Frank Ferguson
Born: 1899-12-25 in Ferndale, California, USA
Died: 1978-09-12
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Frank S. Ferguson (born December 25, 1899, Ferndale, California – died September 12, 1978, Los Angeles) was an American character actor with hundreds of appearances in both film and television. Ferguson's best known role was as the Swedish ranch handyman, Gus Broeberg, on the CBS television series, My Friend Flicka, based on a novel of the same name. He appeared with Gene Evans, Johnny Washbrook and Anita Louise. At this time, Ferguson also portrayed the Calverton veterinarian in the first several seasons of CBS's Lassie. He made his film debut in 1939 in Gambling on the High Seas (released in 1940), and appeared in nearly 200 feature films and hundreds of TV episodes subsequently. Film appearances include: McDougal's House of Horrors (1948), Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair 1952. Television series appearances include The Pride of the Family, The Andy Griffith Show, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Peyton Place and Perry Mason. Ferguson died in Los Angeles of cancer on September 12, 1978.
Filmography
1976
- The Macahans as Grandpa
1972
- The Waltons
- Kung Fu as Bissell
- Return to Peyton Place as Eli Carson
1970
- Nanny and the Professor as the Judge
- Along Came a Spider as Dr. Andrew Blake
1968
- Adam-12 as Fred Tibbles
- Land of the Giants as Goalby
1965
- Green Acres as Harvey Jackson
- The Great Sioux Massacre as General Alfred Howe Terry
1964
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea as Air Force General
- Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte as Newspaper Editor
- Wendy and Me
- The Quick Gun as Dan Evans
- Peyton Place
1963
- Petticoat Junction as Doc Stuart
- Temple Houston as Judge Gurney
1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Garner
- The Virginian as Tom Dunston
1961
- Target: The Corruptors!
- Pocketful of Miracles as Newspaper Editor
- Everglades
- The Asphalt Jungle
1960
- The Andy Griffith Show as Sam Lindsey
- Surfside 6
- Raymie as Rex
- The Tall Man
- The Westerner as Stuart
- Coronado 9
- The Case of the Dangerous Robin as Walter Henderson
- The Big Night as Dave Johnson
- Sunrise at Campobello as Dr. Bennett
1959
- Bonanza as J.R. Ridley
- The Twilight Zone as Krueger
- Hawaiian Eye as Capt. Joe Taggart
- Laramie
- Lock-Up
- Mr. Lucky as Hyatt Krausmeyer
- The Alaskans
- Wichita Town
- Philip Marlowe
- Shotgun Slade as Mike Colier
1958
- The Rifleman
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Amos Wilson
- Bat Masterson as Old Billy North
- Peter Gunn
- The Texan
- 77 Sunset Strip as Saul Gantry
- Bronco
- Man of the West as Crosscut Marshal (uncredited)
- The Light in the Forest as Harry Butler
- Terror in a Texas Town as Deacon Matt Holmes
- Andy Hardy Comes Home as Mayor Benson
- Cole Younger, Gunfighter as Sheriff Ralph Wittrock
1957
- Perry Mason as Sheriff Barnes
- Wagon Train as Judge Hiram Larkin
- Maverick
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- Leave It to Beaver
- Sugarfoot as Otto Jardine
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective as Captain Hoyt
- Alcoa Theatre as Milbanks
- Trackdown
- Gun Duel in Durango as Sheriff Howard
- The Phantom Stagecoach as Joe Patterson
- This Could Be the Night as Mr. Shea
- The Iron Sheriff as Holloway
- The Lawless Eighties as Owen Sutter
- Goodyear Theatre as Milbanks
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as T.J. Barnett
- State Trooper
1955
- Cheyenne as Judge Lloyd Pomeroy
- Gunsmoke as Enoch
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
- The 20th Century Fox Hour
- Moonfleet as Coachman
- Battle Cry as Mr. Hector Walker
- A Lawless Street as Abe Deland (uncredited)
- The Violent Men as Mahoney (uncredited)
- My Friend Flicka
- The McConnell Story as Mechanic
- The Eternal Sea as Admiral L.D.
