David Barry is a Welsh actor. He is best known for his role as Frankie Abott, (the gum-chewing mother's boy

Mother's boy

Mother's boy, also mummy's boy or mama's boy, is a term for a man who is excessively attached to his mother at an age when men are expected to be independent...

 who was convinced he was extremely tough), in the LWT sitcom Please Sir!

Please Sir!

Please Sir! was a London Weekend Television produced situation comedy, created by writers John Esmonde and Bob Larbey and featured the actors John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, Joan Sanderson, Noel Howlett, Erik Chitty and Richard Davies...

and the spin-off series The Fenn Street Gang

The Fenn Street Gang

The Fenn Street Gang is a British television sitcom which ran for three seasons between 1971 and 1973. The series was created by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey, it was spun-off from their Please Sir! series, and followed the lives of many of the pupils from Fenn Street School as they entered the...

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He has appeared in several films, notably two TV spin-off movies - Please Sir!

Please Sir! (film)

Please Sir! is a 1971 British comedy film starring John Alderton, spun off from the television series Please Sir!.-Cast:* John Alderton as Bernard Hedges* Deryck Guyler as Norman Potter* Noel Howlett as Maurice Cromwell...

and George and Mildred

George and Mildred (film)

George and Mildred is a 1980 British comedy film directed by Peter Frazer Jones. It was an adaptation of the television series of the same name. Yootha Joyce and Brian Murphy reprised their television roles as the two title characters. It was written by Dick Sharples...

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David is now an author with three novels under his belt, Each Man Kills, Flashback and Willie The Actor. He currently lives in Tunbridge Wells

Royal Tunbridge Wells

Royal Tunbridge Wells is a town in west Kent, England, about south-east of central London by road, by rail. The town is close to the border of the county of East Sussex...

, Kent.

External links

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/talent/b/barry_david.shtml
• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0057973/