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Aside from '''Allo 'Allo!'', Frankau has also made appearances in ''Series/BlakesSeven'', ''Series/PlayForToday'' and ''C.A.T.S. Eyes''.

He stopped acting after 1992 (barring a return to the role of Carstairs in 2007) and now works as a software engineer.

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Aside from '''Allo 'Allo!'', Frankau has also made appearances His first acting role came in his teens, playing an UncreditedRole in ''Film/GoodbyeMrChips''. He started acting full-time in 1980, with a role in ''Series/BlakesSeven'', ''Series/PlayForToday'' followed by similarly small roles in ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'', ''I Remember Nelson'', and ''C.A.T.S. Eyes''.

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In 1982, Frankau was cast in the '''Allo 'Allo!'' {{Pilot}} as Carstairs, one half of a duo of incompetent British airmen trapped behind enemy lines in Nazi-occupied France. Over the next nine years, Frankau and his fellow airman, Creator/JohnDCollins, would don all manner of outlandish costumes throughout the series in their attempts to return home to England. The airmen were PutOnABus off-screen at the beginning of Series 8 but came BackForTheFinale just in time to see the liberation of France.

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He stopped acting after 1992 (barring a return to the role of Carstairs in 2007) and now works as a software engineer,.

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Nicholas Frankau, (16 July 1954), is a British actor best known for playing Carstairs in ''Series/AlloAllo''.

Aside from '''Allo 'Allo!'', Frankau has also made appearances in ''Series/BlakesSeven'', ''Series/PlayForToday'' and ''C.A.T.S. Eyes''.

He stopped acting after 1992 (barring a return to the role of Carstairs in 2007) and now works as a software engineer,.

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!!Works on TV Tropes he appeared in:
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* ''Film/GoodbyeMrChips'' (1969) -- Tardy Student (UncreditedRole)
* ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' (1981) -- Trawler Officer of the St. Georges (UncreditedRole)
* ''Film/SkyBandits'' (1986) -- Ffolkes
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* ''Series/BlakesSeven'', episode "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS3E13Terminal Terminal]]" (1980) -- Guard (UncreditedRole)
* ''Series/AlloAllo'', 62 episodes (1982-2007) -- Flying Officer "Bumbly" Carstairs
* ''Series/PlayForToday'', 2 episodes:
** "The Last Term" (1983) -- Student
** "Desert of Lies" (1984) -- Person at Party
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