Frank Cady

Frank Cady (born September 8, 1915 in Susanville, California), is an American actor best known for his role as storekeeper Sam Drucker in the Green Acres and Petticoat Junction television series, which both ran at the same time in the 1960s. He also made guest appearances in The Beverly Hillbillies, also as Sam Drucker. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ... Susanville is a city and county seat of Lassen County, California, USA. At the 2000 census, the population was 13,541. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... Sam Drucker (potrayed by actor Frank Cady) was the operator of the general store in Hooterville in the fictional world of the 1960s American sitcoms Petticoat Junction and Green Acres, created by Paul Henning. ... Green Acres was an American television series that was produced by Filmways, Inc. ... Petticoat Junction was an American situation comedy that was produced by Filmways, Inc. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... For the 1993 film, see The Beverly Hillbillies (film) The Beverly Hillbillies was an American television program about a hillbilly family living in Southern California. ...

Frank also has the honor of being the only actor to play a recurring character on three TV sitcoms at the same time, The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, and Petticoat Junction, from 1968 to 1969. (George Lindsey played Goober Pyle in three successive series: The Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry RFD, and Hee Haw, as did Estelle Getty as Sophia Petrillo in The Golden Girls, The Golden Palace, and Empty Nest). George Lindsey (born December 17, 1935) is an American character actor, born in Jasper, Alabama. ... The Andy Griffith Show is an American television series that aired from 1960 to 1968. ... Mayberry R.F.D. was a spinoff from The Andy Griffith Show. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Estelle Getty (born Estelle Scher on July 25, 1923 in New York City) is an Emmy and Golden Globe Award winning actress (theatre and screen). ... The Golden Girls is an American sitcom that originally aired Saturday nights on NBC from September 14, 1985 to May 9, 1992. ... The Golden Palace was a spin-off of the sitcom The Golden Girls that aired during the 1992–93 season on the American TV network CBS. It featured three of the four characters from The Golden Girls operating an upscale hotel called The Golden Palace. ... Empty Nest was a television sitcom that ran on NBC from 1988 to 1995. ...

He also is one of only three co-stars of Petticoat Junction who stayed with the series for its entire seven-year run along with Edgar Buchanan and Linda Henning. Edgar Buchanan (born March 20, 1903; died April 4, 1979) was an American actor with a long career in both movies and television, but is probably most familiar as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction and Green Acres television sitcoms of the 1960s. ... Linda Kaye Henning (born September 16, 1944, in Los Angeles) is an American singer and actor. ...

He also played Doc Williams in Ozzie and Harriet, as well as numerous supporting parts in movies, and has also appeared in television commercials for (among other products) Shasta Grape Soda. One significant film role was in George Pál's 1951 film When Worlds Collide. There he was the assistant to the John Hoyt character who pushes his wheelchair. He also had a prominent role in Billy Wilder's film Ace in the Hole, also known as The Big Carnival. Cady had a small role (with no dialogue, and seen mostly in long shot) in one of Alfred Hitchcock's most prestigious films, Rear Window. The Nelson family The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, an American radio and television series, was once the longest-running, live-action situation comedy on American television, having aired on ABC from 1952 to 1966 after a ten-year run on radio. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... George Pál in 1979 George Pal (February 1, 1908 – May 2, 1980) (birth name: Györgi Pál Marczincsák) was a Hungarian-born animator and film producer, principally associated with the science fiction genre. ... When Worlds Collide DVD cover This article is about the 1951 film. ... Promotional photo for John Hoyt John Hoyt (October 5, 1904 – September 15, 1991) was an American film and television actor. ... Billy Wilder (June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-born, Jewish-American journalist, screenwriter, film director, and producer whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. ... Look up Ace in the Hole in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Ace in the Hole is a 1951 film starring Kirk Douglas, directed by Billy Wilder and released by Paramount Pictures. ... Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (August 13, 1899 – April 29, 1980) was a highly influential film director and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres. ... Rear Window (1954) is a motion picture directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on Cornell Woolrichs short story It Had to Be Murder (1942). ...

Frank attended Stanford University, where he was involved with the campus humor magazine, the Stanford Chaparral. Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a private university located approximately 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco and approximately 20 miles northwest of San José in Stanford, California. ... Stanford Chaparral (also known as the Chappie) is Stanford Universitys humor magazine, established in 1899 by Bristow Adams. ...

He served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. He has been married to his wife, Shirley, since 1940 and they have two children. The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) was a part of the U.S. Army during World War II. The direct precursor to the U.S. Air Force, the USAAF formally existed between 1941 and 1947. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

In 2005, he attended Eddie Albert's funeral along with Green Acres's co-stars Sid Melton and Mary Grace Canfield. Eddie Albert, born Edward Albert Heimberger, (April 22, 1906 â€“ May 26, 2005) was a popular Oscar and Emmy Award-nominated American stage, film, character actor, gardener and humanitarian activist, perhaps best known for playing Bing Edwards in the Brother Rat films, or for his role in the 1960s television comedy... Sid Melton, (Born Sidney Meltzer on May 23, 1920, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor probably best known for his roles as incompetent carpenter Alf Monroe in the sitcom Green Acres and as Uncle Charlie Halper in Make Room for Daddy and its spin-offs. ... Mary Grace Canfield (born September 3, 1926, in Rochester, New York) is an American actress who often played the role of a romance-hungry wallflower. ...

External links

• Frank Cady at the Internet Movie Database