Frank Collison
Acting
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Frank Collison (born February 14, 1950) is an American actor. Trained at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, he earned his BA in theatre at San Francisco State University and helped establish a summer theatre company in the Sierra Nevadas then went on to earn an MFA in acting at UC San Diego. Before Collison began his professional career in acting, he worked as a forest fire fighter, diaper service dispatcher and substitute teacher. Appearing in over 150 productions, Collison has worked off Broadway and in regional theaters in Boston, Denver and California. His theatrical roles have ranged from "Puck" in Midsummer's Nights Dream to "Miss Havisham" in Great Expectations to "Jacob Marley" in Christmas Carol. Frank is a founding member of Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice, California, which has won over 25 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards. Collison began his film and television career when he moved to Los Angeles in 1984. He is perhaps best known as "Horace Bing," the hapless telegraph operator on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993) and "Wash Hogwallop" in "O Brother Where Art Thou?
Filmography
Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake
2023
Two Yellow Lines
2021
Big Shot
2021
The Collector
2021
Momma Named Me Sheriff
2019
9-1-1
2018
Buckshot
2017
Young Sheldon
2017
The Hero
2017
You're Gonna Miss Me
2017
Pee-wee's Big Holiday
2016
The 4th
2016
L.A. Slasher
2015
Grandma
2015
Pirate's Code: The Adventures of Mickey Matson
2014
Mr. Pickles
2014
Silicon Valley
2014
Hitchcock
2012
American Horror Story
2011
Good Luck Charlie
2010
Radio Free Albemuth
2010
Hesher
2010
JONAS L.A.
2009
The Happening
2008
Voodoo Moon
2006
Criminal Minds
2005
My Name Is Earl
2005
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
2005
Suspect Zero
2004
The Village
2004
Stargate Atlantis
2004
The Whole Ten Yards
2004
Hidalgo
2004
Carnivàle
2003
Hope Springs
2003
Monk
2002
The Majestic
2001
K-PAX
2001
A Crack in the Floor
2001
Camouflage
2001
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000
Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman: The Movie
1999
Buddy
1997
7th Heaven
1996
S.F.W.
1995
The Investigator
1994
It Runs in the Family
1994
Dead Connection
1994
12:01
1993
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
1993
Diggstown
1992
A Formula for Mayhem
1992
Keep the Change
1992
The Last Boy Scout
1991
Dollman
1991
Backstreet Dreams
1990
Wild at Heart
1990
Twin Peaks
1990
Quantum Leap
1989
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
1988
The Blob
1988
Into the Homeland
1987
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987
Amazon Women on the Moon
1987
Wired to Kill
1986
Lifetime Contract
1986
Matlock
1986
Grunt! The Wrestling Movie
1985
The Compleat Al
1985
Moonlighting
1985
Night Court
1984