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Francis Healey Albertson (February 2, 1909 – February 29, 1964) was an American character actor who made his debut in a minor part in Hollywood at age thirteen. He had supporting roles in films such as It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and Psycho (1960). Albertson made well over 100 appearances (1923–1964) in movies and television. In his early career he often sang and danced in such films as Just Imagine (1930) and A Connecticut Yankee (1931). He was featured in Alice Adams (1935) as the title character's brother, and in Room Service (1938) he played opposite the Marx Brothers. He served in the U.S. Army Air Forces' First Motion Picture Unit making training films during World War II. As he aged he moved from featured roles to supporting and character parts—in his later career he can be seen as Sam Wainwright, the businessman fond of saying "Hee-Haw" in the movie It's a Wonderful Life (1946).
Albertson portrayed future U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt in the 1956 episode "Rough Rider" of the CBS western television series My Friend Flicka. He guest starred in the early NBC western series The Californians and twice in the David Janssen crime drama Richard Diamond, Private Detective.
He was cast in 1959 and 1962 in different roles on Walter Brennan's sitcom The Real McCoys. In 1960, he appeared as General Devery in the episode "Strange Encounter" of the ABC/Warner Brothers western series Colt .45.
In 1960, he played the wealthy rancher Tom Cassidy at the beginning of Psycho (1960) who provides the $40,000 in cash that Janet Leigh's character later steals. In the 1960-61 television season, he played the character Mr. Cooper in five episodes of the CBS sitcom Bringing Up Buddy, starring Frank Aletter. In 1964, Albertson was cast as Jim O'Neal in the episode "The Death of a Teacher" of the NBC education drama Mr. Novak. One of his final screen appearances was as "Sam," the bewildered mayor of Sweet Apple, Ohio, in the 1963 film musical Bye Bye Birdie.
His last appearance was on The Andy Griffith Show, in which he played a Marine commander completing an inspection. The episode aired on May 19, 1964, three months after Albertson died.
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15 August 1931
A salesman gets in trouble with a party girl and a debutante in Detroit.
22 June 1960
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
20 December 1946
George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr.
23 January 1942
A police reporter solves a murder case in Chicago, then moves on to St. Louis-but not voluntarily, since he has been kidnapped by the minions of the Windy City gang leader against whom he is scheduled to testify.
28 February 1934
Two young men compete for the affections of a beautiful blonde.
03 December 1942
In this espionage caper, a government spy must keep enemy agents from spying upon a defense plant. His work is made easier by his newest invention, a word scrambler which makes it difficult for the enemy agent.
20 September 1961
Helmed by Edmond O'Brien, this slick crime thriller stars Jeffrey Hunter as naïve Matt Jameson, whose Korean War pal Vince Biskay talks Matt into helping commandeer nearly $4 million from a Central American dictator.
05 August 1940
A conman arrives in town trying to sell his miracle methods of weight loss to the ladies. It's left to the good Dr.
15 April 1933
Kelly's daughter falls for a revenue agent, and his divorced wife is after alimony.
23 February 1940
A young newspaper reporter finds himself framed for murder.
20 June 1934
A PR man for a low-budget movie studio comes up with what he believes is the perfect gimmick--to make a gangster picture with a real mobster in the lead role.
02 October 1942
The Dead End Kids join the war effort in this feature-length version of the Universal serial Junior G-Men of the Air.
26 October 1935
A longtime maid for New York socialites watches from afar as the daughter she once gave up is raised by others.
31 December 1941
A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.
22 September 1933
Director Christy Cabanne's 1933 film dramatizes one year in the lives of four midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy.
23 November 1943
A radio detective sets out to solve an old murder case, with the help of her sound man and another radio detective.
11 November 1938
Harvard senior Sam Thatcher and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott", plan to go to Russia after graduation, a decision Sam has kept from his girlfriend, Alexandra Benson.
06 January 1933
An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes involved with the boss's daughter.
10 July 1935
A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production.
12 October 1942
The plot revolves around a group of ex-convicts who try to start life anew by relocating in a small town under assumed names.
30 November 1932
Frank Albertson's parents are worried about his seeing a showgirl instead of an "upstanding" young lady of class.
16 September 1929
In Fox's contribution to the all-star revue cycle of early talkies, showboat singer Margie, hearing that the show is in arrears, goes to New York to gather all of the former stars to stage a minstrel show as a benefit.
26 October 1936
This ancient history musical comedy predates A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by a few decades.
20 December 1940
As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom.
04 October 1935
When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers up a murder committed by his new partner.
12 October 1953
In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home.
15 November 1943
This musical comedy stars radio star Al Pearce has a double role playing himself and Elmer Blurt, the leader of a small-town band that struggles toward stardom in the big city.
29 July 1938
A financially-strapped mother and her children relocate from the city to a small rural town.
16 October 1941
A truck convoy traveling the Burma Road is menaced by a group of smugglers.
13 November 1931
A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.
14 May 1932
Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale college.
02 August 1947
Door-to-door salesman Johnny Dill, the exact double of a notorious gangster, finds himself struck between the forces of good and evil.
09 March 1930
The popular Caucasian-looking son (Richard Barthelmess) of a wealthy Chinese businessman lives away from his widowed father and passes as white, but experiences prejudice, rejection, insult, and heartache when the socialite (Constance Bennett) he loves learns of his heritage.
23 May 1930
Hiram Draper is an all-American self-made man with a profound distaste for everything British. Yet he must travel to London with his family.
13 May 1938
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.
23 August 1940
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company.
04 April 1963
A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted.
16 May 1956
An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.
26 March 1942
Aluminum magnate James J. Maloney, Sr. meets with government officials to discuss the war effort and the need to end price-fixing.
06 April 1931
Making a delivery to a mysterious mansion in a rainstorm, radio salesman Hank Martin is knocked out when a suit of armor topples on him.
05 June 1936
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
08 April 1944
In this romantic wartime comedy, four female defense plant workers share a house with four male workers.
08 March 1940
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.
05 July 1930
The son of a wealthy politician falls in with a notorious gangster planning to rob a night club.
28 October 1933
World War I brings tribulations to an American woman married to a German.
28 March 1941
Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.
01 March 1943
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort.
11 August 1942
In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
25 December 1957
The crew of the American destroyer escort, the USS Haynes, detects a German U-Boat—resulting in a prolonged, deadly battle of wits.
24 March 1941
Ventriloquist and world traveler Gordon Cobb is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen asks his son, Ellery, to help out.
14 June 1934
A small town politician, kept from marrying the love of his life, eventually marries another woman and his career ascends, but he secretly continues the relationship with his true love.
25 November 1932
A lady reporter and two college students search for the "Gold Special," a train that disappeared without a trace.
02 September 1939
Two starstruck visitors to Hollywood sneak into the famous nightclub and end up in a Conga contest and get more than they expected.
17 July 1947
A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.
13 March 1944
U.S. Army Air Force pilot Bob Chilton and North American Aircraft designer Arthur Deeds show an Air Force colonel and major the new P-51B aircraft, explaining the changes in this new model and taking the plane through its paces with full description of its flight characteristics.
27 March 1936
An Iowa farmer's wife makes him move to Hollywood so their daughter can become a star.
31 March 1933
A Mack Sennett talking comedy, released through Paramount Pictures, starring Frank Albertson, Marjorie Beebe, Joyce Compton, Herman Bing, Gertrude Astor and Matt McHugh.
24 October 1941
Story of test pilots at a school that trains new flyers.
21 September 1938
Broke Gordon Miller tries to land a backer for his new play while he has to deal with with the hotel manager trying to evict him and his cast.
31 December 1958
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
