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Frank Sully
Actor · Crew· Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Francis Thomas Sullivan, aka Frank Sully, was an American character actor. Beefy and square-jawed, he was usually cast as rustic types or dumb heavies. He was a regular feature in Three Stooges shorts. Sully started his career as a comedian in vaudeville and appeared on Broadway from the late 1920s. He is known for the films The Grapes of Wrath (1940), The More the Merrier (1943) and Bye Bye Birdie (1963).
Known For
The roles that explain the career.
Filmography
62 credits across 2 departments.
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | Bye Bye Birdie | Bartender | Film |
| 1957 | A Merry Mix-Up | (uncredited) | Film |
| 1957 | The Buckskin Lady | Jed | Film |
| 1957 | The Helen Morgan Story | Vendor (scenes deleted) | Film |
| 1956 | You Can't Run Away from It | Red | Film |
| 1956 | Frontier Gambler | Bartender | Film |
| 1955 | Fling in the Ring | Big Mike | Film |
| 1955 | Blunder Boys | Dean Watts D. Matter (uncredited) | Film |
| 1955 | The Naked Street | Film | |
| 1955 | Seminole Uprising | Film | |
| 1954 | Battle of Rogue River | Pvt. Kohler | Film |
| 1954 | Silver Lode | Paul Herbert, Telegrapher | Film |
| 1953 | Bad for Each Other | Tippy Kashko, Townsman | Film |
| 1953 | Pardon My Backfire | Escaped Convict | Film |
| 1952 | With a Song in My Heart | Soldier (uncredited) | Film |
| 1952 | Night Stage to Galveston | Policeman Kelly | Film |
| 1952 | No Room for the Groom | Cousin Luke | Film |
| 1951 | Man in the Saddle | Lee Repp | Film |
| 1951 | Let's Make It Legal | Laborer (uncredited) | Film |
| 1951 | The Big Gusher | Barfly | Film |
| 1950 | The Reformer and the Redhead | Joe (uncredited) | Film |
| 1950 | Blondie's Hero | Mike McClusky, the Snorer (uncredited) | Film |
| 1949 | Trapped | Sam the Bartender (uncredited) | Film |
| 1949 | Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture | Sergeant Matthews | Film |
| 1948 | Blondie's Reward | Officer Carney | Film |
| 1948 | Trapped by Boston Blackie | Sgt. Matthews | Film |
| 1946 | A Close Call for Boston Blackie | Sgt. Matthews | Film |
| 1946 | Boston Blackie and the Law | Sgt. Matthews | Film |
| 1946 | Crime Doctor's Man Hunt | Henchman 'Rigger' | Film |
| 1946 | The Phantom Thief | Detective Sergeant Matthews | Film |
| 1945 | Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion | Sgt. Matthews | Film |
| 1945 | Boston Blackie's Rendezvous | Mathews | Film |
| 1945 | Along Came Jones | Avery de Longpre | Film |
| 1944 | Secret Command | Shawn | Film |
| 1944 | Two Girls and a Sailor | Private Adams | Film |
| 1943 | Good Luck, Mr. Yates | Joe Briggs | Film |
| 1943 | One Dangerous Night | Hertzog - Henchman | Film |
| 1943 | Murder in Times Square | Benny the Baboon | Film |
| 1943 | Thousands Cheer | Alan | Film |
| 1943 | Dangerous Blondes | Detective Joe Henderson | Film |
| 1943 | Power of the Press | Mack Gibbons (uncredited) | Film |
| 1943 | The More the Merrier | FBI Agent Pike | Film |
| 1942 | My Sister Eileen | Jenson | Film |
| 1942 | Rings on Her Fingers | Film | |
| 1942 | All Through the Night | Spence | Film |
| 1942 | Inside the Law | Jim Burke | Film |
| 1942 | Two Yanks in Trinidad | Mike Paradise | Film |
| 1942 | The Boogie Man Will Get You | Officer Joe Starrett | Film |
| 1941 | Nice Girl? | Film | |
| 1941 | Private Nurse | Eddie | Film |
| 1941 | A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob | Salty | Film |
| 1940 | Dr. Kildare's Crisis | John Root | Film |
| 1940 | He Stayed for Breakfast | Butcher | Film |
| 1940 | The Return of Frank James | Actor | Film |
| 1940 | Young People | Jeb | Film |
| 1940 | Lillian Russell | Hank | Film |
| 1940 | The Doctor Takes a Wife | Slapcovitch | Film |
| 1940 | The Grapes of Wrath | Noah | Film |
| 1939 | Some Like It Hot | Sailor Burke / The Living Corpse | Film |
| 1937 | Daughter of Shanghai | Jake Kelly | Film |
| 1935 | Mary Burns, Fugitive | Steve | Film |
| 1934 | Caravan | Hungarian Soldier (Uncredited) | Film |
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