March 29, 2011

Frank Whitten

Editor    posted 29 Mar 2011, 11:20 AM

 Frank Whitten obituary  

Actor, teacher and founder of the Common Stock theatre group

guardian.co.uk, Sunday 27 March 2011 18.08 BST

Frank Whitten returned to New Zealand in 1982 and played many roles on stage and screen.

After arriving in London in the 1960s as a stage-struck 19-year-old, Frank Whitten, who has died of cancer aged 68, became an inspirational teacher of drama, a leading actor in theatre, film and TV, and eventually a household name in his native New Zealand. He was also a director and writer, and a prominent force in the radical theatre movement of the 1970s.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/mar/27/frank-whitten-obituary