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Ben Alexander

Nicholas Benton "Ben" Alexander III (June 27, 1911 – July 5, 1969) was an American motion picture actor, who started out as a child actor in 1916. He is best remembered for his role as Officer Frank Smith in the Dragnet franchise.

Known For: Acting

Born: Goldfield, Nevada, USA, 1911-05-27

Died: 1969-07-05

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1916	Each Pearl a Tear		0
2	1917	The Little American	Bobby Moore	63
3	1917	A Wife on Trial	Child (uncredited)	0
4	1918	Hearts of the World	The Boy's Littlest Brother	60
5	1918	The Lady of the Dugout	The Lady's son	59
6	1918	The One Woman	Boy	0
7	1918	The Heart of Rachael	Jim	0
8	1918	Little Orphant Annie	Orphan	53
9	1919	Josselyn's Wife	Tommy Josselyn	0
10	1919	The Hushed Hour	Gondy	0
11	1919	The Mayor of Filbert	Carroll	0
12	1919	The White Heather	Donald Cameron	0
13	1919	The Better Wife	Little Dick	10
14	1920	The Triflers		0
15	1920	The Family Honor	Little Ben Tucker	0
16	1920	Through Eyes of Men	Little Billy	0
17	1920	Blue Streak McCoy	Job the child	0
18	1923	Penrod and Sam	Penrod Schofield	65
19	1923	The Yankee Spirit		0
20	1923	Boy of Mine	Bill Latimer	0
21	1926	The Highbinders	Roy Marshall	0
22	1927	Two to One	George Minafer as a Child	0
23	1928	The Divine Lady	Young lieutenant	53
24	1930	All Quiet on the Western Front	Franz Kemmerich	78
25	1931	Many a Slip	Ted Coster	0
26	1931	It's a Wise Child	Bill Stanton	0
27	1931	Are These Our Children?	Nicholas 'Nick' Crosby	60
28	1931	Suicide Fleet	Kid	43
29	1932	High Pressure	Geoffrey Weston	60
30	1932	The Wet Parade	Evelyn's Friend (uncredited)	58
31	1932	Tom Brown of Culver	Cpl. John Clarke	52
32	1933	The Vanishing Frontier	Lucien Winfield	0
33	1933	What Price Innocence?	Tommy Harrow	30
34	1933	Roadhouse Queen	Junior Knox	0
35	1933	This Day and Age	Morry Dover	10
36	1933	Stage Mother	Francis Nolan	50
37	1934	Once to Every Woman	Joe	60
38	1934	The Life of Vergie Winters	Barry Preston	59
39	1934	Most Precious Thing in Life	Gideon 'Gubby' Gerhart	52
40	1934	Flirtation	Dudley	49
41	1935	Grand Old Girl	Tom Miller	65
42	1935	Born to Gamble	Paul Mathews	48
43	1935	Annapolis Farewell	Adams	0
44	1935	The Fire-Trap	Bob Fender	50
45	1936	Red Lights Ahead	George Wallace	52
46	1937	Shall We Dance	Evans (uncredited)	72
47	1937	The Legion of Missing Men	Don Carter	50
48	1937	The Outer Gate	Bob Terry	37
49	1937	Western Gold	Bart	0
50	1937	The Life of the Party	Orchestra Leader	52
51	1938	The Spy Ring	Capt. Don Mayhew	50
52	1938	Mr. Doodle Kicks Off	Larry Weldon	90
53	1939	Convict's Code	Jeff Palmer	47
54	1939	Buried Alive	Riley	47
55	1940	American Portrait	David	0
56	1940	The Leather Pushers	Dan Brown, Announcer	0
57	1941	Criminals Within	Sgt. Paul	60
58	1954	Dragnet	Officer Frank Smith	62
59	1957	Man in the Shadow	Ab Begley	68
60	2004	Los Angeles Plays Itself	Officer Frank Smith in Dragnet (archive footage)	76
61		A Self-Made Failure	Sonny	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	The Colgate Comedy Hour	Self	68
2	1951	Dragnet	Frank Smith	64
3	1952	This Is Your Life	Self	64
4	1956	The Ford Show	Self	73
5	1960	About Faces		0
6	1966	Batman		73
7	1966	Felony Squad	Desk Sgt. Dan Briggs	64
8	1967	Judd for the Defense		75