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Frank Cady

Frank Cady

Actor · 1915 – 2012 · Susanville, California, USA

Frank Cady (September 8, 1915 – June 8, 2012) was an American actor. His most famous role was 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, and 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.

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  • Movie8.3

    Rear Window

    1954 · 7.4K votes

  • Movie7.8

    Ace in the Hole

    1951 · 777 votes

  • Movie7.0

    The Tin Star

    1957 · 150 votes

  • Movie7.1

    The Bad Seed

    1956 · 276 votes

  • Movie5.8

    The Million Dollar Duck

    1971 · 97 votes

  • Movie6.7

    He Walked by Night

    1949 · 109 votes

  • Movie7.5

    The Asphalt Jungle

    1950 · 548 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Father of the Bride

    1950 · 244 votes

  • Movie6.3

    The Indian Fighter

    1955 · 85 votes

  • Movie5.6

    Let's Make It Legal

    1951 · 27 votes

  • Movie6.9

    7 Faces of Dr. Lao

    1964 · 101 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Three Violent People

    1956 · 44 votes

  • Movie5.6

    Hearts of the West

    1975 · 22 votes

  • Movie6.9

    Trial

    1955 · 17 votes

  • Movie6.4

    When Worlds Collide

    1951 · 210 votes

  • Movie6.9

    D.O.A.

    1949 · 206 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Flamingo Road

    1949 · 60 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Convicted

    1950 · 33 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Young Man with a Horn

    1950 · 58 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Zandy's Bride

    1974 · 35 votes

  • Movie9.0

    Special Agent

    1949 · 1 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Perfect Strangers

    1950 · 9 votes

  • Movie3.5

    Return to Green Acres

    1990 · 4 votes

  • Movie5.9

    It's a Great Feeling

    1949 · 35 votes

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  • TV7.7

    Perry Mason

    1957 · 139 votes

  • TV7.0

    Maverick

    1957 · 43 votes

  • TV6.6

    Wagon Train

    1957 · 31 votes

  • TV7.6

    The Andy Griffith Show

    1960 · 175 votes

  • TV7.2

    Hawaii Five-O

    1969 · 164 votes

  • TV6.5

    The Virginian

    1962 · 35 votes

  • TV6.2

    Cheyenne

    1955 · 26 votes

  • TV8.0

    The Untouchables

    1959 · 139 votes

  • TV5.9

    Petticoat Junction

    1963 · 42 votes

  • TV6.9

    The Beverly Hillbillies

    1962 · 139 votes

  • TV7.2

    Rawhide

    1959 · 49 votes

  • TV6.7

    Gunsmoke

    1955 · 119 votes

  • TV5.6

    Hawaiian Eye

    1959 · 10 votes

  • TV6.9

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    1950 · 13 votes

  • TV7.2

    Green Acres

    1965 · 80 votes

  • TV5.1

    Sugarfoot

    1957 · 8 votes

  • TV6.2
  • TV5.9

    The Real McCoys

    1957 · 13 votes

  • TV6.6

    Dennis the Menace

    1959 · 33 votes

  • TV6.9

    Trackdown

    1957 · 8 votes

  • TV6.8

    Hazel

    1961 · 22 votes

  • TV6.3

    December Bride

    1954 · 4 votes

  • TV6.3
  • TV6.2

    The Danny Thomas Show

    1953 · 20 votes