Frank Collison
Biography
Frank Collison (born February 14, 1950) is an American actor. Trained at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, he earned his BA in theatre at San Francisco State University and helped establish a summer theatre company in the Sierra Nevadas then went on to earn an MFA in acting at UC San Diego. Before Collison began his professional career in acting, he worked as a forest fire fighter, diaper service dispatcher and substitute teacher. Appearing in over 150 productions, Collison has worked off Broadway and in regional theaters in Boston, Denver and California. His theatrical roles have ranged from "Puck" in Midsummer's Nights Dream to "Miss Havisham" in Great Expectations to "Jacob Marley" in Christmas Carol. Frank is a founding member of Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice, California, which has won over 25 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards. Collison began his film and television career when he moved to Los Angeles in 1984. He is perhaps best known as "Horace Bing," the hapless telegraph operator on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993) and "Wash Hogwallop" in "O Brother Where Art Thou?
Known For
Wash Hogwallop
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Strabo
The Whole Ten Yards
Billy
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
Mr. Fisher
Hope Springs
Victor
The Village
Nursery Owner
The Happening
Pablo
The Last Boy Scout
Phil Hobbs—Projectionist
The Blob
Gas Station Attendant
Into the Homeland
Roy
Two Yellow Lines
Funeral Director
Hesher
Sprug
Dollman
The Investigator
Prison Guard
Diggstown
Charlie Stroll
Grunt! The Wrestling Movie
Sly
Wired to Kill
Horace Bing
Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman: The Movie
Hal
The Collector
Admiral Ironsides
Pirate's Code: The Adventures of Mickey Matson
Look-A-Like Salesman
The Compleat Al
The KA Leader
L.A. Slasher
Screaming Man (uncredited)
K-PAX
Leon
Radio Free Albemuth
Creepy Party Crasher
The 4th
Man in Dream
The Hero
Mike
Grandma
Mac
Voodoo Moon
Timmy Thompson
Wild at Heart
Piper
Suspect Zero
Nickel
Buckshot
Texas Jack
Hidalgo
Skinny Cop - Tommy
Camouflage
Distressed Witness
S.F.W.
Linus Duckworth
You're Gonna Miss Me
Zoo Keeper
Buddy
Henry Gein
Hitchcock
Turner
A Crack in the Floor
Clay
Pee-wee's Big Holiday
Darryl Burke
Keep the Change
Shrink
Lifetime Contract
Floyd Bumpus
It Runs in the Family
Spider
Backstreet Dreams
Grizzled Pirate (segment "Video Pirates")
Amazon Women on the Moon
Raddish
A Formula for Mayhem
Subpoena Server
The Majestic
Dead Connection
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
46
Gender
Male
Birthday
1950-02-14
Place of Birth
Evanston, Illinois, USA
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