Frank Lawton was born in 1904 in London. His career was mainly in Britain but he did go to Hollywood to play the young adult David in George Cukor’s “David Copperfield” opposite Maureen O’Sullivan in 1935. His other films include “The Mill on the Floss”, “The Four Just Men” and “Went the Day Well” in 1942. He was long married to the actress Evelyn Laye. Frank Lawton died in London in 1969.