- New York Confidential as Dr. Ludlow
- City of Shadows as District Attorney Hunt
- The Battle of Gettysburg as Gettysburg Address Reciter (voice) (uncredited)
- At Gunpoint as Marshal George Henderson
1954
- Lassie
- Johnny Guitar as Marshal Williams
- December Bride
- The Outcast as Chad Polson
- Drum Beat as Mr. Dyar
- Dragonfly Squadron as Gen. Conners
- Black Tuesday as Police Inspector Hailey (uncredited)
- Riding Shotgun as Townsman (uncredited)
- Public Defender as Judge
- A Star Is Born as Judge George J. Barnes (uncredited)
- The Lone Wolf as Sheriff Jerry Lea
- The Shanghai Story as Mr. Haljerson
- Young at Heart as Bartell
1953
- So Big as Ed (uncredited)
- Topper as Dr. Lang
- The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse as Dr. Bryce
- City Detective
- House of Wax as Medical Examiner (uncredited)
- Letter to Loretta as Marc Thatcher
- Hannah Lee: An American Primitive as John Britton
- The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms as Dr. Morton
- Trouble Along the Way as Mike Edwards
- The Marksman as Champ Wiley
- Big Leaguer as Wally Mitchell
- The Lone Hand as Mr. Dunn
- Main Street to Broadway as Mr. Cope in Fantasy Sequence
- The Blue Gardenia as Drunk Reporter (uncredited)
- Star of Texas as Marshal Bullock
- Wicked Woman as Bill Porter (lawyer)
- So This Is Love as Commencement Speaker
- General Electric Theater as Lt. King
- The I Don't Care Girl as Ned
- Woman They Almost Lynched as Bartender
- City of Bad Men as Easterner at Training Camp (uncredited)
- Texas Bad Man as Gil
1952
- Four Star Playhouse as Ed
- Adventures of Superman as Mr. Frank
- Boots Malone as Private Investigator
- Cavalcade of America
- Rodeo as Harry Cartwright
- Wagons West as Cyrus Cook
- Oklahoma Annie as Eldridge Haskell
- Bend of the River as Tom Grundy
- Hopalong Cassidy
- Chevron Theatre as Hiram Cooper
- Million Dollar Mermaid as Prosecutor
- The Winning Team as Sam Arrants
- Room for One More as Steve (uncredited)
- It Grows on Trees as John Letherby
- Rancho Notorious as Preacher
- Has Anybody Seen My Gal? as Edward Norton
1951
- Santa Fe as Marshal Bat Masterson
- Warpath as Marshal
- On Dangerous Ground as Willows
- Elopement as Pinkie's Father (uncredited)
- The Barefoot Mailman as Doc Bethune (uncredited)
- Thunder in God's Country as Bates
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Harlow Finch
1950
- The Furies as Dr. Grieve
- Frenchie as Jim Dobbs
- Treasury Men in Action as Miller
- The Lawless as Carl Green
- Tyrant of the Sea as Officer (uncredited)
- Louisa as Park Attendant (uncredited)
- The Good Humor Man as Insp. Quint
- Under Mexicali Stars as Counterfeitor Goldie
1949
- The Lone Ranger as Lester Grey
- Slightly French as Marty Freeman (uncredited)
- Roseanna McCoy as Ellison Hatfield
- Shockproof as Logan (Uncredited)
- Caught as Dr. Hoffman
- The Barkleys of Broadway as Mr. Perkins (uncredited)
- State Department: File 649 as Consul Reither
- Dancing in the Dark as John Sharkey
- Follow Me Quietly as J.C. McGill
- Free For All as Hap Ross
- Homicide as Albert Murray
- Dynamite as "Hard Rock" Mason
1948
- Fort Apache as Newspaperman (uncredited)
- The Hunted as Paul Harrison
- The Walls of Jericho as Tom Ransome
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein as Mr. McDougal
- The Bride Goes Wild as Reporter (uncredited)
- Fighting Father Dunne as Colpeck
- The Miracle of the Bells as Dolan
- The Inside Story as Eph
- Walk a Crooked Mile as Carl Bemish
- The Vicious Circle as Stark
- Rachel and the Stranger as Mr. Green
1947
- Danger Street as Boward - Police Chief
- T-Men as Secret Service Man at Farmer's Market (uncredited)
- Welcome Stranger as Crane (uncredited)
- Road to Rio as Texas Posse Member
- They Won't Believe Me as Mr. Cahill
- Variety Girl as R.J. O'Connell
- Killer at Large as Edward Denton
- Cass Timberlane as Court Clerk
- Blaze of Noon as Cash Jones
- The Perils of Pauline as Movie Theatre Owner (uncredited)
- Shy Guy as Mr. Norton
1946
- Canyon Passage as Preacher (uncredited)
- Night and Day as Tina's Father (uncredited)
- Lady Chaser as Attorney J. T. Vickers
- O.S.S. as Electronics Engineer (uncredited)
- The Man I Love as Army Doctor (uncredited)
- Blonde for a Day as Walter Bronson
- The Searching Wind as Embassy Attendant (uncredited)
1945
- Thrill of a Romance as 1st Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
- Secrets of a Sorority Girl as Justin Farley
1943
- Truck Busters as George Havelock
- Mission to Moscow as American Newsman (uncredited)
- Pilot #5 as Mr. Tully
1942
- Broadway as Reporter
- Reap the Wild Wind as Snaith (uncredited)
- Ten Gentlemen from West Point as Alden Brown
- This Gun for Hire as Albert Baker
- The War Against Mrs. Hadley as Reporter
- My Gal Sal as Loud Customer (uncredited)
- Grand Central Murder as Detective Mike McAdams (uncredited)
- You Can't Escape Forever as Coroner (uncredited)
- The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady as Judge
- City of Silent Men as Fred Bernard
- Spy Ship as Burns
1941
- Four Mothers as Music Foundation Director (uncredited)
- They Died with Their Boots On as Grant's Secretary (uncredited)
- Bullets for O'Hara as Prosecutor (uncredited)
- You'll Never Get Rich as Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
- The Body Disappears as Professor McAuley (uncredited)
- At the Stroke of Twelve as Prosecuting Attorney
1940
- Father Is A Prince as Ben Haley
- Gambling on the High Seas as The State's District Attorney