Frank Albertson's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Bringing Up Buddy Mr. Cooper The Billy Rose Show Billy Rose …

Main Movie Roles 1963 - Bye Bye Birdie 1960 - Psycho 1957 - The Enemy Below 1957 - Nightfall 1956 - The Man Who Knew Too Much 1946 - It's a Wonderful Life 1942 - Wake Island 1939 - Bachelor Mother 1938 - Room Service 1936 - Fury 1936 - The Plainsman 1935 - Alice Adams

BIOGRAPHY:

Frank Albertson entered the film industry in 1922 as a prop boy, but soon graduated into acting. He was a prolific and reliable character actor who occasionally played the lead in a "B" picture, but was used mainly as a supporting actor in scores of films, often cast as a wisecracking cab driver, a cop or a reporter.


TRIVIA:

• Early, largely uncredited roles from 1922, had him cast under the name James Cruze
• Screen, stage, and television actor.
• Entered films in 1922.