Frank Gallagher (Shameless)
| Frank Gallagher | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Shameless character | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | David Threlfall | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Duration | 2004–2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | 13 January 2004 Series 1 Episode 1 "Meet the Gallaghers" |
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| Last appearance | 28 May 2013 Series 11 Episode 14 "End of the Line" |
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| Created by | Paul Abbott | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Introduced by | George Faber | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification | Former; regular | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Occupation | School janitor | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Home | 2 Windsor Gardens | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Father | Neville Gallagher |
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| Mother | Sarah Elizabeth Gallagher |
| Wife |
Monica Dallimore (divorced) Sheila Jackson (2006–2007) |
| Sons |
Lip Gallagher Carl Gallagher Liam Gallagher Nigel Gallagher Ben Gallagher |
| Daughters |
Fiona Gallagher Debbie Gallagher Delia Gallagher Stella Gallagher |
| Adoptive sons | Ian Gallagher |
| Stepdaughters | Karen Maguire (2006–2007) |
| Granddaughters | Katie Maguire |
| Grandmothers | Nin Gallagher |
| Aunts | Iris Gallagher |
Vernon Francis "Frank" Gallagher (born 26 January 1960) is a fictional character from the Channel 4 drama Shameless, portrayed by David Threlfall. The character appeared in 136 episodes in total.
He is father to 9 children and stepfather to 2 children.
Frank's hallmarks are drunken rants on a wide variety of literary, historical and philosophical subjects, usually returning to how decent, hard-working people, among whom he erroneously seems to count himself, are discriminated against. Frank frequently quotes Shakespeare, the Bible, references international current events and uses poetry and soliloquy to express his feelings or view, as he does at the start of each episode. Thus, in spite of his drunken ramblings, sometimes he does come across as being well-educated owing to the issues he raises during his interactions with others.
Frank is an unemployed alcoholic, and the son of Neville (John Woodvine) and Sarah Elizabeth Gallagher (1955–1982). He was married to Monica Gallagher (Annabelle Apsion), with whom he has seven children: Fiona (Anne-Marie Duff), Lip (Jody Latham), Carl (Elliott Tittensor), Debbie (Rebecca Ryan), Liam (Johnny Bennett), Stella (Nikita Brownlee) and Ben, and one, Ian (Gerard Kearns), to whom he is de jure father. He also has two children with Sheila Jackson (Maggie O'Neill), Nigel and Delia, and is the father of Monica's half-sister, after sleeping with Monica's mother, Joan Dallimore (Anne Reid), at Monica's birthday party and impregnated her. He has two grandchildren, Katie from Lip and an unnamed child of Fiona's when she left in Series 2. During one of Frank's drunken rants, it is implied that he got many girls pregnant in school. Although this is never elaborated upon, it is unclear precisely how many children Frank has actually fathered.
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