Frank Cady

Frank Cady

Birthday: 1915-09-08

Deathday: 2012-06-08

Place of birth: Susanville, California, USA

Also known as: Frank Randolph Cady

imdb_id: nm0128326

Biography:

Although Frank Cady's most famous role would be that of general-store owner Sam Drucker, one of the less nutty residents of Hooterville in both Green Acres (1965) and Petticoat Junction (1963), he had a history as a film, stage and television actor long before those shows. Cady also appeared on some radio programs including Gunsmoke. In the 1950s, Cady played Doc Williams in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952), along with numerous supporting parts in movies and also appeared in television commercials for (among other products) Shasta Grape Soda. Cady has been most prolific in television and was the only actor to play a recurring character on three TV sitcoms at the same time, The Beverly Hillbillies (1962), Green Acres (1965), and Petticoat Junction (1963). Usually cast as a gregarious small-town businessman, druggist, store clerk or other type of all-around Midwestern-type good guy, Cady was actually a California native, born in Susanville in 1915. The acting bug bit him when he sang in an elementary school play, and after graduating from Stanford University he headed to London, England, to train in the theater. When World War II broke out he was already in Europe, so he enlisted in the Army Air Force and spent the next several years in postings all over the continent. After his discharge he returned to the US and headed for Hollywood. An agent saw him in a local play, signed him, and he was on his way. One of his earlier--and more atypical--roles was as a seedy underworld character pulled in for questioning in a cop's murder in the noir classic He Walked by Night (1948), and he played a succession of hotel clerks, bureaucrats, henpecked husbands and the like for the next 40+ years. He did much television work from the mid-'50s onward. Cady resided in Wilsonville, Oregon and at the time of his death had two children, three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

Played in movies:

Rear Window

Score: 8.3

Ace in the Hole

Score: 7.9

The Asphalt Jungle

Score: 7.5

The Bad Seed

Score: 7.1

Flamingo Road

Score: 7.0

The Tin Star

Score: 7.0

Father of the Bride

Score: 7.0

D.O.A.

Score: 6.9

7 Faces of Dr. Lao

Score: 6.9

Trial

Score: 6.7

He Walked by Night

Score: 6.6

The Checkered Coat

Score: 6.5

Experiment Alcatraz

Score: 6.5

The Missouri Traveler

Score: 6.4

When Worlds Collide

Score: 6.3

Young Man with a Horn

Score: 6.3

Zandy's Bride

Score: 6.3

The Indian Fighter

Score: 6.3

Let's Make It Legal

Score: 6.3

Convicted

Score: 6.2

Hunt the Man Down

Score: 6.2

Abandoned

Score: 6.2

The Crooked Way

Score: 6.2

Perfect Strangers

Score: 6.2

Three Violent People

Score: 6.1

Pretty Baby

Score: 6.0

Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone

Score: 6.0

It's a Great Feeling

Score: 5.9

The Million Dollar Duck

Score: 5.8

Lightning Strikes Twice

Score: 5.7

The Great Rupert

Score: 5.6

Dial 1119

Score: 5.6

Hearts of the West

Score: 5.6

Take One False Step

Score: 5.5

Half a Hero

Score: 5.5

The Sellout

Score: 5.5

The Next Voice You Hear...

Score: 5.2

The Atomic City

Score: 5.2

Three Husbands

Score: 5.0

Soup and Me

Score: 4.0

Sarge Goes to College

Score: 4.0

Dear Brat

Score: 4.0

The Girl Most Likely

Score: 3.7

The Man Who Understood Women

Score: 3.3

Return to Green Acres

Score: 2.3

Bungalow 13

Score: 1.0

The Boy and the Bronc Buster

Score: 0.0

The History of Hooterville

Score: 0.0

Special Agent

Score: 0.0

Marry Me Again

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The Untouchables

Score: 7.8

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

The Andy Griffith Show

Score: 7.6

The Andy Griffith Show

Score: 7.6

Weekend Special

Score: 7.6

Green Acres

Score: 7.3

Green Acres

Score: 7.3

Green Acres

Score: 7.3

Rawhide

Score: 7.1

Hawaii Five-O

Score: 7.1

The Beverly Hillbillies

Score: 6.9

Hazel

Score: 6.8

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Score: 6.8

Maverick

Score: 6.8

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Pete and Gladys

Score: 6.5

Dennis the Menace

Score: 6.5

Trackdown

Score: 6.4

The Virginian

Score: 6.3

General Electric Theater

Score: 6.3

The Deputy

Score: 6.2

Klondike

Score: 6.2

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

Score: 5.9

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

Score: 5.9

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

Score: 5.9

Petticoat Junction

Score: 5.8

Cheyenne

Score: 5.8

You Are There

Score: 5.7

The Alaskans

Score: 5.5

Grindl

Score: 5.5

December Bride

Score: 5.5

Monster Squad

Score: 5.3

Hawaiian Eye

Score: 5.2

AfterMASH

Score: 5.1

Private Secretary

Score: 5.0

The Jane Wyman Show

Score: 4.8

Sugarfoot

Score: 4.8

Front Row Center

Score: 4.0

Guestward, Ho!

Score: 4.0

These Are the Days

Score: 3.0

Glynis

Score: 0.0

The Great Adventure

Score: 0.0