
Although Frank Cady's most famous role would be that of general-store owner Sam Drucker, one of the less nutty residents of Hooterville in both Green Acres (1965) and Petticoat Junction (1963), he had a history as a film, stage and television actor long before those shows. Cady also appeared on some radio programs including Gunsmoke. In the 1950s, Cady played Doc Williams in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952), along with numerous supporting parts in movies and also appeared in television commercials for (among other products) Shasta Grape Soda. Cady has been most prolific in television and was the only actor to play a recurring character on three TV sitcoms at the same time, The Beverly Hillbillies (1962), Green Acres (1965), and Petticoat Junction (1963). Usually cast as a gregarious small-town businessman, druggist, store clerk or other type of all-around Midwestern-type good guy, Cady was actually a California native, born in Susanville in 1915. The acting bug bit him when he sang in an elementary school play, and after graduating from Stanford University he headed to London, England, to train in the theater. When World War II broke out he was already in Europe, so he enlisted in the Army Air Force and spent the next several years in postings all over the continent. After his discharge he returned to the US and headed for Hollywood. An agent saw him in a local play, signed him, and he was on his way. One of his earlier--and more atypical--roles was as a seedy underworld character pulled in for questioning in a cop's murder in the noir classic He Walked by Night (1948), and he played a succession of hotel clerks, bureaucrats, henpecked husbands and the like for the next 40+ years. He did much television work from the mid-'50s onward. Cady resided in Wilsonville, Oregon and at the time of his death had two children, three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

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地獄の英雄

アンタッチャブル

Perry Mason

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The Asphalt Jungle

Green Acres

Rawhide

Hawaii Five-O

悪い種子

胸に輝く星

花嫁の父

Flamingo Road

D.O.A.

じゃじゃ馬億万長者

7 Faces of Dr. Lao

Maverick

Trial

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Hazel

He Walked by Night

The Missouri Traveler

Gunsmoke

Wagon Train

Experiment Alcatraz

The Checkered Coat

Dennis the Menace

Young Man with a Horn

General Electric Theater

バージニアン

Trackdown

When Worlds Collide

The Indian Fighter

The Crooked Way

Hunt the Man Down

Klondike

The Deputy

Zandy's Bride

Abandoned

Convicted

Cheyenne

Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone

Pretty Baby

December Bride

Pete and Gladys

Perfect Strangers

Three Violent People

イッツ・ア・グレイト・フィーリング

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

The Million Dollar Duck

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

You Are There

ペチコート作戦

The Great Rupert

Let's Make It Legal

Hearts of the West

Half a Hero

Lightning Strikes Twice

The Alaskans

Dial 1119

The Atomic City

Monster Squad

The Next Voice You Hear...

Take One False Step

Hawaiian Eye

The Sellout

AfterMASH

Three Husbands

The Lady Takes a Sailor

Private Secretary

Sugarfoot

Guestward, Ho!

Dear Brat

Soup and Me

Sarge Goes to College

The Man Who Understood Women

These Are the Days

The Girl Most Likely

Return to Green Acres

Bungalow 13

Marry Me Again

Special Agent

The History of Hooterville

The Boy and the Bronc Buster

The Great Adventure