Frank Collison

Birthday: 1950-02-14
Birthplace: Evanston, Illinois, USA
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

Frank trained at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, earned his BA in theatre at San Francisco State University, helped establish a summer theatre company in the Sierra Nevadas then went on to earn an MFA in acting at UC San Diego. Before Frank began his professional career in acting, he worked as a forest fire fighter, diaper service dispatcher and substitute teacher. Appearing in over 150 productions, Frank has worked off Broadway and in regional theaters in Boston, Denver and California. His theatrical roles have ranged from "Puck" in Midsummer's Nights Dream to "Miss Havisham" in Great Expectations to "Jacob Marley" in Christmas Carol. Frank is a founding member of Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice, California, which has won over 25 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards.

Frank began his film and television career when he moved to Los Angeles in 1984. He is perhaps best known as "Horace Bing," the hapless telegraph operator on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993) and "Wash Hogwallop" in "O Brother Where Art Thou?

Credits

Year Title Character
2021-11-09 Two Yellow Lines Roy
2021-01-01 The Collector Hal
2017-10-06 Buckshot Nickel
2017-06-09 The Hero Man in Dream
2017-06-06 You're Gonna Miss Me Linus Duckworth
2016-03-15 Pee-wee's Big Holiday Clay
2016-01-23 The 4th Creepy Party Crasher
2015-06-12 L.A. Slasher The KA Leader
2015-06-04 Grandma Mike
2014-10-16 Pirate's Code: The Adventures of Mickey Matson Admiral Ironsides
2012-11-22 Hitchcock Henry Gein
2010-02-25 Radio Free Albemuth Leon
2010-01-22 Hesher Funeral Director
2008-06-11 The Happening Nursery Owner
2006-06-04 Voodoo Moon Mac
2004-08-27 Suspect Zero Piper
2004-07-30 The Village Victor
2004-04-07 The Whole Ten Yards Strabo
2004-02-04 Hidalgo Texas Jack
2003-05-09 Hope Springs Mr. Fisher
2001-10-26 K-PAX Screaming Man (uncredited)
2001-04-24 A Crack in the Floor Turner
2001-01-09 Camouflage Skinny Cop - Tommy
2000-08-30 O Brother, Where Art Thou? Wash Hogwallop
1999-05-22 Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman: The Movie Horace Bing
1997-06-06 Buddy Zoo Keeper
1994-12-01 The Investigator
1994-09-23 It Runs in the Family Floyd Bumpus
1994-09-15 S.F.W. Distressed Witness
1992-08-14 Diggstown Prison Guard
1992-07-24 A Formula for Mayhem Raddish
1992-06-09 Keep the Change Darryl Burke
1991-12-13 The Last Boy Scout Pablo
1991-11-27 Dollman Sprug
1990-09-29 Backstreet Dreams Spider
1990-08-17 Wild at Heart Timmy Thompson
1988-09-30 Elvira: Mistress of the Dark Billy
1988-08-05 The Blob Hobbe
1987-09-18 Amazon Women on the Moon Grizzled Pirate (segment "Video Pirates")
1987-01-01 Into the Homeland Gas Station Attendant
1986-11-14 Wired to Kill Sly
1986-10-03 Lifetime Contract Shrink
1985-11-07 Grunt! The Wrestling Movie Charlie Stroll
1985-08-07 The Compleat Al Look-A-Like Salesman