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Ronald Hugh Wyndham Frankau (22 February 1894 - 11 September 1951) was an English comedian who started in cabaret and made his way to radio and films. ==Family== Frankau was born in London, the third child of Arthur Frankau, son of Joseph Frankau, a German Jew who came to London from Frankfurt in the late 1830s and started a cigar trading business.〔Todd M. Endelman, "The Frankaus of London: A Study in Radical Assimilation, 1837-1967", ''Jewish History'' Vol. 8 Nos 1-2, 1994〕 His mother was Julia Davis Frankau, who would later become a celebrated writer of satirical novels.〔Aryeh Newman, "From Exile to Exit: the Frankau Jewish Connection", ''Jewish Quarterly'' Vol. 34 no. 4 (128) 1987〕 His mother's siblings included Henry Irving's mistress Eliza Aria〔Richards, Jeffrey, ''Sir Henry Irving: A Victorian Actor and his World'', Hambledon & London 2005 pp41,158〕〔Gilbert Frankau, ''Self-Portrait'', Hutchinson 1940 pp33-34〕〔Mrs Aria, ''My Sentimental Self'', Chapman & Hall 1922 Chh. VII-XI ''passim''〕 and theatre critic and librettist Owen Hall,〔Gilbert Frankau, ''Self-Portrait'', Hutchinson 1940 pp. 112-113〕 whilst their sister Florette was married to architect Marcus Collins, a brother of Drury Lane Theatre manager Arthur Collins.〔Mrs Aria, ''My Sentimental Self'', Chapman & Hall 1922 pp15-22〕〔Gilbert Frankau, ''Self-Portrait'', Hutchinson 1940 p41〕 His brother Gilbert Frankau, in his memoirs, states that it was "obscure" why their mother "tacked the stage-famous 'Wyndham' onto the 'Ronald Hugh'" in Frankau's name.〔Gilbert Frankau, ''Self-Portrait'', Hutchinson 1940 p. 33〕 Frankau's siblings were Gilbert, Jack and Joan. Gilbert went into the family cigar business (living and working in Germany throughout 1902 to learn something of the trade)〔Gilbert Frankau, ''Self-Portrait'', Hutchinson 1940 pp. 66-75〕 until the Great War, was a war poet and subsequently a novelist, while his daughter Pamela Frankau would also become a novelist. Jack was killed leading his platoon in the Third Battle of Gaza in November 1917. Joan married the historian Henry Stanley Bennett〔Gilbert Frankau, ''Self-Portrait'', Hutchinson 1940 p234〕 and, as a Cambridge don in her own right, Joan Bennett was one of the defence witnesses in the Lady Chatterley trial of 1960. Ronald Frankau had several children including TV producer John Frankau, father of Nicholas Frankau. He had two children with the actress Renée Roberts – Roberta and Rosemary. Rosemary Frankau pursued a career in acting, appearing in many series of the TV sitcom ''Terry and June'' as June's best friend Beattie. Rosemary's son, Sam Bain, became a comedy writer and co-created the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show. The Frankau family monument in Hampstead Cemetery was Grade II listed by English Heritage in 1999; it commemorates Arthur and Julia Frankau and their three sons.〔Marianne Colloms and Dick Weindling, ''The Good Grave Guide to Hampstead Cemetery, Fortune Green'', Camden History Society 2000 pp. 17-19〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ronald Frankau」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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