Frank Graham
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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.
Acting
Movie
The Three Caballeros
as (voice)
1944
Movie
Saludos Amigos
as Frank Graham
1942
Movie
Red Hot Riding Hood
as Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
1943
Movie
The Night Before Christmas
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1941
Movie
Baseball Bugs
as Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
1946
Movie
King-Size Canary
as Mouse (voice)
1947
Movie
Blitz Wolf
as Narrator (voice)
1942
Movie
Northwest Hounded Police
as Escaped Prisoner (voice) (uncredited)
1946
Movie
Chicken Little
as Narrator / Foxy Loxy / Chicken Little / Cocky Locky / Turkey Lurkey / Additional characters (voice) (uncredited)
1943
Movie
Dumb-Hounded
as The Killer (voice) (uncredited)
1943
Movie
Kitty Foiled
as Tom (voice) (uncredited)
1948
Movie
Springtime for Thomas
as Jerry's Devil Conscience / Butch (voice)
1946
Movie
The Lonesome Mouse
as (voice) (uncredited)
1943
Movie
Jerry and the Lion
as The Lion (voice) (uncredited)
1950
Movie
Swing Shift Cinderella
as Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
1945
Movie
The House of Tomorrow
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1949
Movie
The Shooting of Dan McGoo
as Wolf / Bartender (uncredited)
1945
Movie
Horton Hatches the Egg
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1942
Movie
Jerky Turkey
as Junior Pilgrim (voice) (uncredited)
1945
Movie
African Diary
as Narrator / Hyena (voice) (uncredited)
1945
Movie
The Chump Champ
as Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
1950
Movie
Reason and Emotion
as Narrator / Reason (voice)
1943
Movie
Slap Happy Lion
as Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
1947
Movie
So Much for So Little
as Narrator (voice)
1949
