Frank A. Hoare

Frank Alan Hoare CBE (4 October 1894 – 23 January 1980) was an English film producer known for his documentaries and work for the Children's Film Foundation (CFF).

[1] At the time of the 1911 census he was living in the parish of East Challow, Wantage, in Berkshire.

[2] In 1932, Hoare was director of research for Western Electric Limited.

[3] He was a member of the British Kinematograph Society[4] and was chairman of the Association of Specialised Film Producers[5] in which capacity he made a plea at their annual meeting in 1950 for the tax on cinema tickets to be cut to the same level as that on football match admission.

[7] Later that year he was appointed joint managing director of Westward Television Syndicate which had been established to act as programme contractors for a new television station to established in the South-West of England.