Frank Coghlan junior
Frank "Junior" Coghlan junior (born March 15, 1916 in New Haven , Connecticut , † September 7, 2009 in Santa Clarita , California ) was an American actor .
life and career
Frank Coghlan, the son of a railroad worker and former boxer, became a successful child actor in the 1920s. He especially played children with a difficult fate, which is one of the reasons why director Cecil B. DeMille once called him "the perfect example of a homeless child". With the onset of talkies and the onset of puberty, his roles became increasingly smaller, but he remained in employment through films such as The Public Enemy and Hell's House . Probably his best-known role today, he played in the 1941 film series Adventures of Captain Marvel as the shy young radio announcer Billy Batson , who turns into the superhero Captain Marvel .
During World War II he became a naval aviator in the United States Navy , where he achieved the rank of Lieutenant Commander until his retirement in 1965. For the Navy he was also employed as a technical advisor on films such as The Caine Was Fate . After his retirement he took on smaller film and television roles until the mid-1970s.
Frank Coghlan was married to his first wife Betty Corrigan from 1943 until her death in 1974, and the couple had four children. In his second marriage he was with Letha Schwarzrocks until her death in 2001. In 1992 he published his autobiography They Still Call Me Junior: Autobiography of a Child Star . Frank Coghlan junior died of natural causes in September 2009 at the age of 93.
Filmography (selection)
- 1920: Daredavil Jack
- 1923: The A Woman (A Woman of Paris)
- 1923: Little Old New York
- 1923: The Fourth Musketeer
- 1926: Threatened Borders (The Last Frontier)
- 1927: Rivals of the Ocean (The Yankee Clipper)
- 1930: The Girl Said No.
- 1931: The Public Enemy (The Public Enemy)
- 1932: Hell's House
- 1932: The Last of the Mohicans (The Last of the Mohicans)
- 1932: Gentleman for a day (Union Depot)
- 1935: Stranded
- 1935: Alibi Ike
- 1936: Charlie Chan at the Racetrack
- 1938: Chicago Angels with Dirty Faces
- 1939: Above and Above (It's a Wonderful World)
- 1939: The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
- 1939: Second Fiddle
- 1939: Gone with the Wind (Gone with the Wind)
- 1940: Knute Rockne, All American
- 1940: Charlie Chan: Murder Over New York
- 1941: Adventures of Captain Marvel (film series)
- 1941: These are guys (Men of Boys Town)
- 1941: Shore in the Fog (Out of the Fog)
- 1942: To the Shores of Tripoli
- 1943: This Is the Army
- 1943: Corvette K 225 (Corvette K 225)
- 1943: Clear the stage for Lily Mars (Presenting Lily Mars)
- 1946: One More Tomorrow
- 1966: Gunboat on the Yangtze River (The Sand Pebbles)
- 1967: Valley of the Dolls (Valley of the Dolls)
- 1969: Reluctant sexual protagonist (The Love God?)
- 1974: Shazam! (TV series, 1 episode)
Web links
- Frank Coghlan Jr. in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ They Still Call Me Junior - McFarland. Retrieved December 5, 2018 (American English).
- ↑ Dennis Hevesi: Frank Coghlan Jr., Child Actor in Silent Movies, Dies at 93 . In: The New York Times . October 3, 2009, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed December 5, 2018]).
- ^ They Still Call Me Junior - McFarland. Retrieved December 5, 2018 (American English).
- ↑ Dennis Hevesi: Frank Coghlan Jr., Child Actor in Silent Movies, Dies at 93 . In: The New York Times . October 3, 2009, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed December 5, 2018]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Coghlan, Frank Jr. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Coghlan, junior |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-American actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Haven , Connecticut |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 7, 2009 |
| Place of death | Santa Clarita , California |