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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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Narrator 25
Voice 14
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Looney Tunes: Spotlight Collection Vol. 5 (2007)
Tex Avery's Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection (2007)
The Chump Champ (1950)
Jerry and the Lion (1950)
Albert in Blunderland (1950)
Each Dawn I Crow (1949)
The House of Tomorrow (1949)
So Much for So Little (1949)
Kitty Foiled (1948)
King-Size Canary (1947)
Slap Happy Lion (1947)
Speaking of Animals Be Kind to Animals (1946)
Silent Tweetment (1946)
Solid Serenade (1946)
Mysto-Fox (1946)
Northwest Hounded Police (1946)
Honesty Is the Best Policy (1946)
Cagey Bird (1946)
The Eager Beaver (1946)
Trap Happy (1946)
The Hick Chick (1946)
Unsure Runts (1946)
Foxy Flatfoots (1946)
Springtime for Thomas (1946)
Catnipped (1946)
Baseball Bugs (1946)
Tokyo Woes (1945)
Wild and Woolfy (1945)
Phoney Baloney (1945)
Cured Duck (1945)
Flirty Birdy (1945)
Treasure Jest (1945)
Fresh Airedale (1945)
Swing Shift Cinderella (1945)
Hot Footlights (1945)
Kuku Nuts (1945)
Something You Didn't Eat (1945)
Goofy News Views (1945)
African Diary (1945)
The Shooting of Dan McGoo (1945)
Jerky Turkey (1945)
Dog, Cat, and Canary (1945)
The Three Caballeros (1944)
The Egg-Yegg (1944)
Kickapoo Juice (1944)
Be Patient, Patient (1944)
The Stupid Cupid (1944)
Big Heel-Watha (1944)
Porkuliar Piggy (1944)
Mr. Moocher (1944)
A Few Quick Facts: Voting for Service Men Overseas (1944)
A Pee-kool-yar Sit-chee-ay-shun (1944)
Mr. Fore by Fore (1944)
The Chow Hound (1944)
A Few Quick Facts: USS Iowa/Brain/Shoes (1944)
Sadie Hawkins Day (1944)
The Dream Kids (1944)
The Lady and the Monster (1944)
The Weakly Reporter (1944)
Amoozin' But Confoozin' (1944)
Polly Wants a Doctor (1944)
Going Home (1944)
Chicken Little (1943)
Rumors (1943)
Way Down Yonder in the Corn (1943)
The Cocky Bantam (1943)
Reason and Emotion (1943)
Dizzy Newsreel (1943)
A-Hunting We Won't Go (1943)
The Fly In The Ointment (1943)
Mass Mouse Meeting (1943)
Tree for Two (1943)
Coming!! Snafu (1943)
Duty and the Beast (1943)
The Lonesome Mouse (1943)
Red Hot Riding Hood (1943)
Plenty Below Zero (1943)
Dumb-Hounded (1943)
The Vitamin G-Man (1943)
Slay It with Flowers (1943)
Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher (1943)
Sufferin' Cats! (1943)
Cholly Polly (1942)
King Midas, Junior (1942)
Toll Bridge Troubles (1942)
Fox Pop (1942)
The Early Bird Dood It! (1942)
Saludos Amigos (1942)
Blitz Wolf (1942)
Foney Fables (1942)
Woodman, Spare That Tree (1942)
The Wild and Woozy West (1942)
Horton Hatches the Egg (1942)
Wacky Wigwams (1942)
Under the Shedding Chestnut Tree (1942)
A Hollywood Detour (1942)
Red Riding Hood Rides Again (1941)
The Night Before Christmas (1941)
Private SNAFU Coming!!
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GenderMale
Birthday1914-11-22
Deathday1950-09-02 (35 years old)
Birth PlaceDetroit, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsFrank Lee Graham
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