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Aliases: Frank Lee Graham

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA

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Movie Involvements: 35

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

Biography

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.

Most Famous Work

Saludos Amigos
Average
6

Saludos Amigos

(1942) Self
The Three Caballeros
Average
6

The Three Caballeros

(1944) (voice)
Chicken Little
Average
7

Chicken Little

(1943) Narrator / Foxy Loxy / Chicken Little / Cocky Locky / Turkey Lurkey / Additional characters (voice) (uncredited)
The Lady and the Monster
Average
6

The Lady and the Monster

(1944) Narrator
Reason and Emotion
Average
6

Reason and Emotion

(1943) Narrator / Reason (voice)
Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher
Average
4

Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher

(1943) Cosmo Jones
Fox Pop
Average
6

Fox Pop

(1942) Fox Prisoner (voice)
Looney Tunes: Spotlight Collection Vol. 5
Average
10

Looney Tunes: Spotlight Collection Vol. 5

(2007) Narrator (archive footage)

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2007 Narrator (archive footage)
Killer
1950 Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
The Lion (voice) (uncredited)
Planning Board Ant / Ant Guards (voice)
1949 Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Narrator
1947 Mouse (voice)
Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
1946 Escaped Prisoner (voice) (uncredited)
Professor J. Waldo Purrington / Fish Vendor (voice)
Narrator (voice)
Jerry's Devil Conscience / Butch (voice)
Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
1945 Narrator
Fox / Crow (voice)
Fox / Crow (voice)
Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
Narrator, Shep's Master
Cowboy / King Cole
Fox / Crow (voice)
Narrator (voice)
Wolf
Junior Pilgrim (voice)
Donkey
1944 (voice)
Narrator / Interpreter / Indian Chief (voice) (uncredited)
Fox / Crow (voice)
Bull / Golfer
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Fox / Crow
Narrator
Doctors
Narrator
1943 Narrator / Foxy Loxy / Chicken Little / Cocky Locky / Turkey Lurkey / Additional characters (voice) (uncredited)
Narrator - Soldier (voice)
Freddy Falcon / Dick Rooster / Hooded Salesman
Narrator / Reason (voice)
Narrator / Various
Fly / Bats
Fox / Crow
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Narrator / Dog
(voice) (uncredited)
Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
Fox / Crow
The Killer (voice) (uncredited)
Cosmo Jones
Fox / Crow
1942 Narrator / Radio Announce
Fox / Crow (voice) (uncredited)
Fox Prisoner (voice)
Bird (voice) (uncredited)
Self
Narrator (voice)
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Narrator / Indians
1941 Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
(archive sound)
Year Character Movie/Tv

Writing

Year Role Movie/Tv
1950 Writer
1943 Original Concept
Year Role Movie/Tv

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