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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Ferndale, California, USA, 1899-12-25

Died: 1978-09-12

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1940	Gambling on the High Seas	The State's District Attorney	47
2	1940	Father Is A Prince	Ben Haley	50
3	1941	Four Mothers	Music Foundation Director (uncredited)	62
4	1941	Bullets for O'Hara	Prosecutor (uncredited)	40
5	1941	You'll Never Get Rich	Justice of the Peace (uncredited)	65
6	1941	At the Stroke of Twelve	Prosecuting Attorney	50
7	1941	They Died with Their Boots On	Grant's Secretary (uncredited)	66
8	1941	The Body Disappears	Professor McAuley (uncredited)	52
9	1942	Reap the Wild Wind	Snaith (uncredited)	64
10	1942	This Gun for Hire	Albert Baker	69
11	1942	My Gal Sal	Loud Customer (uncredited)	58
12	1942	Grand Central Murder	Detective Mike McAdams (uncredited)	59
13	1942	Broadway	Reporter	55
14	1942	Broadway	Reporter (uncredited)	55
15	1942	Spy Ship	Burns	60
16	1942	Ten Gentlemen from West Point	Alden Brown	58
17	1942	The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady	Judge	0
18	1942	The War Against Mrs. Hadley	Reporter	52
19	1942	You Can't Escape Forever	Coroner (uncredited)	54
20	1942	City of Silent Men	Fred Bernard	0
21	1943	Truck Busters	George Havelock	60
22	1943	Mission to Moscow	American Newsman (uncredited)	53
23	1943	Pilot #5	Mr. Tully	58
24	1945	Thrill of a Romance	1st Hotel Clerk (uncredited)	62
25	1945	Secrets of a Sorority Girl	Justin Farley	0
26	1946	O.S.S.	Electronics Engineer (uncredited)	64
27	1946	Blonde for a Day	Walter Bronson	50
28	1946	Night and Day	Tina's Father (uncredited)	57
29	1946	Canyon Passage	Preacher (uncredited)	66
30	1946	The Searching Wind	Embassy Attendant (uncredited)	0
31	1946	Lady Chaser	Attorney J. T. Vickers	60
32	1946	The Man I Love	Army Doctor (uncredited)	62
33	1947	Blaze of Noon	Cash Jones	40
34	1947	Killer at Large	Edward Denton	0
35	1947	Welcome Stranger	Crane (uncredited)	66
36	1947	Danger Street	Boward - Police Chief	40
37	1947	The Perils of Pauline	Movie Theatre Owner (uncredited)	62
38	1947	They Won't Believe Me	Mr. Cahill	66
39	1947	Shy Guy	Mr. Norton	31
40	1947	Variety Girl	R.J. O'Connell	61
41	1947	Cass Timberlane	Court Clerk	59
42	1947	T-Men	Secret Service Man at Farmer's Market (uncredited)	68
43	1947	Road to Rio	Texas Posse Member	67
44	1948	The Bride Goes Wild	Reporter (uncredited)	60
45	1948	The Inside Story	Eph	65
46	1948	The Miracle of the Bells	Dolan	59
47	1948	The Hunted	Paul Harrison	52
48	1948	Fighting Father Dunne	Colpeck	60
49	1948	Fort Apache	Newspaperman (uncredited)	70
50	1948	Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein	Mr. McDougal	71
51	1948	The Vicious Circle	Stark	55
52	1948	Walk a Crooked Mile	Carl Bemish	59
53	1948	Rachel and the Stranger	Mr. Green	62
54	1948	The Walls of Jericho	Tom Ransome	57
55	1949	Dynamite	"Hard Rock" Mason	25
56	1949	Shockproof	Logan (Uncredited)	64
57	1949	Slightly French	Marty Freeman (uncredited)	72
58	1949	State Department: File 649	Consul Reither	43
59	1949	Caught	Dr. Hoffman	66
60	1949	Homicide	Albert Murray	53
61	1949	The Barkleys of Broadway	Mr. Perkins (uncredited)	68
62	1949	Follow Me Quietly	J.C. McGill	62
63	1949	Roseanna McCoy	Ellison Hatfield	61
64	1949	Free For All	Hap Ross	60
65	1949	Dancing in the Dark	John Sharkey	50
66	1950	Tyrant of the Sea	Officer (uncredited)	0
67	1950	The Good Humor Man	Insp. Quint	60
68	1950	Louisa	Park Attendant (uncredited)	61
69	1950	The Lawless	Carl Green	58
70	1950	The Furies	Dr. Grieve	71
71	1950	Under Mexicali Stars	Counterfeitor Goldie	0
72	1950	Frenchie	Jim Dobbs	57
73	1951	Santa Fe	Marshal Bat Masterson	68
74	1951	Thunder in God's Country	Bates	0
