Frank Ferguson

Acting • Born 1899-12-25 – Died 1978-09-12

Acting1Ferndale, California, USA

Biography

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.

Filmography

251 credits

Pocketful of Miracles

Movie • 1961

Newspaper Editor

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein

Movie • 1948

Mr. McDougal

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Movie • 1964

Newspaper Editor

The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady

Movie • 1942

Judge

On Dangerous Ground

Movie • 1951

Willows

Follow Me Quietly

Movie • 1949

J.C. McGill

Walk a Crooked Mile

Movie • 1948

Carl Bemish

Johnny Guitar

Movie • 1954

Marshal Williams

Main Street to Broadway

Movie • 1953

Mr. Cope in Fantasy Sequence

They Won't Believe Me

Movie • 1947

Mr. Cahill

The Light in the Forest

Movie • 1958

Harry Butler

Wicked Woman

Movie • 1953

Bill Porter (lawyer)

The Furies

Movie • 1950

Dr. Grieve

Rancho Notorious

Movie • 1952

Preacher

New York Confidential

Movie • 1955

Dr. Ludlow

Moonfleet

Movie • 1955

Coachman

Young at Heart

Movie • 1954

Bartell

The Vicious Circle

Movie • 1948

Stark

Caught

Movie • 1949

Dr. Hoffman

City of Shadows

Movie • 1955

District Attorney Hunt

This Gun for Hire

Movie • 1942

Albert Baker

The Hunted

Movie • 1948

Paul Harrison

The Barkleys of Broadway

Movie • 1949

Mr. Perkins (uncredited)

Cass Timberlane

Movie • 1947

Court Clerk

T-Men

Movie • 1947

Secret Service Man at Farmer's Market (uncredited)

My Gal Sal

Movie • 1942

Loud Customer (uncredited)

Canyon Passage

Movie • 1946

Preacher (uncredited)

Terror in a Texas Town

Movie • 1958

Deacon Matt Holmes

Road to Rio

Movie • 1947

Texas Posse Member

Sunrise at Campobello

Movie • 1960

Dr. Bennett

O.S.S.

Movie • 1946

Electronics Engineer (uncredited)

Bullets for O'Hara

Movie • 1941

Prosecutor (uncredited)

This Could Be the Night

Movie • 1957

Mr. Shea

Dragonfly Squadron

Movie • 1954

Gen. Conners

The Good Humor Man

Movie • 1950

Insp. Quint

Broadway

Movie • 1942

Reporter

The I Don't Care Girl

Movie • 1953

Ned

The Big Night

Movie • 1960

Dave Johnson

At Gunpoint

Movie • 1955

Marshal George Henderson

The Winning Team

Movie • 1952

Sam Arrants

Cole Younger, Gunfighter

Movie • 1958

Sheriff Ralph Wittrock

Reap the Wild Wind

Movie • 1942

Snaith (uncredited)

Variety Girl

Movie • 1947

R.J. O'Connell

The Great Sioux Massacre

Movie • 1965

General Alfred Howe Terry

Warpath

Movie • 1951

Marshal

Pilot #5

Movie • 1943

Mr. Tully

Gun Duel in Durango

Movie • 1957

Sheriff Howard

The Lawless Eighties

Movie • 1957

Owen Sutter

House of Wax

Movie • 1953

Medical Examiner (uncredited)

Roseanna McCoy

Movie • 1949

Ellison Hatfield

Frenchie

Movie • 1950

Jim Dobbs

The Shanghai Story

Movie • 1954

Mr. Haljerson

Wagons West

Movie • 1952

Cyrus Cook

Blaze of Noon

Movie • 1947

Cash Jones

The Iron Sheriff

Movie • 1957

Holloway

So This Is Love

Movie • 1953

Commencement Speaker

The Searching Wind

Movie • 1946

Embassy Attendant (uncredited)

Oklahoma Annie

Movie • 1952

Eldridge Haskell

Elopement

Movie • 1951

Pinkie's Father (uncredited)

City of Bad Men

Movie • 1953

Easterner at Training Camp (uncredited)

Welcome Stranger

Movie • 1947

Crane (uncredited)

It Grows on Trees

Movie • 1952

John Letherby

The Blue Gardenia

Movie • 1953

Drunk Reporter (uncredited)

Fort Apache

Movie • 1948

Newspaperman (uncredited)

Black Tuesday

Movie • 1954

Police Inspector Hailey (uncredited)

Blonde for a Day

Movie • 1946

Walter Bronson

The Eternal Sea

Movie • 1955

Admiral L.D.

