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