Frank Graham Trailers
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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.
Most Popular Frank Graham Trailers
Total trailers found: 70
01 November 1945
A $5,000 reward is put out for the capture of a notorious wolf. Two of the wanted posters are put on the trees where the Fox and the Crow live.
25 July 1946
Professor J. Waldo Purrington wants breakfast but has run out of food, he spots a fish truck outside but he has no money to pay for a fish so he decides to steal one, but he remembers his calendar quote "honesty is the best policy", so he can't bring himself to steal it, so he decides to try and make one fall out of the truck so he won't feel guilty.
17 December 1943
It's a peaceful day at the local poultry farm until Foxy Loxy happens along intent on a chicken dinner.
25 August 1945
Shep the dog is seen by his master as loyal and loving, but the cat knows he is really a self-centered, conniving weasel who lets burglars in the house and takes credit for the good deeds of others.
21 December 1944
For Donald's birthday he receives a box with three gifts inside. The gifts, a movie projector, a pop-up book, and a pinata, each take Donald on wild adventures through Mexico and South America.
07 April 1945
A dopey Pilgrim goes hunting a turkey who speaks in a Jimmy Durante impersonation and runs the local black market.
01 December 1943
Snafu inadvertantly starts a panic on his base when he begins a mistaken rumour that the base is about to be bombed.
15 June 1944
Snafu learns of the folly of hoarding and wasting military food supplies.
20 April 1945
Goofy narrates his own quest to Africa accompanied by various tour guides. He is in search of wild game.
11 June 1945
Animated short documentary film made to advance the cause of a balanced diet for the benefit of the public health and for the advancement of the American war effort.
01 June 1943
Introducing Private Snafu, the nation's worst soldier and his various versions in different branches of the armed forces.
02 February 1946
Bugs Bunny single handedly takes on the “Gas-House Gorillas,” a baseball team of hulking, cigar-chomping bullies.
04 September 1942
Hearing that silver foxes are all the rage in high society, a fox paints himself silver and gets himself trapped, finding out too late that it's only his fur anyone is interested in.
01 January 1944
Pvt. Snafu's unit suffers the consequences of blabbing military secrets while on leave at home.
17 April 1944
A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death by a scientist and his two assistants, only to create a telepathic monster.
24 August 1942
A whimsical blend of live action and animation, "Saludos Amigos" is a colorful kaleidoscope of art, adventure and music set to a toe-tapping samba beat.
04 February 1948
Tom subjects Jerry to his usual harassment; but the cat finds a new enemy, and the mouse finds a new friend, in the canary of the house.
23 September 1949
Chided by a narrator, John Rooster thinks Elmer Fudd is going to slaughter him with an axe for Sunday dinner and is willing to do anything to prevent his hour of doom.
23 April 1943
This entry in Columbia's "Fox and Crow" series (production number 5006) finds the Crow staying north instead of flying south for the winter, and steals his food from the Fox's meager supply.
15 November 1945
Created for the US Navy in World War II. The Mr. Hook character was created by Hank Ketcham while at Walter Lantz Studios, where the first- and only color- Mr.
20 March 1943
The wolf escapes from prison but can't get away from police dog Droopy no matter how hard he tries. This is the first cartoon starring Droopy.
21 October 1944
To prove he's a true Indian Brave, Big Heel-Watha decides to catch a squirrel - but wouldn't you know it; Screwy Squirrel is the first one he sees.
29 January 1943
The Fox arrives at his penthouse apartment with an assortment of seeds and vegetables to plant in his garden.
08 May 1943
Tired of always playing the same roles, Little Red Riding Hood, her grandmother and the Wolf demand a new version of the tale.
22 February 1942
A satire focusing on Native American life on and off the reservation. It is filled with black-out sight gags, word-play and caricatures.
06 December 1941
It's snowy and cold outside, and warm inside where Jerry squeezes past a mousetrap to cavort under a present-laden Christmas tree.
11 April 1942
Horton the elephant agrees to watch over lazy Maisie bird's egg while she vacations. Much later, after.
12 November 1943
A hungry vulture contacts the black market to get a chicken dinner, but ends up getting a live banty rooster.
06 January 1950
Albert, an auto mechanic is listening to a radio broadcast about a society based on the "coordinated cooperation of ants".
30 March 1946
It's spring, and Tom is much more interested in the female cat next door than in Jerry.