75	1951	Warpath	Marshal	58
76	1951	Elopement	Pinkie's Father (uncredited)	50
77	1951	The Barefoot Mailman	Doc Bethune (uncredited)	40
78	1951	On Dangerous Ground	Willows	66
79	1952	Room for One More	Steve (uncredited)	63
80	1952	Boots Malone	Private Investigator	75
81	1952	Bend of the River	Tom Grundy	69
82	1952	Rancho Notorious	Preacher	65
83	1952	Rodeo	Harry Cartwright	0
84	1952	Oklahoma Annie	Eldridge Haskell	80
85	1952	The Winning Team	Sam Arrants	55
86	1952	Has Anybody Seen My Gal?	Edward Norton	69
87	1952	Wagons West	Cyrus Cook	60
88	1952	It Grows on Trees	John Letherby	77
89	1952	Million Dollar Mermaid	Prosecutor	64
90	1953	Star of Texas	Marshal Bullock	0
91	1953	The I Don't Care Girl	Ned	65
92	1953	The Blue Gardenia	Drunk Reporter (uncredited)	66
93	1953	Woman They Almost Lynched	Bartender	62
94	1953	Trouble Along the Way	Mike Edwards	59
95	1953	The Marksman	Champ Wiley	0
96	1953	House of Wax	Medical Examiner (uncredited)	69
97	1953	The Lone Hand	Mr. Dunn	52
98	1953	The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms	Dr. Morton	65
99	1953	Hannah Lee: An American Primitive	John Britton	40
100	1953	So This Is Love	Commencement Speaker	45
101	1953	Big Leaguer	Wally Mitchell	62
102	1953	City of Bad Men	Easterner at Training Camp (uncredited)	58
103	1953	Main Street to Broadway	Mr. Cope in Fantasy Sequence	65
104	1953	So Big	Ed (uncredited)	56
105	1953	Wicked Woman	Bill Porter (lawyer)	51
106	1953	Texas Bad Man	Gil	0
107	1954	Dragonfly Squadron	Gen. Conners	60
108	1954	Johnny Guitar	Marshal Williams	74
109	1954	The Outcast	Chad Polson	66
110	1954	The Shanghai Story	Mr. Haljerson	48
111	1954	A Star Is Born	Judge George J. Barnes (uncredited)	71
112	1954	Drum Beat	Mr. Dyar	60
113	1954	Young at Heart	Bartell	60
114	1954	Black Tuesday	Police Inspector Hailey (uncredited)	60
115	1955	The Violent Men	Mahoney (uncredited)	65
116	1955	Battle Cry	Mr. Hector Walker	57
117	1955	New York Confidential	Dr. Ludlow	58
118	1955	The Eternal Sea	Admiral L.D.	64
119	1955	City of Shadows	District Attorney Hunt	49
120	1955	Moonfleet	Coachman	65
121	1955	The McConnell Story	Mechanic	63
122	1955	A Lawless Street	Abe Deland (uncredited)	54
123	1955	The Battle of Gettysburg	Gettysburg Address Reciter (voice) (uncredited)	58
124	1955	At Gunpoint	Marshal George Henderson	63
125	1957	The Phantom Stagecoach	Joe Patterson	50
126	1957	The Iron Sheriff	Holloway	62
127	1957	Gun Duel In Durango	Sheriff Howard	54
128	1957	This Could Be the Night	Mr. Shea	56
129	1957	The Lawless Eighties	Owen Sutter	0
130	1958	Cole Younger, Gunfighter	Sheriff Ralph Wittrock	62
131	1958	Man of the West	Crosscut Marshal (uncredited)	66
132	1958	The Light in the Forest	Harry Butler	68
133	1958	Terror in a Texas Town	Deacon Matt Holmes	67
134	1958	Andy Hardy Comes Home	Mayor Benson	45
135	1960	The Big Night	Dave Johnson	0
136	1960	Raymie	Rex	0
137	1960	Sunrise at Campobello	Dr. Bennett	60
138	1961	Pocketful of Miracles	Newspaper Editor	73
139	1964	The Quick Gun	Dan Evans	63
140	1964	Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte	Newspaper Editor	73
141	1965	The Great Sioux Massacre	General Alfred Howe Terry	42
142	1970	Along Came a Spider	Dr. Andrew Blake	43
143	1976	The Macahans	Grandpa	67

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1949	The Lone Ranger	Lester Grey	67
2	1949	The Lone Ranger	Oscar Vale	67
3	1950	Treasury Men in Action	Miller	55
4	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Harlow Finch	73
5	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Joe Nelson	73
6	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Mike Collier	73
7	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars		73
