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