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English actor (–)

Frank Dudley Foster (7 August – 8 January ) was an English actor who regularly appeared in television roles.

Foster was born in Brighouse, West Riding of Yorkshire.

His family had established links with the theatre; and a brother and sister also appeared on the stage.

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They were the children of Frank Geden Foster, a civil engineer, who was to die exactly a week before his son. Educated at Pocklington School, and following service as a navigator in the RAF, Dudley Foster studied chemistry at the University of Leeds.

In he joined the recently formed Bradford Civic Playhouse Theatre School and after turning professional, spent several successful years with northern repertory companies. From the later s into the s, he was a member of Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop based at London's Theatre Royal Stratford East.

In her autobiography, Joan's Book, Littlewood recalled that Foster had a wealthy father who financed some of the troupe's productions