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Frank Lee Graham

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Frank Lee Graham

Birth
Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA
Death
2 Sep 1950 (aged 35)
Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Burial
Denver, City and County of Denver, Colorado, USA Add to Map
Plot
Block 72, Lot 141, Grave 7 ~ unmarked grave
Memorial ID
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Frank Graham
Born Frank Lee Graham
November 22, 1914
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Died September 2, 1950 (aged 35)
Hollywood, California, United States
Occupation Actor
Years active 1936-1950

Frank Lee Graham (November 22, 1914-September 2, 1950) was an American radio announcer and cartoon voice actor.
Biography

Graham was born in Detroit, Michigan to Frank L. Graham and opera singer Ethel Briggs Graham and travelled with his mother on tour.

He attended the University of California for one year and left to begin his acting career in Seattle, both on the stage and in radio. He was brought to Hollywood in 1937 to join KNX Radio. He had been married two years before to Dorothy Jack of Seattle. He was the star of Night Cap Yarns over CBS from 1938 through 1942 and was the announcer of dozens of programs, including the Ginny Simms, Rudy Vallee and Nelson Eddy shows. He also starred in The Jeff Regan Show and co-developed the radio drama Satan’s Watin’ with Van Des Autels. Graham was The Wandering Vaquero, the narrator of The Romance Of The Ranchos radio series (1941-1942), also on the CBS network.

Graham created the voices of a number of cartoon characters in animated films for Walt Disney, MGM, Columbia and Warner Bros. studios. He was the voice of the wolf in several Tex Avery cartoons, as well as the mouse in King-Size Canary at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He provided the voices of both the Fox and Crow in the eponymous-named shorts at Columbia.

He was found dead at age 35 in his convertible in the carport of his home in Los Angeles on September 2, 1950. A coroner declared he had committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Frank Graham
Born Frank Lee Graham
November 22, 1914
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Died September 2, 1950 (aged 35)
Hollywood, California, United States
Occupation Actor
Years active 1936-1950

Frank Lee Graham (November 22, 1914-September 2, 1950) was an American radio announcer and cartoon voice actor.
Biography

Graham was born in Detroit, Michigan to Frank L. Graham and opera singer Ethel Briggs Graham and travelled with his mother on tour.

He attended the University of California for one year and left to begin his acting career in Seattle, both on the stage and in radio. He was brought to Hollywood in 1937 to join KNX Radio. He had been married two years before to Dorothy Jack of Seattle. He was the star of Night Cap Yarns over CBS from 1938 through 1942 and was the announcer of dozens of programs, including the Ginny Simms, Rudy Vallee and Nelson Eddy shows. He also starred in The Jeff Regan Show and co-developed the radio drama Satan’s Watin’ with Van Des Autels. Graham was The Wandering Vaquero, the narrator of The Romance Of The Ranchos radio series (1941-1942), also on the CBS network.

Graham created the voices of a number of cartoon characters in animated films for Walt Disney, MGM, Columbia and Warner Bros. studios. He was the voice of the wolf in several Tex Avery cartoons, as well as the mouse in King-Size Canary at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He provided the voices of both the Fox and Crow in the eponymous-named shorts at Columbia.

He was found dead at age 35 in his convertible in the carport of his home in Los Angeles on September 2, 1950. A coroner declared he had committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.


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  • Maintained by: Ann
  • Originally Created by: TLS
  • Added: Oct 29, 2003
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8041846/frank_lee-graham: accessed ), memorial page for Frank Lee Graham (22 Nov 1914–2 Sep 1950), Find a Grave Memorial ID 8041846, citing Fairmount Cemetery, Denver, City and County of Denver, Colorado, USA; Maintained by Ann (contributor 46964942).