Frank Graham
Born: 1914-11-22 in Detroit, Michigan, USA
Died: 1950-09-02
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Frank Graham attended the University of California for one year and left to begin his acting career in Seattle, both on the stage and in radio. He was brought to Hollywood in 1937 to join KNX Radio. He had been married two years before to Dorothy Jack of Seattle. He was the star of Night Cap Yarns over CBS from 1938 through 1942 and was the announcer of dozens of programs, including the Ginny Simms, Rudy Vallee and Nelson Eddy shows. He starred in Jeff Regan, Investigator and co-developed the radio drama Satan’s Waitin’ with Van Des Autels. Graham was also The Wandering Vaquero, the narrator of The Romance Of The Ranchos radio series (1941–1942), also on the CBS network. One of his few live action roles was playing the tile character in the film Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher (1943). He had also served as a writer for the radio program on which the film was based upon. Graham played numerous characters in animated films for Walt Disney, MGM, Columbia and Warner Bros. He voiced the Wolf in Tex Avery's Droopy cartoons, as well as the Mouse in King-Size Canary at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He provided the voices of the Fox and Crow in the eponymous-named shorts at Columbia. He was found dead at age 35 in his convertible in the carport of his home in Los Angeles on September 2, 1950. A coroner declared he had committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
Filmography
2023
- Private SNAFU Golden Classics as (archive sound)
2007
- Tex Avery's Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection as Killer (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
- Looney Tunes: Spotlight Collection Vol. 5 as Narrator (archive sound) (uncredited)
1950
- Jerry and the Lion as The Lion (voice) (uncredited)
- The Chump Champ as Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
- Albert in Blunderland as Planning Board Ant / Ant Guards (voice)
1949
- So Much for So Little as Narrator (voice)
- The House of Tomorrow as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Each Dawn I Crow as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1948
- Kitty Foiled as Tom (voice) (uncredited)
1947
- Slap Happy Lion as Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
- King-Size Canary as Mouse (voice)
1946
- Baseball Bugs as Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
- Springtime for Thomas as Jerry's Devil Conscience / Butch (voice)
- The Eager Beaver as Narrator (voice)
- Northwest Hounded Police as Escaped Prisoner (voice) (uncredited)
- Catnipped as Doctors
- Bathing Time for Baby as Self - The Stork
- Honesty Is the Best Policy as Professor J. Waldo Purrington / Fish Vendor (voice)
1945
- Kuku Nuts as Fox / Crow (voice)
- Jerky Turkey as Junior Pilgrim (voice) (uncredited)
- The Shooting of Dan McGoo as Wolf / Bartender (uncredited)
- Swing Shift Cinderella as Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
- Fiesta Time as Donkey
- Treasure Jest as Fox / Crow (voice)
- Fresh Airedale as Narrator, Shep's Master
- Hot Footlights as Cowboy / King Cole
- African Diary as Narrator / Hyena (voice) (uncredited)
- Tokyo Woes as Narrator
- Phoney Baloney as Fox / Crow (voice)
- Something You Didn't Eat as Narrator (voice)
1944
- The Three Caballeros as (voice)
- Going Home as Narrator
- The Lady and the Monster as Narrator
- Mr. Moocher as Fox / Crow (voice)
- The Weakly Reporter as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Big Heel-Watha as Narrator / Interpreter / Indian Chief (voice) (uncredited)
- The Dream Kids as Fox / Crow
- Sadie Hawkins Day as Li'l Abner (voice)
- The Chow Hound as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Venereal Disease as Narrator (Uncredited)
- A Few Quick Facts: Voting for Service Men Overseas as Narrator (uncredited)
- Mr. Fore by Fore as Bull / Golfer
1943
- Red Hot Riding Hood as Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
- Chicken Little as Narrator / Foxy Loxy / Chicken Little / Cocky Locky / Turkey Lurkey / Additional characters (voice) (uncredited)
- Rumors as Narrator - Soldier (voice)
- Coming!! Snafu as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Dumb-Hounded as The Killer (voice) (uncredited)
- The Lonesome Mouse as (voice) (uncredited)
- Dizzy Newsreel as Narrator / Various
- Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher as Cosmo Jones
- Reason and Emotion as Narrator / Reason (voice)
- Duty and the Beast as Narrator / Dog
- The Cocky Bantam as Freddy Falcon / Dick Rooster / Hooded Salesman
- Slay It with Flowers as Fox / Crow
- Tree for Two as Fox / Crow
- Plenty Below Zero as Fox / Crow
- The Fly In The Ointment as Fly / Bats
- A-Hunting We Won't Go as Fox (voice) (uncredited)
1942
- Saludos Amigos as Frank Graham
- Fox Pop as Fox Prisoner (voice)
- Horton Hatches the Egg as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Blitz Wolf as Narrator (voice)
- Foney Fables as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- The Early Bird Dood It! as Bird (voice) (uncredited)
- A Hollywood Detour as Narrator (uncredited)
- King Midas, Junior as Narrator / Radio Announce
- The Wild and Woozy West as Sheriff (voice)
- Wacky Wigwams as Narrator / Indians
- Toll Bridge Troubles as Fox / Crow (voice) (uncredited)
1941
- The Night Before Christmas as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)