Frank Ferguson

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Frank S. Ferguson (born December 25, 1899, Ferndale, California – died September 12, 1978, Los Angeles) was an American character actor with hundreds of appearances in both film and television. Ferguson's best known role was as the Swedish ranch handyman, Gus Broeberg, on the CBS television series, My Friend Flicka, based on a novel of the same name. He appeared with Gene Evans, Johnny Washbrook and Anita Louise. At this time, Ferguson also portrayed the Calverton veterinarian in the first several seasons of CBS's Lassie. He made his film debut in 1939 in Gambling on the High Seas (released in 1940), and appeared in nearly 200 feature films and hundreds of TV episodes subsequently. Film appearances include: McDougal's House of Horrors (1948), Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair 1952. Television series appearances include The Pride of the Family, The Andy Griffith Show, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Peyton Place and Perry Mason. Ferguson died in Los Angeles of cancer on September 12, 1978.

Cast

Pocketful of Miracles

(Newspaper Editor)

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein

(Mr. McDougal)

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

(Newspaper Editor)

The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady

(Judge)

On Dangerous Ground

(Willows)

Follow Me Quietly

(J.C. McGill)

Walk a Crooked Mile

(Carl Bemish)

Johnny Guitar

(Marshal Williams)

Main Street to Broadway

(Mr. Cope in Fantasy Sequence)

They Won't Believe Me

(Mr. Cahill)

The Light in the Forest

(Harry Butler)

Wicked Woman

(Bill Porter (lawyer))

The Furies

(Dr. Grieve)

Rancho Notorious

(Preacher)

New York Confidential

(Dr. Ludlow)

Moonfleet

(Coachman)

Young at Heart

(Bartell)

The Vicious Circle

(Stark)

Caught

(Dr. Hoffman)

City of Shadows

(District Attorney Hunt)

This Gun for Hire

(Albert Baker)

The Hunted

(Paul Harrison)

The Barkleys of Broadway

(Mr. Perkins (uncredited))

Cass Timberlane

(Court Clerk)

T-Men

(Secret Service Man at Farmer's Market (uncredited))

My Gal Sal

(Loud Customer (uncredited))

Canyon Passage

(Preacher (uncredited))

Terror in a Texas Town

(Deacon Matt Holmes)

Road to Rio

(Texas Posse Member)

Sunrise at Campobello

(Dr. Bennett)

O.S.S.

(Electronics Engineer (uncredited))

Bullets for O'Hara

(Prosecutor (uncredited))

This Could Be the Night

(Mr. Shea)

Dragonfly Squadron

(Gen. Conners)

The Good Humor Man

(Insp. Quint)

Broadway

(Reporter)

The I Don't Care Girl

(Ned)

The Big Night

(Dave Johnson)

At Gunpoint

(Marshal George Henderson)

The Winning Team

(Sam Arrants)

Cole Younger, Gunfighter

(Sheriff Ralph Wittrock)

Reap the Wild Wind

(Snaith (uncredited))

Variety Girl

(R.J. O'Connell)

The Great Sioux Massacre

(General Alfred Howe Terry)

Warpath

(Marshal)

Pilot #5

(Mr. Tully)

Gun Duel In Durango

(Sheriff Howard)

The Lawless Eighties

(Owen Sutter)

House of Wax

(Medical Examiner (uncredited))

Roseanna McCoy

(Ellison Hatfield)

Frenchie

(Jim Dobbs)

The Shanghai Story

(Mr. Haljerson)

Wagons West

(Cyrus Cook)

Blaze of Noon

(Cash Jones)

The Iron Sheriff

(Holloway)

So This Is Love

(Commencement Speaker)

The Searching Wind

(Embassy Attendant (uncredited))

Oklahoma Annie

(Eldridge Haskell)

Elopement

(Pinkie's Father (uncredited))

City of Bad Men

(Easterner at Training Camp (uncredited))

Welcome Stranger

(Crane (uncredited))

It Grows on Trees

(John Letherby)

The Blue Gardenia

(Drunk Reporter (uncredited))

Fort Apache

(Newspaperman (uncredited))

Black Tuesday

(Police Inspector Hailey (uncredited))

Blonde for a Day

(Walter Bronson)

The Eternal Sea

(Admiral L.D.)

Fighting Father Dunne

(Colpeck)

The Violent Men

(Mahoney (uncredited))

Dynamite

("Hard Rock" Mason)

Rodeo

(Harry Cartwright)

The Lone Hand

(Mr. Dunn)

State Department: File 649

(Consul Reither)

Louisa

(Park Attendant (uncredited))

The McConnell Story

(Mechanic)

A Star Is Born

(Judge George J. Barnes (uncredited))

Woman They Almost Lynched

(Bartender)

The Lawless

(Carl Green)

Bend of the River

(Tom Grundy)

Shy Guy

(Mr. Norton)

Texas Bad Man

(Gil)

Free For All

(Hap Ross)

Raymie

(Rex)

The Walls of Jericho

(Tom Ransome)

Killer at Large

(Edward Denton)

The Miracle of the Bells

(Dolan)

The Phantom Stagecoach

(Joe Patterson)

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

(Dr. Morton)

The Barefoot Mailman

(Doc Bethune (uncredited))

The Outcast

(Chad Polson)

The Quick Gun

(Dan Evans)

Spy Ship

(Burns)

Battle Cry

(Mr. Hector Walker)

The Marksman

(Champ Wiley)

Room for One More

(Steve (uncredited))

Rachel and the Stranger

(Mr. Green)

Hannah Lee: An American Primitive

(John Britton)

Andy Hardy Comes Home

(Mayor Benson)

