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Frank Cady
Age: 94
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Birth Place: Susanville, California, USA
Born: Sep. 8th, 1915
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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. 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.
TRIVIA:
- Retiring to Oregon in 1991, Cady and his wife kept active playing golf and hiking. Until recently, they took annual month-long hiking trips to Switzerland.
- Two children: Steve and Catherine
- In 1984, Frank received a call from 'Orson Welles' (qv) asking him to appear in an upcoming film, The Cradle Will Rock. Sadly, the picture was pushed back and Welles died before it could be shot.
- Receiving his BA in speech and drama, Frank eventually returned to Stanford for graduate work. He met his future wife, actress Shirley Jones (not _"The Partridge Family" (1970)_ (qv) star), while teaching acting at the university.
- Just prior to serving in WWII, he became a radio announcer and landed a job at KGDM in Stockton California. Eventually he moved on to KYA and subsequently to KGO in San Francisco.
- He is one of only three co-stars of _"Petticoat Junction" (1963)_ (qv) who stayed with the series for its entire seven-year run (the other two being 'Edgar Buchanan' (qv) and 'Linda Henning' (qv).
- Graduated from Lassen Union High School in California with the intent of becoming a journalist.
- In 2005 he attended 'Eddie Albert' (qv)'s funeral along with his _"Green Acres" (1965)_ (qv) co-stars 'Sid Melton' (qv) and 'Mary Grace Canfield' (qv), who played Alf and Ralph, the "Monroe Brothers".
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