Frank Cady
Nascimento : 1915-09-08, Susanville, California, USA
Morte : 2012-06-08
História
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.
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.
Cady resided in Wilsonville, Oregon and at the time of his death had two children, three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
Self
Documentary and interviews with the cast of Petticoat Junction and stories of the show's production.
Sam Drucker
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 hesitant.
Mr. Sutter
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 from its owner. The grandest mischief of all, however, comes from their attempt to win the prize at the Halloween party, given to the entrant with the largest pumpkin.
Pa Tater
Naive Iowa farm boy Lewis Tater dreams of being a famous Western novelist like his hero, Zane Grey. He leaves home to answer a writing correspondence course's ad for on-campus classes, only to discover that the school consists of a row of postboxes at an isolated Nevada train depot. On the run from the con men responsible, Lewis stumbles across "real" cowboys--cowboy actors shooting a movie in the desert. The would-be writer soon finds himself instead acting in Westerns, for the rundown Tumbleweed Productions studio, in Depression-era Hollywood.
Pa Allan
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.
Assayer
A esposa de um cientista fracassado e endividado vive fazendo maravilhosos quitutes pra vender. Sua especialidade é uma espécie de torta de maçã. Certo dia, uma pata "passeava" pelo laboratório do cientista e "prova" o tal doce de maçã e, misteriosamente, começa a botar ovos de ouro.
Mayor James Sargent
Um chinês gentil e idoso (possui 7322 anos), Dr. Lao (Tony Randall) chega em Abalone, Arizona, com seu circo, que tem atrações únicas (o Abominável Homem das Neves, Merlin, Medusa, Pan, Apolônio de Tiana e outros seres fantásticos). Ele constata rapidamente que a cidade é dominada por um rico rancheiro, Clint Stark (Arthur O'Connell), que alega que em seis meses não haverá água na cidade, pois o aqueduto está quase inutilizado e o conserto seria de US$ 237 mil. Assim, Stark propõe comprar toda a cidade e só Ed Cunningham (John Ericson), o dono do jornal local, se opõe à idéia. Mas em poucos dias o Dr. Lao irá alterar a vida dos moradores de Abalone.
John Milstead
A film director turns his actress wife into a star, leading to marital problems.
Pop
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 finds out that he is just a boat mechanic. They have fun on their date and Pete proposes and Dodie accepts. Then Dodie meets Neil Patterson who is rich. They go to Mexico on his yacht and have fun on their date. Neil proposes and Dodie accepts. Now she has to choose.
Willie Poole
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.
Abe Pickett (uncredited)
O veterano caçador de recompensas Morg Hickman chega numa cidade. O xerife foi morto e o jovem inexperiente Ben Owens é nomeado substituto até que um xerife permanente pode ser encontrado. Owens quer ser xerife permanentemente e quando ele descobre que Morg foi xerife, antes de se tornar um caçador de recompensas, pede ajuda a ele. Morg acha que ser um xerife é insensato, mas concorda em instruir Ben em lidar com as pessoas, algo mais importante para um xerife do que lidar com uma arma.
Doctor
Após a Guerra Civil o ex-oficial Confederado Colt Saunders (Charlton Heston) conhece Lorna Hunter (Anne Baxter), uma dançarina de saloon que se faz passar por uma dama e até como esposa dele, quando Colt estava desacordado após uma briga. Acontece que ela soube manobrar tão bem a situação que Colt resolve casar repentinamente com ela. Eles vão morar em "Bar S", o rancho de Colt, que há 5 anos não tinha a presença do seu dono. Logo após chegar recebe uma má notícia, pois membros do "governo provisório" taxam em US$ 16 mil o rancho de Colt. Eles sabem que a dívida é impossível de ser paga e assim tem um pretexto para tomar o rancho. Para piorar, uma destas pessoas do "governo provisório" sabe do passado sombrio de Lorna. Além disto aparece Beauregard "Cinch" Saunders (Tom Tryon), o irmão de Colt, que é a ovelha negra da família.
Henry Daigle
Garota de oito anos é a maldade em pessoa, além de egoísta e mentirosa. Somente a mãe sabe a verdade sobre essa terrível criança. Rhoda, de rosto angelical, é capaz de elaborar planos diabólicos para conseguir tudo que deseja, uma sociopata mirim em potencial. Primeiro filme, onde temos uma criança como vilã, que influenciou uma leva de filmes do gênero: A Profecia, Aldeia dos Amaldiçoados, Anjo Malvado, A Órfã, etc.
Trader Joe
Johnny Hawks (Kirk Douglas), um ex-lutador indiano, retorna ao Ocidente após a Guerra Civil. Ele reconhece a banda indiana liderada por Red Cloud (Eduard Franz) e sua filha, que cresceu e está linda. Mas, alguns comerciantes inescrupulosos de uísque começam a ficar atrás de ouro nas terra indianas e Hawks, para evitar derramamento de sangue, convence Red Cloud a fazer um acordo. Hawks lidera um trem que vai passando pelo território indiano, mas quando ele foge para ver a filha do chefe, os problemas entre os bravos e os comerciantes de uísque acendem-se novamente, colocando toda a missão em perigo.
