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
- Presenting Lily Mars as Elevator Boy
- Corvette K-225 as Rating
1942
- Lady in a Jam as Young Man (uncredited)
1941
- Uncle Joe as Dick
- Military Training as Soldier Patient
- Adventures of Captain Marvel as Billy Batson
- Out of the Fog
- Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1 as Self
1940
- Double Alibi as Newspaper Switchboard Operator
- Murder Over New York as Frankie O'Shaughnessy
- The Fighting 69th as Jimmy (uncredited)
- Knute Rockne All American as Messenger (uncredited)
- Love Thy Neighbor as Bellboy
- Remedy for Riches as Bud
- Free, Blonde and 21 as Sammy, Bellboy
1939
- Gone with the Wind as Collapsing Soldier (uncredited)
- It's a Wonderful World as Elevator Boy (uncredited)
- East Side of Heaven as Messenger Boy (uncredited)
- Second Fiddle as Studio Call Boy
- Ex-Champ as Bellhop
- Angels Wash Their Faces as Al - Boy Working Lathe (uncredited)
- Off the Record as Copyboy (uncredited)
- Scouts to the Rescue as Ken - a Boy Scout
- Dust Be My Destiny as Newsboy (uncredited)
- Day-time Wife as Office Boy
- Boys' Reformatory as Eddie O'Meara
- Here I Am a Stranger as Office Boy
- Meet Dr. Christian as Bud
- The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle as Boy in Montage (uncredited)
- The Flying Irishman as Teenager Taking Photograph
1938
- Service de Luxe as Bellhop
1937
- Blazing Barriers as Tommy McGrath
- Let Them Live as Bellhop
1936
- The Little Red Schoolhouse as Frank 'Frankie' Burke
- Make Way for a Lady as Billy Hopkins
- Charlie Chan at the Race Track as Eddie Brill, Jockey
- Red Lights Ahead as Willie Wallace
- Melody in May as Tommy
1935
- Stranded as Page (uncredited)
- Happiness C.O.D. as Larry Sherridan
- Kentucky Blue Streak as Johnny Bradley
- It Never Rains as Sonny
1934
- Pardon My Pups as Sonny Rogers
- Managed Money as Sonny Rogers
1933
- Drum Taps as Eric Cartwright
- In the Money as Dick Higginbottom
- Racetrack as Jackie Curtis
- What's to Do? as Sonny Rogers
- Merrily Yours as James "Sonny" Rogers
1932
- Union Depot as Ragged Urchin (uncredited)
- Man Wanted as Youngster in Store
- The Last of the Mohicans as Uncas
- Hell's House as Shorty
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
- Rubber Tires as Charley Stack
- The Country Doctor as Sard Jones
- A Harp in Hock as Tommy Shannon
- Slide, Kelly, Slide as Mickey Martin
- The Yankee Clipper as Mickey
1926
- Whispering Smith
- Mike as Boy
- Her Man o' War as Peterkin Schultz
- The Last Frontier as Buddy
- The Skyrocket as Mickey (prologue)
1925
- The Great Circus Mystery as (as Junior Coghlan)
1923
- The Darling of New York as The Ross Kid
- The Spanish Dancer as Page (uncredited)
- A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate as Boy (uncredited)
- Little Old New York as (uncredited)
- Cause for Divorce as Tommie Parker (as Junior Coghlan)
1922
- Bobbed Hair as Lamont Child (as Junior Coghlan)