Frank Ferguson
- Acting
- December 25, 1899 · Ferndale, California, USA
- September 12, 1978
Biography
Frank S. Ferguson was an American character actor with hundreds of appearances in both film and television. Ferguson's best known role was as the Swedish ranch handyman, Gus Broeberg, on the CBS television series, My Friend Flicka, based on a novel of the same name. He appeared with Gene Evans, Johnny Washbrook and Anita Louise. At this time, Ferguson also portrayed the Calverton veterinarian in the first several seasons of CBS's Lassie. He made his film debut in 1939 in Gambling on the High Seas (released in 1940), and appeared in nearly 200 feature films and hundreds of TV episodes subsequently. Film appearances include: McDougal's House of Horrors (1948), Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair 1952. Television series appearances include The Pride of the Family, The Andy Griffith Show, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Peyton Place and Perry Mason.
Known for
Filmography
- The Macahans · Grandpa
- Little House on the Prairie · Calder
- Kung Fu · Bissell
- The Waltons
- Return to Peyton Place · Eli Carson
- Cannon
- Alias Smith and Jones
- Along Came a Spider · Dr. Andrew Blake
- Nanny and the Professor · the Judge
- Land of the Giants · Goalby
- Adam-12 · Fred Tibbles
- Green Acres · Harvey Jackson, Doc John Stuart
- The Great Sioux Massacre · General Alfred Howe Terry
- Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte · Newspaper Editor
- Peyton Place
- Wendy and Me
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea · Air Force General
- The Quick Gun · Dan Evans
- Petticoat Junction · Doc Stuart
- Temple Houston · Judge Gurney
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour · Garner
- The Virginian · Tom Dunston
- Pocketful of Miracles · Newspaper Editor
- Everglades
- Target: The Corruptors!
- The Asphalt Jungle
- The Case of the Dangerous Robin · Walter Henderson
- Surfside 6
- The Andy Griffith Show · Sam Lindsey, Wilbur Pine
- The Westerner · Stuart
- Sunrise at Campobello · Dr. Bennett
- The Tall Man
- Coronado 9
- Raymie · Rex
- The Big Night · Dave Johnson
- Shotgun Slade · Mike Colier
- Mr. Lucky · Hyatt Krausmeyer
- Hawaiian Eye · Capt. Joe Taggart
- Philip Marlowe
- The Alaskans
- The Twilight Zone · Krueger
- Wichita Town
- Lock-Up
- Laramie
- Bonanza · J.R. Ridley, Abner
- Andy Hardy Comes Home · Mayor Benson
- 77 Sunset Strip · Saul Gantry
- Bat Masterson · Old Billy North, Dick Pierce
- Man of the West · Crosscut Marshal (uncredited)
- The Rifleman
- The Texan
- Bronco · Gen. William T. Sherman
- Peter Gunn
- Wanted: Dead or Alive · Amos Wilson
- Terror in a Texas Town · Deacon Matt Holmes
- The Light in the Forest · Harry Butler
- Cole Younger, Gunfighter · Sheriff Ralph Wittrock
- Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer · Thorpe
- Leave It to Beaver
- Trackdown · Adam Turner, Judge Tolliver
- Goodyear Theatre · Milbanks
- Alcoa Theatre · Milbanks
- Maverick · Sheriff McPeters, Genessee Jones
- Perry Mason · Sheriff Barnes, Prof. Laiken
- Wagon Train · Judge Hiram Larkin
- Sugarfoot · Otto Jardine, Doc Spooner
- Have Gun, Will Travel · Kincaid
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective · Captain Hoyt
- The Lawless Eighties · Owen Sutter
- This Could Be the Night · Mr. Shea
- Gun Duel in Durango · Sheriff Howard
- The Iron Sheriff · Holloway
- The Phantom Stagecoach · Joe Patterson
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre · T.J. Barnett, Paul Parker
- State Trooper · Frank Cliff, Ralph Barlow
- At Gunpoint · Marshal George Henderson
- The Battle of Gettysburg · Gettysburg Address Reciter (voice) (uncredited)
- A Lawless Street · Abe Deland (uncredited)
- The 20th Century Fox Hour
- My Friend Flicka