Fighting Father Dunne

Movie • 1948

Colpeck

The Violent Men

Movie • 1955

Mahoney (uncredited)

Dynamite

Movie • 1949

"Hard Rock" Mason

Rodeo

Movie • 1952

Harry Cartwright

The Lone Hand

Movie • 1953

Mr. Dunn

State Department: File 649

Movie • 1949

Consul Reither

Louisa

Movie • 1950

Park Attendant (uncredited)

The McConnell Story

Movie • 1955

Mechanic

A Star Is Born

Movie • 1954

Judge George J. Barnes (uncredited)

Woman They Almost Lynched

Movie • 1953

Bartender

The Lawless

Movie • 1950

Carl Green

Bend of the River

Movie • 1952

Tom Grundy

Shy Guy

Movie • 1947

Mr. Norton

Texas Bad Man

Movie • 1953

Gil

Free For All

Movie • 1949

Hap Ross

Raymie

Movie • 1960

Rex

The Walls of Jericho

Movie • 1948

Tom Ransome

Killer at Large

Movie • 1947

Edward Denton

The Miracle of the Bells

Movie • 1948

Dolan

The Phantom Stagecoach

Movie • 1957

Joe Patterson

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

Movie • 1953

Dr. Morton

The Barefoot Mailman

Movie • 1951

Doc Bethune (uncredited)

The Outcast

Movie • 1954

Chad Polson

The Quick Gun

Movie • 1964

Dan Evans

Spy Ship

Movie • 1942

Burns

Battle Cry

Movie • 1955

Mr. Hector Walker

The Marksman

Movie • 1953

Champ Wiley

Room for One More

Movie • 1952

Steve (uncredited)

Rachel and the Stranger

Movie • 1948

Mr. Green

Hannah Lee: An American Primitive

Movie • 1953

John Britton

Andy Hardy Comes Home

Movie • 1958

Mayor Benson

The Bride Goes Wild

Movie • 1948

Reporter (uncredited)

Father Is A Prince

Movie • 1940

Ben Haley

At the Stroke of Twelve

Movie • 1941

Prosecuting Attorney

Under Mexicali Stars

Movie • 1950

Counterfeitor Goldie

Trouble Along the Way

Movie • 1953

Mike Edwards

Thunder in God's Country

Movie • 1951

Bates

Secrets of a Sorority Girl

Movie • 1945

Justin Farley

Four Mothers

Movie • 1941

Music Foundation Director (uncredited)

Santa Fe

Movie • 1951

Marshal Bat Masterson

Star of Texas

Movie • 1953

Marshal Bullock

They Died with Their Boots On

Movie • 1941

Grant's Secretary (uncredited)

Ten Gentlemen from West Point

Movie • 1942

Alden Brown

Boots Malone

Movie • 1952

Private Investigator

Shockproof

Movie • 1949

Logan (Uncredited)

Big Leaguer

Movie • 1953

Wally Mitchell

Gambling on the High Seas

Movie • 1940

The State's District Attorney

Slightly French

Movie • 1949

Marty Freeman (uncredited)

The Inside Story

Movie • 1948

Eph

The Man I Love

Movie • 1946

Army Doctor (uncredited)

Has Anybody Seen My Gal?

