Frank Graham profile
Actor profile

Frank Graham

22nd November 1914 Detroit, Michigan, USA Acting

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.

69 Movies 1 TV Shows 70 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Baseball Bugs poster
Baseball Bugs 2nd February 1946 as Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
African Diary poster
African Diary 20th April 1945 as Narrator / Hyena (voice) (uncredited)
Jerky Turkey poster
Jerky Turkey 7th April 1945 as Junior Pilgrim (voice) (uncredited)
Big Heel-Watha poster
Big Heel-Watha 21st October 1944 as Narrator / Interpreter / Indian Chief (voice) (uncredited)
Chicken Little poster
Chicken Little 17th December 1943 as Narrator / Foxy Loxy / Chicken Little / Cocky Locky / Turkey Lurkey / Additional characters (voice) (uncredited)
Rumors poster
Rumors 1st December 1943 as Narrator - Soldier (voice)
The Cocky Bantam poster
The Cocky Bantam 12th November 1943 as Freddy Falcon / Dick Rooster / Hooded Salesman
Dumb-Hounded poster
Dumb-Hounded 20th March 1943 as The Killer (voice) (uncredited)
Fox Pop poster
Fox Pop 4th September 1942 as Fox Prisoner (voice)