Frank Fenton

AKA: Frank Fenton Moran
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1906-04-09

Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Frank Fenton (Moran) (April 9, 1906 – July 24, 1957) was an American stage, film and television actor. Description above from the Wikipedia Frank Fenton (actor) licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Crew Roles

The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones
Writer
Highways by Night
Screenplay
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {69}

Fletcher (uncredited)

1946-08-23 4.8

Big Town

A newspaper editor goes on an anti-crime crusade, but gets carried away. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Joe Dandridge

1951-02-15 0

Rogue River

The story of Ownie Rodgers, the nephew of crooked Oregon police chief Joe Dandridge. A $70,000 windfall, bequeathed to Dandridge by a man he'd once framed on a bank robbery charge, unleashes innumerab ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western

Captain Turner

1953-09-05 6.291

Island in the Sky

A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastelands of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while awaiti ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

Prentice

1949-03-03 5.5

The Clay Pigeon

Jim Fletcher, waking up from a coma, finds he is to be given a court martial for treason and charged with informing on fellow inmates in a Japanese prison camp during WWII. Escaping from the hospital ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime

1951-12-01 6.292

Silver City

Having masterminded the hold up of his company office, a mining engineer is barred from the industry. He then sets up shop as an assayer, scheming to acquire a rich silver mine lease from its operator ...
Genre :Western

Murdo Carvell

1944-04-02 5.6

Buffalo Bill

Scout William F. Cody marries a U.S. senator's daughter, fights the Cheyenne and leads a Wild West show. ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Western

Lieutenant Borden

1948-09-04 6

Bodyguard

A cop on suspension is framed for murder when he noses in on a murder investigation. ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime

Eric (uncredited)

1953-10-05 5.409

Vicki

A supermodel gets murdered. While investigating the case the story of a waitress turned glamor girl is revealed. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Sam Baker

1944-12-22 4.6

Destiny

Framed for two crimes he didn't commit, and betrayed by his girl, Cliff Banks finds himself on the run from the police. Now distrustful of everyone, he finds a safe haven hiding out at a quaint countr ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Fantasy

Harry Quantro

1957-10-01 5.538

Hell Bound

After WW2, a Los Angeles crime ring uses a complex scheme, involving a freight ship, a junkie, and a corrupt health officer, to smuggle drugs into the USA. ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Thriller

Russell Rogers

1943-05-01 5.2

Lady of Burlesque

After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before they strike again. ...
Genre :Mystery, Comedy, Music, Crime

Paul Morgan

1947-08-30 5

Philo Vance's Secret Mission

Philo Vance is hired to write a true-crime mystery... but when the facts about an unsolved crime are about to be brought out into the open a murder takes place. ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime

Simms

1944-07-30 6.8

Secret Command

Sam Gallagher returns home to Los Angeles as an undercover spy for the Navy, getting a job at the shipyards where his brother, Jeff, is a foreman. Jeff still resents Sam for abandoning the family year ...
Genre :Action, War, Drama

Lt. Ralph Gilpin

1943-11-10 5

Minesweeper

A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins. He re-enlists under an assumed name, and is assigned to a minesweeper, where he has to perfor ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War

Salcedo's Lieutenant

1953-05-27 5.7

Raiders of the Seven Seas

After staging a mutiny and commandeering his own ship, famed pirate Barbarossa takes hostage a spirited Spanish noblewoman named Alida, intending to trade her to her fiancé, Capt. Jose Salcedo, for a ...
Genre :Adventure

Detective Driver (uncredited)

1953-04-09 6

Man in the Dark

Many interested parties are after the loot from a factory payroll heist but the mobster who hid it has amnesia after undergoing experimental brain surgery in the prison hospital. ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

The Maharajah

1953-07-01 0

Eyes of the Jungle

Ramar of the Jungle encounters a holy man who warns him of great danger. His friend Professor Howard is near death, cursed by the Mark of Shitan. A sacred golden tablet and a woman ready for sacrifice ...
Genre :Adventure

Gilson

1950-10-18 4.4

Wyoming Mail

In 1869, the United States begins a railroad mail service to the West Coast which proves highly tempting to train robbers, in particular an organized gang with one of the mail's supposed guardians in ...
Genre :Western

Horatio Vedder

1946-05-18 5

The French Key

Private detective Johnny Fletcher and his sidekick Sam Cragg skip out on their rented room, but when they sneak back to retrieve their luggage, they discover a dead body on the bed, holding a gold coi ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Adventure

Bart Selby

1950-08-03 0

Streets of Ghost Town

The Durango Kid and his sidekick look for stolen gold with a history. ...
Genre :Western

George Wakeman / Red Buck

1949-05-27 6.8

The Doolins of Oklahoma

When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the leader of the Doolin gang. He eventually leaves the g ...
Genre :Western

