Frank Coghlan Jr.
Born: 1916-03-15 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Died: 2009-09-07
Known For: Acting
Biography
Frank Coghlan, Jr. (1916–2009) was an American actor who later became a career officer in the United States Navy and a Naval Aviator. He appeared in approximately 129 films and television programs between 1920 and 1974. During the 1920s and 1930s, he became a popular child and juvenile actor appearing in early Our Gang comedies, but he is best known for the role of Billy Batson in Adventures of Captain Marvel. Coghlan later served 23 years as an aviator and officer in the US Navy from 1942 to 1965. After retiring from the Navy, he returned to acting and appeared in television, films, and commercials.
Filmography
1993
1991
- The Republic Pictures Story as Self
1969
- The Love God? as Reporter (uncredited)
1968
- The Shakiest Gun in the West as Man at Bar (uncredited)
1967
- Valley of the Dolls as Reporter (uncredited)
- The Love-Ins as Reporter in Park
1962
- The Beverly Hillbillies as Helmsman
1943
- Corvette K-225 as Rating
- Presenting Lily Mars as Elevator Boy
1942
- Lady in a Jam as Young Man (uncredited)
1941
- Adventures of Captain Marvel as William "Billy" Batson
- Adventures of Captain Marvel as Billy Batson
- Out of the Fog
- Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1 as Self
- Uncle Joe as Dick
- Military Training as Soldier Patient
1940
- Knute Rockne All American as Messenger (uncredited)
- Murder Over New York as Frankie O'Shaughnessy
- The Fighting 69th as Jimmy (uncredited)
- Free, Blonde and 21 as Sammy, Bellboy
- Double Alibi as Newspaper Switchboard Operator
- Love Thy Neighbor as Bellboy
- Remedy for Riches as Bud
1939
- Gone with the Wind as Collapsing Soldier (uncredited)
- It's a Wonderful World as Elevator Boy (uncredited)
- The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle as Boy in Montage (uncredited)
- Dust Be My Destiny as Newsboy (uncredited)
- East Side of Heaven as Messenger Boy (uncredited)
- Angels Wash Their Faces as Al - Boy Working Lathe (uncredited)
- Scouts to the Rescue as Ken - a Boy Scout
- Boys' Reformatory as Eddie O'Meara
- Second Fiddle as Studio Call Boy
- Here I Am a Stranger as Office Boy
- The Flying Irishman as Teenager Taking Photograph
- Off the Record as Copyboy (uncredited)
- Ex-Champ as Bellhop
- Meet Dr. Christian as Bud
- Day-time Wife as Office Boy
1938
- Service de Luxe as Bellhop
1937
- Let Them Live as Bellhop
- Blazing Barriers as Tommy McGrath
1936
- Charlie Chan at the Race Track as Eddie Brill, Jockey
- The Little Red Schoolhouse as Frank 'Frankie' Burke
- Make Way for a Lady as Billy Hopkins
- Red Lights Ahead as Willie Wallace
- Melody in May as Tommy
1935
- Happiness C.O.D. as Larry Sherridan
- Stranded as Page (uncredited)
- Kentucky Blue Streak as Johnny Bradley
- It Never Rains as Sonny
1934
- Pardon My Pups as Sonny Rogers
- Managed Money as Sonny Rogers
1933
- Merrily Yours as James "Sonny" Rogers
- What's to Do? as Sonny Rogers
- In the Money as Dick Higginbottom
- Drum Taps as Eric Cartwright
- Racetrack as Jackie Curtis
1932
- The Last of the Mohicans as Uncas
- Union Depot as Ragged Urchin (uncredited)
- Hell's House as Shorty
- Man Wanted as Youngster in Store
1931
- The Public Enemy as Tom as a Boy (uncredited)
- It Pays to Advertise as Office Boy (as Junior Coghlan)
- Penrod and Sam as Sam Williams
- How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 5: 'The Medium Irons' as Junior
1930
- The Girl Said No as Eddie Ward
- River's End as Mickey
1929
- Square Shoulders as Tad
1928
- Let 'Er Go Gallegher as John 'Let 'Er Go' Gallegher
- Marked Money as The Kid
1927
- A Harp in Hock as Tommy Shannon
- The Yankee Clipper as Mickey
- Rubber Tires as Charley Stack
- Slide, Kelly, Slide as Mickey Martin
- The Country Doctor as Sard Jones
1926
- Her Man o' War as Peterkin Schultz
- Whispering Smith
- The Skyrocket as Mickey (prologue)
- Mike as Boy
- The Last Frontier as Buddy
1925
- The Great Circus Mystery as (as Junior Coghlan)
1923
- A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate as Boy (uncredited)
- Little Old New York as (uncredited)
- The Darling of New York as The Ross Kid
- The Spanish Dancer as Page (uncredited)
- Cause for Divorce as Tommie Parker (as Junior Coghlan)
1922
- Bobbed Hair as Lamont Child (as Junior Coghlan)