Frank Graham
Acting
Born November 22, 1914, Detroit, Michigan, USA
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.
Filmography
- 2023Private SNAFU Golden Classics — (archive sound)
- 2007Looney Tunes: Spotlight Collection Vol. 5 — Narrator (archive sound) (uncredited)
- 2007Tex Avery's Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection — Killer (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
- 1950Albert in Blunderland — Planning Board Ant / Ant Guards (voice), Writer
- 1950Jerry and the Lion — Lion / Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
- 1950The Chump Champ — Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
- 1949Each Dawn I Crow — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 1949So Much for So Little — Narrator (voice)
- 1949The House of Tomorrow — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 1947King-Size Canary — Mouse (voice)
- 1947Slap Happy Lion — Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
- 1946Baseball Bugs — Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
- 1946Catnipped — Doctors
- 1946Honesty Is the Best Policy — Professor J. Waldo Purrington / Fish Vendor (voice)
- 1946Northwest Hounded Police — Escaped Prisoner (voice) (uncredited)
- 1946Springtime for Thomas — Jerry's Anti-Conscience / Butch (voice)
- 1946The Eager Beaver — Narrator (voice)
- 1945African Diary — Narrator / Hyena (voice) (uncredited)
- 1945Fiesta Time — Donkey
- 1945Flirty Birdy — Eagle (voice) (uncredited)
- 1945Fresh Airedale — Narrator, Shep's Master
- 1945Hot Footlights — Cowboy / King Cole
- 1945Jerky Turkey — Junior Pilgrim (voice) (uncredited)
- 1945Kuku Nuts — Fox / Crow (voice)
- 1945Phoney Baloney — Fox / Crow (voice)
- 1945Something You Didn't Eat — Narrator (voice)
- 1945Swing Shift Cinderella — Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
- 1945The Shooting of Dan McGoo — Wolf / Bartender (uncredited)
- 1945Tokyo Woes — Narrator
- 1945Treasure Jest — Fox / Crow (voice)
- 1944A Few Quick Facts: Voting for Service Men Overseas — Narrator (uncredited)
- 1944Big Heel-Watha — Narrator / Interpreter / Indian Chief (voice) (uncredited)
- 1944Going Home — Narrator
- 1944Mr. Fore by Fore — Bull / Golfer
- 1944Mr. Moocher — Fox / Crow (voice)
- 1944Sadie Hawkins Day — Li'l Abner (voice)
- 1944The Chow Hound — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 1944The Dream Kids — Fox / Crow
- 1944The Lady and the Monster — Narrator
- 1944The Three Caballeros — (voice)
- 1944The Weakly Reporter — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 1944Venereal Disease — Narrator (Uncredited)
- 1943A-Hunting We Won't Go — Fox (voice) (uncredited)
- 1943Chicken Little — Narrator / Foxy Loxy / Chicken Little / Cocky Locky / Turkey Lurkey / Additional characters (voice) (uncredited)
- 1943Coming!! Snafu — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 1943Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher — Cosmo Jones, Original Concept
- 1943Dizzy Newsreel — Narrator / Various
- 1943Dumb-Hounded — The Killer (voice) (uncredited)
- 1943Duty and the Beast — Narrator / Dog
- 1943Plenty Below Zero — Fox / Crow
- 1943Reason and Emotion — Narrator / Reason (voice)
- 1943Red Hot Riding Hood — Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
- 1943Rumors — Narrator - Soldier (voice)
- 1943Slay It with Flowers — Fox / Crow
- 1943The Cocky Bantam — Freddy Falcon / Dick Rooster / Hooded Salesman
- 1943The Fly In The Ointment — Fly / Bats
- 1943Tree for Two — Fox / Crow
- 1942A Hollywood Detour — Narrator (uncredited)
- 1942Blitz Wolf — Narrator (voice)
- 1942Foney Fables — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 1942Fox Pop — Fox Prisoner (voice)
- 1942Horton Hatches the Egg — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 1942King Midas, Junior — Narrator / Radio Announce
- 1942Saludos Amigos — Frank Graham
- 1942The Early Bird Dood It! — Bird (voice) (uncredited)
- 1942The Wild and Woozy West — Sheriff (voice)
- 1942Toll Bridge Troubles — Fox / Crow (voice) (uncredited)
- 1942Wacky Wigwams — Narrator / Indians
- 1941The Night Before Christmas — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Appearances as themselves (1)
- 1946Bathing Time for Baby — Self - The Stork