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
- Out of the Fog
- Adventures of Captain Marvel as Billy Batson
- Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1 as Self
- Uncle Joe as Dick
- Military Training as Soldier Patient
1940
- Murder Over New York as Frankie O'Shaughnessy
- Knute Rockne All American as Messenger (uncredited)
- The Fighting 69th as Jimmy (uncredited)
- Free, Blonde and 21 as Sammy, Bellboy
- Love Thy Neighbor as Bellboy
- Remedy for Riches as Bud
- Double Alibi as Newspaper Switchboard Operator
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)
- Angels Wash Their Faces as Al - Boy Working Lathe (uncredited)
- Second Fiddle as Studio Call Boy
- Dust Be My Destiny as Newsboy (uncredited)
- East Side of Heaven as Messenger Boy (uncredited)
- Ex-Champ as Bellhop
- Scouts to the Rescue as Ken - a Boy Scout
- Boys' Reformatory as Eddie O'Meara
- The Flying Irishman as Teenager Taking Photograph
- Day-time Wife as Office Boy
- Meet Dr. Christian as Bud
- Off the Record as Copyboy (uncredited)
- Here I Am a Stranger 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
- Melody in May as Tommy
- Make Way for a Lady as Billy Hopkins
- Red Lights Ahead as Willie Wallace
- The Little Red Schoolhouse as Frank 'Frankie' Burke
1935
- Stranded as Page (uncredited)
- It Never Rains as Sonny
- Kentucky Blue Streak as Johnny Bradley
- Happiness C.O.D. as Larry Sherridan
1934
- Managed Money as Sonny Rogers
- Pardon My Pups as Sonny Rogers
1933
- Merrily Yours as James "Sonny" Rogers
- What's to Do? as Sonny Rogers
- Drum Taps as Eric Cartwright
- Racetrack as Jackie Curtis
- In the Money as Dick Higginbottom
1932
- Union Depot as Ragged Urchin (uncredited)
- Hell's House as Shorty
- Man Wanted as Youngster in Store
- The Last of the Mohicans as Uncas
1931
- The Public Enemy as Tom as a Boy (uncredited)
- Penrod and Sam as Sam Williams
- It Pays to Advertise as Office Boy (as Junior Coghlan)
- 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
- The Country Doctor as Sard Jones
- The Yankee Clipper as Mickey
- A Harp in Hock as Tommy Shannon
- Rubber Tires as Charley Stack
- Slide, Kelly, Slide as Mickey Martin
1926
- The Skyrocket as Mickey (prologue)
- The Last Frontier as Buddy
- Whispering Smith
- Mike as Boy
- Her Man o' War as Peterkin Schultz
1925
- The Great Circus Mystery as (as Junior Coghlan)
1923
- A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate as Boy (uncredited)
- The Spanish Dancer as Page (uncredited)
- Little Old New York as (uncredited)
- Cause for Divorce as Tommie Parker (as Junior Coghlan)
- The Darling of New York as The Ross Kid
1922
- Bobbed Hair as Lamont Child (as Junior Coghlan)