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and afterwards joined his father's business as a sales rep. Amateur dramatics in his then home town of
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By April 1957, Pemberton was working on TV with the BBC and ITV. By 1960 he had made more than 100 TV performances and had made the step to
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on 24 February 1965 from which he recovered but which severely compromised his acting career. He died prematurely aged 56, in
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of a fatal stroke on 26 March 1971, approximately six weeks after his last appearance as Frank Barlow.
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