Frank Thornton
March 22, 2013
Are You Being Served? actor dead
LONDON (AP): British actor Frank Thornton — best known as Captain Peacock in the long-running television comedy Are You Being Served? — died in his sleep March 16 in London. He was 92.
The actor is best remembered by British audiences for his comic role in the innuendo-laden hit sitcom, which ran from the 1970s to 1985. He played a mustachioed, pompous floor manager who oversaw his fellow shop workers in a department store.
Thornton is survived by his wife Beryl, daughter Jane, and three grandchildren.
