---
name: "Frank Bough"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/frank-bough"
fi1m_id: "frank-bough"
imdb_id: "nm0099271"
tmdb_id: 1213509
wikidata_id: "Q11859910"
roles: []
born: "15 January 1933"
died: "21 October 2020"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T00:54:50.776761+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Frank Bough

## Identity

Frank Bough

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/frank-bough
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** frank-bough
- **IMDb ID:** nm0099271
- **TMDB ID:** 1213509
- **Wikidata ID:** Q11859910
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Bough, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11859910, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0099271/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1213509

Actor. Born 15 January 1933 in Fenton, Staffordshire, England, UK. Died 21 October 2020.

## Details

- **Born:** 15 January 1933, Fenton, Staffordshire, England, UK
- **Died:** 21 October 2020
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Bough, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11859910, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0099271/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1213509

## Biography

Frank Bough (1933–2020) was an English television presenter. He was best known for hosting BBC programmes including the sports magazine *Grandstand* from 1968, the current-affairs show *Nationwide* and *Breakfast Time*, the corporation’s first breakfast television service, which he launched in 1983 alongside Selina Scott and Nick Ross.

Born Francis Joseph Bough in Fenton, Staffordshire, he was educated at Oswestry Boys’ School and Merton College, Oxford, and completed national service in the Royal Tank Regiment. He joined the BBC in the early 1960s on regional news in Newcastle before moving to national sport and current-affairs presenting.

Bough’s long association with the BBC ended in 1988 after tabloid revelations about his private life. He subsequently presented programmes for ITV and Sky.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, bbc.com, theguardian.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Maiden* (2019), Fi1m 80, as Himself (archive footage) — [page](https://film.one/film/maiden.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Trials and Tribulations* (2008), as (archive footage)
- *Breakfast Time* (1983), series, Actor
- *Nationwide* (1969), series, Actor
- *Holiday* (1969), series, Actor

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