25 August 1945
The big bad wolf starts out chasing Little Red Riding Hood but switches to Cinderella after seeing the film's title, and ends up being chased in turn by her fairy godmother.
30 August 1945
The fox is sailing the high seas looking for buried treasure. The crow, eyeing the fox as a sucker, passes his island home off as "Treasure Island", assuring the fox it is loaded with gold (which he proves by showing the fox phoney gold bricks which are really construction bricks painted yellow).
23 June 1943
The Fox is a tree surgeon, who provides his services to the weather-beaten old tree the Crow calls home and doesn't want fixed.
22 May 1943
Jerry crashes a vase onto Tom's head, which gets Mammy to throw Tom out. Jerry at first revels in his freedom, but soon tires of this, and, under a flag of truce, hatches a plan with Tom.
18 December 1942
Midas Junior inherits the Golden Rubber touch on his birthday and is unhappy because everything he touches turns to rubber.
27 August 1943
Newsreel parodies.
02 August 1945
A caricature of W.C. Fields runs a theater show with four separate short stories in which nursery rhymes are sung in the beginning (by Andrews Sisters lookalikes) and then acted out.
29 April 1942
Wild and Woozy West is another of the unsung cartoons from the Columbia studio of the '40s. It concerns the capture of the western wolf villain Angel Face, wanted dead or alive (perferrably dead).
28 May 1943
Focuses on a hunting dog.
23 July 1943
A cultured spider attempts to charm and devour an ill-mannered fly.
26 July 1945
Stranded on an island, the starving Fox gets sick of coconuts, but when he sees the Crow, he desperately tries to eat him, only to wind up failing in every attempt.
27 August 1943
A World War II propaganda film about the need to remain calm and logical during wartime.
03 August 1946
The wolf escapes from Alka-Fizz prison, but persistent Sergeant McPoodle (Droopy) of the Canadian Mounties follows his trail wherever he goes.
04 May 1944
It is approaching mid-November in Dogpatch and this his bad news for all the bachelors, including Li'l Abner, as "Sadie Hawkins Day" is nearing.
24 March 1944
A newsreel spoof with WWII homefront gags, including rationing, air raid drills and women filling in men's jobs.
12 July 1946
Anxious to get to work with the big guys damming the river before the flood hits, a little beaver keeps getting in the way of their work.
22 August 1942
Yet another variation on the Three Little Pigs theme, this time told as WW2 anti-German propaganda (the US had just entered the war), with the wolf as a thinly-disguised Hitler.
06 December 1947
A hungry cat has the idea of giving "Jumbo Gro" fertilizer to a scrawny canary to make him a bigger meal, which leads to a race between the cat, the canary, a dog, and a mouse to see who can grow the biggest.
16 March 1949
Little Johnny Jones, to be born in the next year, is shown growing to a ripe, healthy old age, thanks to the efforts of his local public health officers.
08 April 1950
Jerry agrees to help an escaped circus lion, whose first need is food. But first they'll have to evade Tom, who heard the news bulletin and is armed with a shotgun.
07 June 1944
Focuses on an inept golfer.
07 September 1944
While doing their respective yardwork, the fox and crow (next-door neighbors) overhear a radio broadcast encouraging everyone to "love thy neighbor".
01 January 2023
Private Snafu is the title character of a series of black-and-white American instructional cartoon shorts produced between 1943 and 1945 during World War II.
15 May 2007
Frederick "Tex" Avery directed some of the funniest cartoons ever made, but he relied primarily on situations and moving graphics, rather than on the personalities of familiar characters.
29 January 1943
Cosmo Jones, a correspondence-school detective from a small town, comes to the big city to offer his services to the police.
14 April 1945
Dangerous Dan McGoo (Droopy) faces the wolf, a dangerous outlaw who is trying to steal his girl Lou, during the Alaska gold rush.
11 June 1949
Tex Avery's narrator shows us the amazing features of the ultra-modern House of Tomorrow.
04 November 1950
Droopy and Gorgeous Gorillawitz (Spike) are competing for the title of King of Sports and for a kiss from the Queen of Sports.
28 April 1944
It's the dead of winter and Crow is alone in the frigid tundra. He happens upon Fox's cabin, but finds his host less than hospitable.
11 August 1944
Disney short. Part of the "A Few Quick Facts" series.
