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