Frank Collison
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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?
Known for
Credits
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
as Wash Hogwallop
The Village (2004)
as Victor
The Happening (2008)
as Nursery Owner
K-PAX (2001)
as Screaming Man (uncredited)
Wild at Heart (1990)
as Timmy Thompson
The Whole Ten Yards (2004)
as Strabo
The Last Boy Scout (1991)
as Pablo
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)
as Billy
The Blob (1988)
as Phil Hobbs—Projectionist
The Majestic (2001)
as Subpoena Server
Hidalgo (2004)
as Texas Jack
Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
as Grizzled Pirate (segment "Video Pirates")
Grandma (2015)
as Mike
Hesher (2010)
as Funeral Director
Hitchcock (2012)
as Henry Gein
The Hero (2017)
as Man in Dream
Suspect Zero (2004)
as Piper
Diggstown (1992)
as Prison Guard
Pee-wee's Big Holiday (2016)
as Clay
Mobsters (1991)
as Sonny Catania
Hope Springs (2003)
as Mr. Fisher
A Crack in the Floor (2001)
as Turner
The Collector (2022)
as Hal
Dollman (1991)
as Sprug
Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman: The Movie (1999)
as Horace Bing
Buddy (1997)
as Zoo Keeper
Camouflage (2001)
as Skinny Cop - Tommy
Voodoo Moon (2006)
as Mac
12:01 (1993)
as Thin Assassin
It Runs in the Family (1994)
as Floyd Bumpus
Dead Connection (1994)
Actor
Pirate's Code: The Adventures of Mickey Matson (2014)
as Admiral Ironsides
Lifetime Contract (1986)
as Shrink
S.F.W. (1995)
as Distressed Witness
Backstreet Dreams (1990)
as Spider
Grunt! The Wrestling Movie (1985)
as Charlie Stroll
You're Gonna Miss Me (2017)
as Linus Duckworth
The Compleat Al (1985)
as Look-A-Like Salesman
Radio Free Albemuth (2010)
as Leon
L.A. Slasher (2015)
as The KA Leader
Into the Homeland (1987)
as Gas Station Attendant
Wired to Kill (1986)
as Sly
Buckshot (2017)
as Nickel
A Formula for Mayhem (1992)
as Raddish
Keep the Change (1992)
as Darryl Burke
Two Yellow Lines (2021)
as Roy
The 4th (2016)
as Creepy Party Crasher
The Investigator (1994)
Actor