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
1974
- Little House on the Prairie as Calder
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
- Wendy and Me
- Peyton Place
- Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte as Newspaper Editor
- The Quick Gun as Dan Evans
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!
- The Asphalt Jungle
- Everglades
- Pocketful of Miracles as Newspaper Editor
1960
- The Andy Griffith Show as Sam Lindsey
- Surfside 6
- The Tall Man
- The Case of the Dangerous Robin as Walter Henderson
- The Westerner as Stuart
- Coronado 9
- The Big Night as Dave Johnson
- Sunrise at Campobello as Dr. Bennett
- Raymie as Rex
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
- 77 Sunset Strip as Saul Gantry
- The Texan
- 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
- Cole Younger, Gunfighter as Sheriff Ralph Wittrock
- Andy Hardy Comes Home as Mayor Benson
1957
- Perry Mason as Sheriff Barnes
- Maverick
- Wagon Train as Judge Hiram Larkin
- Have Gun, Will Travel as Kincaid
- Leave It to Beaver
- Sugarfoot as Otto Jardine
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective as Captain Hoyt
- Trackdown as Adam Turner
- Alcoa Theatre as Milbanks
- Goodyear Theatre as Milbanks
- Gun Duel in Durango as Sheriff Howard
- This Could Be the Night as Mr. Shea
- The Phantom Stagecoach as Joe Patterson
- The Iron Sheriff as Holloway
- The Lawless Eighties as Owen Sutter
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as T.J. Barnett
- State Trooper
1955
- Cheyenne as Judge Lloyd Pomeroy
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp as Sheriff Slim Lydell
- Gunsmoke as Enoch
- The 20th Century Fox Hour
- My Friend Flicka
- Moonfleet as Coachman
- Battle Cry as Mr. Hector Walker
- New York Confidential as Dr. Ludlow
- The Violent Men as Mahoney (uncredited)
- At Gunpoint as Marshal George Henderson
- A Lawless Street as Abe Deland (uncredited)
- The McConnell Story as Mechanic
- The Eternal Sea as Admiral L.D.
- The Battle of Gettysburg as Gettysburg Address Reciter (voice) (uncredited)
- City of Shadows as District Attorney Hunt
1954
- Lassie
- December Bride
- Public Defender as Judge
- The Lone Wolf as Sheriff Jerry Lea
- Johnny Guitar as Marshal Williams
- A Star Is Born as Judge George J. Barnes (uncredited)
- Riding Shotgun as Townsman (uncredited)
- Drum Beat as Mr. Dyar
- Young at Heart as Bartell
- The Outcast as Chad Polson
- Black Tuesday as Police Inspector Hailey (uncredited)
- The Shanghai Story as Mr. Haljerson
- Dragonfly Squadron as Gen. Conners
1953
- The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse as Dr. Bryce
- City Detective
- Topper as Dr. Lang
- Letter to Loretta as Marc Thatcher
- House of Wax as Medical Examiner (uncredited)
- General Electric Theater as Lt. King
- The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms as Dr. Morton
- The Blue Gardenia as Drunk Reporter (uncredited)
- Trouble Along the Way as Mike Edwards
- Wicked Woman as Bill Porter (lawyer)
- Hannah Lee: An American Primitive as John Britton
- Star of Texas as Marshal Bullock
- Woman They Almost Lynched as Bartender
- Main Street to Broadway as Mr. Cope in Fantasy Sequence
- So Big as Ed (uncredited)
- So This Is Love as Commencement Speaker
- The Lone Hand as Mr. Dunn
- City of Bad Men as Easterner at Training Camp (uncredited)
- The I Don't Care Girl as Ned
- Big Leaguer as Wally Mitchell
- The Marksman as Champ Wiley
- Texas Bad Man as Gil
1952
- Four Star Playhouse as Ed
- Adventures of Superman as Mr. Frank
- Cavalcade of America
- Hopalong Cassidy
- Chevron Theatre as Hiram Cooper
- Bend of the River as Tom Grundy
- Room for One More as Steve (uncredited)
