Frank Sully
Born: 1908-06-17 in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Died: 1975-12-17
Known For: Acting
Biography
Francis Thomas Sullivan, aka Frank Sully, was an American character actor. Beefy and square-jawed, he was usually cast as rustic types or dumb heavies. He was a regular feature in Three Stooges shorts. Sully started his career as a comedian in vaudeville and appeared on Broadway from the late 1920s. He is known for the films The Grapes of Wrath (1940), The More the Merrier (1943) and Bye Bye Birdie (1963).
Filmography
1963
- Bye Bye Birdie as Bartender
1962
- The Beverly Hillbillies
- The Virginian as Waiter
- Gypsy as Wichita Burlesque Audience Member (uncredited)
1961
1960
- The Tall Man
- Let No Man Write My Epitaph as Drunk at Bar (uncredited)
1959
1958
- The Rifleman
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Townsman (uncredited)
- The Last Hurrah as Fire Lieutenant (uncredited)
- The Female Animal as Taxicab Driver (uncredited)
- Man from God's Country as Trail Cook (uncredited)
1957
- Perry Mason as Newspaper Delivery Man
- Maverick
- Leave It to Beaver as Cab Driver
- M Squad as Officer Ed Grady
- Domino Kid
- Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses as Cop
- A Merry Mix-Up as (uncredited)
- The Buckskin Lady as Jed
- Rockabilly Baby as Bum
1956
- Frontier Gambler as Bartender
- Friendly Persuasion as Rebel Looter (uncredited)
- You Can't Run Away from It as Red
- The Desperados Are in Town as Carl Branch
- Hey, Jeannie! as Officer
- So You Want to Be Pretty as Harry (uncredited)
1955
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp as Mr. Miller (uncredited)
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Desk Clerk
- The 20th Century Fox Hour
- Navy Log
- Seminole Uprising
- Blunder Boys as Dean Watts D. Matter (uncredited)
- Screen Director's Playhouse as Diner Patron
- Women's Prison
- Last of the Desperados as Murder Victim Tim (bit)
- Jungle Moon Men as Max
- The Naked Street
- Fling in the Ring as Big Mike
- Apache Ambush
1954
- Silver Lode as Paul Herbert, Telegrapher
- The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
- Battle of Rogue River as Pvt. Kohler
- Ain't It Aggravatin' as Neighbor (uncredited)
1953
- Northern Patrol as Bartender
- Bad for Each Other as Tippy Kashko, Townsman
- Pardon My Backfire as Escaped Convict
- Spies and Guys as Enemy Soldier (uncredited)
1952
- Mr. & Mrs. North
- No Room for the Groom as Cousin Luke
- Young Man with Ideas as Salesman (uncredited)
- With a Song in My Heart as Soldier (uncredited)
- Night Stage to Galveston as Policeman Kelly
- Pat and Mike as Photographer (uncredited)
- Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder as Harry, the Projectionist
- Gang Busters
- A Fool and His Honey
1951
- I Love Lucy as Delivery Man
- Dragnet
- The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
- Father's Little Dividend as Infant Service Diaper Man (uncredited)
- Let's Make It Legal as Laborer (uncredited)
- The Tall Target as Telegram Messenger (uncredited)
- The Red Badge of Courage as Veteran (uncredited)
- Man in the Saddle as Lee Repp
- Rhubarb as Big Head Charlie - Bookie (uncredited)
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Coots Larkin
1950
- Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance as Looie
- The Good Humor Man as Cop (uncredited)
- The Reformer and the Redhead as Joe (uncredited)
- Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey as Looie
- Blondie's Hero as Mike McClusky, the Snorer (uncredited)
- Beauty on Parade as Murph
1949
- Trapped as Sam the Bartender (uncredited)
- Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch as Looie
- Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture as Sergeant Matthews
1948
- Gun Smugglers as Corporal Clancy
- Trapped by Boston Blackie as Sgt. Matthews
- Blondie's Reward as Officer Carney
1947
- Wild Harvest as Nick
1946
- Dangerous Business as Bert
- Renegades as Link
- Throw a Saddle on a Star as Lawyer
- Boston Blackie and the Law as Sgt. Matthews
- Crime Doctor's Man Hunt as Henchman 'Rigger'
- A Close Call for Boston Blackie as Sgt. Matthews
- One Way to Love as Hopkins
- The Gentleman Misbehaves as Taxi Driver
- Talk About a Lady as Rocky Jordan
- The Phantom Thief as Detective Sergeant Matthews
- It's Great to Be Young as Burkett
1945
- Along Came Jones as Avery de Longpre
- Boston Blackie's Rendezvous as Mathews
- Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion as Sgt. Matthews
- Out of the Depths as 'Speed' Brogan
- I Love a Bandleader as Dan Benson
1944
- Two Girls and a Sailor as Private Adams
- Bachelor Daze as Ezra's neighbor
- The Ghost That Walks Alone as Beppo
- Secret Command as Shawn
1943
- Thousands Cheer as Alan
- The More the Merrier as FBI Agent Pike
- Power of the Press as Mack Gibbons (uncredited)
- One Dangerous Night as Hertzog - Henchman
- Murder in Times Square as Benny the Baboon
- Good Luck, Mr. Yates as Joe Briggs
- There's Something About a Soldier as Alex Grybinski
- Pitchin' in the Kitchen as Albert, the Neighbor
- Dangerous Blondes as Detective Joe Henderson
1942
- Sleepytime Gal as Dimples
- Lucky Legs as Mugg
- The Daring Young Man as Luke
- Laugh Your Blues Away as Buck
- A Man's World as Sammy Collins
- Parachute Nurse as Sgt. Peters
- Rings on Her Fingers
- My Sister Eileen as Jenson
- All Through the Night as Spence
- Inside the Law as Jim Burke
- Two Yanks in Trinidad as Mike Paradise
- The Boogie Man Will Get You as Officer Joe Starrett
1941
- Golden Hoofs as Ed Muckle
- Private Nurse as Eddie
- Nice Girl?
- A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob as Salty
- She Knew All the Answers as Cop
- Let's Go Collegiate as Hercules 'Herk' Bevans
1940
- Young People as Jeb
- The Grapes of Wrath as Noah
- The Return of Frank James as Actor
- Cross-Country Romance as Mike
- Women Without Names as Friendly Motorist
- Spring Parade as Bert - Shawl Salesman
- The Fighting 69th as Sergeant (uncredited)
- Escape to Glory as Tommy Malone
- He Stayed for Breakfast as Butcher
- Lillian Russell as Hank
- The Doctor Takes a Wife as Slapcovitch
- City for Conquest as Radio Listener (uncredited)
- Castle on the Hudson as Second Prisoner (uncredited)
- Dr. Kildare's Crisis as John Root
1939
- Sorority House as The Caterer (uncredited)
- Another Thin Man as Pete (uncredited)
- Second Fiddle as Townsman
- The Great Man Votes as Policeman at Parade
- The Night of Nights as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
- Some Like It Hot as Sailor Burke / The Living Corpse
1938
- Youth Takes a Fling as Jim
- Hold That Co-ed as Steve Wurgerski
- Start Cheering as Jimmy
1937
- Captains Courageous as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
- Radio Patrol as Flynn
- White Bondage as Man in Pool Room
- Live, Love and Learn as Marine (uncredited)
- Daughter of Shanghai as Jake Kelly
- Criminals of the Air
- Life Begins in College as Football Player
- They Gave Him a Gun as Comedy Soldier (uncredited)
- Black Legion as Truck Driver's Helper (uncredited)
- The Romance Of Robert Burns as Jock Wilson (uncredited)
1936
- Gentle Julia as Mr. Toms
- Fury as Dynamiter (uncredited)
- Theodora Goes Wild as Clarence (uncredited)
- Rhythm on the Range as Splashed Rodeo Cowboy
1935
- Mary Burns, Fugitive as Steve
1934
- Caravan as Hungarian Soldier (Uncredited)
- Murder at the Vanities as Chorus Boy (uncredited)