8	1952	Chevron Theatre	Hiram Cooper	100
9	1952	Chevron Theatre		100
10	1952	Hopalong Cassidy		52
11	1952	Adventures of Superman	Mr. Frank	67
12	1952	Four Star Playhouse	Ed	63
13	1952	Four Star Playhouse	Mr. Fielding	63
14	1952	Cavalcade of America		35
15	1952	Cavalcade of America	Dr. Green	35
16	1953	General Electric Theater	Lt. King	63
17	1953	General Electric Theater	Mack Duncan	63
18	1953	City Detective		70
19	1953	Letter to Loretta	Marc Thatcher	65
20	1953	Letter to Loretta	Mr. Creavy	65
21	1953	The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse	Dr. Bryce	0
22	1953	Topper	Dr. Lang	60
23	1954	Public Defender	Judge	60
24	1954	The Lone Wolf	Sheriff Jerry Lea	70
25	1954	Lassie		61
26	1954	Lassie	Seth Collins	61
27	1954	December Bride		55
28	1955	The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp		68
29	1955	Gunsmoke	Enoch	66
30	1955	Cheyenne	Judge Lloyd Pomeroy	58
31	1955	Cheyenne	Sheriff Allen	58
32	1955	My Friend Flicka		57
33	1955	The 20th Century Fox Hour		54
34	1956	State Trooper		50
35	1956	State Trooper	Frank Cliff	50
36	1956	State Trooper	Ralph Barlow	50
37	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	T.J. Barnett	55
38	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Paul Parker	55
39	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Tom Menken	55
40	1957	Richard Diamond, Private Detective	Captain Hoyt	62
41	1957	Have Gun, Will Travel		74
42	1957	Sugarfoot	Otto Jardine	48
43	1957	Sugarfoot	Doc Spooner	48
44	1957	Sugarfoot	Judge Bean	48
45	1957	Wagon Train	Judge Hiram Larkin	63
46	1957	Perry Mason	Sheriff Barnes	77
47	1957	Perry Mason	Prof. Laiken	77
48	1957	Perry Mason	Sheriff Orville Ramsey	77
49	1957	Perry Mason	Walter Coffee	77
50	1957	Maverick		68
51	1957	Maverick	Sheriff McPeters	68
52	1957	Maverick	Genessee Jones	68
53	1957	Maverick	Sheriff Luther Hawkins	68
54	1957	Goodyear Theatre	Milbanks	68
55	1957	Alcoa Theatre	Milbanks	65
56	1957	Trackdown		64
57	1957	Leave It to Beaver		70
58	1957	Trackdown	Adam Turner	64
59	1958	Wanted: Dead or Alive	Amos Wilson	69
60	1958	Peter Gunn		65
61	1958	Bronco		52
62	1958	The Texan		55
63	1958	The Rifleman		70
64	1958	Bat Masterson	Old Billy North	61
65	1958	Bat Masterson	Dick Pierce	61
66	1958	77 Sunset Strip		67
67	1959	Bonanza	J.R. Ridley	75
68	1959	Bonanza	Abner	75
69	1959	Bonanza	Gigger Thurman	75
70	1959	Laramie		64
71	1959	Lock-Up		62
72	1959	Wichita Town		42
73	1959	The Twilight Zone	Krueger	85
74	1959	The Alaskans		55
75	1959	Philip Marlowe		50
76	1959	Hawaiian Eye	Capt. Joe Taggart	52
77	1959	Shotgun Slade	Mike Colier	50
78	1959	Mr. Lucky	Hyatt Krausmeyer	64
79	1960	Coronado 9		60
80	1960	The Tall Man		63
81	1960	The Westerner	Stuart	68
82	1960	The Andy Griffith Show	Sam Lindsey	76
83	1960	The Andy Griffith Show	Wilbur Pine	76
84	1960	The Andy Griffith Show	Mr. Foley	76
85	1960	Surfside 6		50
86	1960	The Case of the Dangerous Robin	Walter Henderson	0
87	1961	The Asphalt Jungle		50
88	1961	Target: The Corruptors!		35
89	1961	Everglades		85
90	1962	The Virginian	Tom Dunston	65
91	1962	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	Garner	78
92	1963	Temple Houston	Judge Gurney	57
93	1963	Petticoat Junction	Doc Stuart	58
94	1964	Wendy and Me		0
95	1964	Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea	Air Force General	78
96	1964	Peyton Place		66
97	1965	Green Acres	Harvey Jackson	73
98	1965	Green Acres	Doc John Stuart	73
99	1968	Adam-12	Fred Tibbles	70
100	1968	Land of the Giants	Goalby	67
101	1970	Nanny and the Professor	the Judge	60
102	1971	Alias Smith and Jones		69
103	1971	Cannon		65
104	1972	Return to Peyton Place	Eli Carson	40
105	1972	The Waltons		71
106	1972	Kung Fu	Bissell	77
107	1974	Little House on the Prairie		79