Francis "Dink" Trout was an American actor, voice artist and radio personality.
11 Facts About Dink Trout
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In 1927, Trout had his own musical program on WOR in Newark, New Jersey.
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Dink Trout was heard as Waldo Binney on The Life of Riley, as Mr Anderson on The Dennis Day Show and as Luke Spears on Lum and Abner.
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Dink Trout was heard in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, the Cass Daley Show, The Nebbs, and The Jim Backus Show.
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On Broadway, Dink Trout had the role of Zappo in The Wild Rose.
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Dink Trout played marimba and trombone for Ben Bernie and his orchestra.
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In 1936 Dink Trout made his first film appearance in Under Your Spell.
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Dink Trout reprised this role for the next two films in the Scattergood Baines chronology.
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Dink Trout made several other film appearances throughout his life, though he was generally uncredited.
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Dink Trout played Phink, the pressure cooker salesman in the unaired Three Stooges TV pilot, Jerks of All Trades.
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One year before the release of Alice in Wonderland, Dink Trout died after having had major surgery in Hollywood, on March 26,1950, at the age of 51.