Movie • 1952

Edward Norton

Million Dollar Mermaid

Movie • 1952

Prosecutor

The Perils of Pauline

Movie • 1947

Movie Theatre Owner (uncredited)

Drum Beat

Movie • 1954

Mr. Dyar

The War Against Mrs. Hadley

Movie • 1942

Reporter

City of Silent Men

Movie • 1942

Fred Bernard

Mission to Moscow

Movie • 1943

American Newsman (uncredited)

Lady Chaser

Movie • 1946

Attorney J. T. Vickers

Truck Busters

Movie • 1943

George Havelock

Grand Central Murder

Movie • 1942

Detective Mike McAdams (uncredited)

Along Came a Spider

Movie • 1970

Dr. Andrew Blake

Dancing in the Dark

Movie • 1949

John Sharkey

Homicide

Movie • 1949

Albert Murray

Danger Street

Movie • 1947

Boward - Police Chief

A Lawless Street

Movie • 1955

Abe Deland (uncredited)

You Can't Escape Forever

Movie • 1942

Coroner (uncredited)

So Big

Movie • 1953

Ed (uncredited)

You'll Never Get Rich

Movie • 1941

Justice of the Peace (uncredited)

Man of the West

Movie • 1958

Crosscut Marshal (uncredited)

Tyrant of the Sea

Movie • 1950

Officer (uncredited)

The Body Disappears

Movie • 1941

Professor McAuley (uncredited)

The Battle of Gettysburg

Movie • 1955

Gettysburg Address Reciter (voice) (uncredited)

The Macahans

Movie • 1976

Grandpa

Thrill of a Romance

Movie • 1945

1st Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

Night and Day

Movie • 1946

Tina's Father (uncredited)

Broadway

Movie • 1942

Reporter (uncredited)

Riding Shotgun

Movie • 1954

Townsman (uncredited)

The Andy Griffith Show

TV • 1960

Sam Lindsey

77 Sunset Strip

TV • 1958

Saul Gantry

Maverick

TV • 1957

Trackdown

TV • 1957

December Bride

TV • 1954

Little House on the Prairie

TV • 1974

Alias Smith and Jones

TV • 1971

Petticoat Junction

TV • 1963

Doc Stuart

Surfside 6

TV • 1960

Gunsmoke

TV • 1955

Enoch

Perry Mason

TV • 1957

Sheriff Barnes

General Electric Theater

TV • 1953

Lt. King

Lassie

TV • 1954

Cannon

TV • 1971

The Twilight Zone

TV • 1959

Krueger

The Waltons

TV • 1972

The Tall Man

TV • 1960

Leave It to Beaver

TV • 1957

Everglades

TV • 1961

Philip Marlowe

TV • 1959

Target: The Corruptors!

TV • 1961

The Virginian

TV • 1962

Tom Dunston

Peter Gunn

TV • 1958

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

TV • 1951

Harlow Finch

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

TV • 1957

Captain Hoyt

Bronco

TV • 1958

The 20th Century Fox Hour

TV • 1955

Peyton Place

TV • 1964

Wendy and Me

TV • 1964

The Alaskans

TV • 1959

Lock-Up

TV • 1959

Wanted: Dead or Alive

TV • 1958

Amos Wilson

The Rifleman

TV • 1958

Sugarfoot

TV • 1957

Otto Jardine

Bat Masterson

TV • 1958

Old Billy North

Laramie

TV • 1959

The Texan

TV • 1958

Wichita Town

TV • 1959

Cavalcade of America

TV • 1952

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

TV • 1956

T.J. Barnett

Goodyear Theatre

TV • 1957

Milbanks

City Detective

TV • 1953

State Trooper

TV • 1956

Coronado 9

TV • 1960

Treasury Men in Action

TV • 1950

Miller

My Friend Flicka

TV • 1955

Hopalong Cassidy

TV • 1952

The Asphalt Jungle

TV • 1961

Letter to Loretta

TV • 1953

Marc Thatcher

Maverick

TV • 1957

Sheriff McPeters

Maverick

TV • 1957

Genessee Jones

Temple Houston

TV • 1963

Judge Gurney

Return to Peyton Place

TV • 1972

Eli Carson

Sugarfoot

TV • 1957

Doc Spooner