Frank Richards
Highest Rated: 86% No Way Out (1950)
Lowest Rated: 70% Lonelyhearts (1958)
Birthday: Sep 15, 1909
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Frank Richards was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Richards's earliest roles were in film, including the horror feature "Before I Hang" (1940) with Boris Karloff, "Cairo" (1942) and "The Cowboy and the Indians" (1949). He also appeared in the western "South of Caliente" (1951) with Roy Rogers, the Spencer Tracy sports comedy "Pat and Mike" (1952) and the Charlton Heston western "The Savage" (1952). His film career continued throughout the fifties in productions like "Tennessee Champ" (1954), "Destry" (1954) with Audie Murphy and "Gang-Busters" (1955). He also appeared in the crime flick "A Bullet For Joey" (1955) with Edward G Robinson. Nearing the end of his career, he tackled roles in the Harry Lauter crime feature "Cry Baby Killer" (1958), the dramatic adaptation "Lonelyhearts" (1958) with Montgomery Clift and the Peter Falk drama "A Woman Under the Influence" (1991). Richards was most recently credited in the Mike Myers blockbuster animated adventure "Shrek" (2001). Richards passed away in April 1992 at the age of 83.
Filmography
Movies
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70% |
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Lonelyhearts | Taxi Driver (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet |
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Destry | Dummy (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gang Busters | Slug Bennett (Character) | - | 1955 |
81% |
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The Man With the Golden Arm | Blind Barfly (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Spy Chasers | George (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tennessee Champ | J.B. Backett (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet |
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The Savage | Sergeant Norris (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet |
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Carbine Williams | Truex (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet |
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The Scarf | Gargantua (Character) | - | 1951 |
86% |
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No Way Out | Mac (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1950 |
78% |
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Kim | Abul (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Cowboy and the Indians | Smiley Martin (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cowboy and the Indians | "Smiley" Martin (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet |
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Cairo | Alfred (Character) | - | 1942 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Diff'rent Strokes | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fantasy Island | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Beverly Hillbillies | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rawhide | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Surfside 6 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Whispering Smith | Ed Buehly (Guest Star) | 1961 |
92% | 96% | The Twilight Zone | Man (Character) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | 87% | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Monk McGinnis (Character) | 1959-1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Deputy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Behind Closed Doors | Unknown (Character) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | One Step Beyond | Unknown (Character) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Thin Man | Maxie (Guest Star) | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Restless Gun | Harry Potter (Guest Star) | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trackdown | Trail Boss (Guest Star) | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Red Skelton Show | Unknown (Character) | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Superman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1952-1953 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marshal Dillon | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lone Ranger | Matt (Guest Star) | 1953-1954 |