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 Lion / Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
- The Chump Champ as Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
- Albert in Blunderland as Planning Board Ant / Ant Guards (voice)
1949
- Each Dawn I Crow as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- So Much for So Little as Narrator (voice)
- The House of Tomorrow as Narrator (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 Anti-Conscience / Butch (voice)
- Catnipped as Doctors
- The Eager Beaver as Narrator (voice)
- Northwest Hounded Police as Escaped Prisoner (voice) (uncredited)
- Bathing Time for Baby as Self - The Stork
- Honesty Is the Best Policy as Professor J. Waldo Purrington / Fish Vendor (voice)
1945
- Jerky Turkey as Junior Pilgrim (voice) (uncredited)
- Flirty Birdy as Eagle (voice) (uncredited)
- Fiesta Time as Donkey
- Kuku Nuts as Fox / Crow (voice)
- Treasure Jest as Fox / Crow (voice)
- The Shooting of Dan McGoo as Wolf / Bartender (uncredited)
- Swing Shift Cinderella as Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
- Hot Footlights as Cowboy / King Cole
- Something You Didn't Eat as Narrator (voice)
- African Diary as Narrator / Hyena (voice) (uncredited)
- Tokyo Woes as Narrator
- Fresh Airedale as Narrator, Shep's Master
- Phoney Baloney as Fox / Crow (voice)
1944
- The Three Caballeros as (voice)
- Mr. Moocher as Fox / Crow (voice)
- A Few Quick Facts: Voting for Service Men Overseas as Narrator (uncredited)
- The Lady and the Monster as Narrator
- Going Home as Narrator
- Venereal Disease as Narrator (Uncredited)
- The Weakly Reporter as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Big Heel-Watha as Narrator / Interpreter / Indian Chief (voice) (uncredited)
- Mr. Fore by Fore as Bull / Golfer
- The Dream Kids as Fox / Crow
- Sadie Hawkins Day as Li'l Abner (voice)
- The Chow Hound as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1943
- Red Hot Riding Hood as Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
- Reason and Emotion as Narrator / Reason (voice)
- Dumb-Hounded as The Killer (voice) (uncredited)
- Chicken Little as Narrator / Foxy Loxy / Chicken Little / Cocky Locky / Turkey Lurkey / Additional characters (voice) (uncredited)
- Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher as Cosmo Jones
- Rumors as Narrator - Soldier (voice)
- Coming!! Snafu as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Dizzy Newsreel as Narrator / Various
- Duty and the Beast as Narrator / Dog
- The Fly In The Ointment as Fly / Bats
- A-Hunting We Won't Go as Fox (voice) (uncredited)
- Tree for Two as Fox / Crow
- Slay It with Flowers as Fox / Crow
- Plenty Below Zero as Fox / Crow
- The Cocky Bantam as Freddy Falcon / Dick Rooster / Hooded Salesman
1942
- Saludos Amigos as Frank Graham
- Fox Pop as Fox Prisoner (voice)
- The Early Bird Dood It! as Bird (voice) (uncredited)
- Horton Hatches the Egg as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Foney Fables as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Blitz Wolf as Narrator (voice)
- The Wild and Woozy West as Sheriff (voice)
- A Hollywood Detour as Narrator (uncredited)
- King Midas, Junior as Narrator / Radio Announce
- Toll Bridge Troubles as Fox / Crow (voice) (uncredited)
- Wacky Wigwams as Narrator / Indians
1941
- The Night Before Christmas as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)