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Frank Graham

Frank Graham

Birthday: 1914-11-22 | Place of Birth: 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1950
The Chump Champ

as    Announcer (voice) (uncredited)

1950
Jerry and the Lion

as    The Lion (voice) (uncredited)

1949
So Much for So Little

as    Narrator

1949
The House of Tomorrow

as    Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1947
King-Size Canary

as    Mouse (voice)

1947
Slap Happy Lion

as    Mouse (voice) (uncredited)

1946
Baseball Bugs

as    Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)

1946
Northwest Hounded Police

as    Escaped Prisoner (voice) (uncredited)

1946
Springtime for Thomas

as    Jerry's Devil Conscience / Butch (voice)

1945
Something You Didn't Eat

as    Narrator (voice)

1945
Fresh Airedale

as    Narrator, Shep's Master

1944
Going Home

as    Narrator

1944
The Chow Hound

as    Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1943
The Lonesome Mouse

as    (voice) (uncredited)

1943
Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher

as    Cosmo Jones

1943
Chicken Little

as    Narrator / Foxy Loxy / Chicken Little / Cocky Locky / Turkey Lurkey / Additional characters (voice) (uncredited)

1943
Reason and Emotion

as    Narrator / Reason (voice)

1943
Dumb-Hounded

as    The Killer (voice) (uncredited)

1942
Blitz Wolf

as    Narrator (voice)

1942
Horton Hatches the Egg

as    Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1941
The Night Before Christmas

as    Narrator (voice) (uncredited)