusive interview recorded in October 2009

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Screenshots of Frank Thornton This Is Your Life - and Frank Thornton photographed at his home with his big red book in October 2009

Series 39 subjects

Charles Stewart | Carol Smillie | Roy Walker | Sharron Davies | Christopher Chittell | Barbara Dickson | Frank Thornton
Phillip Schofield | Alastair Stewart | Bob Wilson | Frankie Dettori | Elizabeth Spriggs | Rick Wakeman | Sue Johnston
Lord Deedes | Sylvia Young | Anne Kirkbride | Christopher Biggins | Damon Hill | George Layton | Floella Benjamin
Bill Pertwee | Mark Cook | Gary Mabbutt | Suzi Quatro | Ian Bannen