Frank Graham

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Frank Graham attended the University of California for one year and left to begin his acting career in Seattle both on the stage and in radio He was brought to Hollywood in 1937 to join KNX Radio He had been married two years before to Dorothy Jack of Seattle He was the star of Night Cap Yarns over CBS from 1938 through 1942 and was the announcer of dozens of programs including the Ginny Simms Rudy Vallee and Nelson Eddy shows He starred in Jeff Regan Investigator and codeveloped the radio drama Satans Waitin with Van Des Autels Graham was also The Wandering Vaquero the narrator of The Romance Of The Ranchos radio series 19411942 also on the CBS network One of his few live action roles was playing the tile character in the film Cosmo Jones Crime Smasher 1943 He had also served as a writer for the radio program on which the film was based upon Graham played numerous characters in animated films for Walt Disney MGM Columbia and Warner Bros He voiced the Wolf in Tex Averys Droopy cartoons as well as the Mouse in KingSize Canary at MetroGoldwynMayer He provided the voices of the Fox and Crow in the eponymousnamed shorts at Columbia He was found dead at age 35 in his convertible in the carport of his home in Los Angeles on September 2 1950 A coroner declared he had committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning