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Frank Cady

Frank Cady

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.

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Movies Starring Frank Cady (52)

The History of Hooterville (2005)

Documentary and interviews with the cast of Petticoat Junction and stories of the show's production. ...

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Return to Green Acres (1990)

Tv movie that reunites most the show's cast members. The Douglases move back to New York. But when Haney tries to get everyone's property so that a developer can build on them, the residents go to New York to get Douglas to help them. But he's a little hes ...

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Soup and Me (1978)

On the day of the Halloween party, Soup and Rob are finding plenty of ways to get into trouble: swimming in a local pond (though their mothers prohibit swimming so late in the year), pitching apples over a barn, and borrowing a cart which had drifted away ...

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Hearts of the West (1975)

Lewis Tater writes Wild West dime novels and dreams of actually becoming a cowboy. When he goes west to find his dream he finds himself in possession of the loot box of two crooks who tried to rob him. ...

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Zandy's Bride (1974)

Zandy Allan purchases a mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. He treats her as a possession, without respect or humanity, until their shared ordeal as they struggle to survive develops in him a growing love. ...

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The Boy and the Bronc Buster (1973)

An orphan teen (Vincent Van Patten) follows a rider (Earl Holliman) on the rodeo circuit, unaware his hero is wanted for murder. ...

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The Million Dollar Duck (1971)

Professor Dooley takes home a duck from his research laboratory as a toy for his son, but soon finds out that it lays golden eggs. ...

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7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)

An old Chinese man rides into the town of Abalone, Arizona and changes it forever, as the citizens see themselves reflected in the mirror of Lao's mysterious circus of mythical beasts. ...

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The Man Who Understood Women (1959)

A film director turns his actress wife into a star, leading to marital problems. ...

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The Girl Most Likely (1958)

Dodie dreams of marrying a millionaire so that she can live 'the life'. Buzz, her boyfriend, however, is not rich as he is a salesman for a housing development. He proposes and Dodie accepts. Dodie next meets Pete, who she thinks is rich, but she soon find ...

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The Missouri Traveler (1958)

Byron Turner, a 15-year-old runaway from the Eatondale Orphan Asylum, receives a ride into the rural Missouri town of Delphi with rich land-owner Tobias Brown. ...

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The Tin Star (1957)

An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge. ...

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Three Violent People (1956)

A rancher, his shady bride and his one-armed brother fight amid carpetbaggers in Texas. ...

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The Bad Seed (1956)

Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, ...

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The Indian Fighter (1955)

A scout leading a wagon train through hostile Indian country gets involved with a Sioux chief's daughter. ...

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Trial (1955)

A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters. A courtroom drama set in 1947 and underlying post-WW2 acute problems facing the USA such as stormy race relations and the growing threat of local communism. ...

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Rear Window (1954)

A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder. ...

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Marry Me Again (1953)

Bill, a jet pilot hero from the Korean War, returns home with intentions of marrying his sweetheart, Doris. But Doris has inherited a million dollars and Bill won't marry her because he dreams of a home and babies, with himself as the sole source of income ...

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Half a Hero (1953)

A man moves his family from the big city to the suburbs. ...

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The Sellout (1952)

A small-town newspaper editor risks everything to expose a corrupt sheriff. ...

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The Atomic City (1952)

Spies hold the son of a nuclear physicist (Gene Barry) hostage in exchange for the Los Alamos bomb formula. ...

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Let's Make It Legal (1951)

A woman divorces her husband of 20 years because he gambles too much. ...

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When Worlds Collide (1951)

When a group of astronomers calculate a star is on a course to slam into Earth, a few days before, it's accompanying planet will first pass close enough to the Earth to cause havoc on land and sea. They set about building a rocket so a few selected individ ...

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Ace in the Hole (1951)

An arrogant reporter exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career. ...

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Dear Brat (1951)

Mirian Wilkins, the teenage daughter of Senator Wilkins, starts a Society for the Rehabilitation of Criminals and, without the approval or knowledge of her father, elects him to the position of honorary president. When the family's new gardener, Baxter, tu ...

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Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)

Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife. ...

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Hunt the Man Down (1950)

A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case. ...

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Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone (1950)

Harriet O'Malley tries to solve a murder aboard a train en route to New York. ...

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Experiment Alcatraz (1950)

A doctor testing drugs on convicts gets mixed up in a murder investigation. ...

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Three Husbands (1950)

When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands, with whom he regularly played poker, to a letter he left each of them claiming to have ha ...

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Dial 1119 (1950)

A deranged killer escapes from a mental institution. Intent on locating the psychiatrist whose testimony sent him to the asylum, he holds the patrons of a bar hostage. ...

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Pretty Baby (1950)

A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway. ...

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Convicted (1950)

A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted. ...

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The Next Voice You Hear... (1950)

The Next Voice You Hear... (1950) is a drama film in which a voice claiming to be that of God preempts all radio programs for days all over the world. It stars James Whitmore and Nancy Davis as Joe and Mary Smith, a typical American couple. It was based on ...

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Father of the Bride (1950)

Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way. ...

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The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist. ...

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Perfect Strangers (1950)

Romance at a murder trial with a pair of sequestered jurors who are the only ones who think that the woman in the dock is innocent. Separated from their normal lives, jurors Terry Scott and David Campbell start to fall in love. ...

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Young Man with a Horn (1950)

Taken in by the musical world as a young orphan, Rick Martin grows up with a desire to play pure jazz instead of the commercial gigs he lands, whilst also coping with the problems caused by his tempestuous marriage to an aloof heiress. ...

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The Great Rupert (1950)

Shortly before Christmas, a family moves into an apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in the attic rafters. Just as it seems that the holiday will come and go without so much as a Christmas tree, Rupert acts as the family's guardian angel - not only s ...

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D.O.A. (1949)

Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murderer is, Frank, with the help of his assistant and girlfriend, Paula, begins t ...

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The Lady Takes a Sailor (1949)

Jennifer Smith heads a "Consumer Reports"-type company and her reputation for honesty is her greatest asset. While out boating one day she encounters a secret prototype submarine piloted by Bill Craig. Trying to explain her absence after her boat sinks bec ...

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Abandoned (1949)

A Los Angeles newspaperman seeks a woman's sister and finds a black-market baby ring. ...

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It's a Great Feeling (1949)

A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her. ...

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Take One False Step (1949)

Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that he's a prime suspect and should investigate before he's arrested. ...

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Special Agent (1949)

A California railroad agent hunts two brothers for murder and robbing a payroll express. ...

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Flamingo Road (1949)

A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society. ...

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The Crooked Way (1949)

A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his criminal past. ...

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He Walked by Night (1949)

Roy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops. ...

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Bungalow 13 (1948)

In this detective drama, a gumshoe must find a priceless hunk of jade. His several leads evaporate when the police succeed in killing all of the suspects. ...

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The Checkered Coat (1948)

A psychiatrist tries to help a patient who loses consciousness after he kills someone. When the doctor provides the patient with a letter that explains his problem, he inadvertently implicates himself in the crimes. ...

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Sarge Goes to College (1947)

A Marine Sergeant wounded in overseas combat requires an operation, and the Navy psychiatrist recommends that 'Sarge' be given a few weeks' rest before hospitalization. Through the Dean of San Juan Junior College, Sarge enters on a temporary basis. Meanwhi ...

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