Man on Fire Escape (uncredited)
Em Greenwich Village, Nova York, L.B. Jeffries, um fotógrafo profissional, está de molho em seu apartamento por ter quebrado a perna enquanto trabalhava. Como não tem muito o que fazer, fica bisbilhotando a vida dos seus vizinhos com um binóculo. Porém vê algumas coisas que o fazem suspeitar que um assassinato foi cometido.
Mr. Watts
A man moves his family from the big city to the suburbs.
Bennie Amboy
A small-town newspaper editor risks everything to expose a corrupt sheriff.
F.B.I. Agent George Weinberg
Spies hold the son of a nuclear physicist (Gene Barry) hostage in exchange for the Los Alamos bomb formula.
Ferguson
A woman divorces her husband of 20 years because he gambles too much.
Harold Ferris
Cole Henderson (Larry Keating) é um cientista que alerta que um planeta está em um rota de colisão com a Terra. Ninguém crê na história de Henderson, com exceção de Sydney Stanton (John Hoyt), um milionário que financia a construção de uma astronave gigantesca, construída para transportar sobreviventes selecionados da Terra para outro planeta. Logo fica claro que as predições de Cole se tornarão realidade, assim uma loteria mundial é feita para selecionar as pessoas que serão salvas do catástrofe pela astronave de Stanton.
Mr. Federber
Charles Tatum (Kirk Douglas), é um repórter que aceita um emprego num pequeno jornal do Novo México. O trabalho é bastante monótono, até que ele encontra um homem preso numa mina. Ele vislumbra a possibilidade de, ao prolongar a permanência do mineiro dentro dos escombros, a chance de se tornar famoso.
Parole Officer Creavy
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, turns out to be a notorious ex-convict who was sentenced to prison by Senator Wilkins when he was a judge, Wilkins considers firing him until his daughter points out that would be an unwise decision considering the position her father held on society.
Gas Station Man
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.
Showbox Puppeteer (uncredited)
A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case.
Harry (uncredited)
Harriet O'Malley tries to solve a murder aboard a train en route to New York.
Max Henry
A doctor testing drugs on convicts gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
Elevator Operator (uncredited)
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 had an affair with each's wife.
Fred Backett (uncredited)
A killer holds the customers at a bar hostage.
Janitor (uncredited)
A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway.
Eddie (uncredited)
A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.
Bald Plant Worker in Locker Room (uncredited)
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 a short story of the same name by George Sumner Albee.
Timid Engagement Party Guest (uncredited)
Stanley Banks, um orgulhoso pai, lembra o dia em que sua filha, Kay, se casou. Desde quando ela anuncia seu noivado até o dia do casamento propriamente. Veremos todas as surpresas e desastres que podem ocorrer ao longo desse sinuoso caminho.
Night Clerk (uncredited)
Quando o inteligente criminoso Erwin "Doc" Riedenschneider é libertado da prisão, ele procura um investidor de cinquenta mil dólares na casa de apostas Cobby para recrutar um pequeno grupo de especialistas e realizar um assalto de milhões de dólares de joias de uma joalheria. Doc é apresentado ao advogado Alonzo D. Emmerich, que se oferece para financiar toda a operação e comprar as pedras imediatamente após o roubo. Doc contrata o arrombador Louis Ciavelli, o motorista Gus Minissi e o pistoleiro Dix Handley para o assalto. No início, o plano funciona como um relógio, mas pequenos acidentes se acumulam e cada parceiro mostra ter sua própria fraqueza fatal. No fundo é um perverso e doentio submundo sujo.
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 to trace back over his last steps. As he frantically tries to unravel the mystery behind his own impending demise, his sleuthing leads him to a group of crooked businessmen and another murder.
Geologist (uncredited)
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.
Mr. Taney - Tax Investigator
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 saving Christmas, but changing their lives forever.
Reporter (uncredited)
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.
Oculist (uncredited)
A garçonete do refeitório da Warner Brothers Judy Adams (Doris Day) está ansiosa para estourar nas telas. Ela acha que sua grande chance pode ter chegado quando os atores Jack Carson e Dennis Morgan concordam em ajudá-la. Mal sabe ela que os dois só estão tentando tirar um filme do buraco. E além disso o chefão do estúdio Arthur Trent (Bill Goodwin) não está ajudando nem um pouco. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
Tom Hill (uncredited)
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
Pete Hammond
Em Los Angeles, a força policial começa uma grande caçada contra um criminoso que matou um policial e passou a cometer vários crimes na cidade escapando através de rede de esgoto.
Gus Barton
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.
Skinner
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.
Prof. Edwards
A Marine Sergeant, wounded in overseas service, requires an operation, and the Navy psychiatrist recommends to the Captain and Colonel that "Sarge" be given a few weeks rest before hospitalization. Through the Dean of San Juan Junior College, Sarge enters the school on a temporary basis.