The Bride Goes Wild

(Reporter (uncredited))

Father Is A Prince

(Ben Haley)

At the Stroke of Twelve

(Prosecuting Attorney)

Under Mexicali Stars

(Counterfeitor Goldie)

Trouble Along the Way

(Mike Edwards)

Thunder in God's Country

(Bates)

Secrets of a Sorority Girl

(Justin Farley)

Four Mothers

(Music Foundation Director (uncredited))

Santa Fe

(Marshal Bat Masterson)

Star of Texas

(Marshal Bullock)

They Died with Their Boots On

(Grant's Secretary (uncredited))

Ten Gentlemen from West Point

(Alden Brown)

Boots Malone

(Private Investigator)

Shockproof

(Logan (Uncredited))

Big Leaguer

(Wally Mitchell)

Gambling on the High Seas

(The State's District Attorney)

Slightly French

(Marty Freeman (uncredited))

The Inside Story

(Eph)

The Man I Love

(Army Doctor)

Has Anybody Seen My Gal?

(Edward Norton)

Million Dollar Mermaid

(Prosecutor)

The Perils of Pauline

(Movie Theatre Owner (uncredited))

Drum Beat

(Mr. Dyar)

The War Against Mrs. Hadley

(Reporter)

City of Silent Men

(Fred Bernard)

Mission to Moscow

(American Newsman (uncredited))

Lady Chaser

(Attorney J. T. Vickers)

Truck Busters

(George Havelock)

Grand Central Murder

(Detective Mike McAdams (uncredited))

Along Came a Spider

(Dr. Andrew Blake)

Dancing in the Dark

(John Sharkey)

Homicide

(Albert Murray)

Danger Street

(Boward - Police Chief)

A Lawless Street

(Abe Deland (uncredited))

You Can't Escape Forever

(Coroner (uncredited))

So Big

(Ed (uncredited))

You'll Never Get Rich

(Justice of the Peace (uncredited))

Man of the West

(Crosscut Marshal (uncredited))

Tyrant of the Sea

(Officer (uncredited))

The Body Disappears

(Professor McAuley (uncredited))

The Battle of Gettysburg

(Gettysburg Address Reciter (voice) (uncredited))

The Macahans

(Grandpa)

Thrill of a Romance

(1st Hotel Clerk (uncredited))

The Andy Griffith Show

(Sam Lindsey)

77 Sunset Strip

Maverick

Trackdown

Green Acres

December Bride

Kung Fu

Little House on the Prairie

Alias Smith and Jones

Petticoat Junction

(Doc Stuart)

Surfside 6

Gunsmoke

(Enoch)

Perry Mason

(Sheriff Barnes)

General Electric Theater

(Lt. King)

Lassie

Cannon

The Twilight Zone

(Krueger)

The Waltons

The Tall Man

Leave It to Beaver

Everglades

Philip Marlowe

Target: The Corruptors!

Have Gun, Will Travel

The Virginian

(Tom Dunston)

Peter Gunn

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

(Harlow Finch)

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

(Captain Hoyt)

Bronco

The 20th Century Fox Hour

Peyton Place

Wendy and Me

The Alaskans

Lock-Up

Wanted: Dead or Alive

(Amos Wilson)

The Rifleman

Sugarfoot

(Otto Jardine)

Bat Masterson

(Old Billy North)

Laramie

The Texan

Wichita Town

Cavalcade of America

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

(T.J. Barnett)

Goodyear Theatre

(Milbanks)

City Detective

State Trooper

Coronado 9

Treasury Men in Action

(Miller)

My Friend Flicka

Hopalong Cassidy

The Asphalt Jungle

Letter to Loretta

(Marc Thatcher)

Maverick

(Sheriff McPeters)

Maverick

(Genessee Jones)

Temple Houston

(Judge Gurney)

Return to Peyton Place

(Eli Carson)

Sugarfoot

(Doc Spooner)

Sugarfoot

(Judge Bean)

The Andy Griffith Show

(Wilbur Pine)

The Andy Griffith Show

(Mr. Foley)

Adam-12

(Fred Tibbles)

General Electric Theater

(Mack Duncan)

Cavalcade of America

(Dr. Green)

Letter to Loretta

(Mr. Creavy)

Shotgun Slade

(Mike Colier)

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

(Joe Nelson)

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

(Mike Collier)

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

(Paul Parker)

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

(Tom Menken)

Four Star Playhouse

(Ed)

Four Star Playhouse

(Mr. Fielding)

Bonanza

(J.R. Ridley)

Perry Mason

(Prof. Laiken)

Perry Mason

(Sheriff Orville Ramsey)

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

(Air Force General)

Bat Masterson

(Dick Pierce)

Perry Mason

(Walter Coffee)

Chevron Theatre

(Hiram Cooper)

Maverick

(Sheriff Luther Hawkins)

Chevron Theatre

Wagon Train

(Judge Hiram Larkin)

Adventures of Superman

(Mr. Frank)

The Case of the Dangerous Robin

(Walter Henderson)

State Trooper

(Frank Cliff)

Nanny and the Professor

(the Judge)

How the West Was Won

(Grandpa)

Alcoa Theatre

(Milbanks)

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Hawaiian Eye

(Capt. Joe Taggart)

Land of the Giants

(Goalby)

Cheyenne

(Judge Lloyd Pomeroy)

Bonanza

(Abner)

Lassie

(Seth Collins)

Topper

(Dr. Lang)

The Westerner

(Stuart)

Public Defender

(Judge)

The Lone Ranger

(Lester Grey)

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

(Garner)

Mr. Lucky

(Hyatt Krausmeyer)