Frank Graham

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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

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2023
Private SNAFU Golden Classics
Movie (archive sound)
2007
Looney Tunes: Spotlight Collection Vol. 5
Movie Narrator (archive sound) (uncredited)
2007
Tex Avery's Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection
Movie Killer (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
1950
The Chump Champ
Movie Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
1950
Albert in Blunderland
Movie Planning Board Ant / Ant Guards (voice)
1950
Jerry and the Lion
Movie The Lion (voice) (uncredited)
1949
Each Dawn I Crow
Movie Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1949
The House of Tomorrow
Movie Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1949
So Much for So Little
Movie Narrator (voice)
1948
Kitty Foiled
Movie Tom (voice) (uncredited)
1947
King-Size Canary
Movie Mouse (voice)
1947
Slap Happy Lion
Movie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
1946
Northwest Hounded Police
Movie Escaped Prisoner (voice) (uncredited)
1946
Honesty Is the Best Policy
Movie Professor J. Waldo Purrington / Fish Vendor (voice)
1946
The Eager Beaver
Movie Narrator (voice)
1946
Springtime for Thomas
Movie Jerry's Devil Conscience / Butch (voice)

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1946
Bathing Time for Baby
Movie Self - The Stork
1946
Catnipped
Movie Doctors
1946
Baseball Bugs
Movie Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
1945
Tokyo Woes
Movie Narrator
1945
Phoney Baloney
Movie Fox / Crow (voice)
1945
Treasure Jest
Movie Fox / Crow (voice)
1945
Swing Shift Cinderella
Movie Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
1945
Fresh Airedale
Movie Narrator, Shep's Master
1945
Hot Footlights
Movie Cowboy / King Cole
1945
Kuku Nuts
Movie Fox / Crow (voice)
1945
Something You Didn't Eat
Movie Narrator (voice)
1945
African Diary
Movie Narrator / Hyena (voice) (uncredited)
1945
The Shooting of Dan McGoo
Movie Wolf / Bartender (uncredited)
1945
Jerky Turkey
Movie Junior Pilgrim (voice) (uncredited)
1945
Fiesta Time
Movie Donkey
1944
The Three Caballeros
Movie (voice)
1944
Big Heel-Watha
Movie Narrator / Interpreter / Indian Chief (voice) (uncredited)
1944
Mr. Moocher
Movie Fox / Crow (voice)
1944
Venereal Disease
Movie Narrator (Uncredited)
1944
A Few Quick Facts: Voting for Service Men Overseas
Movie Narrator (uncredited)
1944
The Chow Hound
Movie Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1944
Mr. Fore by Fore
Movie Bull / Golfer
1944
Sadie Hawkins Day
Movie Li'l Abner (voice)
1944
The Dream Kids
Movie Fox / Crow