Frank Singuineau

Francis Ethlebert Singuineau April 8 1913 September 11 1992 known as Frank Singuineau was a Trinidadian actor of stage and screen who worked in Britain where he moved from Trinidad and Tobago in the 1940s Employed by the Shell Company he took an active interest in Amateur Dramatics Just after the Second World War he gave up his job with Shell travelled to London and became an actor acting with the Unity Theatre and the Bristol Old Vic1 His London stage debut was in 1948 in Richard Wrights Native Son 1948 and Singuineaus acting career spanned the subsequent decades until his last roles in Lillian Hellmans Watch on the Rhine at the Royal National Theatre and Mustapha Maturas Playboy of the West Indies at the Tricycle Theatre in 1984 Singuineau also appeared in such films as The Pumpkin Eater Séance on a Wet Afternoon Pressure and An American Werewolf in London and in several television series including ZCars Crane and Doomwatch Singuineau retired in the late 1980s He died on 11 September 1992 in London England at the age of 79