Frank Collison
Acting • Born 1950-02-14
Biography
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
73 credits
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Movie • 2000
Wash Hogwallop
The Whole Ten Yards
Movie • 2004
Strabo
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
Movie • 1988
Billy
Hope Springs
Movie • 2003
Mr. Fisher
The Village
Movie • 2004
Victor
The Happening
Movie • 2008
Nursery Owner
The Last Boy Scout
Movie • 1991
Pablo
The Blob
Movie • 1988
Phil Hobbs—Projectionist
Into the Homeland
Movie • 1987
Gas Station Attendant
Two Yellow Lines
Movie • 2021
Roy
Hesher
Movie • 2010
Funeral Director
Dollman
Movie • 1991
Sprug
The Investigator
Movie • 1994
Diggstown
Movie • 1992
Prison Guard
Grunt! The Wrestling Movie
Movie • 1985
Charlie Stroll
Wired to Kill
Movie • 1986
Sly
The Collector
Movie • 2021
Hal
Pirate's Code: The Adventures of Mickey Matson
Movie • 2014
Admiral Ironsides
The Compleat Al
Movie • 1985
Look-A-Like Salesman
L.A. Slasher
Movie • 2015
The KA Leader
K-PAX
Movie • 2001
Screaming Man (uncredited)
Radio Free Albemuth
Movie • 2010
Leon
The 4th
Movie • 2016
Creepy Party Crasher
The Hero
Movie • 2017
Man in Dream
Grandma
Movie • 2015
Mike
Voodoo Moon
Movie • 2006
Mac
Wild at Heart
Movie • 1990
Timmy Thompson
Suspect Zero
Movie • 2004
Piper
Buckshot
Movie • 2017
Nickel
Hidalgo
Movie • 2004
Texas Jack
Camouflage
Movie • 2001
Skinny Cop - Tommy
S.F.W.
Movie • 1995
Distressed Witness
You're Gonna Miss Me
Movie • 2017
Linus Duckworth
Buddy
Movie • 1997
Zoo Keeper
Hitchcock
Movie • 2012
Henry Gein
A Crack in the Floor
Movie • 2001
Turner
Pee-wee's Big Holiday
Movie • 2016
Clay
Keep the Change
Movie • 1992
Darryl Burke
Lifetime Contract
Movie • 1986
Shrink
It Runs in the Family
Movie • 1994
Floyd Bumpus
Backstreet Dreams
Movie • 1990
Spider
Amazon Women on the Moon
Movie • 1987
Grizzled Pirate (segment "Video Pirates")
A Formula for Mayhem
Movie • 1992
Raddish
The Majestic
Movie • 2001
Subpoena Server
Dead Connection
Movie • 1994
Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman: The Movie
Movie • 1999
Horace Bing
Carnivàle
TV • 2003
Jasper
Star Trek: The Next Generation
TV • 1987
Gul Dolak
Monk
TV • 2002
Warrick Tennyson
Mr. Pickles
TV • 2014
Grandpa (voice)
Big Shot
TV • 2021
Eddie
Young Sheldon
TV • 2017
Chet
Quantum Leap
TV • 1989
Mortimer
Criminal Minds
TV • 2005
Richard Clayvin
Moonlighting
TV • 1985
Padua Resident
American Horror Story
TV • 2011
Real Ishmael Polk
Night Court
TV • 1984
Aqualung
Silicon Valley
TV • 2014
Noah
Twin Peaks
TV • 1990
Muddy
Carnivàle
TV • 2003
Jasper / Talker #3
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
TV • 2005
Smokey
JONAS L.A.
TV • 2009
Larry
My Name Is Earl
TV • 2005
Kenny's Dad
My Name Is Earl
TV • 2005
Male Guest
Stargate Atlantis
TV • 2004
Keturah
7th Heaven
TV • 1996
Fred Moon
9-1-1
TV • 2018
Sam
Momma Named Me Sheriff
TV • 2019
Grandpa (voice)
Good Luck Charlie
TV • 2010
Vern
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
TV • 1993
Horace Bing
Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake
TV • 2023
Cosmic Owl (voice)
Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake
TV • 2023
Cosmic Owl / Brother #1 (voice)
Matlock
TV • 1986
Unshaven Man