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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 starred in Jeff Regan, Investigator and co-developed the radio drama Satan’s Watin’ with Van Des Autels. Graham was also The Wandering Vaquero, the narrator of The Romance Of The Ranchos radio series (1941–1942), also on the CBS network.
One of his few live action roles was playing the tile character in the film Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher (1943). He had also served as a writer for the radio program on which the film was based upon.
Graham played numerous characters in animated films for Walt Disney, MGM, Columbia and Warner Bros.. He voiced the Wolf in Tex Avery's Droopy cartoons, as well as the Mouse in King-Size Canary at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He provided the voices of 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. -Wikipedia
Born
Sunday, 22 November 1914
Died
Saturday, 02 September 1950
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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The Magical World of Disney | Reason / Foxy Loxy / Chicken Little / Cocky Locky / Additional Voices | 1954 |
The Chump Champ | Announcer | 1950 |
Each Dawn I Crow | Narrator | 1949 |
The House of Tomorrow | Narrator | 1949 |
So Much for So Little | Narrator | 1949 |
Slap Happy Lion | Mouse | 1947 |
Mysto-Fox | Fox / Crow | 1946 |
Northwest Hounded Police | Escaped Convicted Wolf / Plastic Surgeon / R.C.M.P. Chief | 1946 |
The Eager Beaver | Narrator | 1946 |
The Hick Chick | Charles / Bull | 1946 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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The Magical World of Disney | Reason / Foxy Loxy / Chicken Little / Cocky Locky / Additional Voices | 1954 |
The Chump Champ | Announcer | 1950 |
Each Dawn I Crow | Narrator | 1949 |
The House of Tomorrow | Narrator | 1949 |
So Much for So Little | Narrator | 1949 |
Slap Happy Lion | Mouse | 1947 |
Mysto-Fox | Fox / Crow | 1946 |
Northwest Hounded Police | Escaped Convicted Wolf / Plastic Surgeon / R.C.M.P. Chief | 1946 |
The Eager Beaver | Narrator | 1946 |
The Hick Chick | Charles / Bull | 1946 |
Unsure Runts | Fox / Crow | 1946 |
Foxy Flatfoots | Fox / Crow | 1946 |
Baseball Bugs | Various | 1946 |
Tokyo Woes | Narrator | 1945 |
Wild and Woolfy | Race Caller / Slim Wolf | 1945 |
Phoney Baloney | Fox / Crow (voice) / Crow | 1945 |
Cured Duck | Radio Announcer | 1945 |
Swing Shift Cinderella | Wolf | 1945 |
Fresh Airedale | Narrator, Shep's Master / Narrator - Shep's Master | 1945 |
Goofy News Views | Husband / Joe / Wife / Inventor | 1945 |
The Shooting of Dan McGoo | Wolf / Narrator / Bartender | 1945 |
Dog, Cat, and Canary | Dog / Cat | 1945 |
The Three Caballeros | Narrator / (voice) | 1944 |
The Egg-Yegg | Fox / Crow / Giant Bird Creatures | 1944 |
Kickapoo Juice | Indian | 1944 |
Be Patient, Patient | Fox / Crow | 1944 |
The Stupid Cupid | Narrator | 1944 |
Mr. Moocher | Fox / Crow / Crow (voice) | 1944 |
The Plastics Inventor | Professor Butterfield | 1944 |
The Chow Hound | Narrator | 1944 |
Going Home | Narrator | 1944 |
The Dream Kids | Fox / Crow / Nightmare | 1944 |
Giddy-Yapping | Window Cleaner | 1944 |
The Weakly Reporter | Various | 1944 |
The Lady and the Monster | Narrator | 1944 |
Ladies Courageous | Col. Andy Brennan | 1944 |
The Herring Murder Mystery | Herring Man / Various Fish / Female Fish | 1944 |
Polly Wants a Doctor | Polly / Radio Airport Announcer | 1944 |
Chicken Little | Narrator / Foxy Loxy / Chicken Little / Cocky Locky / Turkey Lurkey / Additional characters | 1943 |
The Playful Pest | Termite Exterminator / Termite | 1943 |
Rumors | Narrator - Soldier (voice) / Narrator - Soldier | 1943 |
Way Down Yonder in the Corn | Fox / Crow | 1943 |
Room and Bored | Fox / Crow | 1943 |
Sleepy Lagoon | Narrator | 1943 |
Reason and Emotion | Narrator / Reason (voice) / Reason | 1943 |
A-Hunting We Won't Go | Fox / Crow | 1943 |
Mass Mouse Meeting | Mouse Judge | 1943 |
Tree for Two | Fox / Crow | 1943 |
Coming!! Snafu | Narrator | 1943 |
Red Hot Riding Hood | Wolf | 1943 |
Dumb-Hounded | Mayor / Killer | 1943 |
The Vitamin G-Man | The Flatfoot | 1943 |
Cosmo Jones in the Crime Smasher | Professor Cosmo Jones / Cosmo Jones | 1943 |
Toll Bridge Troubles | Fox / Crow | 1942 |
Saludos Amigos | Frank Graham | 1942 |
Fox Pop | Fox Prisoner | 1942 |
The Early Bird Dood It! | Bird | 1942 |
Blitz Wolf | Narrator (voice) / Narrator | 1942 |
Foney Fables | Narrator / Wolf | 1942 |
Woodman, Spare That Tree | Fox / Crow | 1942 |
The Wild and Woozy West | Sheriff | 1942 |
Horton Hatches the Egg | Narrator | 1942 |
Under the Shedding Chestnut Tree | Narrator / Frog | 1942 |
A Hollywood Detour | Narrator / Horses | 1942 |