Harold

1956-06-17 4.6

The Naked Hills

Tracy Powell, an Indiana farmer, gets the gold fever and heads for Stockton, California in 1849. There, he abandons his first partner, Bert Killian, and teams up with Sam Wilkins, a claim jumper emplo ...
Genre :Western

Jack Burke

1943-08-15 4.6

Isle of Forgotten Sins

An evil sea captain and the forces of nature threaten two divers' search for a fortune in gold in the South Pacific. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Drama

Sam 'Benny' Lackey

1943-10-15 3

A Scream in the Dark

A detective tries to prove that a woman is killing her spouses with a spiked umbrella. ...
Genre :Mystery

McKinnon

1949-11-04 0

Ranger of Cherokee Strip

Having been framed for murder, the half-breed Joe Bearclaws (Douglas Kennedy) escapes from jail and Ranger Steve Howard (Monte Hale) goes after him. He catches up with him in the Cherokee Strip where ...
Genre :Western

Major Mathews

1948-08-20 7.1

A Foreign Affair

In occupied Berlin, a US Army Captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the US Congresswoman investigating her. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Drama

Jim Crawford

1948-11-24 0

Renegades of Sonora

Cowboy Rocky Lane thwarts an attack on a courier delivering a precious Indian tribal belt and becomes embroiled in a conspiracy in the process. When the courier dies, Rocky delivers the belt to the Ag ...
Genre :Western, Action

Birch

1947-10-07 6.7

Magic Town

Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country. He and his assistants go there to run polls cheap ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Charlton

1944-09-22 6

The Big Noise

During World War II Stan and Ollie find themselves as improbable bodyguards to an eccentric inventor and his strategically important new bomb. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Phillips

1945-11-23 6

Hold That Blonde!

Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by a girl. His psychoanalyst advises him to find another girl for a cure. He fastens his interest upon Sal ...
Genre :Comedy

Manson

1950-06-18 0

Sideshow

A Treasury Department agent on the trail of an international jewel smuggling ring joins a carnival that he thinks the gang is using as a front. He finally locates the jewels hidden as the eyes of wax ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime

Colonel - HAGS CO (uncredited)

1943-03-20 4.4

Aerial Gunner

Old rivals are pitted against each other in basic training and fight for the same woman. ...
Genre :War, Drama

Sheriff

1948-05-28 8

Hazard

A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before he can collect, she skips town, with a private detective hot on her trail. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Mr. Prentiss

1950-06-01 5.8

The Lawless

A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Thriller

Buck Prescott

1951-01-15 0

Prairie Roundup

In Prairie Roundup, Fred F. Sears' direction brings a welcome jolt of vitality to Columbia's aging "Durango Kid" western series. Once again, Charles Starrett stars as Steve Carson, a lawman who is for ...
Genre :Western

Board of Directors Head

1956-10-02 10

Cha-Cha-Cha Boom!

A programmer with a Latin American beat. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Chester Malton (uncredited)

1945-11-03 7

Purity Squad

This entry in the Crime Does Not Pay series focuses on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's effort to ensure that drugs are fully tested before they are sold to consumers. Two unscrupulous investor ...
Genre :Crime

Violet's Boyfriend (uncredited)

1946-12-20 8.275

It's a Wonderful Life

A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is ...
Genre :Drama, Family, Fantasy

Big Foot Ferguson

1947-05-09 0

The Adventures of Don Coyote

Near Border Flats, Don Coyote and his friend Sancho are interrupted on their way to the fiesta by a fight. A quick intervention on their part prompts ranch owner Maggie Riley to hire them. Coyote and ...
Genre :Western, Music

Wayne Calhoun

1944-04-08 4.5

Rosie the Riveter

In this romantic wartime comedy, four female defense plant workers share a house with four male workers. The situation is on the up and up as the men and women work different shifts and they are only ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Brad Carew

1949-03-03 5.3

Rustlers

A group of Arizona ranchers, trying to learn the identities of the Salt River Gang and prevent any further rustling, marks the currency that rancher Frank Abbott turns over to the gang to get his catt ...
Genre :Western

Oro City Sheriff

1949-11-15 5.5

The Golden Stallion

Diamonds are being smuggled across the border from Mexico in a specially made shoe of a palomino mare. One of the smugglers is killed when the mare runs off. The sheriff blames Trigger for the death. ...
Genre :Western, Action, Music

Sheriff

1950-06-30 4.6

Trigger, Jr.

