Keith Faulkner is an English-born British actor who started his career at Corona Academy in childhood at the age of eleven and moved onto andult career in film and television in the late 1950s and early 1960s before leaving the "business" and moving to Australia, with the Telecommunications company he then worked with, along with his wife Patt and two sons Lee and Simon. In the late 1940s he appeared at the London Coliseum in "Annie Get Your Gun" playing Annie Oakley's brother Little Jake. In 1951 he appeared at Stratford-upon Avon Memorial Theatre during the Festival of Britain Season, playing Falstaff's Page in "Henry IV" and The Boy in "Henry V". This was followed by an extensive tour of England with the Elizabethen Theatre Company performing various Shakespearean productions. In the 1950s Keith Faulkner was known for his roles as Ginger in "Just William"and Bob Cherry inBilly Bunter of Greyfriars School' (both BBC TV Series) and also featured in juvenile roles in a number of feature films. In the early 1960s he appeared in several B-movie

B-movie

A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse or pornographic film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....

 thrillers and crime films, and starred in The Man in the Back Seat

The Man in the Back Seat

The Man in the Back Seat is a 1961 British B-movie crime film, directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Derren Nesbitt and Keith Faulkner. The film was based on an Edgar Wallace story, and was tightly shot, with only four name-credited actors and much of the action taking place in a cramped flat...

, ' and trongroom (film)]. His last screen credit was in 1963.

Partial filmography

• The Happiest Days of Your Life
  The Happiest Days of Your Life
  The Happiest Days of Your Life is a 1950 British comedy film directed by Frank Launder, based on the play by John Dighton. The two men also wrote the screenplay. It's one of a stable of classic British film comedies produced by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat for British Lion Film Corporation. The...
  
   (1950)
• Johnny on the Run
  Johnny on the Run
  Johnny on the Run is a 1953 adventure film directed by Lewis Gilbert.-Cast:*Eugeniusz Chylek as Johnny*Sydney Tafler as 'Flash Harry' Fisher*Michael Balfour as 'Fingers' Brown*Jean Anderson as Mrs. MacIntyre*Moultrie Kelsall as Mr. MacIntyre...
  
   (1953)
• Laxdale Hall
  Laxdale Hall
  Laxdale Hall is a 1953 British comedy film directed by John Elridge and starring Ronald Squire, Kathleen Ryan, Raymond Huntley, Prunella Scales, Fulton Mackay, and Jean Colin....
  
   (1953)

Blue Peter (1954)

• Tunes of Glory
  Tunes of Glory
  Tunes of Glory is a 1960 British film directed by Ronald Neame, based on the novel and screenplay by James Kennaway. The film is a "dark psychological drama" centring on events in a Scottish Highland regimental barracks in the period following World War II...
  
   (1960)
• Linda
  Linda (film)
  Linda is a 1960 British teen film drama, directed by Don Sharp and starring Carol White and Alan Rothwell. The film was shot on location in South London and Brighton, and played in cinemas as the support feature to Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. The film was featured as an episode of Cinema...
  
   (1960)
• The Man in the Back Seat
  The Man in the Back Seat
  The Man in the Back Seat is a 1961 British B-movie crime film, directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Derren Nesbitt and Keith Faulkner. The film was based on an Edgar Wallace story, and was tightly shot, with only four name-credited actors and much of the action taking place in a cramped flat...
  
   (1961)
• Payroll
  Payroll (film)
  Payroll is a 1961 British crime thriller starring Michael Craig, and based on the novel by Derek Bickerton. The story is about a gang of villains that stage a wages robbery, which turns into a disaster. Most of the film was shot on location in and around Gateshead and Newcastle upon Tyne...
  
   (1961)
• Strongroom
  Strongroom (film)
  Strongroom is a 1962 British crime drama film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Derren Nesbitt, Colin Gordon and Ann Lynn. During a bank robbery the bank manager and cashier are locked in a safe, but the criminals are forced to return to the bank to release them before the police...
  
   (1962)
• The Pot Carriers
  The Pot Carriers
  The Pot Carriers is a 1962 British comedy drama film directed by Peter Graham Scott and starring Ronald Fraser, Paul Massie, Carole Lesley and Dennis Price...
  
  (1962)

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