- Million Dollar Mermaid as Prosecutor
- Rancho Notorious as Preacher
- The Winning Team as Sam Arrants
- Has Anybody Seen My Gal? as Edward Norton
- Boots Malone as Private Investigator
- Wagons West as Cyrus Cook
- It Grows on Trees as John Letherby
- Oklahoma Annie as Eldridge Haskell
- Rodeo as Harry Cartwright
1951
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Harlow Finch
- On Dangerous Ground as Willows
- Warpath as Marshal
- Elopement as Pinkie's Father (uncredited)
- Santa Fe as Marshal Bat Masterson
- The Barefoot Mailman as Doc Bethune (uncredited)
- Thunder in God's Country as Bates
1950
- Frenchie as Jim Dobbs
- Treasury Men in Action as Miller
- The Furies as Dr. Grieve
- The Lawless as Carl Green
- The Good Humor Man as Insp. Quint
- Louisa as Park Attendant (uncredited)
- Tyrant of the Sea as Officer (uncredited)
- Under Mexicali Stars as Counterfeitor Goldie
1949
- The Lone Ranger as Lester Grey
- Shockproof as Logan (Uncredited)
- Caught as Dr. Hoffman
- Free For All as Hap Ross
- The Barkleys of Broadway as Mr. Perkins (uncredited)
- Follow Me Quietly as J.C. McGill
- Homicide as Albert Murray
- Dynamite as "Hard Rock" Mason
- Slightly French as Marty Freeman (uncredited)
- Roseanna McCoy as Ellison Hatfield
- State Department: File 649 as Consul Reither
- Dancing in the Dark as John Sharkey
1948
- Fort Apache as Newspaperman (uncredited)
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein as Mr. McDougal
- Rachel and the Stranger as Mr. Green
- The Walls of Jericho as Tom Ransome
- Walk a Crooked Mile as Carl Bemish
- The Miracle of the Bells as Dolan
- The Hunted as Paul Harrison
- Fighting Father Dunne as Colpeck
- The Inside Story as Eph
- The Bride Goes Wild as Reporter (uncredited)
- The Vicious Circle as Stark
1947
- Road to Rio as Texas Posse Member
- The Perils of Pauline as Movie Theatre Owner (uncredited)
- T-Men as Secret Service Man at Farmer's Market (uncredited)
- Variety Girl as R.J. O'Connell
- Blaze of Noon as Cash Jones
- They Won't Believe Me as Mr. Cahill
- Cass Timberlane as Court Clerk
- Welcome Stranger as Crane (uncredited)
- Killer at Large as Edward Denton
- Danger Street as Boward - Police Chief
- Shy Guy as Mr. Norton
1946
- Night and Day as Tina's Father (uncredited)
- Canyon Passage as Preacher (uncredited)
- The Man I Love as Army Doctor (uncredited)
- O.S.S. as Electronics Engineer (uncredited)
- Lady Chaser as Attorney J. T. Vickers
- The Searching Wind as Embassy Attendant (uncredited)
- Blonde for a Day as Walter Bronson
1945
- Secrets of a Sorority Girl as Justin Farley
- Thrill of a Romance as 1st Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
1943
- Mission to Moscow as American Newsman (uncredited)
- Pilot #5 as Mr. Tully
- Truck Busters as George Havelock
1942
- Reap the Wild Wind as Snaith (uncredited)
- This Gun for Hire as Albert Baker
- Ten Gentlemen from West Point as Alden Brown
- My Gal Sal as Loud Customer (uncredited)
- Spy Ship as Burns
- Grand Central Murder as Detective Mike McAdams (uncredited)
- Broadway as Reporter
- The War Against Mrs. Hadley as Reporter
- You Can't Escape Forever as Coroner (uncredited)
- The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady as Judge
- City of Silent Men as Fred Bernard
1941
- They Died with Their Boots On as Grant's Secretary (uncredited)
- You'll Never Get Rich as Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
- Four Mothers as Music Foundation Director (uncredited)
- Bullets for O'Hara as Prosecutor (uncredited)
- The Body Disappears as Professor McAuley (uncredited)
- At the Stroke of Twelve as Prosecuting Attorney
1940
- Gambling on the High Seas as The State's District Attorney
- Father Is A Prince as Ben Haley