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Frank Graham

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.


Aliases
  • Frank Lee Graham
English

Blitz Wolf

1942
as Narrator (voice)

Reason and Emotion

1943
as Narrator / Reason (voice)

Rumors

1943
as Narrator - Soldier (voice)

Dumb-Hounded

1943
as The Killer

Coming!! Snafu

1943
as Narrator

Fresh Airedale

1945
as Narrator, Shep's Master

Chicken Little

1943
as Narrator / Foxy Loxy / Chicken Little / Cocky Locky / Turkey Lurkey

The Fox and the Crow

1941
as Fauntleroy Fox

Jerry and the Lion

1950
as Radio Announcer

The Early Bird Dood It!

1942
as Bird (voice) (uncredited)

Cosmo Jones in the Crime Smasher

1943
as Professor Cosmo Jones

Springtime for Thomas

1946
as Jerry's Devil Conscience / Butch (voice)

Sammy

1977
as Sid

Droopy

1943
as The Wolf (voice)

Northwest Hounded Police

1946
as Escaped Prisoner

Baseball Bugs

1946
as (voice)

Tokyo Woes

1945
as Narrator

Writer

Movie Cosmo Jones in the Crime Smasher 1943

Guest Star

Episode Tom and Jerry
Jerry And The Lion
1950
Episode Disney Animated Shorts
Chicken Little
1943
Episode Droopy
Northwest Hounded Police
1946
Episode Lost in Space
A Change of Space
1966
Episode Droopy
Dumb-Hounded
1943
Episode Droopy
The Shooting of Dan McGoo
1945