Evil Grant Withers lets a killer horse loose to ruin valuable horses on nearby ranches. He hopes to shake down the ranchers for his "protection". Roy tracks down the bad guys, but is suddenly trapped ...
Genre :Western

Capt. Pete Dailey

1946-09-06 5.2

Swamp Fire

Buster Crabbe and Johnny Weissmuller battle it out in Cajun country! Johnny, a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi, is seduced away from his fiance (Carol Thurston) by a rich outsider (Virginia Grey) w ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure, Action

Hodum

1942-10-30 5.6

The Navy Comes Through

A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis. ...
Genre :War, Drama

Jim Rupple (uncredited)

1948-06-15 6.2

Relentless

A man wrongly accused of murder tracks the true culprit across the desert. ...
Genre :Western

Gus Adamson

1948-12-27 5.6

Mexican Hayride

Two con men selling phony stock flee to Mexico ahead of the law, where they run into a woman friend from their earlier days, who is now a bullfighter. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Sheriff Meeker

1956-02-15 6

Fury at Gunsight Pass

An outlaw terrorizes the citizens of Gunsight Pass while he searches for stolen bank money that mysteriously disappeared after a robbery. ...
Genre :Western

Capitaine Adams

1950-11-09 5.6

Tripoli

In 1805, the United States battles the pirates of Tripoli as the Marines fight to raise the American flag. ...
Genre :Adventure, Action

Edward Northrup (uncredited)

1956-11-02 6.5

Emergency Hospital

About the lives and loves of the staff of an emergency hospital as reflected in a single frenetic night of business-as-usual. ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Hartley

1943-11-04 6.6

Claudia

Child bride Claudia Naughton has made life difficult for her husband David because she can't stand living so far away from her mother. She's also afraid her husband doesn't find her desirable enough. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Sheriff MacDonald (uncredited)

1950-10-20 6.4

Three Secrets

A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three ...
Genre :Drama

Detective Lieutenant (uncredited)

1945-11-23 5.7

Club Havana

A number of different characters unfolding love, hate, and death problems during an evening in a fashionable Latin nightclub. ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Winters (uncredited)

1945-11-27 3

Getting Gertie's Garter

Dennis O'Keefe, newly married to lovely Sheila Ryan, is in a jam. O'Keefe's former girl friend, exotic dancer Marie McDonald, has in her possession an expensive, jeweled garter given to her by O'Keefe ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

1956-11-15 6.4

Gun the Man Down

An outlaw is left for dead by his gang after being shot. A year later, he is released from jail with one thing on his mind: Revenge. ...
Genre :Western, Action, Crime

Detective

1949-03-06 6

Joe Palooka in the Big Fight

Gangsters frame Joe on a drunk charge and a murder rap so they can put their own fighter into a big event. Joe investigates in an attempt to prove his innocence. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Capt. Adams

1950-11-09 5.6

Tripoli

In 1805, the United States battles the pirates of Tripoli as the Marines fight to raise the American flag. ...
Genre :Adventure, Action

1953-10-09 6

Gun Fury

After a stagecoach holdup, Frank Slayton's notorious gang leave Ben Warren for dead and head off with his fiancée. Warren follows, and although none of the townspeople he comes across are prepared to ...
Genre :Western

1951-12-16 6.4

Dragnet

Follows the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from the police term "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures f ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1955-10-03 5.8

Highway Patrol

Highway Patrol was a syndicated, fictional police action series produced from 1955 to 1959, concerning the activities of the highway patrol and their leader, Dan Matthews (who held no rank). Although ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama

1956-10-05 5

West Point

The West Point Story is a dramatic anthology television series shown in the United States by Columbia Broadcasting System during the 1956-57 season and by ABC during the 1957-58 season. The West Poin ...
Genre :Drama

1955-09-06 6.8

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a television western series loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black-and-white program aired for 229 episodes on ABC from 1955 ...
Genre :Drama, Western

1952-09-19 6.6

Adventures of Superman

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a syndicated TV adaptation of the beloved DC Comics superhero! You know the drill: When he isn't fighting for truth, justice and the American way, the man in tights don ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Comedy, Family

1954-10-15 6.875

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's television program. Beginning in October 1954 until May 1959, 166 episodes originally aired on ABC television network. It starred child actor Le ...
Genre :Western, Family

1951-04-15 4.5

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight seasons from 1951 through 1958. The Screen Gems series began in syndication, but ran on CBS from 1955 th ...
Genre :Western

1955-09-29 6.3

Sergeant Preston of the Yukon

Sergeant Preston of the Yukon is an American action adventure northwestern television series based on the radio drama Challenge of the Yukon. It was initially broadcast in color on CBS across three se ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Western, Drama

1951-08-11 5.3

The Adventures of Kit Carson

The Adventures of Kit Carson is an American Western series that aired in syndication from August 1951 to November 1955, originally sponsored by Coca-Cola. It stars Bill Williams in the title role as f ...
Genre :Western, Crime

1956-01-27 0

The Man Called X

Genre :

Dude

1949-09-15 6.8

The Lone Ranger

The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring Clayton Moore with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The live-action series initially featured Gerald Mohr as the ...
Genre :Western, Action & Adventure