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