1. Frank Wilcox appeared in numerous films and television series, as well as Broadway plays.
16 Facts About Frank Wilcox
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Frank Wilcox was born in De Soto, Missouri, but the family moved to Atchison, Kansas.
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Frank Wilcox played Abraham Lincoln as a militia captain in another 1939 film short Old Hickory, based on key events in the public career of President Andrew Jackson.
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In 1951, already at work in television, Frank Wilcox was cast in two episodes of the police drama Racket Squad.
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In 1956, Frank Wilcox portrayed John Gould in "God's Healing" on the religion Crossroads.
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In 1957, Frank Wilcox guest-starred in the episode "Quicksilver" of Sugarfoot, as a young frontier law student.
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Frank Wilcox's best known television role, the one which brought him great recognition from millions of viewers, was that of the oil executive John Brewster in the first five seasons of The Beverly Hillbillies.
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Frank Wilcox appeared in 1957 as Joe Spaulding in "Lucy Wants to Move to the Country," one of the later episodes of the CBS sitcom I Love Lucy.
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From 1953 to 1956, Frank Wilcox made 16 appearances in different roles on The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show.
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Frank Wilcox appeared three times in two different roles from 1961 to 1962 on Pete and Gladys.
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Frank Wilcox guest-starred on the ABC sitcoms Leave It to Beaver, The Donna Reed Show and The Real McCoys.
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Frank Wilcox made several guest appearances as a judge on Perry Mason during the nine-year run of that program.
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Frank Wilcox appeared as a judge in the 1961 episode "The Dentist" of Angel and as Jennings is the 1961 episode "Troubleshooter" of Straightaway.
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Frank Wilcox appeared in numerous episodes of The Untouchables as Federal District Attorney Beecher Asbury.
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Frank Wilcox appeared in a 1965 episode of Kentucky Jones and in the first episode broadcast of The Munsters.
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On March 3,1974, Frank Wilcox died at his home 10 days before his 67th birthday in Los Angeles,.