Frankau attended
Harrow School and graduated in 1976 from
St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. Apart from '''Allo 'Allo!
, Frankau appeared in Blake's 7 (1980), Play for Today (1983 and 1984) and C.A.T.S. Eyes'' (1985), among others. During the 1980s he worked as a supply teacher, teaching Maths in the
Jewish Free School in
Camden Town and
Coleridge Community College in
Cambridge. He also taught at
County Upper School,
Bury St Edmunds in the '90s, and Newmarket Upper School, Newmarket, Suffolk. He no longer acts regularly but lives and works in
Cambridge working as a software engineer, having previously worked for
Qualcomm,
Nokia and
Symbian. ==References==